Monks - The Transatlantic Feedback Page #2

People run

Ain't it fun for you?

People go

To their deaths for you.

After the explosion 4 years ago

this sports car was named

"White Orchid".

A work by the pop artist Arman.

In Dsseldorf at Corneliusstrasse

15 the sculpture is an ornamental

piece among other pop attractions

for a "creative workshop".

The owner of the workshop paid

$3.000 for the "White Orchid".

Charles Wilp, pop fanatic and star

of the German ad photographers.

Since my early days I am into

space travel, so I knew about

physical weightlessness.

It started in '63 with the

launching of the first Apollo.

And I connected that with

my idea of the Monks.

If I may complete, which art

status the Monks had,

then for me it was the first

moment of a weightless group,

not only mentally weightless

but also physically

by smashing to pieces everything.

Corneliusstrasse was thrown

into turmoil and the young kids

surrounded them because they

had the feeling for this music.

They came into the

right atmosphere.

I didn't have to change

their "world".

The fact that they wore tonsures

meant to be blasphemous

like me with my nuns.

It happened through Remy and

Niemann. Both saw in me

the right person to promote the

Monks, which I couldn't.

But I could help by getting them to

perform my advertising music

and trying to cause an

overnight success.

That's how I met with the

artificial creation "Monks".

Musically they stood on

a very high platform.

You couldn't categorize them.

It was hard rock -

if you could call

it rock at all.

They made vibrations, high

frequency rhythms,

then low frequency rhythms.

Then no rhythms at all.

They made the cuts you

need in today's techno

to be able to create those

fast TV commercials.

So, they also were the

precursors of techno.

The empty F sharp or

the empty C sharp,

which they suddenly played.

Then they stopped and Roger hit

with his instrument into the gaps.

That was the new phenomenon

where I could use my texts.

At each gap I said SEXY

and if I wasn't saying it

then it was Marsha Hunt

or Donna Summer.

Well of the GODS

with the Afri tube.

We didn't record the music.

I wanted to use some percussions.

The musicologists and the CEO

couldn't agree with me

and the whole thing failed.

Please hand out the notes.

I performed my Afri Cola music

with 48 strings, 2 oboes, 2 harps,

4 timpani - classical instruments.

And created this "unreal" sound,

which I always wanted to do

and which I could have achieved

faster with the Monks.

Then I didn't have to deal with

the burden of the conventions.

It would have been easy to work

exclusively with ad clients.

You see, 30 years later

Germany is still on the Afri high.

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