Jimmy Page can tell you exactly when he will become a solo artist again: on August 2nd, right after the Led Zeppelin guitarist concludes his year-long deluxe reissues of the band's studio albums with the July 31st release of expanded editions of 1976's Presence, 1979's In Through the Out Door and the 1982 compilation, Coda. On August 1st, "I'll wipe my brow, lay in bed and read the paper," Page says with a grin in a New York hotel room. The next day, "I'll pick up the guitar, and I won't stop from that point on.
"I've got new material," he insists. "I've played guitar in so many different styles, and I want to revisit them all." Page says that "the focus and energies I have been putting into this other stuff" ? including 2012's Celebration Day, the album and DVD from Zeppelin's 2007 reunion concert, and Sound Tracks, a recent four-disc set of Page's Seventies and Eighties music for films ? "meant that I couldn't play guitar or get involved in a project, then keep breaking away to do this. Now it's time."
