If you're a guitar player or a fan of The
White Stripes, U2 or Led Zeppelin, see this movie. It's not as good as
I expected, but it got me into some serious RawkLand for a good hour
and half. The chinema spends far too much time rehashing the bands'
formations. Aside from a few cool insights (Page STILL speaks about
music in terms of art/school-light/dark composition), you're not going
to hear anything about their pasts that you couldn't find on wikipedia.
It would have been a much better movie with an increased focus on
varying approaches to songwriting, or even filosophies of rawk, if we
dare ...
The dynamic plays out like some reality show (Rawk Island!
Who will be the last to leave?) Most times, the three interact
awkwardly
like distant family members who are supposed to give a shit about each
other but
somehow can't manage anything more than an awkward A-frame hug.
Perhaps this is a reflection of their respective places in the rawk
pantheon. Page's work with Zeppelin was a reaction
against tepid music, Edge got started b/c he was sick of Rawk Star
Bombast (read: Zeppelin), and White gets his fuel from a hatred of all
things digital (read: the Edge). As a result, their "jam" sessions
never wholly gel, but hey, they had to try.
SPOILERS:
- See Jack White and the Edge try to keep their shit together as OH-MY-FUCKING-GOD-IT'S-JIMMY-FUCKING-PAGE PLAYING WHOLELOTTALOVE IN FRONT OF ME!!! AND FUCKING KASHMIR!!!
-
How
is it that between the aged Jimmy Page, the aging Edge and young Jack
White, the grumpy old man turns out to be Jack White? The dude is so
dogmatically insistent on the superiority of old skool blues, I'm
surprised he's not afraid to admit he has running water in his house.




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