GOOD NEWS FOR ZEP FANS



Perhaps to create anticipation for that rumored summer tour (???), Led Zeppelin will be releasing a live triple-CD and a DVD:

To celebrate the thirty-fifth anniversary of Led Zeppelin's formation, Atlantic Records will release two exhaustive sets of Zeppelin rare live material on May 27th. The two collections -- one triple CD called How the West Was Won and one double DVD called Led Zeppelin DVD -- feature no overlapping material, and promise to render the band's only other official live set, the uninspired The Song Remains the Same, obsolete.

How the West Was Won is culled entirely from two 1972 Zeppelin shows in Southern California: one at the L.A. Forum on June 25th and one at Long Beach Arena two nights later. The set features a twenty-six-minute "Dazed and Confused," a twenty-three-minute "Whole Lotta Love," "Rock and Roll," and "Stairway to Heaven," as well as songs from the then-yet-to-be-released Houses of the Holy.

Yay, 1972, before Robert Plant lost his range! And presumably before Jimmy Page began to rival Keith Richards in the heroin-stream department.

Though I'm curious, wasnt The BBC Sessions essentially a live album? (double album) If so, it kicks TSRTS's ass around the schoolyard. But ooh, 26minute DAC, wow!