It Might Get Loud

[Ayler]

Jimmy Page à l'honneur dans le film It Might Get Loud.



Interview de Davis Guggenheim, le réalisateur :

Q: How did you pick those particular guitarists to focus on?
A: I really wanted Jimi Hendrix but he wasn't available. I checked. I thought about putting an empty seat for Hendrix when the three guys got together.

Q: Why three?
A: I knew that if I followed every guitarist around, I'd be deluged with footage. I didn't want to have so many that I could only do two minutes of, say, Eric Clapton. So then I thought, well, if I could get three guitarists -- one from each generation -- that would be interesting. I also wanted three guys who wanted to talk, who were open to telling their story about how this came to be, about the emotional side of it. Documentaries, for me, are about people's willingness to open up.

Q: Who was on your wish list?
A: These guys were my first three choices. Isn't that amazing?

Q: Were they immediately interested?
A: Each of them opened up to the concept very differently. But ultimately the concept is what made them do it.

I almost made a mistake. We assumed that Jimmy Page would never do it because he doesn't give interviews, he's never been in a documentary. But we said, well, let's try. It was a process, starting with his manager -- and then he said yes.

Q: Can you talk about that concept?
A: I thought, wouldn't it be cool if we heard Jimmy Page and The Edge and Jack White do all the talking? And for most of the movie, they're the only ones you do hear.

I started from the point of view that this movie has no ex-girlfriends, band mates or rock historians. I was not trying to avoid controversy; I just wanted to make it super-personal.

Q: How long did you shoot?
A: I shot on and off for a year. I'd be in Dublin for a week with The Edge and then I'd go home and edit what I had. I'd be in London for a week with Jimmy Page and then go home and edit what I had. It was a personal process. We were kind of making a movie together. Like, I'd say to Jimmy, hey, what if we filmed you playing records at your house? So Jimmy brought us into his house and did just that.

Q: Same thing with your opening sequence?
A: That opening thing, with Jack making the electric guitar out of a board, two nails and a piece of wire -- he said, "Watch this." and he just did it. He told me later it was based on the diddley bow. Poor black sharecroppers would string barbed wire between two nails and pluck it. And that's where Bo Diddley got his name. Jack just added an electric pickup.

Q: How hard was it to get the three of them together in one place?
A: We filmed them together for two days -- two glorious days. We called it "The Summit" because it was so complicated to arrange.

Source : http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marshall-fine/interview-davis-guggenhei_b_255309.html

[jipes]

Ca c'est vraiment sympa même si je ne suis pas persuadé que je puisse le voir en salle par chez moi avec la politique de programmation des Multiplex

L'idée de départ est séduisante reste a visionner le résultat

[Purple Jim]

J'aimerais bien le voir… sur Youtube plus tard.

[Ayler]

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/the_big_picture/2009/08/guitar-talk-from-jimmy-page-the-edge-and-jack-white.html

[Ayler]

Un entretien de Page :

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/jimmy-page--its-been-a-long-time-since-he-rocknrolled-1854570.html

[telegraphroad]

J'ai vu ce documentaire hier. Je l'ai trouvé très moyen - et je ne m'attendais pas à un chef-d’œuvre -. L'idée de parler de trois "grand" guitaristes (les guillemets sont là pour the edge) pose un problème : leur art est survollé, les analyses restes superficielles. C'est d'autant plus gênant que Jimmy Page mériterait bien un documentaire à lui seul.
Et comme souvent dans les documentaire sur le rock, ça parle plus de la vie des musiciens que de leur musique.
Malgré tout, je n'ai pas regretté de voir ce film, notamment pour les scènes avec Jack White. Il parle pas mal de ses influences, comme le vieux blues et le garage rock. A un moment, on le voit passer sur une platine vinyle le morceau "Grinin Your Face" de Son House. Il nous explique ensuite que c'est son morceau préféré, et qu'il s'efforce depuis des années de faire de la musique dans cet esprit. Pour ma part, ça m'a permis de mieux comprendre ce que recherche Jack White : faire une musique minimaliste, ne garder que l'indispensable, ce qui en sortira n'aura que plus de sens et de force.

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