What do you get when three of the finest guitarists go into a room ? They sit and chat about their personal styles and influences for what seems like an eternity, each taking you on a whistle stop tour of their colourful pasts and end up having a jam of epic proportions, this is the basis of ‘It Might Get Loud’, a 2009 documentary directed by Davis Guggenheim.



The guitar behemoths in question? none other than Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin), Dave Evans (aka The Edge - U2) and Jack White (The White Stripes, The Raconteurs & The Dead Weather).



Guggenheim follows the three around for the better part of a year doing a grand job in portraying their stories, from the early days through to the fame and fortune that they have all amassed over the years.

Jimmy Page takes you from the early 1960’s where he played as a session musician right through to the latter days of Led Zep and all the interesting bits that happened in between these times, tales (or should that be tails) of fish, trashing of hotel rooms and the consumption of copious amounts of mind altering drugs are all included.....



The Edge takes us back to the late 1970’s and Mount Temple High School in Dublin where he answered a notice board ad place by a certain Larry Mullen Jr to ‘form a band’, you also get a sneak peak into his practice rooms in Dublin that he still uses to this day, full to the brim with effect racks and various kinds of witchcraft used to generate his trademark sound that has made him one of today's finest axe wielders out in Musicland. To say that he has a LARGE guitar collection is rather an understatement, he has a warehouse FULL of beautiful pieces that could make a grown man weep in envy....



The story of Jack White takes you back to his early roots of blues and a very diverse film that includes White as a young boy (despite White being there as an adult) who gets locked in the boot of a car and driven about the place to perform, it’s a ll a little bit ‘Jack White’ if you need a round up !!



An interesting documentary that I feel would appeal mainly to guitar aficionados across the land, not the type of movie to take the wife to especially if she is expecting some ‘Rom-Com’ effort....