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
Enhanced CD content Live performance video of "Complication", "Cuckoo" and "Shut Up" 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 ROC-CD-3295
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