A Band Called Death Page #2

It was that Motown time.

You know, that real time when Motown

was churning out all those amazing hits.

You know, it was just such a bustling town.

Well, the presence of music,

that all started with my mom and dad.

They were always music fans.

- (ALL CHATTERING)

- Just in right here,

my mother used to have a little clock radio,

little gray radio right in that corner over there.

Every morning we would sit at the table,

eating breakfast, listening to CKLW.

MAN:
All right.

- And they played everything.

- MAN:
Mmm-hmm. Yeah, back in the day.

Aretha Franklin, Bob Seger.

And I'm thankful to my mom and dad,

'cause they never held us back

from listening to music.

They would always tell us,

"Enjoy everything."

DANNIS:
There's so many people

who brought music into the house.

I mean, it was my dad who sat us down

and made us watch the Beatles.

BOBBY:
The minute I saw Paul McCartney

singing and playing that Beatle bass,

you know,

I wanted to play bass and

still wanted to sing.

Then David tuned in to John Lennon

playing the guitar and...

And it was David who rallied us to, you

know, be a band and get together and...

And that made him the leader.

BOBBY:
That's your first drum.

DANNIS:
This is my first drum.

- MAN:
What? Jesus Christ.

- Very first drum.

(LAUGHS) Right here.

So I used to put two knives,

two butter knives, on here

to make it sound like a snare.

DANNIS:
One time we had some good luck

in our family

and our mother got a settlement

from a car accident.

And suddenly we had some money.

And she gave us kind of a choice

of what we wanted to do.

First thing we did was

went to Manny's Music, man.

Manny's Music!

BOBBY:
I bought a Rickenbacker guitar

and a Fender guitar.

David bought a brand-new Fender guitar.

Bob went and bought himself

an acoustic amplifier,

so I had to have the

best drums I could find.

I went and bought me

a Slingerland set of drums.

BOBBY:
I had a bass,

Dannie had some drums, David, his guitar.

We started jamming together.

MAN 1". Here we go.

MAN '2". One, two, three, four!

(ROCK MUSIC PLAYING)

BOBBY:
The first band

that we formed as brothers

was called Rock Fire Funk Express.

'Cause at that time we wasn't sure

whether we wanted to be a funk band

or a rock band.

(MUSIC CONTINUES)

DANNIS:
Rock with a fire, you know,

add a little funk in there

and just keep on going, like an express.

(LAUGHS)

But then the Who came to town.

And when Dave went down to see them,

he was like, "That's it."

You know, "We gotta play this music.

This is the music we gotta play."

(ROCK MUSIC PLAYING)

David, every time I would leave, man,

he would have that stuff playing.

He'd just be laying there, listening.

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