How The West Was Won - Live 1972 3 CD Remastered - Digipak

Live document, song collection, time travel

A milestone in a new guise: With "How The West Was Won" Led Zeppelin re-release their legendary live recording in 2018, completely remastered and for the first time ever also on vinyl.

"How The West Was Won" gathers concert recordings of the band from June 25th and 27th 1972 at the Los Angeles Forum and the Long Beach Arena. For 30 years, these recordings were only illegal bootlegs until they were officially released in 2003. Now none other than Jimmy Page took care of the recordings once again.

The album contains a total of 18 tracks, including classics like "Stairway To Heaven" and "What Is And What Should Never Be", a more than 25-minute version of "Dazed And Confused" and a 23-minute medley of "Whole Lotta Love", "Boogie Chillun", "Let's Have a Party", "Hello Mary Lou" and "Going Down Slow".

Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones and John Bonham also played songs at the two gigs, which only appeared nine months later on the album "Houses Of The Holy": "Over The Hills And Far Away", "Dancing Days" and "The Ocean".

The remastered "How The West Was Won" is now available as Blu-ray Audio, as a 3-CD set, as a 4-LP set and as a Super Deluxe box set. This contains the album on three CDs and on four LPs as well as a DVD of the album in Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound and PCM stereo with additional photo gallery. In addition, there is a download card for all stereo audio in a resolution of 96 kHz/24 bit, a book with rare and sometimes never shown photos and a print of the original cover, the first 30,000 copies of which are individually numbered.

A special live document, a great collection of songs, a musical journey through time. The rock legends Led Zeppelin present "How The West Was Won" in a new sound.

Reviews

"That Jimmy Page the remastering personally, is when re-evaluating Led Zeppelin publications now common practice. The Concerts document Led Zeppelin in their peak phase: with thick eggs, rather hard and with an excellent song selection." (Good Times, April / May 2018)

"It sounds good, intoxicating, intoxicating, sometimes psychedelically epic in length. A neighbor's fright." (stereoplay, May 2018)

"This skilfully compiled recording from two concerts is definitely the most energetic, virtuoso, passionate and entertaining of the hard rock kings." (Audio, June 2018)