"We're young and road-ready,” the Black Keys wrote in a letter that accompanied their first recording. It was a bold statement; it was also completely untrue. Watch the band recall the random session that turned into the demo that scored them a record deal in ‘The Big Come Up,’ an exclusive documentary by Rolling Stone Films presented by Patrón.
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"They weren't, like, rock stars. They were, like, sweaty boys driving around the country with a carload of music stuff and Red Bull and cigarette butts flying all over the place."
That's how Black Keys drummer Patrick Carney's mom, Mary Stormer, describes the salad days of her son's band in the mini-doc you can watch above. The doc — the Josh Swade-directed The Big Come Up, which debuted over on Rolling Stone's site today — follows along as the aforementioned sweaty boys (Carney and Keys frontman Dan Auerbach) met, jammed, developed a rapport, and launched a career that would ultimately take them from Carney's basement to arenas the world over.
The doc clocks in at just 12 minutes and features exclusive interviews from the band and the band's parents, not to mention Beachland Ballroom co-owners Mark Leddy and Cindy Barber, and Alive Records owner Patrick Boissel — the first people to take a chance on the self-described "young and naive" duo. Give it a look.
