Davis Guggenheim's It Might Get Loud brings Jimmy Page, Jack White, and The Edge together for some jamming and chat about the art of the electric guitar with autobiographical segments about each musician's rise to rock prominence. White is the backward-looking classicist, extolling the virtues of his favorite Son House record and making a guitar out of boards and a coke bottle. The Edge strolls through the school that hosted rehearsals by a teenage U2 and plays four-tracks of an early "Where The Streets Have No Name" run through. Page is as inscrutable as a hieroglyph; we get a few anecdotes about Led Zeppelin recording sessions but no answer to the question of what exactly he's been up to since Zep broke up. (Seriously, the discography is pretty thin) The central jam session/"summit" scenes have the feel of eavesdropping on an exclusive club where one doesn't quite speak the language. Had these three really never met before and were they really this nervous? You won't come out of It Might Get Loud knowing how to become a guitar God, and maybe that's the point. When the Page, White, and The Edge get together on "Whole Lotta Love," it's obvious all three still consider themselves open to a few more lessons. I didn't get the closing performance of "The Weight," (The Band weren't exactly centered around soloing) but that's a small point. Guitar Heroes don't play plastic axes.
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