This Is a Film About the Black Keys | movie | 2024 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney formed The Black Keys in Akron, Ohio. After a decade of relentless touring and navigatin | dG1fZVd6UkxydEZyVUU

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00:00I'm going to take you to where, like, Dan and I started the band.

00:06You can see this house.

00:08There's photos of this on the inside cover of the first album.

00:12They haven't changed the paint job at all.

00:14And the inside's fucking gnarly.

00:18Dan wanted to make a demo.

00:20We waited around for a half hour.

00:22The guys in the band never showed up.

00:24And then we just decided that maybe we would just cut the songs.

00:32It was me, Dan, and our friend Gabe played, like, some basic organ parts.

00:44Right away, Pat and I totally bonded over that love of recording.

00:48Dan would come over and honk his horn to wake me up.

00:52And we would make coffee and then go down and start messing around with sounds.

00:56Put microphones in weird places and swing microphones around.

01:00Record the guitar.

01:06Pat had a knack for making shit sound great.

01:09It didn't just sound like three idiots in a basement.

01:12And I loved that right from the get-go.

01:17It was like, wow, this sounds like music.

01:23There's no rules.

01:25It was a lot of fun.

01:27Right then, Dan said, what should we call ourselves?

01:30We both knew this outsider artist, Alfred McMore.

01:34He used to leave these messages, like,

01:36if you don't bring me crayons and a pipe of tobacco, you're a D-flat.

01:40If you say no, you're a black key.

01:42Don't be a black key.

01:44I was like, we should call the band The Black Keys.

01:48We had nothing to lose.

01:50We sent out those demos to, like, 13 little tiny labels.

01:54And one of the labels gave us a deal.

01:56And we felt like, that's it, we're in a band now.

02:00We're professionals now.