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A few years ago, my dad texted me about a concert he was going to.

As we casually chatted back and forth about the band — called Here Come the Mummies — and the type of music — no surprise, it was funk — and their songs and the venue in Lexington, Kentucky, one detail gave my typing fingers pause.

The group, he relayed, plays in full mummy attire. He followed up with an "Isn't that cool?" message.

No, I didn't think this — eight or so musicians dressed as the undead on stage— was cool.

But, this week, as Here Come the Mummies stop in Rock Island for a Friday night show, I had a chance to reconsider. And I have to admit: My dad was right.

After listening to the funk-rock tunes and watching snippets of the dynamic, if not hilarious, live shows, the under-wraps appearance seems less gimmicky. You can't see their faces, so you're forced to find ways to unwrap their true sound.

With this in mind, I reached out to the band this week to uncover more about the masked music-makers. They don't do live interviews, won't reveal their real identities and tend to play coy about the whole, um, mummy thing.