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Great job. Brought me back to that night. Sometimes I fear there will never be something as good as that Airplane > MD&E at Lockn

Couldn't agree more. I think those are the sets that are going to distinguish the Lockn' crowds in coming years. While all the noobs are at Lockn' '24 are freaking out about the exciting new exclusive Lockn' collaboration, there'll be a bunch of us old farts going "Yeah, but you should have seen that Mad Dogs set. Boy howdy* that was something!"


*had to borrow that expression from Worf's essay.

Hee hee

My holy Quinta is Fri>Sat>Sun FTW, then JA>MD&E.

Would you believe that essay has one like? I cross-post it on here and intelligent people are like, "Good job, worf!" I put it on there and it's "tl;dr LOL!"

Even if it's not that good, it's obvious that I worked hard on it. 

Great read! Thank you for bringing me back.

Good job!

I would say that most of the headliners every other year were better. 2015 was a great year, but I thought the best acts were not the headliners (Panic, TTB, Billy & the Kids, the latenight shows). Mad Dogs was the best of a group of relatively weak headliners (Phil w/ Santana, Robert Plant repeating songs on Sunday that he played on Saturday) and then of course the first night was cancelled. Jefferson Airplane was cool, but was basically a novelty act.

Only point I'm trying to make is that while this segment was awesome, I don't think it was the top of the mountain that can never be reached again. For me that will always be people playing original music.

Well done Worf! The details don't matter, it's the experience that can only be had live and with thousands of others in the same moment. Keeps ya coming back for more. My Quattro is different, but the feelings the same.

Definitely not saying that the best is behind us, but for me personally speaking that night was a high water mark. I hope to be that moved again. The way we experience music is influenced by so many factors, but when everything comes together and it's just right, well..... it's just right. It's what pulled us in and what keeps us coming back. Not sure that I would refer to the JA set as a novelty act any, but again that's where our opinions come into it.

Here's a related question I wondered about at the time: would, or did, this appeal to the younger set? The nostalgia factor for us Old Guys was huge, as MD&E was a major opus of our day. I have been surprised to encounter even musicians who are younger, who don't know it, other than the three songs played on Classic Rokk 104.

Do many in the audience, who clearly like solid music, in their 20's or even 30's, even those tuned in, know it?

More interesting, if you sat down a 20-40 year old, who likes solid music but never heard MD&E, and played it, or even showed the movie (which is really cool BTW), would they fall all over it?

< geezer voice/ How could they not??? /end geezer voice>

I think that nostalgia can be a big part of how we experience music. That being said I was not as familiar with the MD&E at the time of the show and it just blew me away, and I think that my 17 year old son was even more taken by the music. This summer we were out in San Francisco and my 14 year old daughter picked up a mint condition copy of MD&E. My son was busy flipping through the Jazz section when she discovered it. He wasn't too happy at first, but for now they are under one roof and sharing is not an issue.

Just to throw my own .02 into the pot...

My dad owned the MD&E album. I kind of knew it. It was before my coming of age and never hit as much as some other (Beatles, Stones, GD obviously, Airplane) music of that era. I tried to take my dad to the Leon Russell pre-Lockn show but he was having some health issues and we didn't make it.

I think MD&E was one of the top 5 musical experiences of my life. Emphasis is on the experience as much as the music, though. It was incredible to see so many of the original performers up there, sharing the stage and reliving an important moment in their life. Not even so much the Leon Russell and Rita Hayworth, but the Claudia Lennear (who sort of left the music industry under duress--see 30 ft. to Stardom) and the other people who didn't have a long, successful starring role. Musically, it was good or very good, but there are definitely some rough spots when I re-listen to the set. It just meant so much for the people up there (And even the younger musicians who gathered by the side of the stage to watch--Eric Krasno watched a good bit from the wings, for just one example). Incredibly compelling as an experience.

I do get a little annoyed that people keep suggesting TTB should play tribute sets...they are awesome on their own and I want to see that.