Jimmy Page Planning First Solo Album in 30 Years

Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page says he's planning a new solo album. 

Page last released a solo album in 1988. In recent years the guitarist has been concentrating on remastering and reissuing Led Zeppelin albums with bonus material from his vault.

Page told Rolling Stone that his next solo album will manifest as "a sort of album somewhere."

The guitarist says he expects the new music to explore some of the rock, heavy metal, folk, bluegrass and blues territory he covered while in Led Zeppelin. 

"I'm looking forward to doing whatever the project is," Page said. "But if you think about all the areas that I've attempted, guitar, whether it's acoustic or electric or whatever, all the different approaches that I've done, it's just gonna be an extension of all of that, and that's it. So it's not just acoustic, it's not just electric, it's everything I can muster up."

The majority of the Rolling Stone interview focused on Zeppelin's Physical Graffiti double album, which Page has remastered.

Page's last solo album, Outrider, featured Jason Bonham on drums, and former Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant on one song.

The guitarist did not elaborate on when the new material would see the light of day or with whom he would be collaborating.

Plant recently said "it's not even in my countenance to imagine" recording with Page again.

This year will mark Led Zeppelin's 50th anniversary. While Plant has repeatedly ruled out any kind of reunion onstage or in the studio, although he did concede that he would probably get together with Page and bassist John Paul Jones to celebrate.

"And not only will it be 50 years, but it'll be, next year, 38 years since [drummer John Bonham] passed away," Plant told The Current. "And the great thing about Led Zeppelin was that we didn't chronicle ourselves; we just kind of went from town to town and sang songs and played guitars and stuff and then went about our lives."

Last fall, Plant released his eleventh solo album, Carry Fire. 

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