It Might Get Loud

[cmalak]

Hello all...I don't know if anyone has seen the documentary-style movie that came out in late 2009 "It Might Get Loud," but it's a very cool movie. The movie brings together 3 guitarists Jimmy Paige (Led Zep), The Edge (U2) and Jack White (The Raconteurs and White Stripes) and they basically walk through their experiences, how they became guitar players, what excites them about the music making process, etc...It's kind of neat to see how a legend like Jimmy Paige and contemporaries like The Edge and Jack White can just sit down together and jam and instantly relate to one another as musicians and just be grooving in the moment. I must say, there is not as much music as I would have liked to see, although there are snippets throughout the movie of Zep, U2, The Raconteurs and White Stripes in concert as well as bits of jam sessions with the three guitarists together but it is more of a documentary looking back at these great guitarists' past and present and the three of them talking back and forth. Recommended. Here's a link to the DVD (I believe there is a Bluray as well): Amazon.com: It Might Get Loud: Jimmy Page, The Edge, Jack White, Bono, Michael McKean, Larry Mullen Jr., Robert Plant, Meg White, Davis Guggenheim, Alba Tull, Bert Ellis, Diana Derycz-Kessler, Erica Beaney, Lesley Chilcott, Michael Birtel, Michael Ma

Has anybody else seen this? What did you think?

[Pyro]

Watched it on a flight. Looked like a good documentary.

Audio sucked through the Airplane sound system and my crapping ear buds.

[JemHadar]

got it on Blu Ray...very enjoyable...just like little boys in the yard showing off their tricks and toys...and then you realise what they have achieved...amazing stuff.

[cmalak]

Originally Posted by Jem666

got it on Blu Ray...very enjoyable...just like little boys in the yard showing off their tricks and toys...and then you realise what they have achieved...amazing stuff.

exactly! i got a kick out of Jimmy Paige playing vinyl at his house of some old blues guitarist and you could just see how much pleasure was on his face just listening to the music with that big sh*t-eating grin on his face. it's kinda of cool to see them in their own element...like you said they are just ordinary people who have done extraordinary things with their talent.

[f1 fan]

I saw it at the Belcourt Theatre here in Nashville, great show, I need to get it hopefully on blu ray.

Dave

[eddiel]

I got a chance to see the UK premiere (with Jimmy in attendance!) and I think it's a great movie. I have the dvd and will definitely be watching it again.

The only change I would have made is to show more jamming in the end. I think had they been given some more time it would have been pretty cooking.

Eddie

[cmalak]

Originally Posted by eddiel

I got a chance to see the UK premiere (with Jimmy in attendance!) and I think it's a great movie. I have the dvd and will definitely be watching it again.

The only change I would have made is to show more jamming in the end. I think had they been given some more time it would have been pretty cooking.

Eddie

Agreed

[gtubes]

It was what I was expecting, I did comment to Colleen, that I wonder how they came upon the three of them. How many others where on a list, and who might have declined the invitation to participate as a main character....interesting stuff. I will be picking up the blu ray. I too agree more jamming throughout would have been neat. There's something about an open jam of musicians that you have to experience personally, almost like a second language, a nod here and there back and forth, no words..very cool.