Let's Start a Beat - Live from Cavestomp

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Let's Start a Beat - Live from Cavestomp
Let's Start a Beat - Live from Cavestomp cover
Live album by The Monks
Released 2000
Recorded 1999
Genre Protopunk/Garage Rock
Label Cavestomp
Professional reviews
The Monks chronology
Five Upstart Americans
(1999)		 Let's Start a Beat - Live from Cavestomp
(2000)		 Silver monk time
(2006)
Alternate Cover
Cover of European release
Cover of European release

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 is an annual event in New York City that reunites mid-sixties bands for a weekend of live music. Released in 2000 on Cavestomp Records.

[edit] Track listing

  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

[edit] 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

[edit] Musicians

  • 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