Double Eclipse

Double Eclipse
Studio album by Hardline
Released	April 28th, 1992
Recorded	1991-1992
Genre	Hard rock
Length	56:53
Label	MCA Records
Producer	Neal Schon
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Double Eclipse (1992) II (2002)

Double 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. Although Grunge and Hip hop music were now keeping formerly commercial AOR, hard rock, and heavy metal bands in the lower reaches of the album charts—and preventing most from hitting the Hot 100 at all—the track entered Billboard's Mainstream Rock Tracks chart for four weeks, peaking at #37 in June.

The album's second release fared better. A cover of a top 40 hit for Danny Spanos from 1983 and written by members of the band Streetheart, Hardline's version of "Hot Cherie" rose to #25 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and remained on that chart throughout the fall of 1992, ultimately logging fourteen weeks.

Journey guitarist Neal Schon joined the Gioeli brothers (Johnny and Joey) and toured for this album, which rocks a bit harder than most of his Journey and Bad English tracks had and features little synthesizer (even though it features two tracks co-written with those bands' keyboardist, Jonathan Cain), but a restless Schon had departed for other projects by 1993. Now, former The Storm guitarist Josh Ramos takes his place.

Track listing

All songs written by Neal Schon, Johnny Gioeli & Joey Gioeli except where noted.

1. "Life's a Bitch" – 4:22
2. "Dr. Love" (Mark Baker, Brian Connors, Mike Slamer) – 5:31
3. "Rhythm from a Red Car" – 3:40
4. "Change of Heart" – 4:42
5. "Everything" (Schon, Gioeli, Gioeli, Eddie Money, Jonathan Cain, Tony Marty, Mark Tanner) – 3:55
6. "Takin' Me Down" – 3:34
7. "Hot Cherie" (Randy Bishop, Daryl Gutheil, Jeffrey Neill, Kenneth Shields, Kenneth Sinnaeve) – 4:47
8. "Bad Taste" – 4:23
9. "Can't Find My Way" – 5:28
10. "I'll Be There" (Schon, Gioeli, Gioeli, Cain) – 4:36
11. "31-91" (Schon) – 1:33
12. "In the Hands of Time" – 6:18
13. "Love Leads the Way"– 4:04 (bonus track for Japanese release of the album only)

Credits

• Johnny Gioeli: Lead vocals
• Neal Schon: Lead guitar
• Joey Gioeli: Rhythm guitar
• Todd Jensen: Bass
• Deen Castronovo: Drums

Notes

• Neal Schon was originally supposed to only be producing the album, but enjoyed working with the band so much that he ended up playing lead guitar.
• The album was named after a phenomenon that only occurs once every 20,000 years, when the moon passes in front of the sun twice in the same day. Original guitarist Neal Schon says "That is very, very rare...it's exceptionally rare. That's how we saw the album."
• The song "Can't Find My Way" is featured during the montage love scene in the 1992 Brandon Lee action movie Rapid Fire. The song "I'll Be There" is played during the film's closing credits.

External links

• Heavy Harmonies page