"It Might Get Loud" guitar documentary

[Eraser]

I watched the "It Might Get Loud" documentary last weekend. It's a documentary about three rock guitarists (The Edge, Jimmy Page and Jack White) who get together and talk about them growing up with the guitar and their experiences. While it's not exactly going deep into the technicalities of playing guitar, it does succeed in showing the contrast between these different guitarists in style and ideas about what making music should be about. Especially Jack White is an interesting character in the whole. I thought it was a joy to watch.

For those interested: it is available on XBox Live's Zune marketplace (at least, it is in Europe). You can watch the SD version for 330 MS Points and the HD version for 450 or something like that. Or you could go to your favorite torrent site and blacken your soul once and for all.

Below is the trailer.

[MKJ]

saw an ad for this before.
then i saw "jack white". :/

[Eraser]

Naw man Jack White's a pretty interesting character in this video. He might not be the technically most impressive guitar player out there (the same could arguably said about The Edge as well), but the thing he does is kind of defining. I reckon that he's more interesting to listen to than yet another Joe Satriani type of player. He brings something fresh to the table.

[U4EA]

A freshly steaming pile of shit ...

[LawL]

Cool story bro.

[+JuggerNaut+]

fuck yeah, nice find, Eraser.

[scared?]

pay ms points to watch a documentary? how stoopid can u get?...

[mrd]

Meh, I watched this awhile ago and I was thoroughly unimpressed. Wasn't entirely sure what to expect but I had to stop watching it about 3/4 of the way through cuz it was pretty stupid. The Edge is a fuckin' retard and this show just reinforced that for me. Jimmy Page just looks like a stoned drunk dude that loves to caress his Les Paul and there's nothing wrong with that. Jack White is interesting I'll admit, but this show didn't really delve enough into what they actually play. It was pretty wishy-washy over-all.

[andyman]

jack white is the coolest mother fucker alive.

[Eraser]

It was pretty wishy-washy over-all.

I must admit that this is true. It's a bit of a collection of short anecdotes and doesn't really delve deeper into the technicalities of the guitar, which is a shame. But I expect that a documentary like this will attract a lot broader audience than a 30 minute section of The Edge explaining his delay pedal setup.
What's wrong with him by the way? As a guitar player he may not be as much a wizard as the likes of Steve Vai, but he does some interesting stuff with his setups and has good songwriting skills. As an overall musician I'd rate him pretty high and he appears far less narcissistic than Bono is.

[m4shke]

Shit, it's only available in US

[MKJ]

i guess you didnt read the first post too well.

[m4shke]

I did, but I checked Zune at the marketplace and it isn't there. The only document I found was about John Lennon

[MKJ]

looks like scandinavia is being dissed.

[diego]

I have seen it some while ago and I really enjoyed it. It's very interesting to experience these 3 guys' perspectives on guitar playing. Moreover, Jack White is really innovative when it comes to very old stuff being induced in a modern rock context.

[plained]

havnt speced it yet

his les paul is awesome tho , as is he so its perdectly fine

[axbaby]

jus saw it on dv d , i lked it a hole lot.

waiting 4 the ANVIL movee

[Tormentius]

jus saw it on dv d , i lked it a hole lot.

waiting 4 the ANVIL movee

A friend of mine attended an opening screening of it and found it a little underwhelming. I'll still give it a watch when it comes out though

[axbaby]

worth a look, not boring, not great