from rolling stone magazine

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Ben Harper & Rentless7 - Shimmer and Shine

Who were Death?

Brothers David, Bobby and Dannis Hackney started making music together in 1971, when David, the eldest, was 19 and Dannis, the youngest, was 16. Like many young African-American musicians, our primary influences were soul and funk music. This changed after seeing Iggy And The Stooges live. We started listening to more rock, stuff like Alice Cooper and Led Zeppelin. When the Who's Quadrophenia came out, David became convinced that nothing was more important than rock and roll. In 1974, we put together a demo tape with the most rocking name we could think of: DEATH.

What happened?


Death - Politicians In My Eyes Album out 2/17

Comments

[sean-coltrane.livejournal.com]

OMG that Death song is AWESOME. Please to be cross-posting to earth_tone?

[unusualmusic.livejournal.com]

done