FARM HANDS
“I’ve been a farmer for a while,” says Jesse Keeler, bassist with the Canadian duo Death From Above. “I live in a 198-year-old farmhouse, about halfway between Toronto and Ottawa. When I was a kid, I was interested in the concept of having a place out in the country, because I wanted to make my own Big Pink.”
“We recorded constantly, in one room, and pretty much wrote one song a day for six weeks”
He’s referring here to the Big Pink country house in New York state where Bob Dylan and The Band recorded in 1967. “My dad, Fred Keeler, grew up with all those guys, because he was a musician too. They were all friends and they all shared gear and stuff. He had a fair bit of success in Canada. You know, he’d be opening for the Rolling Stones, and he was the first guitar player in Triumph, and stuff like that. But he was always a player:
