miles)......we already had tickets......we got to the Mobile Auditorium
about 2 hrs. early and hoped we were early enough to get somewhere close to the stage. The crowd was surely already assembling but we managed to get fairly close to some front doors. At about 5:00pm they started opening doors......I heard glass shattering from a couple of the doors that got broken from the rush of the crowd........we all ran like mad men for the stage......there was only one dude that found his spot between me and the stage edge. We all sat to claim our ground before the show began. For a solid hour there we smoked dope(we came with some of the best "Sensi-bud".....popular item in our area). The neatest thing that we all remember was that they SLOWLY dimmed the lights in the auditorium for that hour......it was almost pitch black in there at 6:00pm........all you could see was little red lights from their stage equipment and of course the "shared" weed roaming around.......a couple of exit signs. Then Bohnam started that famous intro to Rock and Roll.......the hair stood all over me..........then every flood on stage came on all at once......damn what a rush!!!!!!!........Another interesting thing that happened to us in particular was one of my buddies passed out during the show and the crowd was so tight that he couldn't fall down. We carried him out at almost the show's end........only to happen in some seats at the stage corner!!....I was looking up at Plant during the show and could almost smell him.......I remember seeing Jimmy Page's sweat drip from his chin onto the face of his guitar.............I was surely there......I would have seen them again in the Superdome......I had tickets and hotel reservations......but Plant got the news about his son when he arrived to New Orleans........that's what happened to that and the rest of that tour.
