{"id":6869,"date":"2015-06-05T18:46:53","date_gmt":"2015-06-05T17:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/?p=6869"},"modified":"2015-06-05T19:02:30","modified_gmt":"2015-06-05T18:02:30","slug":"the-montecristos-lp-review-by-colin-bryce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/the-montecristos-lp-review-by-colin-bryce\/","title":{"rendered":"The Montecristos: LP Review by Colin Bryce"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>The Montecristos: Born to Rock\u2018n\u2019Roll (Easy Action)<\/h5>\n<p>Its rock\u2018n\u2019roll fetish time! Big \u2018ol guitars! A blazing (all gal) horn section with a stand-up bass pumping the bottom of that primitive rockin\u2019 rhythm to get \u2018em out on the floor. Add a pile of peroxide and pomade, a little bit of leopard on your strides and some suggestive late-night ideas from vocalist\/guitarist and front man Neal X and you\u2019ll have a pretty good idea where London\u2019s Montecristos are coming from. Fronted by former Sigue Sigue Sputnick and Marc Almond guitarist Neal X this six piece outfit has got the show going. Plenty of 50s glitz and gonzo with the occasional nod to the swingin\u2019 60s (the Rascal\u2019s \u201cGood Lovin\u2019\u201d) and with Marc Almond as featured guest vocalist on Vince Taylor\u2019s well-known classic \u201cBrand New Cadillac\u201d. Like \u201cGood Lovin\u2019\u201d it could probably have been swapped out for one of the band\u2019s originals or something a little more uncommon but they may very well help with getting some friendly radio play. I was very pleased to see the great rock writer Nina Antonia listed as co-writer on the title track \u201cBorn to Rock\u2019n\u2019Roll\u201d. No doubts here \u2013 the Montecristos are rockin\u2019 it. (14 tracks.)<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/easyaction.co.uk\/index.php?route=product\/product&amp;product_id=337\" target=\"_blank\">GRAB A COPY HERE!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Web Links<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/themontecristos.com\" target=\"_blank\">themontecristos.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was very pleased to see the great rock writer Nina Antonia listed as co-writer on the title track \u201cBorn to Rock\u2019n\u2019Roll\u201d. No doubts here \u2013 the Montecristos are rockin\u2019 it. (14 tracks.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":6871,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[306,60,93,128,84,71,106,74,85],"tags":[1095,1096,596,1094,1093,1097],"series":[],"class_list":["post-6869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blues","category-eyeplugs","category-garage","category-hot-plugs","category-modernist","category-music","category-picks","category-reviews","category-soul","tag-born-to-rocknroll","tag-brand-new-cadillac","tag-colin-mohair-sweets-bryce","tag-the-badfinger-twang","tag-the-montecristos","tag-the-rascals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6869"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6875,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6869\/revisions\/6875"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6869"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=6869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}