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

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00:00 [MUSIC PLAYING]

00:10 Hello there, this is Jimmy Page and you're watching

00:12 "Tasting Rock."

00:16 Well, it's interesting that you said, is there an archive

00:20 that's carefully annotated?

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

00:24 I started annotating my own archive, listing everything

00:29 that went back to the very earliest--

00:31 it was all analog tape that I was doing.

00:34 And it went back to the early little 3 and 1/4 inch reels

00:38 that were done at home when I lived with my parents.

00:41 And it goes to a 5 inch reel and hit home demos.

00:45 And I was going all the way through, and it got through

00:48 through all the material that I had.

00:50 I was logging it and collating it and making notes all

00:53 through the yard birds.

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

00:57 And I'd started to do some of that.

01:00 But I must say that I'd had an idea that was along the lines

01:07 of the project that we were all now familiar with, the

01:10 re-releases.

01:11 But somehow, these sort of gems that were sitting around

01:16 could come out.

01:18 I had another plan.

01:20 But this was far more ambitious and much lengthier,

01:24 and far more relevant, I think, to the whole picture of

01:28 what needed to be presented, an audible picture of what

01:33 went on in the studio.

01:35 When it comes to the Led Zeppelin aspect of it, it was

01:39 hundreds of hours, literally hundreds of hours of listening

01:42 to tape, because you've got to listen to it in real time.

01:45 And then, say you've selected a title, and you're going

01:48 listening to everything you've got around that title.

01:51 And there's copious notes being made.

01:54 It's a lengthy project.

01:56 But I knew it was worthwhile.

01:58 Yeah, I had a good idea of the sunset sound mixes, things

02:05 like that, alternate versions of "When the

02:07 Levee Breaks," et cetera.

02:10 Different versions of "In the Light." I knew there was a

02:13 wonderful version on the Led Zeppelin III.

02:16 What I had was an early version of "Since I've Been

02:21 Loving You," the track of "A Whole Lot of Love." I mean,

02:25 they're just total gems.

02:27 So to actually be able to put them out in context with the

02:32 release of the studio albums is great.

02:35 It's a good way to do it.

02:40 There was one surprise that came up, because I thought we

02:48 might have a gap.

02:50 And it would be a bit of a nail-biting

02:54 gap for "Presents."

02:56 And I thought there'd been something that had been mixed

03:01 down at the time, rough mixes, and some songs that didn't

03:05 make it on "Presents." And I was relieved to find it.

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

03:12 I had to go through all manner of things, whatever was on

03:16 tape, I had to listen to it if it didn't have a proper--

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

03:22 Anyway, the material for "Presents" turned up.

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

03:29 the floor with it.

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

03:32 Because without the material for "Presents," it would have

03:36 been tricky.

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

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

03:47 a companion disc.

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

03:50 I'd always intended to make Physical Graffiti's companion

03:57 disc a single disc, because the pure nature of why the

04:03 studio album of Physical Graffiti was a double disc, or

04:08 two vinyls, or whatever, was a simple reason that that's

04:11 what it was.

04:13 And this is what it is, as far as a companion disc.

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

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

04:25 there, 10 years gone.

04:27 There was no point.

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

04:32 pull out.

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

04:36 felt, showing the band really at work and at play, and these

04:41 sort of passionate performances from each of the

04:44 individuals and collectively.

04:45 And it's cool.

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Led Zeppelin: Jimmy Page On Making The Led Zeppelin Remasters - Part 1

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