Deluxe editions of Led Zeppelin’s final three studio albums:
Presence,
In Through The Out Door, and
Coda will be released in July. As with the previous deluxe editions, all three have been newly remastered by guitarist and producer Jimmy Page and are accompanied by companion audio comprised of previously unreleased music related to the original release selected and compiled by Page.
Originally released in 1976, Presence was recorded during a whirlwind 18-day session at Musicland Studios in Munich, Germany. The album—which peaked at #1 in both the U.S. and UK and was certified triple platinum—crackles with energy on Zeppelin classics like “Nobody’s Fault But Mine” and “Achilles Last Stand” and delivers powerful jolts of the group at its visceral best.
The companion audio disc that accompanies Presence has five unreleased reference mixes from the sessions, which reveal works in progress. Along with alternate incarnations of “For Your Life,” “Achilles Last Stand,” and “Royal Orleans,” there is also the previously unheard instrumental curiously titled “10 Ribs & All/Carrot Pod Pod (Pod).”
On its release in the summer of 1979, In Through The Out Door topped the U.S. and UK album charts and has since been certified six-times platinum. Sadly, it would be the last album that Led Zeppelin recorded prior to drummer John Bonham’s passing the following year. Among the seven album tracks are “Fool In The Rain,” and “All My Love,” two songs that remain rock radio staples to this day.
The album’s companion audio disc features an unreleased rough mix of every track from the original album, including early versions with working titles such as “The Hook” (“All My Love”), “The Epic” (“Carouselambra”), and “Blot” (“I’m Gonna Crawl”).
The appropriately titled Coda was Led Zeppelin’s final album of studio recordings. Released in 1982, it was comprised of eight unreleased tracks recorded between 1970 and 1978. It peaked at #6 on the album charts and has been certified platinum in the U.S.
The reissue campaign ends with a double-barrel blast of Led. Coda will be the only Led Zeppelin deluxe edition to include two companion discs, featuring 15 tracks recorded between 1968 and 1974. The oldest song in the collection is also perhaps the most interesting. The frenetic blues jam “Sugar Mama” was recorded in 1968 at Olympic Studios during sessions for the band’s eponymous debut. The song was completed but never officially released until now. “Baby Come On Home” from the same session is also included in the set. Also included is the previously unreleased “St. Tristan’s Sword,” a rollicking instrumental recorded during the Led Zeppelin III sessions in 1970.
In 1972, Robert Plant and Jimmy Page took a fabled trip to India to perform with the Bombay Orchestra and now, for the first time, recordings from these sessions will be officially released with dynamic takes on “Friends” and “Four Hands” (“Four Sticks” from Led Zeppelin IV). Among the many other highlights featured here is an early version of “When The Levee Breaks” from 1970 titled “If It Keeps On Raining”; rough mixes of “The Wanton Song” and “In The Light,” from the Physical Graffiti sessions at Headley Grange, the latter a different alternate version than the one included in the Physical Graffiti deluxe edition; and an instrumental mix of “Poor Tom” from 1970.
Scusate, mi innervosisco ad ogni uscita. Ma quale fan dei Led Zep considera novità Hey Hey What can I do, Baby Come Home e Travelling Riverside Blues? Chi si dovrebbe esaltare per il reference mix di Hots on for nowhere?
Non continuo ma approffito anche di questo post per rivendicare la mia ferma decisione di non sganciare nemmeno un cent per quest’operazione “deluxe”.
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Io credo che HHWCID, BABY COME HOME e TRAVELLING RB dovessero stare sul bonus disc di CODA (o sui companionion disc degli album relativi ( i primi tre), non sono novità, ma rarità che fa piacere avere su un dischetto, ma devono essere considerati come riempitivi, come l’ammazza caffè dopo un pranzo come si deve. E invece è l’ammazza caffè dopo una minestrina insipida, una cotoletta di soia e una pera cotta.
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Allegato a Presence io ci avrei messo un bel concerto del giugno 1977 a Los Angeles, mentre per ITTOD Zurigo 1980!
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Baccio , li avrei fatti più o meno così pure io .
Nessuna sorpresa , questa noiosissima campagna finalmente è finita , acquisterò anche ste ultime uscite senza il minimo entusiasmo e speriamo che tra dieci anni venga pubblicato qualcosa di più succulento ……
Abbiamo stabilito che una versione LZ ufficiale di Train kept A Rollin’ c’è la possiamo pure sognare .
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Tutto sommato non va neanche tanto male.
Avevo preventivato un’uscita di presence nel 2016 per il quarantennale,
di ITTOD nel 2019,
di coda nel 2022.
E’ chiaro che Jimmy Page è arrivato ad un crossroad.
Nella seconda parte dell’anno o nei primi mesi del prox SI VEDRA’
se Jimmy è ancora un musicista o un pensionato miliardario che
racconta balle in giro per il mondo.
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E pensare che Mick Jagger con i Rolling Stones è ancora là fuori sui palchi americani a “sculettare”.
C’è il miliardario pensionato e il miliardario lavoratore!
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A Roma diciamo “che sola” una delusione deluxe queste ristampe…pensavo che almeno “fire” fosse pubblicata stavolta…Mi associo a bodhran manco un cent…
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Su youtube ho provato ad ascoltare in cuffia il ref mix di Hots on for nowhere (se questa campagna di remasters avesse avuto un nome io l’avrei chiamata così) , se ci sono differenze non le ho notate , almeno per ora . Sugar mama è un puro e semplice cazzeggio , però è già qualcosa . Condensando le “rarità” di questi nove bonus cd a malapena ne uscirebbe uno come si deve .
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