Label: Third Man Records TMR374 (US) 808
Medium: EP - 12inch

12.99EUR

MONKS (US-D)
[Hamburg Recordings 1967 (2017)]

MONKS  (US-D)

Release  2017 - NEW !!!! sealed - One Sided 12inch-EP with 5 titles - other side is etched - With insert
(1 Seite bespielt andere ge-lasered)

..formed in 1964 as The "5 Torquays"  (5 U:S. Army Soldiers stationed in Germany)  touring around mainly in the south of Germany
recording two songs in Heidelberg in a studio they found   near the ODEON Keller  after a gig.
With their German managar they recorded a demo album, to show around for a recording contract,
which was very difficult because they are sounding very different to other bands of the day,
playing loud agressive Beat (pre- PUNKS).
They had a special sound in  using organ &  banjo and treading the guitar on stage like
Hendrix some time later.
A young progressive label manager and producer from POLYDOR signed them.
They released one album (to my knowledge only 300 pressed) and 3 singles before they called
it a day and quit for the USA.
(They LP got re-issued in 1980 and we sold it at STACHUS MUSIC  very very good as special new  release;
not as oldie; no in the Punk- Wave- section. )
They were a big influence for bands like Can & Faust  too.
Unbelievable  stage presentation live (had gig  in Bayreuth too)
They appeared on German TV  Beat Club  & Beat Beat Beat.
In 1999 the MONKS reunited for their first ever US gig at The CAVESTOMP , since this time
touring constantly through the world again.  The MONKS are cult / kultig.
Sadly the original drummer died in 2004.
See also the great documentation-film from Dietmar Post & Lucia Palacios.

Unbelieveable but true some new unheard & unreleased tracks after 50 Years in Vault - now released through JACK WHITE 's Third Man Records.
Liner Notes and infos by EDDIE SHAW.
I'm Watching You - recorded at the studio session for the bands last 45 'Love Can Tame The Wild' in February 1967.
The remaining 4 unreleased songs are recorded by Rick Barnes at the TOP TEN CLUB in Hamburg, in the Summer 1967 - shortly
before the band broke up.


Style:  Beat; Garage-Punk

see :  The 5 Torquays ;

Musicians:
Gary Burger - vocals, guitar; Eddie Shaw - bass; Roger Johnston - drums;
Larry Clarke - organ;  Dave Day - banjo, rhythm guitar;

Mastered by: Andrew Mendelson; Design & Layout: Rex Runyeon; Art Direction: Ryon Nishimori;

Tracks   all songs written by: Burger-Havlicek-Johnston-Shaw-Spangler
Side A
I'm Watching You   3:18
Julia                        2:16
P.O.Box 3291         3:18
I need U Shatzi       2:41
Yellow Grass          2:54

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