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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. The album was released on April 17, 2009, in the UK and it was released in the USA on May 2, 2009, and in Japan on May 27, 2009. Japanese guitarist and video game musician Jun Senoue from Gioeli's other band, Crush 40, is listed as a special guest on the song "Before This," where he is credited for the guitar solo. Background The album was called "Just Add Water" when it was in the works for several years, beginning in 2004, but Johnny Gioeli gave the title tentatively while planning a different title. During early development in 2004, Rudy Sarzo was slated to record bass, as suggested by Michael T. Ross, but was unable to contribute due to a busy schedule consisting of touring with Yngwie Malmsteen and Ronnie James Dio. Joey Gioeli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hardline (band)
Hardline is an American hard rock music, hard rock band. Originally formed in 1991 by brothers Johnny Gioeli and Joey Gioeli, the band consisted of five members, Johnny Gioeli, Joey Gioeli, Neal Schon, Todd Jensen and Deen Castronovo. The band's most recent album is ''Heart, Mind and Soul'', which was released in 2021. Joey Gioeli has not appeared on a Hardline album since 2002's ''II'' after retiring from music to focus on the family business. Johnny Gioeli remains the only original member of the band. History Formation, debut album and first breakup (1991–1992) Hardline is a band created by brothers Johnny Gioeli and Joey Gioeli, who had previously played in the bands Killerhit and Brunette, starred in the unreleased Roman Coppola film 'Smash Crash & Burn' as the band Royal Smash, and later played in the band Gravity, and have since returned to Hardline. The band originally also included guitarist Neal Schon of Journey (band), Journey and Bad English, bassist Todd Jensen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hard Rock
Hard rock or heavy rock is a heavier subgenre of rock music typified by aggressive vocals and Distortion (music), distorted electric guitars. Hard rock began in the mid-1960s with the Garage rock, garage, Psychedelic rock, psychedelic and blues rock movements. Some of the earliest hard rock music was produced by the Kinks, the Who, the Rolling Stones, Cream (band), Cream, Vanilla Fudge, and the Jimi Hendrix Experience. In the late 1960s, bands such as Blue Cheer, the Jeff Beck Group, Iron Butterfly, Led Zeppelin, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Golden Earring, Steppenwolf (band), Steppenwolf, Grand Funk, Free (band), Free, and Deep Purple also produced hard rock. The genre developed into a major form of popular music in the 1970s, with the Who, Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple being joined by Black Sabbath, Alice Cooper, Aerosmith, Kiss (band), Kiss, Queen (band), Queen, AC/DC, Thin Lizzy and Van Halen. During the 1980s, some hard rock bands moved away from their hard rock roots and m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frontiers Records
Frontiers Music (formerly Frontiers Records) is an Italian record label that primarily focuses on hard rock. The label was founded in 1996 by Serafino Perugino and is headquartered in Naples. History In 1996, Serafino Perugino began his career in the music industry as an Italian distributor for various artists in the field of classic rock, earning a strong reputation in the industry. In 1998, this reputation enabled him to establish Frontiers Records, named after Journey's album '' Frontiers''. The label's first release was the double live album '' Never Say Goodbye'' by the British hard rock band Ten. Alongside its dedication to managing new artists in the genre, Frontiers Records has become a leading label in the classic rock nostalgia circuit. Its roster includes several renowned classic rock bands and artists, such as Toto, Journey, Whitesnake, Blue Öyster Cult, Styx, Survivor, Quiet Riot, Boston, FM, Glenn Hughes, Joe Lynn Turner, Jeff Scott Soto, Jeff Lynne, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Live At The Gods Festival 2002
''Live at the Gods Festival 2002'' is a live album by Hardline, released on DVD and CD in 2003. It was recorded at the Gods Festival in Bradford, England on June 2, 2002, where Hardline was the headliner. The CD version contains 3 bonus tracks, originally written for their second album, '' II''. However, the bonus tracks were included without lead vocalist Johnny Gioeli's approval or knowledge. The DVD features the entire concert with no bonus footage; however, there is a slide show containing photos taken at the concert at the end after the credits, while the unreleased track "Hypnotized", which was originally written for ''II'', plays in the background. Background The Gods Festival was an all-day festival featuring eight other bands, including Jeff Scott Soto, who marked his first live performance as a solo artist, and Harem Scarem (Then known as "Rubber"). Hardline was the last band to play at 2 a.m. During the first couple of songs in the show, the band was suffering from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danger Zone (Hardline Album)
''Danger Zone'' is American hard rock band Hardline's fourth studio album, and their first since ''Leaving the End Open''. Johnny Gioeli is the sole returning member from the ''Leaving the End Open'' lineup, and is joined by keyboardist and producer Alessandro Del Vecchio, guitarist Thorsten Koehne, bassist Anna Portalupi, and drummer Francesco Jovino. ''Danger Zone'' was released in Europe on May 18, 2012, and in America on May 22, both through Frontiers Records. Unlike previous Hardline albums, Johnny Gioeli did not initiate the project, nor was he the primary songwriter. The project came to fruition when Alessandro Del Vecchio, a longtime fan of Hardline, of Eden's Curse and Edge of Forever wrote and composed songs with Gioeli's vocals specifically in mind, then proceeded to record demos to send to Frontiers Records president Serafino Perugino. Perugino, after listening to and approving the demos, sent them to Gioeli, who immediately became interested in reforming Hardline a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
II (Hardline Album)
''II'' is the second album by American hard rock band Hardline. It was released in 2002, ten years after the band's debut album ''Double Eclipse.'' It is also the last album to feature Joey Gioeli. The album was originally going to be named either ''Hyperspace'' or ''Vicious Circle'', 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 Eclipse''." The tracks "Face the Night," "Do or Die," "Your Eyes," and "This Gift" were originally recorded for Double Eclipse, as Johnny Gioeli revealed in a 2002 interview, "So people are getting a real Hardline record." It features former The Storm guitarist Josh Ramos. In a 2002 interview with Andy Read, Johnny Gioeli revealed four songs that were to be included on ''II'': "Plastic Jesus," "Sweet Surrender," "Why Me," which may have been an early demo of "Y," and "Only a Night," the only track among the four confirmed to have appeared on t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jun Senoue
is a Japanese composer and guitarist. He is a sound director for the ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' video game series by Sega and serves as the songwriter of the Japanese-American rock duo Crush 40, which he formed with Johnny Gioeli in 2000. The duo contributed songs to each of the series' major titles until 2010, after which Senoue remained involved in musical production for further ''Sonic'' games. Biography Senoue was born on August 2, 1970, in Matsushima, Miyagi, Japan, and started playing the piano at the age of three. After moving to Panama at the age of 12, he became dedicated to rock music after being exposed to MTV. He began to teach himself to play the electric guitar at the age of 15, and made his first original band recording by the age of 17. After graduating from college with a degree in economics from Aoyama Gakuin University in 1993, Senoue sent demo tapes to Namco and Sega, the latter of whom hired him. His first project with the company was on '' Dark Wizard'', where h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crush 40
Crush 40 is a Japanese-American hard rock band. The group consists of guitarist and composer Jun Senoue and principal vocalist Johnny Gioeli. Crush 40 is best known for producing most soundtracks for the Sonic The Hedgehog series in the 2000s. Senoue has been employed by Sega as a composer since 1993. While preparing music for ''Sonic Adventure'', he contacted Gioeli to perform the game's theme song, "Open Your Heart". They also recorded the soundtrack for '' NASCAR Arcade'' under the name "Sons of Angels", which was released in Japan as the album ''Thrill of the Feel'' (2000). Afterward, Senoue and Gioeli continued recording music for further ''Sonic'' titles, as well as their own original songs. Crush 40 has released a total of two studio albums, two live albums, two compilations, an EP, and individual tracks, mostly under Sega's Wave Master label. The band's musical style of hard rock, considered by some to be a continuation of glam rock, has created a legacy with fans o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johnny Gioeli
Johnny Gioeli ( ; born October 5, 1967) is an American rock music, rock singer. He is the lead vocalist of Hardline (band), Hardline, Crush 40, and Axel Rudi Pell's Axel Rudi Pell#Band members, backing band. He is best known for his musical contributions to the ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' video game series since 1998, as part of Crush 40. Biography Gioeli's musical career began in the early 1980s after forming the band Phaze with his older brother, Joey. In 1983, at the age of 16, he started drumming and sharing vocal duties with Joey with the band Killerhit. The four-piece act hit the East Coast club circuit with an enormous amount of success, earning enough by 1987 to purchase their own lighting rig, truck and tour bus (purchased from Jimmy Buffett's guitar player in Memphis). Killerhit re-located to Hollywood and hooked up with bandmate and guitarist Christopher Paul's friend Bret Michaels, Poison (American band), Poison's lead singer. He introduced them to his former publicist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rudy Sarzo
Rodolfo Maximiliano Sarzo Lavieille Grande Ruiz Payret y Chaumont (born November 18, 1950) is a Cuban-American musician. He remains best known as the bassist for Quiet Riot, Ozzy Osbourne, and Whitesnake, and has also played with several well known heavy metal and hard rock acts including Manic Eden, Dio, Blue Öyster Cult, Geoff Tate's Queensrÿche, Devil City Angels, and the Guess Who. He re-joined Quiet Riot in 2021. He is the sole remaining member from the band's “Metal Health” lineup. Early life Sarzo was born in Havana on November 18, 1950. He emigrated to the United States in 1961 and was raised in Florida. His brother, Robert, is also a musician. Music career Quiet Riot Upon arriving in Los Angeles in August 1977, Sarzo happened upon a Quiet Riot show at the Starwood after being turned away from a sold-out Van Halen show at the nearby Whisky a Go Go. He recalled the show being "quite ambitious for a club band", and after the show he bumped into vocalis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yngwie Malmsteen
Yngwie Johan Malmsteen (; born Lars Johan Yngve Lannerbäck, on 30 June 1963) is a Swedish-American guitarist. He first became known in the 1980s for his neoclassical metal, neoclassical playing style in heavy metal music, heavy metal, and has released 22 studio albums in a career spanning over 40 years. Early life Malmsteen was born Lars Johan Yngve Lannerbäck in Stockholm, Sweden, the third child of a musical family. In 1975, his mother reverted to her mother's (Yngwie's maternal grandmother Maud's) maiden name Malmsten, a Swedish noble name, which Yngve promptly also started using as his surname. Later he slightly changed it to Malmsteen and altered his third given name Yngve to "Yngwie". Malmsteen played his first show when in 6th grade, on May 11th, 1976 with his first real band, Track on Earth, consisting of himself, his cousin Erik Lannerbäck and a friend from school playing the drums. Later his brother Björn joined on drums. As a teenager he was heavily influenced by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ronnie James Dio
Ronald James Padavona (July 10, 1942 – May 16, 2010), known professionally as Ronnie James Dio, was an American heavy metal singer. He fronted numerous bands throughout his career, including Elf, Rainbow, Black Sabbath, Dio and Heaven & Hell. Dio's music career began in 1957 as part of the Vegas Kings (later Ronnie and the Rumblers). In 1967, he formed the rock band Elf, in which he sang and played bass. In 1975, Deep Purple guitarist Ritchie Blackmore founded the band Rainbow and hired Dio to be the lead singer; during his tenure, the band released three studio albums. Dio quickly emerged as one of heavy rock's pre-eminent vocalists. In 1979, Dio replaced Ozzy Osbourne as Black Sabbath's lead singer and appeared on three studio albums with the band, all three of which met with success: '' Heaven & Hell'' (1980), '' Mob Rules'' (1981) and '' Dehumanizer'' (1992). In 1982, he left to form the band Dio, which itself had two albums certified platinum by the RIAA. In 2006, he f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
