Let's Start a Beat – Live from Cavestomp

Let's Start a Beat - Live from Cavestomp
Live album by The Monks
Released	2000
Recorded	1999
Genre	Protopunk/Garage Rock
Label	Cavestomp
Professional reviews
The reviews parameter has been deprecated. Please move reviews into the “Reception” section of the article. See Moving reviews into article space. Allmusic link
The Monks chronology
Five Upstart Americans (1999) Let's Start a Beat - Live from Cavestomp (2000) Demo Tapes 1965 (2007)
Alternative Cover
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. It was reissued in 2004 by Munster Records.

Track listing

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

No.	Title	Length
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

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

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