I got a new TV a while back (finally, most of you say) and I added a PS3 to the lineup too to have a blu ray player as well. I switched my Netflix queue over to blu ray and got some flix in.
One of the first ones I watched was It Might Get Loud, a documentary about three guitar players- Jimmy Page, The Edge and Jack White.
Part of the movie made me mad that I don’t practice my guitar for three hours every day. Part of the movie made me wonder if this documentary came out of another project because parts of it seemed disjointed. When bits of Jimmy’s history and later The Edge’s, you really appreciate the times and adventures they went through. But for me, Jack White seemed out of place at times. Mostly because he’s so now (and I maybe unfairly discount growing up a poor white kid in Detroit post-White Flight to the suburbs).
I’m not knocking the guy as a musician, but as a subject next to the other two he seemed out of place in the way that he hasn’t done as much as the other two. He does have the same love of music history and making music though. Maybe it’s because I can only think of about 10 songs he’s written where as the word “catalog” comes up when I think of The Edge and “encyclopedia” of what Page has played/written/been a part of.
I did see some interesting comments on line that differ from what I think- other people think The Edge is out of place in the three because he spends a lot of time in the movie talking about his effects set up. I get that, but think JW’s the one out of place. Maybe he comes off as too cocky and that’s what the turnoff is for me (I am after all a h8r as we’ve all decided). But I think it’s mostly cockiness and a lack of gravitas when he speaks.
Has anyone else seen this flick? What’d you think?
I do love the blu-ray though.
They were all guitar nerds, but you could tell Jimmy Page and Jack White were appreciating each other. The Edge was in a corner wishing he had a knob to twiddle.
I watched this flick the other day, and I got a somewhat similar experience. Jimmy Page was the grandfather — the man who set the standards. The Edge was the guy who came along later and moved it forward to keep up with the times, perfecting the art. Jack White was the little kid (well, not like that creepy mini-Jack White doppelganger they kept on showing him with) who was trying his own crazy things, trying to advance the art, but knowing that, in the end, he can’t measure up to the legends.
Also, once I saw that Jimmy Page was one of the producers that helped provide some additional context for the relations between folks.