Let's Start a Beat – Live from Cavestomp

Let's Start a Beat - Live from Cavestomp
Live album by
The Monks
ReleasedOctober 31, 2000
RecordedNovember 5, 1999
GenreProtopunk, garage rock
LabelCavestomp
The Monks chronology
Five Upstart Americans
(1999) 		Let's Start a Beat - Live from Cavestomp
(2000) 		Demo Tapes 1965
(2007)
Alternative Cover
Cover of European release
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]

Let's Start a Beat – Live from Cavestomp is a live album released by The Monks. It was recorded in 1999, 33 years after their only album Black Monk Time was released, and at their first-ever gig on home turf. Cavestomp was an annual event in New York City that reunited mid-sixties bands for a weekend of live music. Released in 2000 on Cavestomp Records. It was reissued in 2001 by Munster Records.

Track listing

  • All songs written by Burger/Clark/Shaw/Day/Johnston
No.TitleLength
1."Monk Time"3:21
2."Oh How to Do Now"4:22
3."We Do Wie Du"2:55
4."Boys Are Boys**"1:42
5."Pretty Suzanne"4:57
6."Hushie Pushie"2:40
7."Cuckoo*"3:23
8."Complication"2:59
9."That's My Girl"4:06
10."Shut Up"3:40
11."I Can't Get Over You*"2:34
12."Higgle-Dy Piggle-Dy***"3:16
13."Blast Off!"3:27
14."I Hate You"5:57
15."Monk Jam"5:58
16."An Inspirational Message"1:44

Enhanced CD content

  1. Live performance video of "Complication", "Cuckoo" and "Shut Up"
  2. Trailer for Monks: The Transatlantic Feedback, a documentary on the Monks

Personnel

  • All lead vocals by Gary Burger except *lead vocal by Roger Johnston; **lead vocal by Dave Day & Eddie Shaw; ***lead vocal by Mike Fornatale
  • Gary Burger – lead vocals and guitar
  • Larry Clark – organ and vocals
  • Dave Day – banjo and vocals
  • Roger Johnston – drums and vocals
  • Eddie Shaw – bass and vocals

Release history

Region Date Title Label Format Catalog
USA October 31, 2000 Let's Start a Beat – Live from Cavestomp Cavestomp Records/Varèse Sarabande CD 302 066 193 2
Spain 2001 ...Let's Start a Beat! Munster Records LP/CD MR 207 [LP], MR CD 207 [CD]
USA February 17, 2015 Monk Jam Rockbeat Records CD/Download

References

  1. ^ Let's Start a Beat – Live from Cavestomp at AllMusic
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