LED ZEPPELIN – Release New ‘Whole Lotta Love’ Video

As a teaser for the June 3 deluxe reissues of LED ZEPPELIN’s first three albums, the band has released a new video for the alternate version of 1969’s “Whole Lotta Love”, which is featured on the “Led Zeppelin II” set. The track was among a handful of unreleased versions of legendary tunes Jimmy Page previewed earlier this month in a New York City listening session for the press. Page said in a statement announcing the new video, “You can see how songs grow. There must have been five or six other takes of that, which are not present. So the shaping of these things is very interesting and you can hear with this particular version that we haven’t quite reached the point yet, and that it’s very, very close.”

Bassist John Paul Jones said of the newly unearthed take: “‘Whole Lotta Love’ must have been very early on its life, so it probably hadn’t developed into the juggernaut that it became in later years. But it’s fresher, I think.”

Robert Plant added: “This version of ‘Whole Lotta Love’ is the mix down from the night that we recorded it, so it doesn’t have any of the overdubs that everyone will be familiar with, because when they hear this they’ll think, ‘Oh yeah, that’s the original’ and all of a sudden they’ll go, ‘No, it’s not.'”

The five-minute “Whole Lotta Love” video, which contains a montage of archival footage from various LED ZEPPELIN performances, can be seen HERE.

Coming on June 3 will be deluxe editions of LED ZEPPELIN’s first three albums: “Led Zeppelin”, “Led Zeppelin II” and “Led Zeppelin III”. The launch of the reissue program, which is being led by Jimmy Page, includes the band opening “its vaults to share dozens of unheard studio and live recordings, with each album featuring a second disc of companion audio comprised entirely of unreleased music related to that album.”

The albums are being issued in six different versions — the Super Deluxe Box; Deluxe Edition; Deluxe Edition Vinyl; Single CD; Original Album Vinyl; and Digital Download.

Source: Blabbermouth.net

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