How The West Was Won - Led Zeppelin ***** (Atlantic) Another Led Zep compilation, how many does one man need, well I've got about ten so far. This is a triple cd live recording made over three nights in June '72 at the Long Beach Arena. Back in the days when rock stars really were stars, when they knew how to play their instruments, when fear, fire or common sense couldn't stop a guitar riff or a drum solo, case in point Moby Dick, Bonham starts his drum solo fairly early in the track, I left the room, had a cup of coffee, made a phone call or two, came back ten minutes later and the man is still going strong, twenty minutes later he stops (I think Robert Plant had left the stadium for a fish supper and Bonham was filling time until he got back). Moby Dick though isn't even the longest track on the album, a whopping 23 minutes of Whole Lotta Love fill most of cd3, whilst you have to set aside most of the morning if you want to listen to the elongated version of Dazed and Confused at 2 hours 34 mins. Do you need this album ? Haven't you got enough Led Zep already ? Will you buy any old crap featuring Page and Plant (J has accused me of this in the past) ? Erm, yes, no and yes respectively, four hour versions of Battle Of Evermore with harpsichord solo, I'll buy that. I was kidding about the length of Dazed by the way, they managed to get it just under half an hour.