It Might Get Loud
Don’t bother with earplugs—Davis Guggenheim’s music doc It
Might Get Loud, playing Friday and Saturday at midnight, never hits
11. This is surprising, considering that An Inconvenient Truth was a world-altering film. No pressure, dude. The idea is rock-solid:
three generations of guitar rock heroes—Jimmy Page, The Edge and Jack
White—muse on their careers, inspirations and instruments (there’s
lots of Les Paul stroking). But the majority is spent on
autobiographical details, and while it’s fun to see a baby-faced Bono
dancing around a Dublin stage, what many music fans are really after is
a chance to see the three interact and perform, which doesn’t happen
until the end. In fact, when they finally jam to The Band’s “The
Weight,” credits are rolling. There is magic though, in Page’s
satisfied smile listening to a Link Wray recording and The Edge and
White’s boyish delight when Page begins “Whole Lotta Love.”
This article appears in Nov 19-25, 2009.