Introducing Keylock, the new band from guitar prodigy Aaron Keylock and singer Jonnie Hodson.
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00:00Hello, I'm Eric. I play guitar in a band called Keylock.
00:09How's it going? I'm Johnny. I play...
00:13I do not. That was a good start, wasn't it?
00:21I grew up in Oxford in England.
00:24I still grew up listening to rock and roll from my parents, really.
00:27And I started playing guitar when I was eight.
00:30I 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, things like that.
00:37I went to local jam and I had blues things and that.
00:40I put my band together.
00:41And we sort of did that for eight years. I released the 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.
01:12Standing on a platform again. Another night on another bound train.
01:19I was on holiday when I was about seven or eight.
01:23They went to a car boot sale and got a cassette of the Sweet's Greatest Hits.
01:27And I was just fascinated. Pop music hadn't really done anything for me when I was a kid.
01:33I wasn't really interested.
01:35And 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.
01:43And then from there, I was just a huge Queen fan.
01:56And then Queen toured with Paul Rogers in 2005. I was about 12.
02:01I just fell totally in love with the idea of being a singer.
02:04And Paul Rogers just blew me away.
02:08And 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 like 13, 14 years old trying to sing like Paul Rogers.
02:27I kept plugging at it with bands in Liverpool and Aaron got in touch and suggested that he was looking for something new.
02:45We started off just either jamming the blues or meeting up in songwriting.
02:48But 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.
02:56I'm saying at the top of the hill, I got a hundred ninety-nine by the description bill.
03:02Got it now, I got it made, I got it all in my hands, I know.
03:09So if you're looking for a light, you can have mine.
03:14I just want to see your love light shine.
03:17Oh, let it shine, shine, shine.
03:20It'll shine on me.
03:22I can't come back to someone like Five Company.
03:25What's on the record is those guys, you know what I mean?
03:28There's not a whole lot of, there's not big orchestrated strings or there's not 17 guitar tracks or, you know,
03:35there's not been a thousand takes to the vocal.
03:37It's just honest and it's real.
03:39And it's more often than not like 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 you can hide behind.
03:50You know, it's more about playing and what's inside you and getting that out and just 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 clothes at Brickson Academy when I was eight or nine, I think.
04:08And that kind of changed things to me.
04:11That was when I sort of realized what true rock and roll was.
04:16I think to me, like at their prime, you know what I mean?
04:28They were the last true great rock and roll band that really stood for everything that rock and roll was about.
04:46I feel like there's a tendency for people now to go,
04:55Oh, it's only three chords, we can't release the song that's three chords.
04:58Yeah, you can.
04:59You know what I mean?
05:00It's just, it's all about how the song is, how the song sounds.
05:05It's not necessarily like, it's not a science experiment.
05:09It's music, it's feeling, it's not, it hasn't got to be precise.
05:13It's just five guys playing music that they love, enjoying themselves.
05:17And I think coming home is a good introduction.