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Monday
13Jul2009

Turn It Up: Poster and Trailer for 'It Might Get Loud'

DateMonday, July 13, 2009 at 3:27AM
Music documentaries can be hit and miss. A lot of them are saved by the personalities we see on screen, but there are some downright brilliant movies about musicians (Standing in the Shadows of Motown comes to mind) and then, of course, there are concert movies, the best of which is probably still Scorsese's The Last Waltz.

Davis Guggenheim, the Oscar-winning director of An Inconvenient Truth explores the electric guitar through three generations of its more celebrated practitioners in It Might Get Loud. Jimmy Page, The Edge, and Jack White discuss the instruments that launched them to international fame and we go behind the scenes to see the axemen in action. Incidentally, if you need to look up who any of those guys are, you should probably just leave.

I love the format, it promises to give us a little bit of history about Page and The Edge that we may not know so well, and if we're robbed of a jam session, well...that would just be too bad. The poster (which you can click on to see in its glory) comes to us by way of IMP Awards. Here's the trailer:

It Might Get Loud opens on August 21st, but like most documentaries, it won't be a wide release, so be on the lookout for specific opening dates in your area.

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Reader Comments (5)

So Jimmie Page-Awesome! The Edge-Great! Jack White????????? Come on! Putting Jack White with those other two is absolutely ridiculous. Are you telling me that they couldn't find a better guitarist from the 90s-2000s to film?
Not only that, but these three guitarists for Loud? I guess the key word in the title is "Might"! How about Kirk Hammett?? Not saying he is the best guitarist, but the new album displays some skill that has been missing the last few albums. Dave Mustaine?

Oh well, what do you expect from the director of the drivel known as "An Inconvenient Truth"

Monday, July 13, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterJason

I would never watch a movie with Dave Mustaine on the principle that he's an absolute cock. I'd go out of my way to avoid that knob. What an asshole. Hammett's great, but stylistically not as good a fit as Jack White, at least for this project. Slash would have been my choice.

And I don't think it's about finding the best guitarists, but guys who embody different styles at different times. As for the loudness, Jack White claims he's hit 127 decibels in concert...that's pretty loud.

Monday, July 13, 2009 | Registered CommenterColin Boyd

I can live with it...but you're right...Slash would have been a better choice.

Monday, July 13, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterEmo

When I saw the trailer for this last month my first thought was couldn't they get Eric Clapton, Carlos Santana or Keith Richards? Or Chuck Berry? Looks like an insufferable vanity project.

Monday, July 13, 2009 | Unregistered Commenterned

i think jack white is an excellent choice for this film, he might not have he greatest skill but his sound has been revolutionary for this era, kirk hammet would have been a terrible choice

Saturday, July 18, 2009 | Unregistered Commenterjimi

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