Sold Date: January 13, 2019
Start Date: June 25, 2018
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THE MONKS - BLACK TIME - NEW

RECORD NEW / MINT

“Only five thousand people ever bought a Velvet Underground album, but every single one of them started a band.” Rock and roll lore has it that Brian Eno said that. He may have been right; but if it wasn’t for a small, virtually unknown band of American servicemen in Germany a few years earlier, there might not have been a Velvet Underground or Can or Kraftwerk or punk (or at the very least not as we recognize them today). With the recording and release of Black Monk Time, redefined elements of rock and roll, helping to lay the foundations for future rock movements such as Krautrock and punk. Oh, and they invented feedback too.

The Monks were a band comprised of five American GIs who remained in Germany after their stint in the Army was up in the early 60s. Band members Gary Burger, lead guitar; Larry Clark, organ; Dave Day, electric banjo; Eddie Shaw, bass; and Roger Johnston, drums (all five members shared vocal duties, with Burger on lead) originally began playing together as a means to blow off steam while on the front lines of the Cold War in Germany. In fact, during the Cuban Missile Crisis they sat in their tanks with the engines running and sang anti-war songs. “We were sitting in tanks, ready to go,” Johnston says in the 2006 documentary Monks: The Transatlantic Feedback.

A1   Monk Time 2:14 A2   Shut Up 3:11 A3   Boys Are Boys And Girls Are Girls 1:23 A4   Higgle-Dy-Piggle-Dy 2:28 A5   I Hate You 3:32 A6   Oh, How To Do Now 3:14 A7   Complication 2:21 A8   We Do Wie Du 2:09 B1   Drunken Maria 1:44 B2   Love Came Tumblin' Down 2:28 B3   Blast Off! 2:12 B4   That's My Girl 2:24   Cuckoo / I Can't Get Over You 7" B5   I Can't Get Over You 2:42 B6   Cuckoo 2:41   Love Can Tame The Wild / He Went Down To The Sea 7" B7   Love Can Tame The Wild 2:38 B8   He Went Down To The Sea 3:03