Monks: The Transatlantic Feedback

First avant-garde beat band in pop history

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.

• Release date
• October 4, 2007
• Runtime
• 100 min
• Genres
• Documentary, Music
• Director
• Dietmar Post

Cast

G

Gary Burger Self

L

Larry Clark Self

D

Dave Day Self

R

Roger Johnston Self

E

Eddie Shaw Self

C

Charles Wilp Self

H

Hans Joachim Irmler Self

J

Jimmy Bowien Self