A Band Called Death is a story of rebirth. And that would probably have seemed entirely appropriate to the late David Hackney, had he lived to see it. Hackney and his two brothers, Bobby and Dannis, formed their band, Death, in the early 1970’s. Three African-American teenagers, sons of a Baptist preacher, they played unapologetically fierce and compelling proto-punk in the soul/funk Mecca of Motown. The music they made would languish in obscurity for almost 40 years, until the world came knocking, just as David Hackney knew they would…
The film, by Marc Christopher Covino and Jeff Howlett, set fire to the festival circuit last year, earning almost unanimous critical praise, and was released on DVD and Blu-ray last month. Something more than your average rockumentary, it corrects a historical and aesthetic injustice by allowing the visionary brilliance of this forgotten band of brothers to shine for all the world to see,...
The film, by Marc Christopher Covino and Jeff Howlett, set fire to the festival circuit last year, earning almost unanimous critical praise, and was released on DVD and Blu-ray last month. Something more than your average rockumentary, it corrects a historical and aesthetic injustice by allowing the visionary brilliance of this forgotten band of brothers to shine for all the world to see,...
- 9/3/2013
- by Matt J. Popham
- Obsessed with Film
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