Let's Start a Beat – Live from Cavestomp explained

Let's Start a Beat - Live from Cavestomp
Type:	live
Artist:	The Monks
Cover:	Let's start a beat.jpg
Released:	October 31, 2000
Recorded:	November 5, 1999
Genre:	Protopunk, garage rock
Label:	Cavestomp
Prev Title:	Five Upstart Americans
Prev Year:	1999
Next Title:	Demo Tapes 1965
Next Year:	2007

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 , 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

This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Let's Start a Beat – Live from Cavestomp".

Region	Date	Title	Label	Format	Catalog
USA	October 31, 2000	Let's Start a Beat – Live from Cavestomp		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