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Post by popmann on Jan 9, 2016 12:49:52 GMT -6
i remember talking to Huff after a Giant show at a little club when I was a kid just starting out and I feel like I must've solicited "any advice?"....because I'll never forget that the response was "don't ever be a singer in a rock band--just play guitar, because when you have to get up and sing every night, your throat always hurts".
Ha.
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Post by dandeurloo on Jan 9, 2016 13:04:05 GMT -6
I love this tune and vid.
Plus, every time I see a video like this I think I should buy a SM7.
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Post by swurveman on Jan 9, 2016 16:00:58 GMT -6
Dan Huff made me want to listen to what was on country radio with his work with Keith Urban. He subtley blended country and rock music in a fresh and wonderful way. Would love to have seen what he would have done - production wise - if he'd stayed in LA and focused on more rock oriented acts. I mean, the country thing (with his infused rodk-isms) is cool, and obviously NVille is in his roots, but I still can't help but wonder......."what if"...... I believe he left LA when Grunge hit. So, there was a lot of undistorted verse guitar, distorted chorus guitar stuff going on. Guitar leads were dead, synthesizers were dead, there was the occasional cello but everything was pretty bare. So, perhaps Mr Huff saw that raw music was the norm in LA (save for the few people like Tom Petty who survived) and didn't see any opportunity for what he liked. Can't blame him for his move, which brought him lots of hit albums and songs and a wider pallet of instruments to work with imo. I had an interesting experience at that time living in LA: I saw Stephen Pearcy the lead singer of RATT in a North Hollywood club around that time. RATT had been dropped, like every other hair band, and the music he was playing was even more raw than Grunge. I couldn't believe it was the same guy. There was nothing melodic and very little identifiable verse/chorus song structure in his songs. It was pounding distorted guitar music. It was almost as if he was saying "You want raw. I'll give you raw". LOL |
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Post by Johnkenn on Jan 9, 2016 18:23:08 GMT -6
Isn't Dann from Nashville originally? Maybe that's why he moved back...Maybe I can get him in to say hello. Not sure he spends much time on message boards though. Lol
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Post by Ward on Jan 9, 2016 18:30:04 GMT -6
I love this tune and vid. Plus, every time I see a video like this I think I should buy a SM7. Unless you are Hipster or a Lumbersexual, you do not 'need' a Smeven. |
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Post by popmann on Jan 9, 2016 20:33:27 GMT -6
Hey....which one of those am I? I'm quite sure I am not a hipster, so....
There really is no better budget way to record vocals in a home studio IME....or much better ways to record vocals WHILE someone is sitting at the piano or playing a guitar at any budget. I've said it before--but, I did an album some years ago with a combo of mics from Blackbird....and an Sm7....and literally no one was able to tell me with ANY amount of accuracy which was the Innertube87i, 87AI, or Sm7 from the finished product. And I can tell you as the guy who sang and mixed, the only difference on the production side was that the Sm7 needed a different amount and frequency of high bump post compressor. So, it's not like I had to work harder on those. Some of them were even sung with the monitors on in the control room (no headphones).
I'm just saying....it's not some magical fairy dust mic, but like most Shure classics--simple workhorses that never "suck" and everyone can afford.
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Post by Ward on Jan 9, 2016 21:58:43 GMT -6
well popmann, you just reinforced my point: Nobody needs a Sme7en! The only people who 'need' them are hipsters and lumbersexuals, and then it's only for image.  |
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Post by porkyman on Jan 9, 2016 22:15:15 GMT -6
my sister used to babysit his kids back in the Giant days. i was really young then but i still remember "believer" and the "two hearts" song.... he also produced the Lonestar stuff. "Amazed" "Already there" etc. im not a big country guy but those are all time great songs.
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Post by levon on Jan 10, 2016 5:20:25 GMT -6
I'm sure Mick Jones and Lou Grammatico appreciate the "bite" here whether you're "standing in the rain" or not this was such a great "LA-Rock" song when it came out. Had a little "Ice Cream Man" kicking too. That's the Dann Huff I love! |
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Post by yotonic on Jan 10, 2016 12:53:03 GMT -6
I'm not a big fan of Keith Urban's material but God damn he is talented and disciplined. I've seen him a couple of times and his level of musicianship and vocal skills and just basic "sense of what people are hearing" is top notch, like NFL level. Clearly the guy is just honing his craft 24/7.
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Post by dandeurloo on Jan 10, 2016 13:17:13 GMT -6
Some of the guitar tones on the record that I posted a video to are really great.
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Post by forgotteng on Jan 10, 2016 18:48:10 GMT -6
Always been a fan of Dann even before the Giant days. The Giant stuff was killer than when I saw he was producing albums I couldn't believe it was the same guy.
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Post by Johnkenn on Jan 11, 2016 13:40:57 GMT -6
I wonder what famous 80's pop stuff he played on?
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Post by popmann on Jan 11, 2016 14:09:05 GMT -6
Dance stuff with next to no guitar is what I remember. Madonna....Whitney....electronic dance stuff. I don't remember the resume being that long. At the same time Landau and Lukather were mostly inescapable in top 40. Tim Pierce.
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Post by NoFilterChuck on Jan 11, 2016 15:51:47 GMT -6
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Post by Johnkenn on Jan 11, 2016 17:24:00 GMT -6
Was too lazy to look...also, Allmusic is notoriously wrong lost of the time.
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Post by Johnkenn on Jan 11, 2016 17:31:25 GMT -6
Damn...they didn't leave anything off that list...whew. Played on the Whitney records...that's cool. Madonna, Lou Gramm, Chicago...
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