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Bullfrog said:Yep, saw it a few months ago. I liked it.
Madferret said:Just watched Thor - garbage.
It's hard turning down that many bags of $$$, isn't it Portman?
Bender said:Just watched "It Might Get Loud."
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Bender said:Just watched "It Might Get Loud."
Jimmy Page looked like the elder statesman, the wise old guitar wizard. Edge looked like the enthusiastic younger guitar player, I liked his thoughts on effects and whatnot.
Then there's Jack White. No offense, but the guy is an extreme weirdo. I don't know what's wrong with the guy but he came off as very, very odd and his views on music were a bit extreme. He spent the documentary teaching his fake 9 year old self some of the more ridiculous aspects of the guitar, like stomping on one.
I think he's kinda nuts, and absolutely overrated as a singer and guitarist in comparison to Jimmy Page and Edge.
Saint Nik said:Bender said:Just watched "It Might Get Loud."
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One of the things that I think was interesting about that movie was that in addition to the obvious generation gap between the three guys they all sort of represented the different roles a lead guitarist can play in a band. Page, if memory serves, didn't sing at all in Zeppelin and was exclusively playing, The Edge is the secondary writer/singer in U2 and then Jack White who's been the driving creative force/lead singer of every band he's been in(even when he's drumming).
I think that came across as they talked in the interviews(although it's been a while since I saw it) where, with White, it was as much about being a frontman as it was being a guitarist. That sort of culminates at the end there with "The Weight" where White is taking the lead, as it were.
Obviously there's no point in arguing as to how talented Jack White stacks up to the other guys because, you know, to each their own but I thought his inclusion made the movie a little more interesting for that reason.
Bender said:Oh yeah, don't get me wrong, he's a good musician, but comparing him with the stuff of legends... I don't know.
Saint Nik said:Bender said:Oh yeah, don't get me wrong, he's a good musician, but comparing him with the stuff of legends... I don't know.
I don't know that the point of the flick is to compare the three guys. It's just three successful musicians from different generations and with different perspectives about music and the guitar getting together and talking/playing.
And I like Jimmy Page and all(Not Led Zeppelin obviously but his work with Donovan was pretty good) but, personally, I'd hesitate to call the Edge "legendary". He's a pretty good guitarist in a band I'm not a huge fan of.
Bender said:I guess it's more a criticism of the supposed ranking system that people employ. Ranking Jack White ahead of guys like Mark Knopfler, Pete Townshend, Tom Morello, John McLaughlin, Frank Zappa etc. just seems wonky imo.
Saint Nik said:And I like Jimmy Page and all(Not Led Zeppelin obviously but his work with Donovan was pretty good)
Sucker Punch said:Saint Nik said:And I like Jimmy Page and all(Not Led Zeppelin obviously but his work with Donovan was pretty good)
Really? I don't think I've ever heard anyone say that. Who doesn't like Led Zeppelin?
Sucker Punch said:Really? I don't think I've ever heard anyone say that. Who doesn't like Led Zeppelin?
Saint Nik said:Sucker Punch said:Really? I don't think I've ever heard anyone say that. Who doesn't like Led Zeppelin?
What probably should have tipped you off there was the "obviously". Anyone saying they like Jimmy Page but "obviously" not Led Zeppelin can probably be assumed to be joking, as I was. I like Zeppelin fine.
That said, probably my least favourite part of Zeppelin now that I'm drug-free most days is Robert Plant so I do really like Page's 60's studio stuff/Yardbirds stuff quite a bit as you get that really great playing without all the high pitched yammering about the Lord of the Rings. Probably my favourite album that Jimmy Page plays is on is Kinks.