New Hardline!

Hardline has a video for their new song "Take You Home." It's from the upcoming album Human Nature. The new record comes out October 14. Will you pick this up?

Comments

[Bob]

Well-played, well-sung and boring as hell! I'll really have to hear more of this before deciding whether or not to drop my hard-earned $$$ on it.

[JAT]

Really should be called Frontiers Hardline. How can it be a Hardline record when the original songwriter is gone? Neil Schon and Joey Gioeli are Hardline. Schon wrote everything. This doesnt even sound like the original band.

[glamrockerarchie]

another band that has fallen into the generic bin. I love the first 2 albums by them they absolutely smoke after that it's very hit n miss.

[Metalboy!]

Bob and Glamrocker Archie nailed it... "Boring" AND "Generic"!

The only thing is, Arch, Hardline has been generic since the beginning, it's just that now they've taken it to a whole other level.

Their 1992 album, "Double Eclipse" was prevented from being completely boring due to two tracks, primarily... "Hot Cherie" and "I'll Be There".

I don't see how they can hit with anything on that level without Neil Schon's involvement. No matter how kooky he's become in his personal life, or how cheesy his projects can be (Journey and this one), there's no denying what an absolute killer guitarist he is.

[Him]

Methinks Johnny still has a great set of AOR pipes. Thing is, he/Hardline seems to have been run through the sheen-machine that is the in-house (and hurry! we have to get this out!!!) production of Alessandro Del Vecchio, now/as of late Hardline's own keyboardist (talking about a tinkling conflict of disinterest).

JAT, to be fair, the first album was a product (when it wasn't farmed out) to both brothers and Schon. Sprinkle in the cover, add a dollop of Eddie Money(!?), a couple of scoops of Cain (not to be confused with the Danzig song), and whatya' have? Well, as Metalboy! notes, a hit remake and another song!

And no one should give Schon a pass. He was an asshat opportunist jumping about until he landed back in the loving arms of himself (I mean, Journey). If anything, he treated the aspirations of the Gioeli brothers like his play-thing. Amazing guitarist? Sure, I give you that. But with an ego that makes Malmsteen look introverted and self-deprecating (even when it comes to songs he was only _a part_ of making magical).

Hitting AOR pay-dirt is tough. You can't get there on fleeting star power and a good set of pipes alone. Hardline prove that on both counts. Come to think about it, contemporary Journey proves that too!

[Shawn]

Now that's a comparison - I laughed so hard - but only because it is true. Schon does make Malmsteen look like an introvert - Him your awesome!

[Metalboy!]

AOR = Alot of Rehash

HIM, I do appreciate your archival knowledge of AOR and I do admit some of it is falls into the guilty pleasure category for me, particularly some of the stuff some of our heroes are responsible for, i.e. the Jonathan Cain penned "I'll Be There For You" by Black n' Blue or the ad nauseum list of Power Ballads that could easily fall into the category if it wasn't for the performer, i.e. Vince Neil's "Exposed" album, etc.

But, let me give you Fair Warning (and believe me, maybe one of their albums I possess should be the gift I still have to bestow upon you), it is a slippery slope as AOR can all start to sound the same and I don't mean in an AC/DC sort of good way.

[Bob]

Just heard another song from the new Hardline album called Nobody's fool. A much better song than the other one, but still not going to set the world on fire by any means.

[Neal]

The more this guy Alessandro Del Vecchio is involved with music the more bland and predictable the music tends to be ...

No idea why bands continue to use him ... he just sucks the life out of the production and his writing skills are about as boring as watching paint dry ...

[Metalboy!]

Still, I could see his hack "Bostonian" approach to production working well enough to punch in Don Dokken's vocals.