Anyone watch the Black Keys on SNL?

[777mick777]

Just checked Flat Duo Jets, It's like Jack White with crack in a good way

[RR Bigman]

If I remember correctly, the white stripes were jack white trying to be the flat duo jets

[D.o.S.]

Weird coincidence--Just got this message from my dad, who's a big electric blues fan:

"Picked up an album called Brothers by this band The Black Keys... Auerbach is good, but he's no Jack White."

[Seiche]

If I remember correctly, the white stripes were jack white trying to be the flat duo jets

[D.o.S.]

[Fuzzy Fred]

From what I've seen, he just looks fucking creepy trying to be preppy and clean. That dude needs a beard and a sad demeanor.

this times a fucking billion. again, i don't want to seem all hipster about it, and i will try not to, but fuck me silly if the first albums weren't way better. however, taking it all down, yes, i did enjoy the earlier work immensely more, but they aren't writing music for me, contrary to popular belief.

i don't hate them, i don't think they "sold out" (whatever the fuck that term even means anymore), but they changed. it was awesome what they had, and i don't think that brothers and el camino are bad albums per say although i do hate the mixing and production work on quite a few of the tracks on el camino with the bullshit "trying to be raw while refined" just doesn't work for them. they changed, the music changed, but for real, he should not have shaved, its lame now.

[Gearmond]

Dweezil uses the fuck out of the axe fx in ZPZ. replaced his awesomely huge and overkill system. the fucker sounds great.

you're right about the appeal of having a rack set up is the changes can be programed for massive effect changes with stepping on one button. and the other plus is that nothing is in the signal path unless it's on. so the amps are quite as possible. not to mention the ease and quickness of setting up.
sure you can get by with a pedalboard and there's nothing wrong with it.....but there nothing wrong with taking up a notch either.
it's more for people that don't play the pedalboard as an instrument, rather just change the effects in their music.

i dunno, Dweezil shows you that the rack system could in theory be an evolution/extension of pedals-as-instruments and i totally see it, but the people that tend to buy it change effects rather than use pedalboard-as-instrument. i think they ARE built to fill that niche, but no one is using them for it. kinda like how PRS wants to be "affordable" alembic but mostly shitty bands play them in a metal context. or like how jazzmasters were supposed to be a jazz guitar.

and normally im fine with unexpected niche fillage, but this is an example where its using a sledgehammer where some good elbow grease could get the job done.

[snipelfritz]

Weird coincidence--Just got this message from my dad, who's a big electric blues fan:

"Picked up an album called Brothers by this band The Black Keys... Auerbach is good, but he's no Jack White."

Tell him to find The Big Come Up or Magic Potion. Much better for blues fans. Especially if he likes Jack White

[IEatCats]

Oh Jesus, Flat Duo Jets. I've never heard this before, and I'm in love.

[Zounds Perspex]

check out the live stuff from the Athens, GA Inside Out film.

[RR Bigman]

If I remember correctly, the white stripes were jack white trying to be the flat duo jets

I used that meme before it was popular


Also plus one on the live flat duo jets stuff...the rawest shit you'll hear this side of a sushi bar

[Almonds]

Man, I am trying hard not to be all hipster with the Black Keys, but it's tough. I've been following them ever since the early going when they were still playing little clubs, Auerbach was toting his own pedalboard around in a little thrift-store suitcase, and it was easy to stand right in front of the stage and get obliterated by Dan's Super Reverb directly.

It's cool that an actual decent rock band who loves Junior Kimbrough is popular and in the charts...but at the same time, I didn't really dig "Brothers" that much compared to their old stuff, and what I'm hearing from the new album doesn't really do it for me either. And it's really weird to me that they're playing bigass arenas now. Saw them on New Year's Day 2011 at a sold-out Aragon in Chicago, and that seemed like the biggest place a band like that could/should ever headline. Then I saw them headline an amphitheatre last summer, and it was waaaaay weird. I keep going back to the White Stripes, and remembering how that even though they got really popular, and could have sold out arenas, they didn't - because a stripped-down blues-rock duo headlining an arena is just kind of silly.

Beyond that, as a Midwesterner, I'm bummed that after playing the "we're from Akron, Ohio - rust belt foreva!" card for ten years, they bail to Nashville as soon as they start making money and basically give Akron the finger (see recent Rolling Stone interview). I also want to say to everybody who didn't discover them til the radio started playing Tighten Up: where in the hell were all of you 5-6-7-8 years ago when they were really kicking ass?

Okay, I've hipster'd more than enough for one post....

my thoughts exactly

[benjuro]

The shift from old muffs to rackmount gear pretty much mirrors the change in their composing and production/recording styles...and Magic Potion SLAYS, but the rest are spotty to me, especially the last few.