It Might Get Loud [Blu-ray]

Click for larger image	It Might Get Loud [Blu-ray] from Sony Pictures Features : Blu-Ray Disc Release Date : 2009-12-22 Sales Rank : 4335 List Price: ~~$37.95~~ Our Price: $25.99

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It Might Get Loud [Blu-ray] Customer Reviews: Loud yet not always so Loud, but always GREAT! Great exchange of 2 veterans in Page & Edge w/Jack White as a great intermediary to round out the trio. If you write music you will love to watch this over and over again to appreciate the creative process that may inspire you to press on! If you do not write music will still find a deep well of understanding & appreciation for what goes into the lives of some of the legendary guitarists! Very enjoyable A rather strange trio to throw together, but what great fun to listen and watch them play together. No big revelations other than I have a lot more respect for the edge as an artist than I did before. I hope when I'm Page's age I can still play at all; the man still rocks. Jack White is a nut. "Go on!! Pick a fight with it!!!!" If you buy this movie with no expectations other than to be thoroghly entertained you'll do just fine, just get a beer, crank up the surround sound and enjoy. Three Great Guitarists and a Contrived Meeting Make For One Tedious DVD Experience This project sounded like a documentary director's wet dream project: Take three of rock music's most famous guitarists who have never met, put them on a sound stage with old chairs, a set of guitars, amps, effects, and LP records, hire about thirty camera people to document the "event," and see what happens. Well, unfortunately, what happened was not the mind-blowing experience I was expecting. You would think that there would be more magic in the room than there was, but you cannot force magic to happen in a contrived environment. You can hope that "something" will happen, but oftentimes it's just an average experience, and that's how this DVD left me feeling. Like I had witnessed something average. That's not to say that this DVD is worthless. It has wonderful moments of Jack White making a diddly-bow, The Edge going to his old school and showing how he works effects into his songs, and then Jimmy Page smiling like a school boy as he plays an old record from his youth. But I so wanted their meeting to explode with magic and passion, and it just did not live up to the hype for me. While it was nice to see The Edge and Jack White seemingly in awe of Jimmy Page as the latter began the first notes of "Whole Lotta Love," one song is not enough to make their meeting worthwhile. See it for the individual documentary pieces on the three, but don't expect any real energy or magic from their meeting because it never materializes. At least, it didn't materialize for me. Led2Stripes It Might Get Loud is an interesting mish mash of three different generations of guitarists and what inspired them. Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin), The Edge (U2), and Jack White (The White Stripes, The Raconteurs) take you on a trip down memory lane and explain their approach to guitar playing, along with some interesting stories of what influenced them as kids. It's a good documentary as a whole, but there are times when it seems a bit self-indulgent. I guess the main point of the documentary is how guitar playing has evolved over the decades and how it's still relevant today. It would seem that Jimmy represented the 60's and 70's, while The Edge represented the 80's and 90's. I assume Jack White represented the 00's and whatever is to come. What is very clear is the passion these three men have for the art form. Through archival footage and interviews we get to see these guys in ways most probably haven't seen before. I was intrigued by some of the old TV footage of Jimmy Page when he was in his early teens. It was really interesting watching these three guys jam together and sort of get off on each others riffs. I particularly enjoyed the trio's rendition of "The Weight." There are times, however, when the film feels a bit disjointed. The structure of the film is rather arbitrary, jumping from one guitarist's story to another's and then back again. Most of the film is these guys just talking about what they like. They do play occasionally, but I found that those segments were cut too short. Some of the archival footage is of them playing live, and just when they get really rockin' they cut to more interviews. What a bunch of teases. Self-indulgence aside, if you like documentaries about music you will likely find something to enjoy in It Might Get Loud. The blu-ray version of the film looks and sounds excellent. It Might Get Loud My Husband and his friends have been guitar players for over 40 years. This "Docu"/interview/music session with three of the worlds greatest guitar players is inspiring, entertaining and amazing. I bought copies for all of them and we have really enjoyed watching ours and sharing it with friends and family. I have been a Jack White fan for many years and he has put this together in his own style. An absolute must for musicians of any age!