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Edition #26, Davis Guggenheim, It Might Get Loud
Originally aired on
Monday, September 28th, 2009
Tania Ketenjian in conversation with Academy Award winning filmmaker
Davis Guggenheim
(An Inconvenient Truth) about his most recent film, It Might Get Loud,
which brings
together three of rock's greatest guitar legends—Jimmy Page of Led
Zeppelin, The Edge
of U2, and Jack White of The White Stripes. Without any talking heads,
critics, or
musicologists, we travel from the streets of Dublin where U2 first
formed, to country
houses in England where Led Zeppelin produced some of their most
famous albums, to
Tennessee, where we see Jack White make a guitar out of a glass bottle,
a string and a
piece of wood, proclaiming, "Who needs to buy a guitar?" The film
ultimately arrives
at a meeting of these three performers where, as you will hear in this
interview,
words were pushed aside once they began communicating through their
instruments.
Guitar is their language, one that they understand
like nothing
else (24 minutes).
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