Well, when The Black Keys make a record, I never really feel limited. To me, it seems the possibilities are always endless. The big difference has been playing live and being able to recreate every little part of the record.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I love the Black Keys because I love that guy's voice.
Records are just moments of achievement. They're like receipts for work done. Time goes on and people keep playing music.
When you are making a record and if you spend too much time over it, you have to record it a tone lower or cut the tones lower because you can't reach some of the notes, I find this. But when you go on stage, you have to put the key up and it really changes the whole thing.
Modern records are all made with virtually identical gear, software plug-ins and everything. Everybody wants everything to sound like the last thing that was popular because they're chasing their tails.
People are really set in their ways in how they produce records, and I was at least open enough to where I knew I wanted to do something totally different.
I still hold on to the idea that a record can really change the way I feel.
When you make a record, you listen to it literally hundreds of times. When it's done and you can't do anything else, I never listen to my records.
You can get so many sounds out of one record. Every record can be used in some way.
The Black Keys is just a band that wants to get on stage and rock it.
Every record that you do man, is sooo different in every way.