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Introducing Keylock, the new band from guitar prodigy Aaron Keylock and singer Jonnie Hodson.

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00:00Hello, I'm Aaron. I play guitar in a band called Key Lock.

00:09How's it going? I'm Johnny. I play... I do not. That was a good start, wasn't it?

00:21I grew up in Oxford in England. I sort of grew up listening to rock and roll through my parents, really.

00:27And I started playing guitar when I was eight. I just got lessons from the teacher in the next village to me.

00:33He kind of got me into blues, listening to B.B. King and Robert Johnson and things like that.

00:37So I went to local jam nights, blues things and that, put my own band together.

00:41And we sort of did that for eight years. I released a record.

00:44When you're a guitar player who sings a bit, you're limited to what you can do.

00:59And after an album, or maybe two albums, you start to feel restricted in what kind of stuff you can put out.

01:06Doing a whole new thing with a big band, to me, was refreshing and something that I wanted to do.

01:14I was on holiday when I was about seven or eight.

01:24I went to a car boot sale and got a cassette of the Sweet's greatest hits.

01:28And I was just fascinated. Pop music hadn't really done anything for me when I was a kid.

01:34I wasn't really interested. And then all of a sudden there's all this lay of harmonies and guitars and stuff.

01:39And I was totally sold on that kind of 70s glam rock sound.

01:53And then from there, I was just a huge Queen fan.

01:56And Queen toured with Paul Rodgers in 2005. I must have been about 12.

02:01I just fell totally in love with the idea of being a singer. Paul Rodgers just blew me away.

02:10And then from there, I went about trying to copy his vocals and get that kind of style down.

02:22Quite a big ask for someone who's 13, 14 years old, trying to sing like Paul Rodgers.

02:27I kept kind of plugging at it with bands in Liverpool.

02:40And then Aaron got in touch and suggested that he was looking for something new.

02:45We started off just either jamming to blues or meeting up in songwriting.

02:49But then all of a sudden, with all this music there, we were just like,

02:52OK, now we have to put something together and now we have to form a band.

02:55I can't come back to someone like that currently.

03:25What's on the record is those guys. There's not a whole lot of...

03:29There's not big orchestrated strings or there's not 17 guitars.

03:34So there's not been a thousand takes of the vocal. It's just honest and it's real.

03:39And it's more often than not musicians playing live in the room together.

03:43When it hits you and you kind of get it and you understand the honesty that's inside that music

03:48and it's not like the dog can go hide behind.

03:50You know, it's more about playing and what's inside and getting that out.

03:55Just great songs and honest songs.

03:57I think if you get that and that hits you, I think that's kind of who you are.

04:02My dad took me to see the Black Crowes at Brixton Academy when I was eight or nine, I think.

04:08And that kind of changed things for me.

04:11That was when I sort of realized what true rock and roll was.

04:26I think to me, at their prime, they were the last true great rock and roll band that really stood for everything that rock and roll was about.

04:42I feel like there's a tendency for people now to go, oh, it's only three chords.

04:57We can't release a song that's three chords. Yeah, you can.

05:00It's all about how the song is, how the song sounds.

05:06It's not a science experiment. It's music, it's feeling. It hasn't got to be precise.

05:13It's just five guys playing music that they love, enjoying themselves, and I think coming home is a good introduction.

05:36Yeah.

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