![]() I went with my high school girlfriend, and we went with my best friend and his girlfriend,” he said. Attendance of close to 11,000 also was claimed for an Elvis concert that year. ![]() But 11,000 doesn’t seem impossible, given the band and the era. It’s usually described as a 10,000-seat venue, and the capacity can be less depending on the staging of a given event. This might - What’s the name of this place?” It sounds as if he might be teasing, and he goes on to pronounce Mobile correctly.)Įberlein said tickets were $5 and the show was sold out for a crowd of 11,000 – which would mean that the Municipal Auditorium, now known as the Mobile Civic Center, would have been absolutely slam-packed. So I’ve just finished me bacon and egg and here we are. Good evening! It seems so early, really, to do a concert, you know? ‘Cause we only got out of bed about 2:30. (At the 45:30 mark, after the last notes of “No Quarter” die away, Robert Plant says: “Thank you. When they killed the house lights, you could see it was daylight out in the parking lot.” “When the concert started it was still bright daylight outside. “The interesting thing about the concert was it was on a Sunday and it was started at 6 o’clock in the evening,” Eberlein said. Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Bonham and John Paul Jones had released five albums by the time they hit Mobile and were, many fans would say, at the height of their powers. I was able to work with all the tunes on Led Zeppelin I when I was in the eighth and ninth grade.” And there was actually an incredible book of sheet music for the album. “And when Led Zeppelin I came out, a friend of my parents gave me the album. “I’ve always been a guitar player from the time I was 6 years old,” he said. ![]() By the time that show came around, he was well on his way to a career as a guitarist on the Mobile scene. When Eberlein says “any music before or since,” he’s talking about a lot.
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