The wait is over. How the West Was Won is a three-CD set recorded during a 1972 California swing, and it captures Zep in prime swagger, fresh off their masterpiece, Led Zeppelin IV, with Houses of ...

”How the West Was Won,” along with ”Led Zeppelin DVD,” shatters the walls of that enclosure, and the band storms out, playing music that is both of its time and timeless, as accessible and ...

Chiefly, How the West Was Won serves up the band's muscle, sweaty heart and golden grandeur in an exhaustingly persuasive light. That, and a hundred of the best riffs you've ever heard.