Led Zep - Physical Graffiti 40th Anniversary next month

Posted by: Dan43 on 08 January 2015

http://www.theguardian.com/mus...of-physical-graffiti

 

From The Guardian.

 

The Led Zeppelin reissue programme continues next month with an anniversary special – the new edition of Physical Graffiti arrives on 23 February, almost exactly 40 years after the album was first released – on 24 February 1975.

 

Fans’s interest will once again be centred on the unreleased tracks on the companion disc. This time they are:

Brandy & Coke (Trampled Under Foot – initial rough mix)
Sick Again (early version)
In My Time of Dying (initial rough mix)
Houses of the Holy (rough mix with overdubs)
Everybody Makes It Through (In the Light early version/in transit)
Boogie With Stu (Sunset Sound mix)
Driving Through Kashmir (Kashmir rough orchestra mix)

Everybody Makes It Through is described as “strikingly different” to the finished version of In the Light.

 

 

Posted on: 08 January 2015 by Ron Brinsdon

Not really much in the way of extra material considering it was a double album originally. I would have liked a bonus issue of a live set such as was included on the first album in the new series - there are enough poor quality bootlegs out there, they must have some good shows tucked away!

 

While rough mixes and alternates have interest value, they rarely add much or are better than the released versions.

 

I'll still buy it though

Posted on: 08 January 2015 by Tony2011

Although a great album, Physical Graffiti is a collection of previous unreleased material. I wasn't over the moon with the remastering of the previous four albums and I'm not sure this one will be offering any truly exciting extras that it's not out there already In some form of bootleg, as Ron said. . I'm sure diehard fans will keep the "recycling" money making machine rolling.

Posted on: 08 January 2015 by Bert Schurink

I will also buy it again, but just because I think it sounds in the new mastering and in high res better. I am also one of these fans....

Posted on: 09 January 2015 by Kevin-W

I will be buying it, regardless of the merits (or not) of the remastering (although I am reasonably happy, although not over the moon, with the mastering so far).

 

What interests me are the thing (ie, the SD box) and the extra tracks, none of which, as far as I can ascertain, have appeared on bootleg  before - and I have about 300 LZ live and studio boots.

 

It's also for me the best album Zep ever released, and one of the greatest rock albums ever. It's got everything - four enormous epics in Kashmir, In My Time of Dying, In the Light and the beautiful Ten Years Gone; thick, treacly scuzz-funk like Custard Pie and Trampled Underfoot (LZ were, thanks to the JPJ-Bonzo ryhthm section, one of the funkiest bands of their era); reflective West Coast pop (Down by the Seaside), Faces-style rockers (Houses of the Holy, Night Flight); exotic textures; brilliant playing; humour; bombast; delicacy... loads of stuff really.

 

Has any mainstream band, outside of The Beatles, ever sounded as confident, demonstrated such ambition and inventiveness or so obviously enjoyed their music peregrinations in the studio?

 

Truly, Imperial Zep.

 

Price seems a bit steep though.

Posted on: 09 January 2015 by GraemeH
Originally Posted by Kevin-W:

I will be buying it, regardless of the merits (or not) of the remastering (although I am reasonably happy, although not over the moon, with the mastering so far).

 

What interests me are the thing (ie, the SD box) and the extra tracks, none of which, as far as I can ascertain, have appeared on bootleg  before - and I have about 300 LZ live and studio boots.

 

It's also for me the best album Zep ever released, and one of the greatest rock albums ever. It's got everything - four enormous epics in Kashmir, In My Time of Dying, In the Light and the beautiful Ten Years Gone; thick, treacly scuzz-funk like Custard Pie and Trampled Underfoot (LZ were, thanks to the JPJ-Bonzo ryhthm section, one of the funkiest bands of their era); reflective West Coast pop (Down by the Seaside), Faces-style rockers (Houses of the Holy, Night Flight); exotic textures; brilliant playing; humour; bombast; delicacy... loads of stuff really.

 

Has any mainstream band, outside of The Beatles, ever sounded as confident, demonstrated such ambition and inventiveness or so obviously enjoyed their music peregrinations in the studio?

 

Truly, Imperial Zep.

 

Price seems a bit steep though.

With you all the way Kevin (except the Beatles bit).

 

G

Posted on: 10 January 2015 by J.N.

The history of Led Zep remasters in terms of sound quality is lamentable. But .............. there is hope. I note that this is a Ray Staff remaster. His work on the recently re-released 'Crime of the Century' is superb.

 

It can be done.

 

John.

Posted on: 10 January 2015 by BigH47
Originally Posted by J.N.:

The history of Led Zep remasters in terms of sound quality is lamentable. But .............. there is hope. I note that this is a Ray Staff remaster. His work on the recently re-released 'Crime of the Century' is superb.

 

It can be done.

 

John.

I just hope Ray managed to keep JPs fingers out of it.

 

I'll probably not bother as they may be well overpriced and include those "rare and unreleased" cutting room floor sweep ups.

Posted on: 10 January 2015 by J.N.

Hi Howard,

 

Stuart (Gale 501) reckons that Ray Staff produced a previous 'Physical Graffiti', and JP is lending a Marshall stacks battered lug 'ole to the new (wring those Zep suckers dry) re-issues.

 

John.