Guitarist Jimmy Page, 70, has spent two-and-a-half years combing through the vaults, listening to hundreds of quarter-inch tapes before choosing the best material. I kind of overcooked it.” 
 
 But his enthusiasm for the work still shines through: “It was a particularly prolific time, where we were learning about each other’s capabilities. "Jimmy and I were just fooling around with the stuff that we would play at home. We were just trying things out. Nothing was premeditated.” 
 
 And he offers firm advice for any would-be listeners: “These things aren’t to study. And he told BBC News that the unvarnished version of a song like “Whole Lotta Love” made him aware of how much work the band put into the fine polish and extra guitars and vocals to really make it fly: “You realize just how important all of those additional layers and the filigree work is. “There’s all manner of bells and whistles to make it the song ‘Whole Lotta Love’ as we all know it.” 
 
 That said, it’s not as if laying the songs bare has exposed an essential weakness in their sound: “It’s undeniable that we’re good,” he said. “The band was the real deal.” 
 
 For Robert Plant, it has been a slightly different experience, in that there are a lot of things he rather wishes he had done differently: “My enthusiasm sometimes got in the way of finesse. I listen to it and go, wow, why didn't I shut up a bit?" They’re to turn up very loud and say, hey, once upon at time, everything was just as easy as this.” 
 
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– Led Zeppelin is reissuing its first three albums in June, but ahead of that comes a little more love for fans. Actually, it's a "Whole Lotta Love" and "Keys to the Highway"—previously unreleased versions that Jimmy Page culled from the band's vault in a two-year labor of love. "I don't want to die and have somebody else do it," he tells the BBC, which has clips of the songs. "I'm authoritative about what was done in the first place," and the new music "deserves to be heard." "Keys to the Highway" was recorded in 1970, in what Robert Plant calls "a particularly prolific time where we were learning about each other's capabilities. Jimmy and I were just fooling around." The "Whole Lotta Love" track is an early version—missing some vocals, slide guitar, the middle section, and first chorus—which makes one "realize just how important all of those additional layers and the filigree work is" in the final track, Plant says. He adds a pretty frank assessment of his own skills at the time: "My enthusiasm sometimes got in the way of finesse. I listen to it and go, wow, why didn't I shut up a bit? I kind of overcooked it." He's equally blunt about any chance of a reunion: "Zero" chance, says he. Still, the new tracks alone are cause for celebration, writes Fraser McAlpine at the Anglophenia blog. "For fans of Led Zeppelin, there’s no such thing as too many remasterings and reswizzlings of those classic albums."