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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.

00:15Well, 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 the very earliest.

00:31It was all analogue tape that I was doing, and it went back to the early little three

00:37and a quarter inch reels that were done at home when I lived with my parents, and it

00:41goes to a five inch reel, and did home demos, and I was going all the way through and it

00:47got through all the material that I had, and I was logging it and collating it and making

00:52notes all through the yard birds, and 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

01:07the lines of the project that we were all now familiar with, the re-releases, but somehow

01:12the sort of gems that were sitting around could come out.

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

01:24relevant I think to the whole picture of what was needed to be sort of presented, an audible

01:32picture of what went on in the studio.

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

01:41hundreds of hours of listening to tape, because you've got to listen to it in real time, and

01:45then say you've selected a title, and you're going and listening to everything you've got

01:49around that title, and there's copious notes being made, and it's a lengthy project, but

01:57I knew it was worthwhile.

02:00Yeah, I had a good idea of the sunset sound mixes, things like that, alternate versions

02:07of When the Levee Breaks, different versions of In the Light, I knew there was a wonderful

02:13version on the Led Zeppelin 3, or what I had was an early version of Since I've Been

02:21Loving You, the track of Whole Lotta Love, I mean they're just total gems, so to actually

02:28be able to put them out in context with the release of the studio albums is great, it's

02:36a good way to do it.

02:41There was one surprise that came up, because I thought we might have a gap, and it would

02:51be a bit of a nail-biting gap for Presence, and I thought there'd been something that

02:59had been mixed down at the time, rough 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, I had to go through all manner of things, whatever

03:16was on tape, I had to listen to it if it didn't have a proper, but even if it did, I had to

03:20check it was in the right box.

03:22Anyway, the material for Presence turned up, so that was like breathing a sigh of relief

03:28and wiping your forehead, it was like, oh thank you God, because without the material

03:36for Presence it would have been tricky, as was the first album, we had to use a live

03:43performance, because there just wasn't the material left over to make up a companion

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

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

04:01pure nature of why the studio album of Physical Graffiti was a double disc, or two vinyls,

04:09or whatever, was the simple reason that that's what it was, and this is what it is, as far

04:16as a companion disc, there was no point in trying to just put things on there because

04:21it was too close to something that was already on there, you know, like ten years gone, there

04:27was no point.

04:28Sometimes there just wasn't another version to actually pull out, so with whatever there

04:33was, I made the best compilation I felt, showing the band really at work and at play, and these

04:41sort of passionate performances from each of the individuals and collectively, and it's cool.

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