It Might Get Loud

Rock Doc... suitable for the Whole Family.

I can't tell you how happy I was to see that this was rated PG. When I first saw who this documentary was about I wondered. I had no idea that I would love it as much as I did.
It Might Get Loud is a documentary about 3 very strong character guitar players:

Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin
The Edge of U2
and Jack White of the White Stripes and The Raconteurs

The movies is a get together/jam session with all three players telling their stories of how they stared playing music, their personal history, their bands histories and some great music along the way. The film consists of videos from past/current concert footage, old photos, and personal stories. It was enjoyable to see three guitar players who span the past three decades of music talking about the one thing that they all have in common... Guitars.
One of my favorite scenes is the opening scene with Jack Black at his house in Memphis. He is dressed in a bow tie and a black three piece suit (minus the jacket)standing in front of his porch building a guitar out of a piece of wood, a piece of wire, a Coke bottle, and a pickup. We watch him build this thing in less than a minute. He plays is for a bit and then unplugs stating 'Who says you need to buy a guitar." I like the contrast of ideas here. The clothes he wears, the loud electric guitar in front of a bunch of cows. Awesome!
The live concert footage shots of U2 are great. They are very clear and loud. I wish I knew what they were taken from. My only negative about this movie are the scenes with Jimmy Page. They seem very slow. That is probably just because I'm too young I guess. Don't get me wrong I still enjoyed them, I wish they would have showed more footage of Led Zeppelin and less of the other 50 bands he was in as a youth. I see the importance, but would rather see the band he was famous for.
I guess I need to figure out some sort of a rating system for this blog. Should I do a five or ten star rating or just a simple I liked it? Who knows?

All I know is that I loved this one. 4 1/2 out of 5 or an 8 out of 10.