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It Might Get Loud Hits Guitar Hero Trifecta

Jimmy Page, U2's Edge and Jack White get their axe grind on in new documentary

By Lev Weinstein,  Newser Staff

Posted Sep 19, 2008 6:55 PM CDT

(Newser) – There's no Behind the Music-style debauchery to be found in It Might Get Loud, Rolling Stone reports. Rather, the documentary more resembles “having three carpenters talk about a radial-arm saw,” quips Jack White, who along with the Edge (of U2) and Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin), form the heart of a film paying homage to the guitar and six-string heroics.

"No movie I've seen captures what is so transcendent about the guitar," producer Thomas Tull says of the piece, due for release next year. Combining guitar icons from three generations, says director Davis Guggenheim, reduced the Edge and White to "13-year-old boys" in the face of Page ripping into Whole Lotta Love. "Thankfully," says Tull, "we had the cameras running."

The Edge, left, Jimmy Page and Jack White, right, arrive for the screening of It Might Get Loud  at the Toronto International Film Festival in Toronto, Friday, Sept. 5 2008.
The Edge, left, Jimmy Page and Jack White, right, arrive for the screening of "It Might Get Loud" at the Toronto International Film Festival in Toronto, Friday, Sept. 5 2008.   (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Jonathan Hayward)
Former Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page talks to the media during a news conference for the documentary film, It Might Get Loud.
Former Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page talks to the media during a news conference for the documentary film, "It Might Get Loud".   (AP Photo)
From left, musicians Jack White, The Edge and Jimmy Page pose together after a press conference for the film It Might Get Loud during the Toronto International Film Festival.
From left, musicians Jack White, The Edge and Jimmy Page pose together after a press conference for the film "It Might Get Loud" during the Toronto International Film Festival.   (AP Photo)
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