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Zargus 
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Posted: July 14 2005 at 09:22 |
Yeah preety great live album but i think some of the long tracks shuld have been edited or removed completly and replaced by some shorter more intresting songs. Good no mather what, but not the best live rock album ever, thats LIVE AT LEED.
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The Walrus
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Posted: July 14 2005 at 07:40 |
 alan_pfeifer wrote:
I bought this awhile back, and still think it
is one of, if not the greatest live albums produced. The three
disc set is taken from Zep's performances and the LA Forum in either 72
or 73, I think. The songs are edited to sound like one
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I agree! I think it's the best live albums I own. I really love it!
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Cygnus X-1
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Posted: July 12 2005 at 13:22 |
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I think How the West Was Won is one of the best live album ever.
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Posted: July 11 2005 at 21:39 |
Paulieg wrote:
Gleam, Kashmir is on "How the west was Won." It's on disc two and it smokes. A song that's on here that I always wanted to see live is "Achilles last Stand." Awesome song and I believe it's the longest and the closest to prog they ever recorded. Bonham was incredible. I can see why they never recorded after he died. Jimmy Page is one of the all time great guitar players and writers of rock music. The first time I heard "Whole Lotta Love", I was blown away. Zep's one of the few non prog bands I love. Of course there's Jimi Hendrix also. Sometimes I try to imagine the music he would have written if he didn't die. What a loss. Hendrix was a writing machine. He spent most of his money, a million dollars, on building Electric Ladyland studios and just recorded 24-7. Two albums, "First rays of the new rising Sun" and "South Saturn Delta" are available with many recording that were to make his next studio release. Some songs aren't even finished but they all sound pretty awsome. What a waste of talent. |
Kashmir isn't on West. It's the DVD that has both that and Achillies' last stand. Both done quite well live.
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Posted: July 11 2005 at 21:29 |
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Bought the cd and dvd together,absolutely amazing,one of the best live albums ever.
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Posted: July 11 2005 at 21:22 |
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I like Zep's studio stuff, could never get into their live albums.
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Paulieg
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Posted: July 11 2005 at 21:21 |
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Gleam, Kashmir is on "How the west was Won." It's on disc two and it smokes. A song that's on here that I always wanted to see live is "Achilles last Stand." Awesome song and I believe it's the longest and the closest to prog they ever recorded. Bonham was incredible. I can see why they never recorded after he died. Jimmy Page is one of the all time great guitar players and writers of rock music. The first time I heard "Whole Lotta Love", I was blown away. Zep's one of the few non prog bands I love. Of course there's Jimi Hendrix also. Sometimes I try to imagine the music he would have written if he didn't die. What a loss. Hendrix was a writing machine. He spent most of his money, a million dollars, on building Electric Ladyland studios and just recorded 24-7. Two albums, "First rays of the new rising Sun" and "South Saturn Delta" are available with many recording that were to make his next studio release. Some songs aren't even finished but they all sound pretty awsome. What a waste of talent.
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RUM26
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Posted: July 11 2005 at 20:45 |
well i've heard just about every album of zep but how the west was won, i never really heard it but i never thought it was worth getting 
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Yanns
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Posted: April 25 2005 at 21:04 |
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Two of my friends both own How the West was Won, and they both highly, highly recommend it. I really want it, I'll probably be borrowing it from one of them.
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Posted: April 24 2005 at 19:32 |
"How the west was won" is far superior to "The song remains the same". Having said that, I wish they would release a live recording that encompasses "Physical Grafitti". Imagine the inclusion of "Ten years gone", Kashmir", In the light" and "custard pie
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Johnik(Genesis)
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Posted: April 21 2005 at 19:12 |
And what dear participants of a forum think of Swedish group Ritual?
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Posted: April 18 2005 at 00:32 |
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[QUOTE=WiguJimbo]I've never been a fan of those 15 min drum solos.
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Long drum solos, as a rule, are tedious... drum fills, on the other hand, are absolutely amazing... fast and complex, that's the way I like it.... not
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Posted: April 17 2005 at 17:36 |
Cygnus X-2 wrote:
Yeah, I agree. Allthough Bonham was a great drummer, I've never been a fan of those 15 min drum solos.
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If you watch the DVD that was released around the same time (summer '03), the drum solo is actually quite
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Posted: April 11 2005 at 02:31 |
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Posted: April 10 2005 at 20:03 |
WiguJimbo wrote:
I've never been a fan of those 15 min drum solos.
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Long drum solos, as a rule, are tedious... drum fills, on the other hand, are absolutely amazing... fast and complex, that's the way I like it.... not meandering and repe
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Posted: April 10 2005 at 12:19 |
tuxon wrote:
I bought them both (CD and DVD) simultaneously. Indeed both are phenomenally great albums. costed me some 90 euro, but not a stuiver was wasted on this |
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Posted: April 09 2005 at 18:21 |
I thought the DVD was absolutely excellent. I couldn't believe they got that entire first disc on film! Oh man, how awesome it would be to have been there....... 
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Posted: April 02 2005 at 01:34 |
[QUOTE=alan_pfeifer] Featuring many classic Zeppelin songs, as well as a 25 minute Dazed and Confused and a 23 Minute Whole Lotta Love, How the West was Won is an amazing picture of one of the greatest Rock and Roll bands to ever exsist, and I stron
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Posted: April 01 2005 at 06:26 |
Cygnus X-2 wrote:
I like it a lot, but I find some of the songs to get boring in the middle (Dazed and Confused, Moby Dick). Otherwise, it's a very fulfilling experience. |
Yeah, I agree. Allthough Bonham was a great drummer, I've never
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Posted: March 31 2005 at 20:26 |
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I like it a lot, but I find some of the songs to get boring in the middle (Dazed and Confused, Moby Dick). Otherwise, it's a very fulfilling experience.
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