How the West Was Won

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.

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

Best live album ever!

This is an awesome live album. Recorded while on their 1972 tour, Led Zeppelin was white hot in these two performances from Long Beach Arena and their personal favorite American venue, the LA Forum. Now Zeppelin can lay claim to the mantle of one of Rock's greatest live acts with this three CD set. The Rolling Stones own live recording from their '69 tour "Get Yer Ya Ya's Out!" (a great album really) seems almost stiff in comparison. The nearest competitor is The Who's own "Live at Leeds" and even Townsend and company weren't as explosive as Led Zeppelin. Page, Plant, Jones and Bonham had a telepathy that borders on the scary. Musically, they could reach each other's minds and the results were bold explorations. Page himself once said that the songs on their albums are really going to take off on stage. "It's the bud that's going to blossom onstage," he said. "Like it or not, it's a fact about Zep." Yet while Zeppelin experimented with their songs, lengthening them and launched off on rave ups, somehow, they never changed the originals tempo. In short, a song like "Whole Lotta Love" would still retain it's menacing riff though the band was well known to use it for their rock and roll medleys and later, incorporating a scorching version of "You Need Love" (like at Knebworth on the DVD). In short, the band was able to maintain the difficult balance of pleasing the audience, but they were also able to please themselves as well. "Houses of the Holy" is some months distant, but that didn't stop the band from including "Over the Hills and Far Away" and "Dancing Days" into their set. One can only wonder what the audience was thinking, hearing these songs for the first time in their lives. Oh, to have been there! Led Zeppelin. A Great Band. How the West Was Won. A Great CD. Buy it.

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“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.

Excellent product. Amazing sound.

素晴らしいです。(泣) 何故、余り知られていない。 Blu-rayのコンサートは有名ですが、儲かるからか？ もちろんDVDやBlu-rayのソフトも大事だが、このリマスターされたCDは買う価値がある。 ディープ・パープルのLIVE in Japan 位のインパクトはあります。 とにかく良すぎます！

Lp vinyl. Lo mejor. Excelente álbum, excelente audio y excelente presentación