GIANT – Promise Land (2010)
After recording two albums with christian rockers Whiteheart in the early 80’s and having made a name as session players in the Pop and Rock scene, guitarist / vocalist Dann Huff and his drummer brother David hooked up with Alan Pasqua, an experienced keyboards player which lent his talents to loads of Jazz and Rock artists and Nashville session bass player Mike Brignardello to form Giant.
They eventually signed with A&M Records and released 1989’s “Last of the Runaways”, featuring a classic, melodic hard rock sound, which yielded a top-twenty hit with “I’ll See You in My Dreams”.
Giant’s debut album is still regarded nowadays as one of the highest points in melodic hard rock of the end of the eighties.
After countless tours and live performances in the US and Europe, the band recorded the follow up album Time to Burn in 1991.
Slightly more aggressive than it’s predecessor, but still magnificent in the production and songwriting departments.
The vision of bringing back Giant as a living band unit with a recording and touring line-up and with of course the possibility to carry on the enormous legacy of the music produced so far with the same quality was raised a few times between the band mates.
But it became apparent that Dann Huff could not be a full part of this concept, even though he loved everything that Giant was.
Last year, drummer David Huff and bassist Mike Brignardello started an endless research for the right musicians that could be part of a renewed Giant line-up.
And in the end the choice fell on singer extraordinaire Terry Brock (Strangeways, Seventh Key) and on John Roth (Winger) on guitars.
Dann Huff in any case participated to the songwriting co-writing with the new line-up members “Our Love”, “Double Trouble”, “Plenty of Love”, “Save Me” and offering songs from his catalogue, such as the title track, “Through My Eyes” (both co-written with Mark Spiro) and “Two Worlds”.
He also contributed lead guitars on “Save Me” and “Believer (Redux)”, the latter being one of the 3 songs written by Erik Martensson and Robert Sall of W.E.T. with Miqael Persson (the other two “Never Surrender” and “Prisoner of Love” are a Martensson/Persson collaboration).
“Promise Land” was mixed by Ben Fowler (Van Zandt, Cher, Meat Loaf) and mastered by Joe Palmaccio (3 GRAMMY awards won) .
Giant and their legacy are back! They’re now here to stay !
1. Believer (Redux)
2. Promise Land
3. Never Surrender
4. Our Love
5. Prisoner of Love
6. Two Worlds
7. Plenty Of Love
8. Through My Eyes
9. I’ll Wait For You
10. Dying To See You
11. Double Trouble
12. Complicated Man (bonus track)
13. Save Me
Giant:
Terry Brock – vocals
John Roth – guitars
Mike Brignardello – bass
David L. Huff – drums
Featuring:
Dann Huff – lead guitars on “Believer (Redux)” and “Save Me”
Keyboards: Tim Lauer, Jack Holder
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A real pristine 320K – no skips
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