The Monks are the best band you’ve never heard of. These trailblazers were serving up a visionary, singular sound back in the 1960s, but the world wasn’t ready for them yet. Sadly, three-fifths of the ...
Some musical footnotes remain just that for good reason. Rough contemporaries of the recently reunited Sonics, the Monks were a German-managed American band of ex-GIs during the mid-’60s with a ...
BEMIDJI, Minn. — The Monks’ lead singer and guitarist, Gary Burger, sits at a mixing console in his small home-recording studio near Bemidji. He’s thumbing through 40-year-old black and white ...
Three decades delayed, a dream has come true for five guys scattered across the country. All are in their 50s, all have commonplace jobs — writer, truck driver, computer programmer — and all knew that ...