Introducing Keylock, the new band from guitar prodigy Aaron Keylock and singer Jonnie Hodson.
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00:00 What is your name?
00:05 Hello, I'm Eric. I play guitar in a band called Key Lock.
00:09 How's it going? I'm Johnny. I play...
00:11 Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. I do not.
00:13 That was a good start, wasn't it?
00:15 I grew up in Oxford in England.
00:23 I sort of grew up listening to rock and roll through my parents really.
00:27 And I started playing guitar when I was eight.
00:30 I just got lessons from the teacher in the next village to me.
00:33 He kind of got me into blues, listening to B.B. King and Robert Johnson and things like that.
00:37 I went to local jam nights, blues things and that.
00:39 Put my own band together.
00:41 And we sort of did that for eight years. I released a record.
00:43 When you're a guitar player who sings a bit, you're limited to what you can do.
00:59 And after an album or maybe two albums, you start to feel restricted in what kind of stuff you can put out.
01:06 Doing a whole new thing with a big band, to me, was refreshing and something that I wanted to do.
01:12 I was on holiday when I was about seven or eight.
01:23 I went to a car boot sale and got a cassette of the sweetest, greatest hits.
01:27 I was just fascinated. Pop music hadn't really done anything for me when I was a kid.
01:33 I wasn't really interested.
01:35 And then all of a sudden there's this lay of harmonies and guitars and stuff.
01:38 I was totally sold on that kind of 70s glam rock sound.
01:53 And then from there, I was just a huge Queen fan.
01:56 And Queen toured with Paul Rodgers in 2005. I must have been about 12.
02:01 I just fell totally in love with the idea of being a singer.
02:05 Paul Rodgers just blew me away.
02:08 And then from there, I went about trying to copy his vocals and get that kind of style down.
02:22 I got a big ask for someone who's 13 or 14 years old trying to sing like Paul Rodgers.
02:27 I kept plugging at it with bands and Liverpool.
02:40 And then Aaron got in touch and suggested that he was looking for something new.
02:45 We started off either jamming to blues or meeting up in songwriting.
02:49 And then all of a sudden with all this music there, we were just like,
02:52 "Okay, now we have to put something together and now we have to form a band."
02:56 ♪ I'm staying at the top of the hill ♪
02:58 ♪ I got a hundred ninety-nine by prescription pills ♪
03:02 ♪ Got it now, I got it made ♪
03:04 ♪ I got it all in my hands ♪
03:07 ♪ I know ♪
03:09 ♪ So if you're looking for a light ♪
03:11 ♪ You can have mine ♪
03:13 ♪ I just wanna see your love light shine ♪
03:16 ♪ Oh, let it shine, shine, shine ♪
03:19 ♪ Let it shine on me ♪
03:21 I can't come back to someone like that currently.
03:25 What's on the record is those guys, you know what I mean?
03:27 There's not a whole lot of...
03:29 There's not big orchestrated strings or there's not 17 guitars, right?
03:34 So, you know, there's not been a thousand takes of the vocal.
03:37 It's just honest and it's real.
03:39 And it's more often than not musicians playing live in the room together.
03:43 When it hits you and you kind of get it and you understand
03:46 the honesty that's inside that music and it's not like the dog and you can hide behind.
03:50 You know, it's more about playing and what's inside and getting that out.
03:55 Just great songs and honest songs.
03:57 I think if you get that and that hits you, I think that's kind of who you are.
04:02 My dad took me to see the Black Crowes at Brixton Academy when I was eight or nine, I think.
04:08 And that kind of changed things for me.
04:11 That was when I sort of realized what true rock and roll was.
04:15 ♪ I just wanna see your love ♪
04:19 ♪ And I was the first time I said goodbye ♪
04:24 I think to me, like, at their prime, you know what I mean?
04:28 They were the last true great rock and roll band that really stood for everything that rock and roll was about.
04:32 ♪ Coming home ♪
04:35 ♪ I'm coming home ♪
04:39 ♪ Will you be waiting? ♪
04:43 ♪ Gotta let me know ♪
04:45 ♪ Coming home ♪
04:47 ♪ Will you be waiting? ♪
04:49 ♪ I'm coming home ♪
04:50 I feel like there's a tendency for people now to go,
04:55 "Oh, it's only three chords. We can't release a song that's three chords."
04:58 Yeah, you can.
04:59 You know what I mean?
05:00 It's just, it's all about how the song is and how the song sounds.
05:05 It's not necessarily, like, that's how complicated.
05:08 It's not a science experiment.
05:09 It's music. It's feeling.
05:10 It's not, it hasn't got to be precise.
05:13 It's just five guys playing music that they love, enjoying themselves,
05:17 and I think coming home is a good introduction.
05:19 ♪ Coming home ♪
05:20 ♪ I'm coming home ♪
05:25 ♪ I'm coming home ♪
05:28 [Music]