Putting on your socks and clear out the living room!
It Might Get Loud!
Rock films will never be experienced accurately on the small screen, let alone a horribly pirated download. Just like concerts, you want to see and hear everything close-up and loud. So post this in your calendar and show up with your the pals at the Palm Theatre on September 11th. This may only last one week, be forewarned.
There are guitar players, and then there are rock stars. It Might Get Loud is an epic, exhilarating backstage pass into the world of the latter. Over the course of one day, three generations of electric-guitar phenoms come together, crank up their amps, and let it roll.
Documentarian Davis Guggenheim gives us so much more than an all-star jam session (that would make even the gnarliest of rock geeks giddy); he leads us to these artists’ inner sanctums and illuminates the paths each one traveled to forge a sound all his own. We begin to understand how a one-time furniture upholsterer from Detroit, a London studio musician, and a Dublin schoolboy redefined the horizons of guitar playing. Meanwhile, Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin), the Edge (U2), and Jack White (The White Stripes) seem genuinely to enjoy each other’s company while sharing riffs, swapping stories, and divulging their distinct philosophies of craft.
This soulful opus is at once a portrait of each artist and a captivating examination of the creative process. It Might Get Loud does get loud, and in the process, opens up our minds and hearts to a whole new way of listening to and enjoying what it means to rock.
Review: Yim Yames – Tribute To
Yim Yames – Tribute To
In 2001, with little more than a guitar and an avalanche of vocal reverb, My Morning Jacket frontman, Jim James, held a late-night tribute to the passing George Harrison. This is an intimate affair, traveling the arc of a six song set. Positioning Harrison’s Beatles compositions with choice cuts off his classic All Things Must Pass, it’s sequenced as only a true fan could have requested. Starting with the romantic pining of the White Album’s “Long, Long, Long” and ending with the plaintive reassurance of “All Things Must Pass”, James mirrors Harrison’s spiritual love and mystical calm throughout this homage. Even more fitting are the echoey vocals of Jim James, recalling the saturated production of Phil Spector who recorded All Things Must Pass. Whether its the ghostly, backwood bjango reading of “Love You To” or the stripped-down, overdubbed harmonizing on “My Sweet Lord”, Jim James will make you want to revisit the originals, which is the perfect eulogy a musician can give to a fellow songwriter.
Listen To: Yim Yames – My Sweet Lord
