Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1815 - The Black Keys
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Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1815 - The Black Keys' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-05-10. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1815 - The Black Keys' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-05-10. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #1815 - The Black Keys

the Joe Rogan experience train by day Joe Rogan podcast by night all day
what's up gentlemen what's happening good to see you it's great to see you guys
first of all before
we can get started your fucking new album is fantastic thank you thank you
listen to it at
the gym this morning in fact right before I got here it was fucking good man it's
so it's classic
black keys it's so good shit you guys consistently make just fucking banging
music it's so good it's so
consistent how the fuck are you guys so consistent you know we we learned to
play together you know
20 a couple 23 years ago I like literally started playing drums with him
because before that I was
playing guitar and I guess we just learned how to play together we have this
kind of dynamic and I
think we also have the very similar tastes it's all kind of very it's very I
believe in fate after
meeting after this existence we have because if it weren't for us growing up a
few houses down from
each other we would have never met and we've become you know like literally
like brothers we have this
really our our first record came out 20 years ago uh this week and we've been
doing this thing and it's
it's kind of feels like a dream you know when I think back about all the shit
we've been through and
but as far as the consistency it's like we've always been on the same pace we
just wanted to
we were like fascinated with albums we wanted to make records and we were like
you know two dorks
living around the corner from each other who have these things called four
tracks you know like a
little cassette and you could record four different sounds I didn't have one
the first time I saw one was at
I had yeah I had one he blew my mind man I'm so cool you could like record
guitar what year is this
about 97 and then we would like fuck around on our four track and I would take
it over to his house
his parents house and we'd like set microphones up in the bathroom and to get
different he just sat on
the toilet put the drums in front of him use the toilet and we would just have
fun and then you know
like around 2000 and uh it was 2001 it's like right around 9 11 I had bought
this like digital 12 track
recorder and it was a big deal because it cost like a thousand dollars and I
went into debt and I ran
into Dan right around then we were both like 21 and uh I told him about it he's
like you should come
record my uh you should record my band he had a bar band and so uh told him to
come over and the other
dudes just never showed up and so I was there with this recorder and he's like
you should just play
the drums which I didn't really play and so we set up the mics and he showed me
the songs and we
recorded them real quick and then like I spent a couple days mixing it gave him
the cdr and he's
like dude we should start a band and we we had this friend our our parents had
not met this guy like
Dan's dad's like a like a folk art dealer antiques dealer and he had discovered
this artist in Akron
named Alfred McMoore who was schizophrenic and and other things and uh his dad
used to buy him these
scrolls of 50 foot long five foot wide paper and this guy would do these crazy
crayon and pencil
drawings on them Dan's father would sell them for a couple hundred bucks and
give the money to this dude
and he would keep a scroll or two for himself you know here and there but this
guy my dad then was a
newspaper journalist and would write stories about this guy so this guy Alfred
McMoore used to call
our parents houses all the time and we would come home from like school and we'd
have these messages
like this is Alfred McMoore if you don't bring me some pipe tobacco or some
diet coke you're a d-flat
you're a black key and we'd have hundreds of these messages sometimes and we
were like it was like a
complete inside joke so when Dan's like we should name the band we should we
start a band I was like
we're the black keys it was like within a second we named the band we sent this
thing off and we
got this record deal and then we got this record deal with a small little label
and um in LA called
alive and uh they basically said if you send us 12 songs we'll put your record
out and we'll send
you like 50 copies on vinyl and 200 cds and they also sent this little
paragraph contract which is
like the most bulletproof contract we've ever signed we can't get out of it but
they kept their end of
the bargain we sent them this record that we made and that was the thing we
spent like um February of
2002 in my basement at this house we lived in I lived in with some friends like
it was like a
Richmond place Richmond place yeah it's this little really shitty house in the
ghetto in Akron
um uh it was rat infested and I lived there were some buddies and I set up in
the basement with this
recorder and Dan would come over every day and we would record trying to make
this record trying to
figure out what a record was we had no idea I had to wake him up every day he
slept in Pat's a good
Pat sleeps well I'd always wake up early so I'd wait till like 10 to come over
there no cell phones I had to throw the rocks at his window get him up every
day every day
I'd hear his horn honking yelling he'd come screaming in and uh and there was a
rat infestation too we used we might
have to like clean up a rat before we dead rat here dead rat before we damn
that many it was nuts man
they were in the bottom of the oven I guess you guys didn't use the oven much
did it was nuts but we had no idea what we were doing and we just kind of knew
that we
we knew we wanted to learn how to make the records we just taught ourselves how
to do it because the
record deal we got involved us receiving zero money so we were responsible for
us for ourselves to make
this thing we didn't know how to mix we didn't know how to do anything we just
guessed and we sent the
thing off and got these records sent back a few weeks later and we were like
hooked and we were
like at that point we were we we were like what do we do what do we do now like
and the guy the guy
at alive who Patrick who runs the label was very helpful and was like he's
French and I can't really
do the accent but he was like and man you got to go on the road man and like he
had this uh mercenary
booking agent book a tour for us and I just found like the original kind of
route sheet it was like
two pages of text and it just was basically like leave Akron drive to Chicago
guaranteed money like
fifty dollars drive to Denver no guaranteed money two dollar ticket it was just
basically like you have
to be like probably slow to do what we did and either slow or totally desperate
and we were probably little
both but we went on this tour and it was like out of a dream because by the
time we go around we go up
like to Vancouver and we have these crazy adventure you know we have no credit
card we just got a cell phone
that was like too expensive for us to even use and we were in this 1994 Plymouth
Grand Voyager just
driving across the country uh with just you know a ran McNally atlas trying to
figure out like
how to get to these places and like map quest directions we printed out and
there's always
construction and just totally fucks you up and yeah and we were when we were 22
we were like
little kids really because we were also pretty I mean kind of sheltered I think
for 22
because yeah we'd never really been anywhere I've been I'd been to New York
City with my dad
at antique shows or something but I mean we saw the world together oh my god if
you want to believe
in fate that's a good argument for it we showed up to this place on a like the
third day we show up
we could drive all the way across the country to Vancouver and we're exhausted
we had a lie to cross the
border we had to say we were there to like record go to a recording studio
because we couldn't afford
a work permit and uh we found this hostel for like ten dollars a night and we
were like let's stay
here as my brother was with us so we go in we pay 30 bucks and the guy's like
you want some weed with
that and these guys bought weed I don't really smoke weed and oh my god we I
got so high I got so
a parent I thought we could get murdered in there and there's this guy sitting
in this little courtyard
right when we checked in he's wearing like this track suit this big ball of
weed it was like a ball
of hashish it's like hash yeah it was like clay you know what I mean yeah yeah
it was about this big
that softball just staring staring at the walls smoking shit and like that was
like around 11 a.m.
at like 3 a.m. we get back to the thing the balls now like the size of like a
marble and he's just
like I was like and that's when I smoked weed I was like that guy down there
like he's he's gonna kill us
fucking come up here have you ever seen the Woody Allen movie take the money
and run yes his apartment
that's the room we stayed in with like the water stains and the sink off the
wall that's what the
fucking place oh man it's gnarly dude it's so cool to tell that story though
isn't it now after all the
success that you guys have had to be able to have a story like that I mean to
that whole the whole
tours of stories like that cuz like every night was something ridiculous that's
rock and roll though
the next night the next night we played this place in Seattle called chop suey
and it was crazy it's like
a couple hundred people showed up and that was shocking you know like what the
fuck people know who we are in
Seattle they didn't know who we were even in Akron like how'd they know who you
were in Seattle there
was a la weekly or a Seattle weekly write-up or a stranger write-up we got a
weekly write-up and it
was filled up we got a couple hundred we got like 500 bucks and um I was
freaking out like oh my cuz like
that was enough money to get us home and I was like I'm gonna sleep in the van
tonight like guard the
money guard the money uh you guys go cuz and like they went to a party and I
woke up at like you know
two-thirty in the morning so that sounded like all these dudes outside the van
like what the fuck
what the fuck's going on I look out and this is like 25 people in Santa Claus
outfits and I'm like
what the fuck is fucking going on I was like what am I gonna do and I was like
and I had to pee so bad
I was like what the fuck I have to pee and there's all these fucking Santa
Claus I was like losing my
mind and I like I try I pee in this Gatorade bottle but I get pissed all over
the van and I just like
chuck it out the door close the door and like the whole night I'm just like
trembling like what the
fuck is going on I wake up the next day and it's like it was like a gay bar
called like the manhole
and they were having like a Christmas in July party so I was like that's what
was going on I was like
uh insanity dude but yeah I mean when you when you think back about it now it
really it must seem
like fate like if the just the circumstances you guys meeting the fact that the
rest of the band
didn't show up the fact that you guys lived right down the street from each
other and the way you guys
get along together and make music I mean it's pretty fucking incredible yeah
the older we get the more
the more I think we appreciate it you know it's like it feels like everything's
changed around us
everything's changed in life in general but like when we get together in the
studio it's the same well
it feels the same as a fan that's what's amazing like you sent me the link to
the the new album
is it come out today when does it come out comes out May 13th what's today the
9th yeah yeah um
when you sent me the link to it as soon as it started I'm like yeah Black Keys
like right away
like your music is it's so recognizable you know uh my friend Ari turned me on
to you guys I forget
what year it was but uh you know he knows I love like John Lee Hooker and a lot
of I love a lot of
old blues guys and he goes dude you're gonna fucking love these guys and uh I've
just been a gigantic
fan ever since I wish I could remem