{"id":12021,"date":"2020-05-21T05:00:24","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T05:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=12021"},"modified":"2020-05-20T09:42:40","modified_gmt":"2020-05-20T09:42:40","slug":"brad-marino-false-alarm-rum-bar-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=12021","title":{"rendered":"Brad Marino &#8211; &#8216;False Alarm&#8217; (Rum Bar Records)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/1i0lpF9F.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-12022 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/1i0lpF9F-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/1i0lpF9F-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/1i0lpF9F-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/1i0lpF9F-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/1i0lpF9F-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/1i0lpF9F-1140x1140.jpeg 1140w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/1i0lpF9F-65x65.jpeg 65w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/1i0lpF9F.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>When you wanna Rock and Roll and you want to do it without any bullshit or drama then Rum Bar Records is always a good bet for delivering the goods and Brad Marino is one of their charges who has the magic at his fingertips.\u00a0 This is Marinos second solo record with a couple of choice covers thrown in for good measure.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no False Alarm here it&#8217;s the real deal &#8211; Real deal Rock and Roll actually created in the garage so bonafide Garage Rock n Roll for sure. It opens with the title track think a boogie Woogie Rockpile riffing on a Beach Boys tune and you&#8217;re kinda in the right ballpark.\u00a0 Always the man with a melody and cool hook.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Along with artists like Kurt Baker or Pat Todd.\u00a0 Marino is a songwriting machine and simply doesn&#8217;t make bad records &#8211; Like a sponge, he&#8217;s soaked up a lifetime of great songs and rinsed them into his own melting pot &#8216;What&#8217;s My Scene &#8216; entertains a hint of Ramones style guitar playing into the pot whilst covering a Hoodoo Gurus number (it&#8217;ll make more sense when you play the song &#8211; trust me) Well that&#8217;s technically it folks the first three tracks make up Brads new single but being Rum Bar Records release it doesn&#8217;t end there which is why this isn&#8217;t in the 45s roundup.\u00a0 Digitally there is more to plunder.\u00a0 The CD, however, goes into extra time with a further five songs including a grand cover of &#8216;Peggy Sue Got Married&#8217; which was previously released as a single.\u00a0 &#8216;Shoulda Known&#8217; is very much in the vein of a CJ Ramone track from latter-day Ramones releases or certainly his solo material.\u00a0 Really airy arrangement and simply a good old romp. n roll tune.\u00a0 &#8216;I&#8217;m On The Brink&#8217; is ever inch as good as a song of the same name from a wonderful UK band More Kicks its not the same song but they both have the Rock n Roll gene in their make up.<\/p>\n<p>Listen if you&#8217;ve got the money and are looking for a straight forward uncomplicated slice of good time rock and roll then the hard work is done for you just click the link and hit this EP\/minialbum call it what you like its a banger.<\/p>\n<p>Buy &#8216;False Alarm&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/rumbarrecords.bandcamp.com\/album\/false-alarm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Author: Dom Daley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you wanna Rock and Roll and you want to do it without any bullshit or drama then Rum Bar Records is always a good bet for delivering the goods and Brad Marino is one of their charges who has the magic at his fingertips.\u00a0 This is Marinos second solo record with a couple of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12022,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[184,183],"class_list":["post-12021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-brad-marino","tag-rum-bar-records","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12023,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12021\/revisions\/12023"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}