Hardline (band)
Encyclopedia
- This article is about a band from the United States. For the Canadian musical group see HardlinerHardliner (band)-History:Hardliner was a Canadian hard rock band from St. John's, Newfoundland & Labrador, formed in 1999. The band performed at various St. John's music venues and released a six-song EP, entitled 'Generation Why?' in 2001...
. For other uses of the term, see hardline (political label)HardlineIn politics, hardline refers to the doctrine, policy, and posturing of a government or political body as being absolutist and sometimes authoritarian. The hardline position is usually extremist and uncompromising....
and hardline (subculture).
Hardline is an American hard rock band. Originally formed in 1991 by brothers Johnny Gioeli
Johnny Gioeli
Johnny Gioeli is an American hard rock singer. Originally lead singer of the band Hardline, he is also currently the vocalist of Crush 40 and German guitarist Axel Rudi Pell's band...
and Joey Gioeli, the band consisted of 5 members, Johnny Gioeli
Johnny Gioeli
Johnny Gioeli is an American hard rock singer. Originally lead singer of the band Hardline, he is also currently the vocalist of Crush 40 and German guitarist Axel Rudi Pell's band...
, Joey Gioeli, Neal Schon
Neal Schon
Neal George Joseph Schon is an American rock guitarist, songwriter, and vocalist best known for his work with the band Journey. He is the only member to have recorded on all of Journey's albums...
, Todd Jensen
Todd Jensen
Todd Jensen is a bassist who has played for various artists, including the bands Sequel, Hardline, and Harlow, as well as David Lee Roth, Ozzy Osbourne, Steve Perry, Alice Cooper, and Paul Rodgers....
and Deen Castronovo
Deen Castronovo
Deen Castronovo is an Italian American drummer who has played in various bands, including Kandles at Nine, Cacophony, Bad English, Journey, The Enemy, Wild Dogs, Dr. Mastermind, Hardline, Planet Us, Soul Sirkus, Social Distortion, and Black Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler's G/Z/R, as well as in...
. The bands' most recent album release is the 2009 Leaving the End Open
Leaving the End Open
Leaving the End Open is the third studio album by the American rock group Hardline. This is their first album since 2002's II.The new line up for the album features two new band members, Jamie Brown on bass guitar and Atma Anur on drums...
which featured the current lineup, Johnny Gioeli, Josh Ramos, Michael T. Ross
Michael T. Ross
Michael T. Ross is a rock keyboardist, located in Hollywood, CA.In 2002, Michael joined as keyboardist for the group Hardline releasing " II", with special guest Neal Schon on Frontiers Records . A DVD was also released, headlining the 'Gods' Festival in the UK.In 2003, Ross joined "Angel"...
, Jamie Brown and Atma Anur. Of the four albums produced by Hardline, this is the only one not to feature Joey Gioeli.
History
Hardline is a band created by brothers Johnny GioeliJohnny Gioeli
Johnny Gioeli is an American hard rock singer. Originally lead singer of the band Hardline, he is also currently the vocalist of Crush 40 and German guitarist Axel Rudi Pell's band...
and Joey Gioeli, who had previously played in the bands Killerhit and Brunette (which at one point was the top-drawing band in Hollywood, setting the all-time attendance record at Gazzarri's), later played in the band Gravity, and have since returned to Hardline. The band originally also included guitarist Neal Schon
Neal Schon
Neal George Joseph Schon is an American rock guitarist, songwriter, and vocalist best known for his work with the band Journey. He is the only member to have recorded on all of Journey's albums...
of Journey
Journey (band)
Journey is an American rock band formed in 1973 in San Francisco by former members of Santana. The band has gone through several phases; its strongest commercial success occurred between the 1978 and 1987, after which it temporarily disbanded...
and Bad English
Bad English
Bad English was an American/British hard rock supergroup formed in 1988, reuniting keyboardist Jonathan Cain with singer John Waite and bassist Ricky Phillips, his former bandmates in The Babys.- History :...
, bassist Todd Jensen
Todd Jensen
Todd Jensen is a bassist who has played for various artists, including the bands Sequel, Hardline, and Harlow, as well as David Lee Roth, Ozzy Osbourne, Steve Perry, Alice Cooper, and Paul Rodgers....
(ex-Sequel), and drummer Deen Castronovo
Deen Castronovo
Deen Castronovo is an Italian American drummer who has played in various bands, including Kandles at Nine, Cacophony, Bad English, Journey, The Enemy, Wild Dogs, Dr. Mastermind, Hardline, Planet Us, Soul Sirkus, Social Distortion, and Black Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler's G/Z/R, as well as in...
. The group was marketed as something of a glam metal
Glam metal
Glam metal is a subgenre of hard rock and heavy metal that arose in the late 1970s and early 1980s in the United States, particularly on the Los Angeles Sunset Strip music scene...
band, due to the Gioelli brothers having long hair and dressing in a glam metal style, but their sound had as much in common with hard rock
Hard rock
Hard rock is a loosely defined genre of rock music which has its earliest roots in mid-1960s garage rock, blues rock and psychedelic rock...
and AOR
Album-oriented rock
Album-oriented rock is an American FM radio format focusing on album tracks by rock artists.-Music played:Most radio formats are based on a select, tight rotation of hit singles...
. A couple of the groups first songs were used in the movie "Rapid Fire
Rapid Fire
Rapid Fire is the name of several films:*Rapid Fire , starring Brandon Lee*Rapid Fire Other*Rapid Fire,a song by Judas Priest*Rapid Fire , a fictional character in the G.I. Joe universe...
" which starred Brandon Lee
Brandon Lee
Brandon Bruce Lee was an American actor and martial artist. He was the son of martial arts film star Bruce Lee...
, the son of martial arts expert, Bruce Lee
Bruce Lee
Bruce Lee was a Chinese American, Hong Kong actor, martial arts instructor, philosopher, film director, film producer, screenwriter, and founder of the Jeet Kune Do martial arts movement...
.
Neal Schon left and then did several projects before finally rejoining Journey. Former Jag Panzer and Shrapnel Records legend Joey Tafolla
Joey Tafolla
Joey Tafolla is an American guitarist. Initially a member of the heavy metal band Jag Panzer from 1984 to 1985, he joined Mike Varney's Shrapnel Records label soon after; releasing his debut album Out of the Sun in 1987, alongside the releases of other shred players such as Marty Friedman, Jason...
was approached to join but declined at the time to concentrate on building his southern California merchandising company. Todd Jensen and Deen Castronovo left to join Ozzy Osbourne
Ozzy Osbourne
John Michael "Ozzy" Osbourne is an English vocalist, whose musical career has spanned over 40 years. Osbourne rose to prominence as lead singer of the pioneering English heavy metal band Black Sabbath, whose radically different, intentionally dark, harder sound helped spawn the heavy metal...
's backing band, though Jensen was replaced by Geezer Butler
Geezer Butler
Geezer Butler is an English musician and songwriter. Butler is best known as the bassist and lyricist of heavy metal band Black Sabbath. He was also involved in Heaven & Hell from 2006 to 2010.-Career:Butler formed his first band, Rare Breed, with old friend John "Ozzy" Osbourne in the autumn of...
. Eventually, Deen Castronovo also joined Journey.
Drummer Bobby Rock
Bobby Rock
Bob Brock is a Los Angeles based rock drummer. He was a student of the Berklee School of Music in Boston, Massachusetts and has worked with several bands....
played on Hardline's second album, II
II (Hardline album)
II is the second album by American hard rock band, Hardline. It was released in 2002.The album was originally going to be named Hyperspace, but vocalist Johnny Gioeli decided to change the name simply to II because "it's a natural prosecution of what we started with our debut album Double...
. He had previously played several times with the Gioeli brothers in the band Brunette, replacing their regular drummer. They met via Rock's former Vinnie Vincent Invasion
Vinnie Vincent Invasion
Vinnie Vincent Invasion was an American heavy metal/glam metal band formed in 1984 by former KISS guitarist Vinnie Vincent.-Biography:Initially forming the band in the mid-80's, Vincent recruited bassist Dana Strum, who had also served as a talent scout of sorts in L.A., recruiting band members for...
bandmate Dana Strum
Dana Strum
Dana Strum is the bassist of heavy metal band Slaughter. Before that, he was in Vinnie Vincent Invasion together with fellow bandmate, Mark Slaughter...
, who produced one of Brunette's demos, on which Rock did some drum tracks.
Angel
Angel (band)
Angel is a glam rock and heavy metal band from Washington, D.C., formed in the mid-70s by Punky Meadows and Mickie Jones. They were signed to Casablanca Records, and had the image of dressing in white.-History:...
keyboardist Michael T. Ross
Michael T. Ross
Michael T. Ross is a rock keyboardist, located in Hollywood, CA.In 2002, Michael joined as keyboardist for the group Hardline releasing " II", with special guest Neal Schon on Frontiers Records . A DVD was also released, headlining the 'Gods' Festival in the UK.In 2003, Ross joined "Angel"...
joined the band for II and the live DVD, when they headlined "The Gods Festival" in Bradford
Bradford
Bradford lies at the heart of the City of Bradford, a metropolitan borough of West Yorkshire, in Northern England. It is situated in the foothills of the Pennines, west of Leeds, and northwest of Wakefield. Bradford became a municipal borough in 1847, and received its charter as a city in 1897...
, England, June 2002.
Hardline's third studio album, Leaving the End Open
Leaving the End Open
Leaving the End Open is the third studio album by the American rock group Hardline. This is their first album since 2002's II.The new line up for the album features two new band members, Jamie Brown on bass guitar and Atma Anur on drums...
, was released on April 17, 2009 in Europe and on May 19 in the United States, after much delay. It was originally slated for release in Spring 2006.
Members
- Johnny GioeliJohnny GioeliJohnny Gioeli is an American hard rock singer. Originally lead singer of the band Hardline, he is also currently the vocalist of Crush 40 and German guitarist Axel Rudi Pell's band...
(Vocals) - Josh Ramos (Guitars)
- Michael T. RossMichael T. RossMichael T. Ross is a rock keyboardist, located in Hollywood, CA.In 2002, Michael joined as keyboardist for the group Hardline releasing " II", with special guest Neal Schon on Frontiers Records . A DVD was also released, headlining the 'Gods' Festival in the UK.In 2003, Ross joined "Angel"...
(Keyboards) - Jamie Brown (Bass)
- Atma Anur (Drums)
Former members
- Joey Gioeli (Guitars)
- Christopher MaloneyChristopher MaloneyChristopher Maloney is an American bass guitarist, singer-songwriter, and music educator. He is widely known for his work with instrumental hard rock band Cosmosquad, his stints in Hardline and with Dweezil Zappa, as an independent solo artist, an instructor at the Musicians Institute, and the...
(Bass) - Bobby RockBobby RockBob Brock is a Los Angeles based rock drummer. He was a student of the Berklee School of Music in Boston, Massachusetts and has worked with several bands....
(Drums) - Neal SchonNeal SchonNeal George Joseph Schon is an American rock guitarist, songwriter, and vocalist best known for his work with the band Journey. He is the only member to have recorded on all of Journey's albums...
(Guitars) - Deen CastronovoDeen CastronovoDeen Castronovo is an Italian American drummer who has played in various bands, including Kandles at Nine, Cacophony, Bad English, Journey, The Enemy, Wild Dogs, Dr. Mastermind, Hardline, Planet Us, Soul Sirkus, Social Distortion, and Black Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler's G/Z/R, as well as in...
(Drums) - Todd JensenTodd JensenTodd Jensen is a bassist who has played for various artists, including the bands Sequel, Hardline, and Harlow, as well as David Lee Roth, Ozzy Osbourne, Steve Perry, Alice Cooper, and Paul Rodgers....
(Bass) - Joey TafollaJoey TafollaJoey Tafolla is an American guitarist. Initially a member of the heavy metal band Jag Panzer from 1984 to 1985, he joined Mike Varney's Shrapnel Records label soon after; releasing his debut album Out of the Sun in 1987, alongside the releases of other shred players such as Marty Friedman, Jason...
(Guitars)
Discography
- Double EclipseDouble EclipseDouble Eclipse is the first album released by the band Hardline.The first track released from the album was "Takin' Me Down", written by the Gioeli brothers with Neal Schon...
(19921992 in musicThis is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1992.-January–February:*January 11**Nirvana's Nevermind album goes to #1 in the US Billboard 200 chart, establishing the widespread popularity of the Grunge movement of the 1990s....
) - IIII (Hardline album)II is the second album by American hard rock band, Hardline. It was released in 2002.The album was originally going to be named Hyperspace, but vocalist Johnny Gioeli decided to change the name simply to II because "it's a natural prosecution of what we started with our debut album Double...
(20022002 in musicThis is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 2002.-Events:*February 3 – U2 perform during the halftime show for Super Bowl XXXVI...
) - Live at the Gods Festival 2002Live at the Gods Festival 2002Live at the Gods is a live album by Hardline which was released on DVD and CD in 2003. It was recorded at the Gods Festival in Bradford, England on 2 June 2002, where Hardline were the headliners for this festival. The concert was an all day festival which featured eight other bands, such as Jeff...
(20032003 in music-January:* January – following an investigation by The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry and London detectives, police raids in England and the Netherlands recover nearly 500 original Beatles studio tapes, recorded during the Let It Be sessions. Five people are arrested...
) - Leaving the End OpenLeaving the End OpenLeaving the End Open is the third studio album by the American rock group Hardline. This is their first album since 2002's II.The new line up for the album features two new band members, Jamie Brown on bass guitar and Atma Anur on drums...
(2009)