HOW SOFT YOUR FIELDS SO GREEN
CAN WHISPER TALES OF GORE
OF HOW WE CALMED
THE TIDES OF WAR
WE ARE YOUR OVERLORDS
How the West Was Won
is a live
triple album
by the English
rock group
released by
Atlantic Records
on compact disc on
May 27th 2003,
DVD-Audio
on
October 7th 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
(June 25th 1972)
and
Long Beach Arena
(June 27 1972).
Background 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,
recordings of these
two shows
circulated only in
the form of bootlegs,
such as
Burn Like a Candle.
Though soundboard recordings
of Led Zeppelin concerts
were circulated
among fans
after being stolen
from Page's
personal archive
in the mid-1980s,
no such versions
of the 1972
Long Beach
or
LA Forum shows
were taken,
meaning
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 Kevin Shirley
and Page
at SARM West Studios
in London
before being released
on the album
."It wasn't in our thoughts
to try and outdo
The Song Remains the Same…"
remarked engineer
Kevin Shirley.
"The reason those performances
still stand up now is
because Jimmy really
was a genius.
He could create tempests,
summon storms.
He really was the master
of light and shade.
And the musicians around him
allowed him to
flesh out that vision.
Especially
John Bonham,
without whom Jimmy
and Zeppelin would
never have been able
to do what They did
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