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Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page on the story behind the Led Zeppelin Remasters.

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00:00Hello there, this is Jimmy Page and you're watching Classic Rock.

00:14Well, it's interesting that you said, is there an archive that's carefully annotated?

00:22That's exactly how it started up.

00:24I started annotating my own archive, listing everything that went back to like the very earliest.

00:31It was all analogue tape that I was doing and it went back to like the early little sort of three and a quarter inch reels

00:39that were done at home when I did my parents and it goes to a five inch reel and home demos.

00:46And I was going all the way through and it got through all the material that I had.

00:51I was logging it and collating it and making notes all through the yard birds.

00:55And then of course it gets to Led Zeppelin.

00:58And I'd started to do some of that, but I must say that I'd had an idea that was along the lines of the project

01:09that we were all now familiar with the re-releases, but somehow these sort of gems that were sitting around could come out.

01:18I had another little, you know, another plan, but this was far more ambitious and much lengthier.

01:24And far more relevant, I think, to the whole picture of what was needed to be sort of presented,

01:31an audible picture of what went on in the studio.

01:35Where it comes to the Led Zeppelin aspect of it, it was hundreds of hours, literally hundreds of hours of listening to tape.

01:43Because you've got to listen to it in real time.

01:45And then, you know, say you've selected a title and you're going and listening to everything you've got around that title.

01:51And there's copious notes being made and, you know, it's a thank you project.

01:57But, I knew it was worthwhile.

02:02Yeah, I had a good idea of like the sunset sound mixes, things like that.

02:06Alternate version of When the Levee Breaks, etc.

02:10Different versions of In the Light.

02:12I knew there was a wonderful version on the Led Zeppelin III of,

02:16or what I had was an early version of Since I've Been Loving You.

02:23The track of Whole Lot Of Love.

02:25I mean, they're just total gems.

02:28So, to actually be able to put them out in context with the release of the studio albums is great.

02:36You know, it's quite a good way to do it.

02:38There was one surprise that came up because I thought we might have a gap.

02:50And it would be a bit of a nail-biting gap for Presence.

02:56And I thought there'd been something that had been mixed down at the time.

03:03Rough mixes and some songs that didn't make it on Presence.

03:08And I was relieved to find it.

03:10It actually wasn't labelled, the box.

03:12I had to go through all manner of things.

03:14You know, whatever was on tape.

03:17I had to listen to it if it didn't have a proper...

03:19Even if it did, I had to check it was in the right box.

03:22Anyway, the material for Presence turned up.

03:25So that was like breathing a sigh of relief and wiping the forehead.

03:30It was like, oh, thank you, God.

03:32Because without the material for Presence, it would have been tricky.

03:39As was the first album, we had to use a live performance

03:44because there just wasn't the material left over to make up a companion disc.

03:48But now there was for everything, so it was cool.

03:54I'd always intended to make Physical Graffiti's companion disc a single disc

03:59because the pure nature of why the studio album of Physical Graffiti

04:05was a double disc or two vinyls or whatever

04:09was a simple reason that that's what it was.

04:12And this is what it is as far as the companion disc.

04:17There was no point in trying to just put things on there

04:20because it was too close to something that was already on there.

04:26You know, like ten years gone, there was no point.

04:28Sometimes there just wasn't another version to actually pull out.

04:32So with whatever there was, I made the best compilation I felt,

04:37showing, you know, the band really at work and at play

04:41and these sort of passionate performances

04:43from each of the individuals and collectively and, you know, it's cool.

04:47Yeah, it's cool.

04:48Yeah, it's cool.

04:49Yeah.

04:50Yeah.

04:51Yeah.

04:52Yeah.

04:53Yeah.

04:57Yeah.

04:58Yeah.

05:01Yeah.

05:02Yeah.

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