Led Zeppelin - How the West Was Won (2003)

Led Zeppelin - How the West Was Won (2003)

Tracklist front / back album covers

Disc one

1. "LA Drone"   0:14

2. "Immigrant Song"   3:42

3. "Heartbreaker"   7:25

4. "Black Dog"   5:41

5. "Over the Hills and Far Away"   5:08

6. "Since I've Been Loving You"   8:02

7. "Stairway to Heaven"   9:38

8. "Going to California"   5:37

9. "That's the Way"   5:54

10. "Bron-Y-Aur Stomp"   4:55

Disc two

1. "Dazed and Confused"   25:25

"Walter's Walk"

"The Crunge"

"What Is and What Should Never Be"   4:41

3. "Dancing Days"   3:42

4. "Moby Dick"   19:20

Disc three

1. "Whole Lotta Love"

"Boogie Chillun"

"Let's Have a Party"

"Hello Mary Lou" (omitted from 2018 reissue)

"Going Down Slow"   23:07

2. "Rock and Roll"   3:56

3. "The Ocean"   4:21

4. "Bring It On Home"

"Bring It On Back"   9:30

Total length:   150:27

The DVD-Audio version of the album has tracks 1–11 on disc one with tracks 12–18 on disc two. It features the whole album in 24bit/48 kHz for both 5.1 and Stereo.

The Blu-Ray Audio version of the albums has all tracks on one disc. It features the whole album in 24-bit/96kHz DTS-Master Audio 5.1, as well as two stereo tracks (PCM and DTS-MA).

The 4 LP version of the album has tracks 1–4 on Side A, tracks 5, 12 & 13 on Side B, track 6 & 7 on Side C, track 8–10 on Side D, tracks 11, 14 & 15 on Sides E, F & G respectively, and tracks 16–18 on Side H

The medley omitting "Hello Mary Lou" has a runtime of 20:59 in the 2018 reissue.

 

Led Zeppelin Band Members / Musicians

Robert Plant – vocals, harmonica

Jimmy Page – guitars, mandolin

John Paul Jones – bass guitar, double bass, bass pedals, keyboards, mandolin, backing vocals

John Bonham – drums, percussion, backing vocals, co-lead vocals on "Bron-Yr-Aur Stomp"

Jim Cummins – photography

James Fortune – photography

Drew Griffiths – sound assistant

Ross Halfin – package creative consultant

Eddie Kramer – engineering

Phil Lemon – design, artwork

Jeffrey Mayer – photography

Michael Putland – photography

Kevin Shirley – engineering, mixing

John Davis – mastering (2018 reissue)

How the West Was Won is a live triple album by the English rock group Led Zeppelin, released by Atlantic Records on compact disc on 27 May 2003, DVD-Audio on 7 October 2003 and Blu-Ray Audio in 2018. The recordings are taken from two 1972 performances in California during their tour of North America: L.A. Forum (25 June 1972) and Long Beach Arena (27 June 1972).

Guitarist Jimmy Page considers Led Zeppelin at this point to have been at their artistic peak, as is mentioned in the album's liner notes and in an interview he gave to The Times newspaper in 2010.

For many years, live recordings of these two shows only circulated in the form of bootlegs, and even then only certain audience recordings were available to fans and collectors (for example, Burn Like a Candle). Though several soundboard recordings of Led Zeppelin concerts were circulated amongst fans after having been stolen from Page's personal archive some time in the mid-1980s, no soundboards of the 1972 Long Beach or LA Forum shows were taken, meaning the release of How the West Was Won was the first chance fans had of hearing the soundboard versions of these concerts. The songs from the two shows underwent extensive editing and audio engineering by Page at Sarm West Studios in London before being released on the album.

The album was remastered and reissued on 23 March 2018 in many formats, including 3CD, 4LP, Blu-Ray Audio and a Super Deluxe Edition box set.