Steel Breeze - Heart on the Line

This month marks the thirtieth anniversary of Heart on the Line, the second studio album from California's Steel Breeze. For this album the group had gone through some line-up changes, adding Kevin Chalfant on vocals and Loren Haas on keyboards (both formerly of the band 707), and J. Schock on drums.

Unlike their self-titled 1982 debut Steel Breeze (click here for that review), the 1983 follow-up was a little tough to track down to listen to for this review. But, once again, the Internet did not let me down (thanks, YouTubers).

Steel Breeze - Steel Breeze

Hailing from Sacramento, California, the rock group Steel Breeze took their name from a line in the Pink Floyd song "Shine On You Crazy Diamond". The six member band consisted of Ric Jacobs (vocals), Waylin Carpenter (lead guitar), Ken Goorabian (guitar, vocals), Barry Lowenthal (drums), Vinnie Pantaleoni (bass, vocals) and Rod Toner (keyboards).

Today (August 24th) marks the thirtieth anniversary of their self-titled debut album. Steel Breeze entered the charts in 1982 and rose to number 50 on the US Billboard Hot 200 thanks to a hit single and memorable music video in the early days of MTV. Goorabian wrote all of the tracks, with an assist from Carpenter on the eighth track.