If you look at Kelly Keeling’s biography and you see in how many bands this guy has been playing it makes you wonder why it is that every time the collaboration ends after one or two albums. This might be because he sucks or because this he has no sense of direction whatsoever. Listening to Keeling’s first solo album makes me go for the latter. There are quite a few nice tunes on the album, but it lacks direction. It’s like listening to a best of album covering someone’s twenty years career. The fact that Keeling called in the help of several of his colleagues from the old days - the list is too long to reproduce - doesn’t help either. Again it shows how hard it is to make a good product combining individual quality.

Successful superstar projects are rare! The eleven songs on the album are a strange mixture of blues orientated rock, hard rock and more melodic rock songs. “Ground Zero” belongs to the latter and is in fact one of the better songs on the album. It’s too bad for Keeling that the song was written by Kerry Livgren and would have perfectly fitted on any Kansas album. Reading the liner notes in the booklet I found out that no two tracks are written by the same people. This results in a strange mix of atmosphere, structure and feel. This makes listening to Giving Sight To The Eye a tiring experience. Despite a couple of nice tracks this is not a good album.