Some musical footnotes remain just that for good reason. Rough contemporaries of the recently reunited Sonics, the Monks were a German-managed American band of ex-GIs during the mid-'60s with a similar fuzzed-out, torn-speaker-cone sound. They were Bauhaus primitives, molded by a pair of German ad men in a relationship that suggests Brian Epstein and the Beatles (only with less talent on both sides of the equation). For attention, yes, they performed in robes and had tonsures shaved... More >>>