JIMMY PAGE Talks Guitar Playing

According to The Pulse of Radio, LED ZEPPELIN guitarist Jimmy Page and WHITE STRIPES/RACONTEURS singer/guitarist Jack White were in Los Angeles on Friday (June 19) to speak with the press about "It Might Get Loud", a new documentary about guitars and guitar playing starring both of them as well as U2 axeman The Edge. The film premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival on Friday (June 19) and will open in New York and Los Angeles on August 14. The film showcases how the three guitarists came to play the guitar and develop their styles, and also features a jam session involving all three players.

Jack White told reporters how he approaches playing his instrument. "I try to make it a fight," he said. "I consider it a fight, a battle, that you have to win. If you're handed an instrument or you find yourself playing an instrument that's too easy to play, that's too nice and too in tune, I want to, you know, turn it upside down and make it out of tune so I can win that fight. I have to make a fight out of it. If I don't have a struggle, then I don't feel like I'm doing my job."

Page was asked what originally attracted him to playing the guitar. "It was just that whole thing of the transmission of ideas through the tactile quality of playing an instrument, you know, your steel, strings and wood, translating through the electric pickup through the amp, and that's really what it is for me," he said. "It's that, some magical quality, really. Some sort of alchemy, if you like."

"It Might Get Loud" was directed by Davis Guggenheim, who was also behind the camera for the Oscar-winning Al Gore documentary "An Inconvenient Truth".

The movie follows White, Page and The Edge as they visit influential locations from their own personal histories, including the mansion where LED ZEPPELIN recorded "Stairway To Heaven" and the Dublin high school where U2 was formed and used to practice.