DEATH was Punk before Punk was Punk

The seeds of Death were sown at an Alice Cooper Concert in 1973. It was there that the Hackney Brothers decided to give up playing R&B and switched to the kind of primal hard-rock that was unheard of for three black teenagers from Detroit. While most of their peers were diggin’ on Earth Wind & Fire, the Philadelphia Sound and the Isley Brothers, the Hackney Brothers became a relentless power trio: Dannis played drums, Bobby played bass and sang, David wrote the songs and contributed “propulsive guitar work, derived from studying Pete Townshend’s power-chord wrist technique.” When the boys’ mother let them swap bedroom furniture for mikes and amps, Death became a serious threat.
Death – Keep On Knocking

Death – Freakin Out

Today, record collectors, journalists, and rock-stars –Jack White called Death “ahead of punk, ahead of their time”– are naming Death the missing link in the evolution of punk rock and the brothers, their families and the re-discovery of their lost recordings are the subject of a new documentary entitled Where Do We Go From Here.

Check the trailer

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