Coda Is Remastered And Set Free

I could never figure out why musicians and movie directors re-release what's already been made famous. Then Jimmy Page put it into perspective. What the artist hears in the studio at creation is never what listeners pick up. Because of modern technology the music that shaped our lives is much closer to the way it escaped the artist. Jimmy Page talks about Coda. Jimmy Page talking about the year-long Zeppelin campaign to reissue all nine of the bands studio albums. Page tells us that three final releases contain "twice as much studio material as there originally was because it's such an important world, the recording world of Led Zeppelin." In looking back at the entire project, Page says, "It's just been so cool to be able to now have so many gems that you've never heard. There's never been any bootlegs of these things. They've just been really, really carefully kept and I'm really pleased I did that, that they didn't all escape, and it gave a chance to be able to put these things into context at the time when these things were recorded." Presence has five unreleased reference mixes from the sessions, along with alternate versions of "For Your Life," "Achilles Last Stand" and "Royal Orleans," plus the the previously unheard instrumental "10 Ribs and All/Carrot Pod Pod (Pod)." The companion disc that comes with In Through the Out Door supplies rough mixes 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"). Coda, an album of outtakes compiled after the death of John Bonham in 1980, comes with two companion discs containing 15 tracks recorded between 1968 and 1974. The oldest song is a blues jam called "Sugar Mama," recorded in 1968 at Olympic Studios during sessions for the band's self-titled debut. "Baby Come on Home" from the same session is also included, along with the previously unreleased "St. Tristan's Sword," an instrumental recorded during the Led Zeppelin 3 sessions in 1970. Also on Coda is the 1972 performance of Jimmy and Robert Plant with the Bombay Orchestra doing "Friends" and "Four Hands" ("Four Sticks" from Led Zeppelin 4). Rounding out the collection are an early version of "When the Levee Breaks" titled "If it Keeps on Raining"; rough mixes of "The Wanton Song" and "In the Light" from the Physical Graffiti sessions; and an instrumental mix of "Poor Tom" from 1970.