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EXCLUSIVE: Jimmy Page, The Edge, Jack White talk It Might Get Loud
Three guitar greats, a revealing conversation
Joe Bosso, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 4:51 pm UTC
Jimmy and Jack, you two had met before, but Edge, was this your first encounter with them?
Edge: I had met them before, but very fleetingly. Not even so much as to have a proper conversation. It was more like, "Hello. How's it going? Love your work" - that type of thing. This was my first time sitting down to have a conversation with either of them.
Page: The part where we all meet on the soundstage of the Warners lot, it was called 'The Summit.' It was funny because we all stayed in individual hotels, and each of us had our own trailers. Davis was very keen to have that meeting be a real moment. There was no passing around of notes about what we were going to do or play.
"I was trying to look at his fingering, trying to figure out how he was doing it. You know, it's one of those things you grow up with" The Edge on watching Jimmy Page play Whole Lotta Love
Edge: I was just so into the whole thing. I think you can really see that by the look on my face and on Jack's face when Jimmy started playing Whole Lotta Love, which is just the quintessential guitar riff of all time. Just to see how he played it…
I was going to bring that up: Jack, Edge, you two definitely had that look, like, "Holy cow, here's THE GUY playing THAT RIFF!"
Edge: [laughs] It was great! I was trying to look at his fingering, trying to figure out how he was doing it. You know, it's one of those things you grow up with. It's embedded in you like a nursery rhyme.
White: It was certainly an electric moment. A song like Whole Lotta Love, we know it so well - it's like background music or the Bible. Or a street sign! But to see the original fingers playing it…it's like going inside the pyramids or something. [laughs]
