Dan Auerbach
Dan Auerbach
Daniel Quine "Dan" Auerbachis an American musician and record producer best known as the guitarist and vocalist for The Black Keys, a blues rock band from Akron, Ohio. As a member of the band, Auerbach has recorded and co-produced seven studio albums with his bandmate Patrick Carney. In 2009, Auerbach released a solo album entitled Keep It Hid. In addition to winning several Grammy Awards as a member of The Black Keys, Auerbach received the 2013 Grammy Award for Producer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionGuitarist
Date of Birth14 May 1979
CityAkron, OH
CountryUnited States of America
My mum's family would all get together, with guitars, harmonica, mandolins and upright bass and play old blues and folk songs. That was normal to me.
The Black Keys is just a band that wants to get on stage and rock it.
The modern video games kind of - they're too three dimensional.
I'm sure you feel differently about writing than you did when you first started. When you get older and your brain changes, you have to figure out how your job fits into your life as it changes, you know what I mean? I guess everybody goes through that stuff, and I'm no exception, always trying to figure out what I'm doing with music.
You get to bring your own sound system when you play an arena, all the lights and visual stuff, which I think is really cool. There's something about those old arenas, where it feels larger than life.
I never listen to Led Zeppelin. But, I mean, I don't think Robert Plant or Jimmy Page listen to Led Zeppelin, either. We all probably obsessed over the same old blues records growing up.
Hip hop is the new rock n' roll, you know what I mean? And anybody who doesn't think that is just sort of living in the past. It's all just American music, really, when you get right down to it.
When I'm writing with just an acoustic guitar, it can be for anyone.
I am nice to everybody. But people really take advantage of it.
You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
I'm really not worried about what fans think.
Songs aren't owned by anyone.
Guitar solos bore the hell out of me. Only a few guitarists interest me, and it's not about the solos they play, it's about the grooves they create.
Everybody always wants to rebel against their parents' music, but nobody listened to music louder than my dad.