Stand by · pulling the latest frames
Stand by · pulling the latest frames

The monks were 5 American GIs in cold war Germany who billed themselves as the anti-Beatles; they were heavy on feedback, nihilism and electrical banjo. They had strange haircuts, dressed in black, mocked the military and rocked harder than any of their mid-sixties counterparts while managing to basically invent industrial, kraut rock, heavy metal, punk and techno music.
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“First avant-garde beat band in pop history”

Re: monks - the transatlantic feedback (theatrical release)
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Eddie Shaw
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