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2/27/09 outlet release date.

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During the mid-'60s, a time when musicians were pushing rock & roll into a number of new directions, the Monks were one of the most radical groups of their day. Comprised of Gary Burger, Larry Clark, Dave Day, Roger Johnston, and Eddie Shaw, five American GI's stationed in Hamburg, Germany, during the height of the Cold War, the Monks started out as a cover band called the Torquays, playing the hits of the day to blow off steam while they waited out their commitments to the Army. However, the band members had some more ambitious ideas, and when they met Karl-H. Remy and Walther Nieman, a pair of Germans with an interest in music and contemporary art interested in managing a rock band, they reinvented themselves as the Monks. Wearing all-black clothing, bits of rope as neckties, and sporting tonsures shaved into their scalps, the Monks played noisy, stripped-down rock with a fierce, propulsive beat, fuzzy guitars, an amplified banjo, and lyrics that were openly critical of the military and the standard social order.

While the Monks developed a small but loyal following and appeared occasionally on German television, the group was simply too unconventional to attract a large audience, and after the commercial failure of their album Black Monk Time, the group split up in 1967. However, the band's reputation lived on, and the album became a cult favorite among record collectors and fans of pre-punk garage rock. The album was belatedly released in the United States in 1997, and the group reformed to play a reunion show at New York City's Cavestomp Festival in 1999. Filmmakers Dietmar Post and Lucía Palacios recount the strange journey of this most unusual band in Monks: The Transatlantic Feedback, a documentary which features interview with the original members of the band, their friends and associates, and some of their better-known fans, including Jon Spencer, Peter Zaremba, and Genesis P-Orridge.
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DVD includes 70 minutes of bonus features:
biographies dave, eddie, gary, larry and roger talk about their origins and musical backgrounds
a date with dave day these field recordings with elvis fan dave day introduce us to the concept of monks banjo playing. enjoy this master class by the first rock´n´roll banjo player in music history!
monks 60s live appearances on german tv the only 60s performances preserved on film are made available for the first time in their entirety.
reunion new york 1999 the 6th monk or how gary burger lost his voice and mike fornatale rescued the monks.
movie trailer
subtitles english, german, spanish, french, italian & polish

I saw this a couple of years ago, and loved it. I got to meet Eddie and Dave, who has since passed away. Chatted with Dave a little and he seemed like a really sweet guy.

For those in LA, check it out on the (sort of) big screen at the Silent Movie Theater
http://www.silentmovietheatre.com/calen ... y.html#mon
Eddie is scheduled to chat with Michael Des Barres at the screening

I got this over the weekend.......great job on the bonus material.
The 30 minute "date with Dave Day" is just as described as above. He shows his banjo parts of almost every Monks song, and how style changed between the Torquays and the Monks. He does seem like a very nice funny guy....sad he's no longer here.

The movie is definitely worth buying, or at least renting out to see one of the most unique groups of the 60's.