A Band Called Death Page #3

And then I'd come back

and the same thing would be playing.

DANNIS:
You know, when I saw Alice Cooper, it

was like, you know, "All bets are off, man."

To me, if we ain't playing this,

then I ain't gonna be having no fun.

BOBBY:
Rock 'n' roll just kind of...

We just kind of immersed ourselves in it.

That's what David called it,

he said, "it's pure rock 'n' roll, man."

Not like a lot...

You're gonna have your one hit,

but the pure rock 'n' roll is what

they don't play over the radio, you know?

That's what David always said.

MAN:
(ON RECORDING) One, two, three, now!

(BASS GUITAR STRUMMING)

This is the room where Death was born.

Look at this door, right here.

Only something like this could come

from the mind of my brother.

- That's David's thing, right there, man.

- MAN:
Oh, yeah!

BOBBY:
We used to play.

This was my station, over here.

David was right over here.

And this was all Dannie' drums.

And then we had our PAs.

We just gutted the whole room.

And we just made it

into this little rock 'n' roll haven.

If it wasn't for our mom...

She let us turn our whole entire room

into a workroom for music.

DANNIS:
She got behind everything

we wanted to do.

While I'm on camera, I'm gonna say,

"Thank you, Mom. Thank you."

BOBBY:
And she just made

an agreement with us.

She said, "Hey, look, 3:00

to 6:
00 is your time.

"After 6:
00, you gotta cut it off."

MAN:
(ON RECORDING) All right now,

here we go. We're gonna get this right.

One, two, three!

(PUNK MUSIC PLAYING)

David, he could practice for hours

and hours and hours, literally.

BOBBY:
He got to the point

to where he played along

with just about every album

that was in our collection.

So he was learning Queen,

he was learning the Who.

David had a slogan. He said,

"if I could play chords like Peter Townsend

"and play lead like Jimi Hendrix,

"I am the ideal guitar player."

David's amp was always positioned right

here, because he liked it like that...

So he could, you know,

roust up the neighbors.

And then there was like a... Some girls...

We'd be practicing so loud,

that after we're done with a song,

we could hear all this

loud knocking on the door.

And that was them trying to get in.

One day this transpired and David started

playing these riffs, you know?

(KEEP ON KNOCKING PLPOHNG)

You know, we just came up with the words

right then and there, you know?

- "Keep on knockin'."

- "Keep on knockin'," you know?

(SONG PLAYING)

EARL JR.:
(LAUGHING)

And then they're playing in the house,

and, oh, man, they were...

They sent people down the street

holding their head.

DANNIS:
You know, we would start to

practice and the doors would slam

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