The Monks inspired the garage rock movement.
Or maybe they didn’t, but I’m fond of their music anyway.
Take it anyway you like. You’re the one refusing to answer a question first.
The Monks are definitely up there with The Sonics, Blues Magoos and 13th Floor Elevators as a massively influential garage band, IMO.
@Snowboarder_Bo, @MrDibble… isn’t there something like a quarry, or a pit, somewhere nearby?
It’s clear that you don’t know what the word singularly meant when you posted prior. You’ve prolly looked it up by now and are stalling because you know you were mistaken earlier.
Yes. My entire posting history is absolutely littered with me being absolutely clueless about common English words 
And no, my earlier posts all stand , since they were made being fully aware of the meaning of the word.
Bo is happy to Pit me. He won’t, since he’s just clearly posturing rather than having an actual counter to the facts.
Fine; we can do it this way: It’s clear that you didn’t know what the word singularly meant when you posted prior. You’ve prolly looked it up by now and are stalling because you know you were mistaken earlier.
“Singularly” doesn’t mean “first”. It also doesn’t mean “only”. It means “in a remarkable or noticeable way” or “to an unusual degree”.
If you had known this, it seems unlikely that would blather on about who was first.
And Black Sabbath was never a Satanic band and didn’t have Satanic lyrics.
They also had a big influence in Germany on kraut rock bands.
This shouldn’t need explaining, but apparently it does:
If others have done it first (not just Black Sabbath, that was just the easy quip - plenty of rock bands had used occult imagery and references by that point. Fuck, the Stones had.) then there’s absolutely nothing surprising or remarkable about a band in the same genre doing it years later.
Irrelevant. They were seen that way. And other bands too. Hell, Page lived in Crowley’s house and owned an occult book store. (And spare me a tedious Hard Rock =/= Metal digression. Like the public cared.)
Occult imagery was old pointed hat by the time Venom came around. Did they push the boundaries further? I wouldn’t know, I still haven’t looked them up. But would they be noteworthy for doing so? Dude, it was 1978. Please. Pushing boundaries was the new black.
This ain’t my forum, God knows. But if you two don’t stop the damn hijack right now I’ll bring the right people here and you’ll both regret it.
Take it to the pit, drop it, or be sanctioned. Your call.
That like button would be good just about now.
There used to be a Bix Beiderbecke festival in the Quad Cities (Rock Island Illinois area). Beiderbecke was greatly respected in the jazz community, for sure.
I hope we can keep on with this interesting thread, now.
redacted because of Jonathan’s threat
Moderator Note
Fortunate, because I was just about to warn you for disobeying his instructions.
While in normal times we usually stick to our own forums, we are extremely short handed at present, and we are having to keep an eye on things across forums. All mods have authority across all forums. You don’t get to ignore instructions just because they were issued by a mod from a different forum.
Colibri
I did not see Jonathan’s post until I had posted my reply; there was no ignore.
You also reported his post as improper moderation and suggested that you were not required to follow it. I wanted to make it clear although we have conventionally modded our own forums, moderators do have authority across forums. In fact, on the new board we don’t really have forum assignments; we all routinely see reports from all forums across the board.
I’m not sure why you felt that needed to be public knowledge but like you provided, my aim was clarification. Thanks!
I would hope so since Ian Mackaye led both bands.
I don’t know much about garage (and nothing of kraut rock - more on that in a minute). However, I did start trawling the Pebbles series of albums (a few of which comprise pretty much my knowledge of garage) to see if any of these three bands were included. (aside - the 13th Floor Elevators were the only one I had heard of.)
I got about a dozen albums in without seeing any mention of the bands, so I took a look at the wiki page for the series - linked above - and was intrigued to find that Pebbles 24 features German bands. What say, EH - is this the birth of kraut rock?
j
PS - you can find a lot of these albums on Youtube, but I couldn’t find 24. Here’s 2 as a frinstance.