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Damn. I really never followed Neal's solo stuff except Bad English. But I just discovered this clip on YouTube of Hardline. I like it. Neal's guitars & Deen's drumming are bad as hell!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxcwYXnJm4I

Looks like the album is on iTunes. Is it as good as this song? Worth buying?

Who was the lead singer? He's hot. I wouldn't kick him out of bed for eating peanuts. Does he still look that good?

Johnny gioeli, was the singer -first album was very good --2nd album really lacked Neals direction and didnt even come close----Neal actually was married to gioeli's sister for some time.

If I remember well,Johnny's brother was in the band too,in fact I think the two of them came up with Hardline.

JR,you should get Double Eclipse,it's a great album.Rocks your socks off.

I think the 1st Hardline album is great - the 2nd is truly missing that 'magic touch' though. I saw them live here in the UK supporting Extreme and to this day they were probably the loudest band I have ever seen. I was also fortunate enough to meet Neal and his then girlfriend (wife?) who was of course a Gioeli sister - man she was a very beautiful lady indeed. Kinda funny really - as they came out the hotel, a few guys went up to him and asked to get a load of stuff signed, but he knew right away they weren't fans and just wanted signatures to make some cash and promptly told em to 'disappear', or words to that effect anyway.

I remember reading an interview with Johnny somewhere and apparently Neal was only supposed to guest on a few tracks, but loved it so much he kinda persuaded them to let him join, which the band were reluctant to do because they wanted to make an impact on their own steam, not because there was a Journey member in their ranks. A bit of googling should find the interview. Anyways...

You can find more info on Johnny and Hardline at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Gioeli

Kinda interesting to read this though which I didn't know -

"Back in 1998, vocalist Jeff Scott Soto left the Axel Rudi Pell band, and Axel called Johnny Gioeli for his Oceans of Time CD, which up to date has been considered as one of the best Axel Rudi Pell albums so far."

bladezuk wrote:I think the 1st Hardline album is great - the 2nd is truly missing that 'magic touch' though. I saw them live here in the UK supporting Extreme and to this day they were probably the loudest band I have ever seen. I was also fortunate enough to meet Neal and his then girlfriend (wife?) who was of course a Gioeli sister - man she was a very beautiful lady indeed. Kinda funny really - as they came out the hotel, a few guys went up to him and asked to get a load of stuff signed, but he knew right away they weren't fans and just wanted signatures to make some cash and promptly told em to 'disappear', or words to that effect anyway.

I remember reading an interview with Johnny somewhere and apparently Neal was only supposed to guest on a few tracks, but loved it so much he kinda persuaded them to let him join, which the band were reluctant to do because they wanted to make an impact on their own steam, not because there was a Journey member in their ranks. A bit of googling should find the interview. Anyways...

You can find more info on Johnny and Hardline at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Gioeli

Kinda interesting to read this though which I didn't know -

"Back in 1998, vocalist Jeff Scott Soto left the Axel Rudi Pell band, and Axel called Johnny Gioeli for his Oceans of Time CD, which up to date has been considered as one of the best Axel Rudi Pell albums so far."

I too saw Hardline supporting Extreme at the Wembley arena - my first time seeing Neal Live - he was awesome and the vocalist was really powerful. Double Eclipse is a great album--- especially Hot Cherie (Nothing to do with Mrs Blair LOL) Great show but my one underlying memory was of all the teenage girls screaming whenever Nuno Bettancourt appeared on the overhead screens. Very disconcerting..... but he couldn't half play guitar.

make sure to het the first Hardline record!
Great, great stuff.....

Double Eclipse rocks. I highly recommend that one

JourneyRox wrote:Damn. I really never followed Neal's solo stuff except Bad English. But I just discovered this clip on YouTube of Hardline. I like it. Neal's guitars & Deen's drumming are bad as hell!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxcwYXnJm4I

Looks like the album is on iTunes. Is it as good as this song? Worth buying?

Who was the lead singer? He's hot. I wouldn't kick him out of bed for eating peanuts. Does he still look that good?

Yes, get the first album, Double Eclipse, it's great. And yes Johnny's brother Joey was in the band too.

Deen signed my Double Eclipse insert at a Journey concert, Ross took it & got a good laugh out of Deen's pic inside, lol.

Thanks everyone. I think I'll buy some tunes on iTunes from album numero uno. BTW, I found a website about them:

http://www.doubleeclipse.com

Would u believe they "sold out" & cut their hair. Damn. Their hair was the best part.

Here's Johnny now:

JourneyRox wrote:Thanks everyone. I think I'll buy some tunes on iTunes from album numero uno. BTW, I found a website about them:

http://www.doubleeclipse.com

Would u believe they "sold out" & cut their hair. Damn. Their hair was the best part.

Here's Johnny now:

Yep, they had a metric TON of hair, lol. I remember seeing an interview with them & they were joking around about how gross the shower would be by the time they all got done using it, someone would say "Hey who put that rug in there" & Johnny's reply was "That's not a rug, if you know what I mean". lol

First Hardline CD by a mile. It kicks ass!

I remember reading that the Gioli brothers especially Johnny were pissed at Neal for walking away from Hardline.
Yes he was married to there sister & Has a child...
How many times has neal been married?