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Track Time |
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DISC 1:
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L.A. Drone
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Immigrant Song
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Heartbreaker
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Black Dog
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Over The Hills And Far Away
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Since I've Been Loving You
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Stairway To Heaven
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Going To California
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That's The Way
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Bron-Y-Aur Stomp
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DISC 2:
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Dazed And Confused
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What Is And What Should Never Be
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Dancing Days
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Moby Dick
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DISC 3:
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Whole Lotta Love (Medley)
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Rock And Roll
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Ocean, The
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Bring It On Home
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Editorial Notes
Led Zeppelin: Robert Plant (vocals); Jimmy Page (guitar); John Paul
Jones (keyboards, bass); John Bonham (drums).
Recorded at Los Angeles Forum, Los Angeles, California and Long
Beach Area, Long Beach, California on June 25 & 27, 1972.
In the course of putting together the live Led Zeppelin DVD for
2003 release, Jimmy Page came across some great concert recordings
from the band's 1972 stint in California. HOW THE WEST WAS WON is
three discs' worth of vintage Zep, far superior to the band's only
other live album THE SONG REMAINS THE SAME. Here is the fearsome
foursome in all their glory and fury, coming off like crazed rock
& roll Vikings on the opening "Immigrant Song," reinventing the
blues form on "Heartbreaker," and just plain rocking the doors off
the joint on "Rock and Roll" and "Black Dog."
This being 1972, the band had made its journey into the folk-rock
realm as well, and come out with the touching "Going to California"
and "That's the Way," the earthy "Bron-Yr-Aur Stomp," and the
minstrel-in-the-hills fancy of "Over the Hills and Far Away," all
of which are given strong voice here. A 25-minute "Dazed and
Confused" and epic-length drum solo on the John Bonham feature
"Moby Dick" show that Zep was unafraid to venture into anything
they damn well pleased, but the bluesy grit and primal hard-rock
crunch of their feel throughout this collection reveals the pure
visceral magic of which these '70s icons were capable.
Format: Compact Disc
Released Date: May 27, 2003
Genre: British Folk Rock
Style: Pop/Rock
Number of Discs: 3
Stereo/Mono: Stereo
Studio/Mixed/Live: Live
Originally Released: 2003
Label Name: Atlantic
UPC: 075678358722
