Yes, 1965 is pretty early to even be considering anything proto-punk, but it's hard to know what else to consider The Monks' '65 visit to German television. The group of American GI ex-pats spend a little less than a minute of playing something that vaguely resembles a pop number, before letting the drummer hold the fort while the rest of the quintet fiddles around atonally on the same guitar, jumping back for a final refrain that just confuses things even further. The songs would get better, but the energy and excitement was rarely duplicated.
