http://www.relix.com/features/2010/08/23/the-black-keys-blues-brothers?1
nuggets:
on what happened with Drummer:
“I probably should have been more cautious with my friends [in Drummer],” says Carney. “They knew going into it that I was in a band already and The Black Keys would obviously be a priority. We were supposed to do a West Coast tour and I had to put that on hold because the BlakRoc record happened. I had a kind of falling out with the lead singer and the band basically just broke up. We’re all on pretty good terms now, though.”
on tighten up:
“After we first recorded it, we talked about it and decided we weren’t gonna put it on the record,” says Carney. “So we sent it to Tchad Blake (who worked on BlakRoc ) to mix and just kind of forgot about it.” The Keys continued to work on the record, finishing three more songs in January, though were still searching for a single. “We wrote a song that was very close to ‘Tighten Up’—two of the verses were almost exactly the same—and that was going to be on the record,” reveals Carney. “After we finished, I played everything for a friend of mine who told me we were crazy for not putting ‘Tighten Up’ on the album. So I called Dan and we talked about it and decided we were gonna put it on there.”
on tchad blake - people indeed forget Brothers was recorded in 4 different studios:
“The record wouldn’t be the same without Tchad,” says Carney. “Of all the people who had anything to do with the record outside of Dan and I, Tchad was the most important contributor. His mix is tying together a year’s worth of recordings in four different locations. Four different types of microphones, four different recordings, four different rooms—he made it all sound like one statement.”
