Jimmy Page U.K. digital radio station Planet Rock, “I’m sure there will be some [restored] releases over the next few years. But it’s the sort of thing where we need to have a good old chat with the band, y’know. A few band meetings to discuss the ideas. So I hope so.”
And it’s not just Zeppelin’s archives that Page has his hooks into. He says he has been talking to The Yardbirds about releasing restored versions of their works. “Hopefully all of it will come out, but they haven’t heard all of the things [I have in my archives], they’ve just heard certain samples of things, and they were really thrilled with what they heard, which is cool.
“It’s all stuff that was done right in the last stages of The Yardbirds, it’s more or less almost in that last year that we had together. It’s got things that were really sort of crossover… I’m very very hopeful that it will come together.”
Page has also promised a return to new music and touring. He tells the Telegraph, “I set out an agenda for myself before I started to get into the re-releases. I thought I would be playing by now, but certain things got delayed, other things came in the way. So I’m a little bit behind… I’m looking forward to putting a project together. I want to surprise people. But whatever I do, I am going to do at my own pace, not at anybody else’s… Clearly now it’s not going to materialize until next year. That’s not that far away now!”
The last time Page was on the road was in 2000 with The Black Crowes on a bill with The Who.