{"id":14253,"date":"2021-06-01T20:00:30","date_gmt":"2021-06-02T00:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=14253"},"modified":"2021-05-30T20:52:30","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T00:52:30","slug":"monks-the-transatlantic-feedback-2006-palacios-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/14253","title":{"rendered":"Monks: The Transatlantic Feedback (2006, Palacios &#038; Post)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Torquays was a successful five-piece band of U.S. soldiers who&#8217;d stayed in Germany after their war service, playing nightly shows when two serious German art-school dudes approached them and convinced them to rebrand as The Monks and play a pared-down but forceful new kind of rock music.  We spend much time with the band members, leaving no anecdote untold and culminating in a one-off NYC reunion show with celebrities like Jon Spencer in the crowd.  Still one of the greatest albums ever made&#8230; this two-hour movie has only about 15 minutes of illuminating stories, but it&#8217;s nice to spend so much time in a world where the Monks mattered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Torquays was a successful five-piece band of U.S. soldiers who&#8217;d stayed in Germany after their war service, playing nightly shows when two serious German art-school dudes approached them and convinced them to rebrand as The Monks and play a pared-down but forceful new kind of rock music. We spend much time with the band [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[410,369,122,2073],"class_list":["post-14253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1960s","tag-2000s","tag-germany","tag-rock-doc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14272,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14253\/revisions\/14272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}