Mai 18, 2009 - Montag  US fans raving about monks documentary 1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:   It's Monk Time. , May 8, 2009 By  Vic "Vic"  (USA) -  See all my reviews I'm glad this has been made available through Amazon. I was going to the Play Loud! website regularly to find out when it was coming out.  It's the documentary we've all been waiting for, and a real revelation. So little is known about the Monks, especially in the US -- just that they had a seminal sound and dark, weird presentation. And they were slightly funny, too. Most of all,they influenced all kinds of other bands and have been called the precursor to punk.  My only regret is that the producers were unable to interview the managers of the Monks who set them into motion and were such an influence on their sound and presentation. However, on the plus side, I'm glad they were able to interview all the Monks as two of them have passed away since this documentary was i...

monday, may 18, 2009 Monks: The Transatlantic Feedback I didn’t really understand The Monks the first time I heard them and was never a big fan of their music until I saw the documentary “The Monks: The Transatlantic Feedback” (excellently directed by Lucia Palacios and Dietmar Post) on the Sundance Channel recently. Now I’m totally obsessed with those noisy psychos. “The Transatlantic Feedback” is a great documentary and reads like a Tony Curtis military comedy from Hell. It’s the story of five enlisted men in the Army in Cold War-era West Germany whose infantry duties consisted of washing the General’s car or for bassist Eddie Shaw measuring bazooka artillery projectiles. To pass the time they hit the decadent Berlin club scene (which spawned The Beatles) playing covers as The Torquays. After they’re discharged from the Armed Forces they decided to stay in Germany and continue playing the clubs, catching the eye of two advertising men, Walther and Karl. Walther and Karl molded the...

FORCES OF GEEK Monday, April 27, 2009 MONKS: THE TRANSATLANTIC FEEDBACK—Not Your Everyday Monk Rockers By Robert Jaz How could 5 American GI's, stationed on a military base in the middle of 1961's Cold War immersed Germany, in a few years become one of the most out there, avant garde, experimental garage rock and roll art bands to ever come along in pop music's history? Well, it doesn't hurt if you have an electric banjo, are called MONKS and dress like...Monks. For over ten years, directors Dietmar Post and Lucia Palacios have been working to bring the little known tale of one of the wildest, most strikingly different bands of the sixties to the screen. This unlikely story is a superbly engaging film called Monks: The Transatlantic Feedback. For those uninitiated to the Monks' story, music or visual image, this film tells a thoroughly head scratching tale: they were a group of GI's who originally set out to primarily have some fun and meet some girls thro...

The protagonist of play loud´s first documentary film "Reverend Billy & The Church of Stop Shopping" has announced his candidacy for mayor of NYC. Hallelujah! "This November, as the Green Party candidate, I will challenge Michael Bloomberg - the wealthiest man in NYC - for the highest political office in town - I'm running for mayor and I'm running to win. Will you help?" Bill Talen www.voterevbilly.org

17.04.2009   Musik-Doku Wie wilde Mönche den Metal erfanden Von Christoph Dallach Sie entstammten den nebligeren Gefilden des Pop-Kosmos und entwickelten einen Stil, der sie zu Pionieren von Punk, Heavy Metal und sogar Techno machte: die Monks. Eine großartige Dokumentation über die legendäre Rock'n'Roll-Band erscheint jetzt endlich auf DVD. Zu Beginn der DVD ist der Bildschirm schwarz, es knistert. Dann erscheint "Beat-Club"-Liebchen Uschi Nerke, die einen "ungewöhnlichen, überraschenden Sound" ankündigt: Vorhang auf für die Monks-Dokumentation "The Transatlantic Feedback". Das Rock'n'Roll-Quintett aus den nebligeren Gefilden der Popgeschichte entwickelte einen Stil, der heute als bahnbrechend gilt, aber damals, Mitte der sechziger Jahre, nur ein sehr überschaubares Publikum fand, so dass die Band nach knapp zwei durchgelärmten Jahren frustriert das Handtuch warf. Geschichten von Musikern, die zu wenig beachtet wurden, gibt es wie Sand am...

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Interview with the filmmakers: http://www.laut.de/vorlaut/news/2009/03/19/21384/index.htm Laut.De nennt den Film "einen Klassiker unter den Musikdokumentationen". http://www.laut.de/lautstark/dvd_reviews/m/monks/the_transatlantic_feedback/index.htm Here the links to the first reviews of the DVD release of MONKS: THE TRANSATLANTIC FEEDBACK. Many fans write us their opinions about the DVD. It is very pleasing to read that they like what they see and hear. http://www.critic.de/filme/detail/film/monks---the-transatlantic-feedback-1584.html DVD OF THE WEEK at famous Radio One (Radio Eins) DVD der Woche auf Radio Eins One of the fans speaking: Just got the DVD - BRILLIANT!!!!.. -- Chris Mezzolesta ...All I can say is...Wow. or "Holy Shit" to be more precise :-D Everyone who visits this site must be at least slightly curious about the monks, therefore everyone who visits this site MUST buy a copy of "monks: the transatlantic feedback" on DVD NOW...

LINDSAY HUTTON (The Next Big Thing) writes: So yeah, "The Transatlantic Feedback" was the latest instalment of the Monorail Film Club on Sunday past (in Glasgow). The fact that a documentary like this exists in the first place is a testament to the influence of the subject and the temerity of the film-makers. The influence of these five GI's pioneering work in deconstructing sound has been recognised and reverberates constantly throughout the oeuvre of much of today's music. Mr Cruickshank has a theory that their "managers" were aping what Chris Stamp and Kit Lambert were doing with The Who. The suggestion that the band was engineered by these individuals burst the bubble for several people who attended the screening. I think they'd rather that revelation hadn't been floated. However, there's no disputing that seeing those Beat Club clips in such great shape indicated just what a force of nature that the monks were. The way the story is told is...

BLACK MONK TIME re-issued by Universal Music Germany (Release date March 13, 2009) Universal (Polydor Records) announced the imminent third official release of this classic of rock 'n' roll. First released in 1966 in Germany and Sweden Black Monk Time only gained cult following within those two countries. The second release in 1979 caused a much wider acceptance world wide. Reason for the third release was the large underground success of the documentary film "The Transatlantic Feedback". LP as high quality 180gram vinyl, re-mastered and in the original artwork. CD with extensive liner notes by the filmmakers about the album's making as well as previously unreleased photos.

Complication / Oh-how to do now Official release: March 13th, 2009 (pre-order this item at our shop) This is the first official and authorized re-issue of the Polydor International 1966 single “complication / oh-how to do now” by the legendary avant-garde rockers “the monks”. Re-mastered and in the original art work. play loud!

RELEASE DATE MARCH 13, 2009 (Europe) play loud! announces the DVD release of the award-winning documentary film MONKS: THE TRANSATLANTIC FEEDBACK. DVD includes 81 minutes of bonus features: 1) biographies dave, eddie, gary, larry and roger talk about their origins and musical backgrounds. 2) a date with dave day these field recordings with elvis fan dave day introduce us to the concept of monks banjo playing. enjoy this master class by the first rock´n´roll banjo player in music history! 3) monks 60s live appearances on german tv the only 60s performances preserved on film are made available for the first time in their entirety. 4) reunion new york 1999 the 6th monk or how gary burger lost his voice and mike fornatale rescued the monks. 5) movie trailer 6) subtitles english, german, spanish, french, italian & polish. 7) other play loud! releases featured on the dvd are martin rev live, doc schoko live, reverend billy trailer 8) DVD-pack with 8-page booklet and liner no...

The play loud! team is happy to announce that Monks - The Transatlantic Feedback has won the prestigious Adolf Grimme Award 2008 (Germany). The jury states: "monks – the transatlantic feedback leistet nicht weniger als eine tiefenscharfe Ethnografie der Sechziger Jahre, ein Portrait aufbrechender Verhältnisse mit dem Himmel voller Pauken und Gitarren." You can read the entire statement here: www.grimme-institut.de/html/index.php?id=728