Last week we reported that David Guggenheim — director of the upcoming rock doc, “It Might Get Loud” — had coerced Jack White into writing a new song (“Fly Farm Blues”) for the film and then releasing it as a single, presumably so he could get some extra promotional mileage from music blogs obsessed with every fart White blows any which way (or something like that). Not a bad idea. The doc, as you’ve probably heard by now, also features U2’s The Edge and Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page.
Anywho, that song has leaked, been released, what have you, and yes, it’s the same song featured in the film that he seems to make up on the spot and play.
Rolling Stone basically confirms as much. “As the story goes, White wrote and recorded the song in all of 10 minutes, with the It Might Get Loud film crew witnessing the song’s entire genesis and completion.” We’re not entirely shocked, it’s not like it’s Mozart. Here’s the song in question.
Meanwhile, Jimmy Page told Billboard that the eventual DVD release will likely include more music from the rock-god summit from where the guitarists jammed and in the end, play a cover of The Band’s classic groove, “The Weight.” “It’s inevitable there’ll be a DVD on the horizon. There’ll be some extra stuff from the summit, that’s obvious. I know there’s another number I did. There was a lot that was played at the summit, that Edge did, I’m sure, and Jack. I’m sure there’ll be a DVD, and I can tell you with a certain confidence there’ll be extras because that’s the way things work these days.”
While we’re not necessarily huge U2 fans or anything (especially these days when they checked out and decided to write the same anthemic blackberry phone ad over and over again), but the most interesting guitarist in the film is certainly the forward-thinking The Edge, whose exploratory use of technology to make new sounds appealed to us most. The watery, angelic, almost Brian Eno-like instrumental he plays here is great. Hopefully that adventurous spirit of discovery is conveyed in this clip from the picture that centers on the Irish axeman. “It Might Get Loud” opens in New York and L.A. this weekend.