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Monks: The Transatlantic Feedback

First avant-garde beat band in pop history
Oct 4, 2007 · 1h 40m
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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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Gary Burger
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Larry Clark
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Dave Day
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Roger Johnston
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Eddie Shaw
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Charles Wilp
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Hans Joachim Irmler
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Jimmy Bowien
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Directed by Dietmar Post

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Released
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EN
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Play Loud! Productions, ZDF/3sat
Country
DE

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