If youre a Led Zeppelin fan read on, otherwise check back another time. During the past year Led Zeppelin has released all of their albums remastered with previously unreleased bonus tracks. Not the normal BS goodies but cool shite. I have been quite enamored with it. I dont intend to revisit the vaults for awhile, Jimmy Page says with a smile, sitting in the opulent library of a Victorian hotel in London. The ex-Led Zeppelin guitarist, 70, has spent much of the last decade in a retrospective frenzy: collating the images for his lavish, photographic memoir, Jimmy Page, first published in a collectors edition in 2010 and now widely available; and curating acclaimed, deluxe reissues of his bands historic studio LPs. Rarity-laden editions of 1971s Led Zeppelin IV and 73s Houses of the Holy come out on October 28th, and Page has finished preparing the rest of the catalog for release. Led Zeppelin: Rarely Seen Photos From Early 1969 The new version of Presence, he reveals in the current issue of Rolling Stone, includes two extra things he found on a reel with an early mix of that album. But in this expanded version of that interview, he is more coy about curious omissions amid the bonus tracks so far, including the Led Zeppelin III-era B-side, Hey, Hey, What Can I Do and unreleased Indo-symphonic versions of IIIs Friends and IVs Four Sticks, recorded by Page and singer Robert Plant in 1972 in what was then Bombay, India, with sitars, tabla drums and a local orchestra. Cant comment on that, really, Page says with a sly grin. I cant tell you whats coming, can I? The guitarist is proud of his research for the reissues. I listened to hundreds of hours of tape, he says. I checked everything that came out in bootleg form, that purported to be from the studio, so that I knew exactly what was out there, in order to put stuff out that people didnt dream existed. And by the end, I think I will have covered everything. Page explains his diligence another way, in a long, freewheeling conversation the day after he unveils the latest reissues at a playback and press conference for the European press at Zeppelins old haunt, the former Olympic Studios in London. (It is now an upscale cinema with a small recording studio.) As there werent going to be any more shows, I could concentrate on these more eccentric ideas, Page says of his book and the re-releases, referring to Plants refusal to tour after Zeppelins 2007 reunion show at Londons O2 arena. At the press conference, Page politely eluded a question on that topic. He does so here too. But Page is blunt and voluble on so much more, for over an hour in that library, including his choirboy past, Zeppelins manic ascent, the sudden end of that band, the power of the original records and the deeper story unveiled in the bonus tracks. People said that was a milestone album, Page says at one point of IV. Well, honestly, it was. So, from that milestone album. One radio didnt ruin. From IV. https://youtube/watch?v=fOEQTJV_3-w
Posted on: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 23:25:48 +0000
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