Day has turned to night.
No photo, just a brief item: Thanks to the blog at WFMU, I've just learned that Dave Day, legendary electric banjo superstar of The Monks, died last week (10jan) of heart failure and "massive brain injury"... Of course no man is immortal, but damn.
His attack on that poor instrument made their 1966 album BLACK MONK TIME one of the finest, weirdest, most awesome bit of amphetamine stomp ever recorded. And as the classic German TV footage shows (see the link), the man had a blast doing it.
3 comments:
Figures. I try to link on to the WFMU site you provided and immediately get slammed with a security violation through my work browser. Sure, watch me get my hand slapped for trying to view an electric banjo wizard on German TV. Sigh...
dude...you'll never be the same. It's like prog-punk-skiffle with a dash of mod craziness to confuse those poor kids in the studio audience...
So what you're saying is that, even if escorted out by security from work for having tried to seek such joys through the browser window, I'll be much better off for having experienced the footage?
Actually, that's almost true. What a great live clip that was. LOVE the rhythm and the all-out assault on the instrument. Actually really was digging the vocals as well.
Sad that my first experiences with The Monks developed due to an unfortunate death.
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