Music to scare bullies by

The Monks had tonsures and cowls. Gonn performed beneath a swastika. But both embody the strange and continuing appeal of garage punk. Alexis Petridis reportsIn the late 1980s, Eddie Shaw was at home in Carson City, Nevada, when two strangers knocked on his door, demanding to know if he was the same Eddie Shaw who had played bass in a band called the Monks in Germany in the mid 60s. He was not overjoyed to see them. The Monks had ended their brief and turbulent career in 1967, hitless, broke and...

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