You Must Watch ‘It Might Get Loud’

I was sitting at home all snuggled up on my couch enjoying the sound of rain beating down on my balcony and the thunder creeping up behind it. It was dark as night outside and barely noon. It was the perfect day to watch It Might Get Loud. I thought nothing could make this stormy California day better, but I was wrong because I hadn’t even pressed play yet. It starts off with Jack White turning a piece of plywood and an empty Coke bottle into an electric guitar and plugging it into an amp and putting even Angus MacGyver to shame.

The movie is a documentary on the history of the electric guitar and 3 generations of the world’s most bad ass guitarists: Jack White, The Edge ,and Jimmy Page. The magnitude of sound created by these men has me questioning if they’re even human. After seeing It Might Get Loud, I believe them to be vessels used by a higher power to redefine what the world calls sound.

It will leave you breathless at some points. If you are a music lover and a true fan of rock-n-roll in it’s purest form, then you have to see this as soon as possible. There’s one scene that Jack White is playing his guitar so hard that his fingers start to bleed and the kicker is when the camera zooms in on his blood dripping down the guitar as he is ferociously attacking it with his hands. It’s poetic.

I could kick myself in the ass 10 times for not going to see this when it was playing at The Arclight. Due to my lack of good judgment, I had to watch it On Demand. Epic regret. However, the bigger tragedy would be not to have seen it at all. Here, take a look: