Hardline – Double Eclipse (Release Year – 2008)

One of the better hard rock albums to see the light of day in 1992, was the debut by Hollywood, California’s Hardline.

Hardline’s quick claim to fame was having Journey guitarist Neal Schon play lead guitar for the band. There are also a couple of songs that have partial writing credits by Journey’s Jonathan Cain.

Aside from Schon’s guitar work, the highlight on Double Eclipse are the vocals of Johnny Gioeli.   He is definitely one of the better singers to come out of the hair metal era.

If this album was released five or six years earlier, Hardline, would have made a bigger impact on the scene.  This is an extremely fun to listen to melodic hard rock disc, where every song is exceptionally good.  Some of my favorite tunes on this CD are Life’s A Bitch”, “Dr. Love”, “Takin’ Me Down”  and the Danny Spanos cover song, “Hot Cherie”.

If you haven’t check out Hardline before, Double Eclipse is still in print, and available at Amazon.com. This album will easily appeal to fans of bands like Journey and Damn Yankees.  Check them out, you will be glad you did!

Rating:Out of 10

Track Listing:

  1. Life’s a Bitch
  2. Dr. Love
  3. Rhythm from a Red Car
  4. Change of Heart
  5. Everything
  6. Takin’ Me Down
  7. Hot Cherie
  8. Bad Taste
  9. Can’t Find My Way
  10. I’ll Be There
  11. 31-91
  12. In the Hands of Time

Hardline is:
Johnny Gioeli – Vocals
Neal Schon – Guitars
Todd Jensen – Bass
Deen Castronovo – Drums
Joey Gioeli – Rhythm Guitar

~ by Rob Rockitt on October 3, 2008.

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4 Responses to “Hardline – Double Eclipse (Release Year – 2008)”

  1. I bought this album and loved it! I still break it out now and again. It has some great rockers and a couple ballad types that are good, too. I was really upset they didn’t do another album. Although, I think the group Crush 40 had many of these band members in it. Give it a listen, you’ll be surprised.

    Todd Forret said this on October 3, 2008 at 6:49 pm | Reply

  2. Another example of MCA not knowing what to do with a rock band, one in a long long list.

    rocknrollcoastie said this on October 4, 2008 at 12:20 am | Reply

  3. They did do a second album, although Neal Schon wasn’t on it.

    Rob Rockitt said this on October 4, 2008 at 9:20 am | Reply

  4. There are a couple of goods songs on the second one but nowhere near like the first one. Schon did help write a song or two on it though.

    rocknrollcoastie said this on October 4, 2008 at 12:13 pm | Reply

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