A band called Death

girlsearching · #1 29-09-2020, 02:54 AM

Have any of you guys ever heard this band. I'm just finding out about them and I recently watched their documentary under the same name as the title.

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Before Bad Brains, the Sex Pistols or even the Ramones, there was a band called Death. Punk before punk existed, three teenage brothers in the early '70s from Detroit . Death is an American rock band formed in Detroit, Michigan in 1971 by brothers Bobby (bass, vocals), David (guitar), and Dannis (drums) Hackney. The trio started out as a funk band but switched to rock after seeing a concert by The Who. Originally calling themselves Rock Fire Funk Express, guitarist David convinced his brothers to change the name of the band to Death after their father died in an accident. David wanted to change the meaning of the word: "His concept was spinning death from the negative to the positive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qai4QqGZwFg
here is there song called 'Politicians in my eyes'

girlsearching · #2 29-09-2020, 03:03 AM

At the time in the 1970s no one was trying to sign the Hackney brothers because their rock genre and name no record label really wanted to be associated with their name. Bobby, Dannis, and David Hackney were from Detroit Michigan and the city is known for the record label Motown and "The Motown sound" and the Hackeny brothers were far from it.

Here is a picture of them in 1975 below I hope you all can see it.

Gem · #3 29-09-2020, 10:24 AM

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Originally Posted by girlsearching

Have any of you guys ever heard this band. I'm just finding out about them and I recently watched their documentary under the same name as the title.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qai4QqGZwFg
here is there song called 'Politicians in my eyes'

Quite brilliant!

girlsearching · #4 29-09-2020, 02:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Gem

Quite brilliant!

Yes I think so to. I never heard of the band Death before their story is interesting .