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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]

00:11 Hello there, this is Jimmy Page, and you're

00:12 watching Classic Rock.

00:14 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

00:39 that were done at home when I did my parents.

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

00:46 And I was going all the way through,

00:47 and it got through all the material that I had.

00:51 I was logging it, and collating it, and making notes,

00:53 all 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.

01:01 But I must say that I'd had an idea that

01:06 was along the lines of the project

01:09 that we were all now familiar with, the re-releases.

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

01:17 could come out.

01:18 I had another plan, but this was far more ambitious, and much

01:23 lengthier, and far more relevant, I think,

01:25 to the whole picture of what was needed

01:29 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,

01:38 it was hundreds of hours, literally hundreds of hours,

01:41 of listening to tape.

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

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

01:47 and you're going and listening to everything

01:49 you've got around that title.

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

01:53 And 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,

02:05 things like that, alternate version of "When the Levee

02:08 Breaks," et cetera, different versions of "In the Light."

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

02:15 3.

02:16 Or what I had was an early version of "Since I've

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

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

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

02:32 with the release of the studio albums is great.

02:36 It's a good way to do it.

02:37 There was one surprise that came up,

02:46 because I thought we might have a gap.

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

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

03:05 didn't make it on presence.

03:08 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,

03:14 whatever was on tape.

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

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

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

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

03:28 and wiping the forehead.

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

03:32 Because without the material for presence,

03:36 it would have been tricky, as was the first album.

03:40 We had to use a live performance,

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

03:47 to make up a companion disc.

03:49 But now there was for everything, so it was cool.

03:51 I'd always intended to make Physical Graffiti's

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

04:03 the studio album of Physical Graffiti

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

04:10 was a simple reason that that's what it was.

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

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

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

04:25 on there, 10 years gone.

04:27 There was no point.

04:28 Sometimes there just wasn't another version

04:30 to actually pull out.

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

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

04:41 and these sort of passionate performances

04:43 from each of the individuals and collectively.

04:46 And it's cool.

04:47 [MUSIC - PHYSICAL GRAFFITI, "BREAKING DOWN"]

04:51 [MUSIC - PHYSICAL GRAFFITI, "BREAKING DOWN"]

04:55 [MUSIC - PHYSICAL GRAFFITI, "BREAKING DOWN"]

04:59 [MUSIC - PHYSICAL GRAFFITI, "BREAKING DOWN"]

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