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and many other record collectors who played it at parties and posted it on the
Internet. These tracks eventually reached the younger Hackneys, who instantly recognized their father's voice. Excited to discover this music, the younger Hackneys learned the songs and formed a band to cover their
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moved Death from obscurity into the limelight, Bobby Sr. and Dannis
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in 2008. Having enlisted two friends to fill out the band, they played seven of Death's songs for an enthusiastic crowd that included their own father and mother. The following year, Death's original 1975 recordings of these songs were released as
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without knowing anything about the rock group that their father had formed with their two uncles in the early 1970s. In 2006 the three younger
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