Let's Start a Beat – Live from Cavestomp is a live album released by The Monks

The Monks

Monks are a garage rock band, formed by American GIs who were based in Germany in the mid to late 1960s. They reunited in 1999 and have continued to play concerts, although no new studio recordings have been made...

. 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. It was reissued in 2004 by Munster Records.

Track listing

• All songs written by Burger/Clark/Shaw/Day/Johnston

Enhanced CD content

1. Live performance video of "Complication", "Cuckoo" and "Shut Up"
2. Trailer for Monks: The Transatlantic Feedback
   Monks: The Transatlantic Feedback
   Monks: The Transatlantic Feedback is a 2006 film directed by Dietmar Post and Lucia Palacios about the seminal German-American beat band The Monks. The film was produced by Play Loud! Productions and shot on location in the USA and Germany between 1997 and 2002...
   
   , a documentary on the Monks

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