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IT MIGHT GET LOUD

JIMMY Page, The Edge and Jack White get together for an axman summit in Davis Guggenheim’s documentary “It Might Get Loud.” For rock fans, hearing many Led Zeppelin and U2 classics on a theater sound system is worth the price of a ticket.

There are no Jack White classics, though, which is part of the problem. The White Stripes singer-guitarist, pioneer of a wailing sound that resembles wildlife being tortured, does not come close to holding the stage with Page and The Edge as they walk us through their working methods and influences. White, meanwhile, in a ploy for attention, swans around with an actor he tells us is himself as a boy but whom you will think of as the Mini-Me of the piece.

Page, whose career is recalled with clips that show him in pre-hippie days as a clean-cut session man, is obviously the inheritor of the great blues tradition. But The Edge’s famous echo chamber sound is intriguingly his own, and it is as refreshing to see The Edge show us how simple his trickery is as it is to hear him admit that he could easily have wound up working at a bank instead of shaping the sound of the biggest rock band in the world.

Running time: 97 minutes. Rated PG (profanity, smoking, adult themes). At the Sunshine, Houston Street, near First Avenue.