How the West Was Won

I missed this when it first came out in 2003 so I can't compare the sound, but this remastered version sounds remarkably good! Kudos to Eddie Kramer, who made the original June 1972 recordings, to Kevin Shirley and Drew Griffiths who engineered the 2003 release, to John Davis who did the 2017 mastering, and to Jimmy Page who supervised! Sadly I never caught Led Zeppelin live, though I saw many of the classic rock greats in Chicago from 1973-1976, so for me this is an opportunity to hear what I missed. The highlights are the medleys on "Dazed and Confused" (25:25) and "Whole Lotta Love" (20:59). It's also fascinating to hear the live version of "Stairway to Heaven" and note which parts stay the same and which are changed from the classic studio version. "The Crunge," "Dancing Days" and "The Ocean" appear prior to their studio versions on "Houses of the Holy" nearly a year later. While the live recording is quite impressive, I have to say it makes me appreciate Jimmy Page's studio wizardry even more. With the endless possibilities for layering, overdubbing, and the use of extra musicians, the studio recordings are richer and more well-rounded. What we have here is a stripped-down sound, and it is more obvious that this is a Cream-style trio with vocalist. What becomes quite interesting is how Page on guitar and Jones on keyboards create a variety of sounds that go part of the way toward the Vision embodied in the studio. Page and Plant have long been adamant that Zeppelin was not metal, and what comes across clearly in this live performance is how true that is -- good old early rock 'n' roll was prominent in their sound, far from the later metal with the "roll" taken out, and of course there are prominent elements of blues and folk as well. This makes a great addition to the collection of remastered Zeppelin albums that Jimmy Page has overseen!

I should begin by saying I did not own the full album before buying this CD/MP3, so I can't compare it to the previous mastering. However, I am absolutely in love with this album. Led Zeppelin sounds amazing in terms of their performance here, but the sheer sound of this album is impeccable. It's hard to believe this was recorded in 1972, because it sounds like it was just recorded yesterday. It's so crisp and clear. The track listing is great, and there are no faults with the band's performance or the audio quality as far as I can tell. I think this is the definitive Led Zeppelin live album. It is just so enjoyable from start to finish. Even though I'm giving this 5 stars, there may be a couple of drawbacks for some people. For some strange reason, "Hello Mary Lou" from the original release was omitted from the "Whole Lotta Love" medley. I don't think anyone wants to feel like they are getting LESS from an album they are potentially buying for the second time, so I'm puzzled why this was done. Also, if you are unfamiliar with Led's live performances and aren't really into jamming, you may get annoyed with this. A good portion of this album is filled with lengthy guitar solos, medleys, and long jams rather than straightfoward songs, perhaps you should think twice before buying this. I personally don't mind it, as I could probably listen to Jimmy Page improvise for ten hours non-stop and I'd still think it was the greatest thing ever put to tape. It just depends on what you really want to get out of a live album.

Jimmy Page produced this Blu-ray audio remaster and it sounds phenomenal! I recently bought this for one to share with my old buddies, one who is a total Zep head, as I had hosted a listening party at my home to showcase my surround sound system as I had recently made an upgrade to an Oppo BDO-105 player. To many Zeppelin fans this will even sound better than the DVD-Audio release from years back. Yes sadly Blu-Ray audio is yet another dead format in high resolution audio but this releases prove it can still have plenty of life and at a great price point too. As for the music you are completely enthralled sonically with the music and vocals it really can't sound any betterthan this...well unless you have a DAC recording of this one. I would be curious to read other reviews of folks who have done that with this stellar recording. What is noteworthy of this disc is the softer songs, such as Going to California and That's the Way, which reveal a luscious and intimate clarity that shows you how well versed the hammer of the gods could be. If you prefer the former than crank it up as John Bottom's thunderous drumming and John Paul Jones's exceptional bass playing will push you into joyous rock n roll rapture, complimenting the most famous duo ever in rock.

Exquisite Live Versions This live version of How The West Was Won by Led Zeppelin (Live) (Remastered) definitely has that live concert quality to it, which makes it beneficial to have at least listened to some songs from Led Zeppelin prior to hearing this live concert version though for me the purchase was well worth it as both the singing and instruments during the live sets recorded are solid performances. I admit that I am very late to the listening of the Led Zeppelin party as it was only after 2010 when I first became aware of the group’s music through their popular Whole Lotta love song and after around 2015 when I heard both Stairway to Heaven and Heartbreaker. Why I enjoy listening to the Heartbreaker song including the live version is a mystery to me as I have a blessed love life/loving marriage with my husband and I know full well that the song sounds like it is about a female version of a womanizer. There are a multiple number of live songs included in this collection that come out superb even in this edition as well which makes the purchase well worth it such as; Over The Hills and Far Away, Black Dog, Dancing Days, The Ocean, Bring It On Home and more. It is also important to have an open mind to listening to eclectic forms of music as some of these classic rock songs are creatively melded with the influence of blues music and other musical genres/sounds.

After listening to all of Led Zeppelin's live material, it seems like 1971 was the final year where Robert Plant was still able to sing all of his earlier songs just as well as he did in the studio. Disc 2 of their BBC Sessions live album is a great example of this, recorded in January 1971, months before their legendary 4th album (Zoso) was released. However, by 1972 when this live album was recorded, only a year later, you can notice a slow but steady deterioration in Robert Plant's vocal abilities. Stairway to Heaven (disc 1, track 7) is a great example of this. Robert Plant sounds great throughout most of the song, but when he gets to the climax (“And as we wind on down the road…”), he completely butchers the song. Not only does his voice crack several times, but Plant struggles so much with his vocals that he even brings it down an octave, and it completely minimizes the overall impact of the song. It’s almost painful to listen to. Plant also does that a little bit on “Since I’ve Been Loving You”, although he sounds a lot better on that track than on “Stairway.” The only other track that I feel could’ve been better on Plant’s part is “Dazed and Confused”, but as with “Since I’ve Been Loving You”, he still sounds better than on “Stairway.” In fact, he sounds great on the rest of the album. His most notable tracks are “Immigrant Song”, “Heartbreaker”, “Over the Hills and Far Away” (he sounds just like the studio recording), “Dancing Days”, “What Is and What Should Never Be”, “Bring It On Home”, “Whole Lotta Love” and all of the acoustic songs on the latter half of disc 1 As for the rest of the band, they all sound spot-on. They always sound great on any live album I’ve ever heard by them. This album contains some of the best guitar work that I’ve ever heard from Jimmy Page. The music alone makes buying this album completely worth it. If you’re a true Zeppelin fan, as I am, this is an album you must own. I highly recommend it.

I received my package yesterday from Amazon and got to listen to both sides of album 1 and side B1 on album 2. The sound was spectacular and the 180 g LPs feel like quality LPs. There were no pops or scratches in what I listened to, the four album set was packaged very well and securely, and they even packaged the box containing the four album set inside of another box for a more added protection. One thing was kind of strange. The albums were not in order and album 2 was the first album and then album 1 was the second album. I wondered at first if it might be a return that I got because that has happened a few times lately with Amazon purchases of brand new products. But either way, everything seems to be in tip-top shape so far, the sound is definitely better than the DVD-A I bought when this was a new release in 2017, and all of the LPs are stored inside of a box to hold them and protect them. It appeared everything was shipped very carefully, and like I keep saying, the sound is really stellar and it's a high quality product / release on the LPs. The price was not bad either considering what a lot of other sellers are selling This four album set for in both new and used conditions. This is a superb 1972 performance from Led Zeppelin taken from two different nights on their June 1972 Los Angeles concert dates. They actually had more concert dates to choose from in the LA shows but the two shows the audio was taken from really sound incredible. Now, all I have to do is do a 96 kHz / 24-bit rip to my PC and I'm going to do that today as I start over and listen from the beginning. I'm very happy with the product and how Amazon got it here one day after I bought it.

La calidad del empaque (edición USA) deja mucho que desear... el digipack es un cartón económico y brillante, al igual que el booklet hecho de un papel couche barato, y es una lástima porque el material fotográfico es bueno pero el papel lo arruina. Para ser una producción de 3 Cd's debieron usar bandejas acrílicas. En cuanto al sonido, los primeros 4 tracks se escuchan opacos pero mejora al avanzar. La música por otro lado es sublime, un testimonio de lo increiblemente buenos que eran los Led Zeppelin en vivo.

It’s Zeppelin, I can’t add more than that! The cd is fine.

good album

In assoluto la miglior performance dal vivo di tutta la loro discografia,non per niente tra in 1969e il 1973 è il loro periodo d'oro. Sono in possesso di molti live degli Zeppelin ufficiali e no....ma questo è il migliore. Ottima registrazione audio e una scaletta dei brani favolosa.

“How the West Was Won” by El Zeppelino was released by Atlantic Records May 2003 but these performances from the 1972 tour were preserved for us all by devoted bootleggers – we thank them- with beaucoup transmodulation of the two shows by Jimmy hisself years later when he borrowed the tapes. We’re talking Pro-Rodeo, defined. And these cowboys got a extraspecial reception whenever they played the Inglewood Forum LA to millions all the way till ’77, last ever shows in the US. And that’s what we’re talkingbout here, a Mack Rawhide Mid-Rise 18 wheeler live on the blacktop in ‘72 entirely at the Forum (mostly) and Long Beach on June 25/27 spliced up as one entire set. We’re talking munitions. We’re talking weaponry, bombardment, artillery, warfare. Storm Trooper Assault. We’re talking military grade rock musik built to combat specifications, high tensile and compressive strengths, hardness, and loudness of Thor. Tactical Military Academy Of Musik, lessons 1 thru 100. Mayhem begins with the LA Drone, and suddenly its Immigrant Song: time rewinds, we’re back in some kinda mezolithic slaughterhouse scenario. We’re talking the best ever signature hammer-motif since “Ride of The Valyrie” 2000 years previous. It’s immediately plain , Jimmy, JPJ and Lil Drummer Boy Demento Diablo go super nova, so yu just gotta wait for the guitar solo to find out that Jimmy’s on fire tonight, nails it, no fingers stuck in strings ce soir, he rips a solo of electrocuting voltage and penetration so now we know fersure, the whole band in a frenzy, primers in the C4. What was it with Jimmy that made him a panchromatic silver surfer astronaut guitarist of the entire universe? Just note this though: at Madison Square Gardens on February 12th 1975 during “Over The Hills And Far Away” Jimmy went and played a top 5 greatest ever electrik guitar solo in all of human history, like that was Jimmy’s destiny, to do that thing that night in NYC. Check it someplace. Anyway, back at the LA Forum, El Zeppolino kick up a wild cherokee mustang storm, tornado style, and reach the limits of human endurance. It’s a highspeed 43 vehicle expressway pile-up in powerchords, whiplash deluxe & non-stop axonal damage. Jimmy plays in Mode 9 throughout on a 25 stringed Dali guitar that bends time and scientists do say it proves the theory of relativity twice, 3 times if you count quickly and he executes six consecutive quark-hadron transitions, Fender style. Which can be represented mathematically as: G -> H -> ... -> SU(3) x SU(2) x U(1) -> SU(3) x U(1). Lil Johnny Demento hammers reee-lentlessly in devil-child kamikaze triplet grenades, mambo percussion juju-jojimbo, a neutron pulse pile-driver rhythm machine like 6 drummers with barracuda bass locked in tight. And Lancelot still had most of his screeching powers intact in 1972 so he sounds like one entire choir of screechers. Then you git “Dazed and Confused” – brief by later standards at a mere 25 minutes- and what can you say? – beaucoup boyz n girls tried to write theyselves a Dazed n Confused but nobody ever came close, this is perfected and extended rock music rodeo, mission statement, definitive. And it just goes on and on continuitously till they used up the entire Greater Los Angeles electricity supply 16 hours later. Blackout. Whole deal is a show of force, power, extreme prejudice. Once, in “Rock n Roll” Johnny Demento Diablo hits his drums so hard, you’d swear he’s cracked the space-time continuum permanent. Makes you sit bolt upright. We’re talking Solid Gold, Magna Cum Laudae - 1 of the 5 top supreme live Pro-Rodeo performances of all time. No simulations, no props, no CGI, no net, total commitment to the cause and they done it for real. Nobody else ever came close. Check it right now.

Led Zeppelin em seu auge. Bela edição tripla em CD digipack.

Nothing I can say but Led Zeppelin Live at their prime, amazing remastering by Jimmy and this recording POUNDS my audio system hard! Rawer and not as polished as Song Remains the Same and thats a very good thing. Fast delivery.