Music from the Detroit brothers  Bobby Hackney, Jr. on vocals and bass, Dannis Hackney on drums,  David Hackney, the visionary founder/guitar player along with Bobbie Duncan, dynamic guitarist out of New York.

Death from DETROIT

The very first studio recording of the the Hackney brothers, David, Dannis and Bobby. Recorded at United Sound studios as the band RockFire Funk Express. 1973 Detroit Michigan. RockFire Funk Express became Death at the end of 1973. This obscure single was released on Jack White's Thirdman Record Label and is currently available on Thirdman Records.

RockFire Funk Express

Opening piece "Detroit" to the documentary "A Band called Death" scored by Tim Boland.

"Detroit" Score from A Band Called Death

The new Death vinyl 45 Rock 'N' Roll  single "Cease Fire" waiving the echo of voices from all over the world against violence. Backed with the single "You Are What You Think" from the Death LP N.E.W.

Record N. TRY-003
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Cease Fire

Death Cease Fire  Mix

The 4th Movement

Always At Your Door

Life Without End

RockFire Funk Express' "People Save The World" 7" single is available here: https://thirdmanstore.com/catalog/product/view/id/887/s/people-save-the-world/

While RockFire Funk Express never released any music while they were officially a band, in 1973 they recorded a two-song single at United Sound Systems, a legendary Detroit studio that recorded everyone from John Coltrane, John Lee Hooker, the MC5 and countless others. The a-side "People Save the World" is a propulsive, socially-conscious, exercise in primitive funk rock. The b-side shares its title with the band's name and is a breezy, easy-going instrumental, weirdly at odds with its name. These songs have sat in the can for over 40 years and were all-but-forgotten until the band that RockFire later morphed into, Death, became a cause-celebre in the punk community as early progenitors of the style with the 2009 release (comprised of recordings made in 1974)... For the Whole World to See. In conjunction with the release of the stellar A Band Called Death documentary film Third Man is finally unleashing these songs on the funk-thirsty public. The Hackney Brothers David, Dannis and Bobby are finally getting their due.