Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Icons

Timing is everything in this life. Sometimes you're too ahead of the curve and it takes a while for the masses to catch up. This is a story of the most innovative artist. In the case of the band Death it took nearly 35 years for the rest of the pack to catch up. 
Death was punk before punk had a name. Three brothers from Detroit preceded legends like The sex pistols. The band only recorded seven songs in a 1974 session funded by Columbia Records before a disagreement with Clive Davis about a name change. These guys are the definition of hard body. In a celebration of not selling out, artistic integrity, and saying fuck you without the fuck you money  ...  For The World To See. It was released earlier this year when the demo tape was discovered in one of the member's attic by his son...

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