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Death (proto-punk band) Death is an American band formed in Detroit, Michigan, in 1971 by brothers Bobby (bass, vocals), David (March 19, 1952-October 9, 2000) (guitar), and Dannis Hackney (drums, percussion). The trio initially started as a funk group but quickly switched their style to rock after seeing concerts by the Who and Alice Cooper.
- Bobby Hackney Sr., Dannis Hackney, Bobbie Duncan
- 1971–1977, 2009–present
- David Hackney
Jun 28, 2013 · The story of A Band Called Death starts in Detroit, back in the early 1970s. The Hackney brothers (David, Bobby, and Dannis) grew up in a black middle-class household. The three formed a band and ...
Feb 13, 2022 · In the documentary Punk Before Punk Existed: A Band Called Death, Questlove of The Roots says: “Ramones got all the glory for what this is right here, and this is pretty much the Ramones, but two years earlier”. Supporting this idea, Mickey Leigh, brother of Ramones frontman Joey Ramone recalls hearing the band for the first time: “When I ...
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Mar 12, 2009 · ON an evening in late February at a club here called the Monkey House, there was a family reunion of sorts. As the band Rough Francis roared through a set of anthemic punk rock, Bobby Hackney ...
Feb 10, 2016 · DEATH are the quintessential proto-punk band formed in Detroit by brother Bobby (bass, vocals), David (guitar), and Dannis (drums) Hackney. Like many, DEATH were inspired early on by The Beatles. After witnessing their first performance on The Ed Sullivan Show, David found a discarded, beat-up guitar and started teaching himself how to play ...
Yeah. You’ve been called protopunk, the first punk band, the first black punk band. But you weren’t trying to make anything like that. BH: Yeah. We just liked rock music. We wanted to be like The MC5, like The Who, Grand Funk Railroad, Alice Cooper and Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels and all those great bands that we saw in Detroit.
Jun 6, 2019 · That changed when I was introduced to DEATH. The 2012 rock doc, A Band Called DEATH recounted band’s extraordinary story, a story of Black men with a creative spark that threatened to be extinguished by the world around them. Back in the ‘70s people weren’t ready for a Black band playing the music they played or David’s insistence that ...
