Flags in the Concert Area

Its wasnt entirely annoying but some of them were way too low and blocking my view of the musicians. One night someone kept waving a big flag back and forth across the whole field of vision, blocking screens and musicians alike. A few people being able to find their friends easier is not at all worth blocking the view of hundreds of other people. if I had had a huge flag going through my vision of the ABB psychedelic screen i would have been choked. If you take a look at the surrounding structures and create some line-of-sights in your memory than it is really not a big deal to find your friends without a flag.

i didn't have a huge problem with them. seen worse. i took a different approach and strung green lights around my backpack and put it on my chair. it provided a dim, ambient green glow in the immediate area. plenty of people told me they used it as a marker, and it was not intrusive

If we as a community don't do something it WILL definitely get worse long before it gets better.

Great idea!

I think they came in together.

I'm with AnnoyingBill--and not just b/c I've had frozen pants too. Big flags waved back and forth between me and the ABB and the wet
show. Then in come huge carboard cut out heads blocking everything. I mean, it's a concert, not mardigras or nascar. I was about to
perform random acts of something and it weren't kindness.

people who think they have to call attention to themselves like that annoy the crap out of me. Bill, I'll contribute the blindfold and
cigarette.

it's not the same as marking a spot with something below eye level, or above and small; that's fine. Especially with Verizon cancelled.
And that was not the purpose of these displays.

I'd like to see Lockn management get in there, send the flags to the side fence, and also all the chairs from soundboard forward, and
all shade structures after dark. before dark, none of those open-faced tents (even saw regular tents) either.

I like blankets spread on the ground b/c they allow me to wipe the red clay and porta-potty mung off my shoes, and provide a comfortable
place to walk. Palm fronds coming into Jerusalem. But late night they became like kudzu winding around my ankles.

Note: not talking about back in the back

I'm telling you if these people have the right to ruin others good time WE as a community should have the right to raid there coolers and ruin their good time.

At jazzfest they have a line behind which you are allowed to set up chairs, but nothing in front. They also a large number of flags, but that fest can sometimes get close to 100,000 people in a day so it is kind of necessary.

I was with a flag crowd for a good bit and it made it so much easier. They had a very high flag so hopefully it wasn't too intrusive. I use the light technique, we wrapped a friend of ours in battery powered lights and she had to flip them like 5 minutes after someone left to give a beacon for their return.

I had a chair but it was set up under the shade canopy that was well behind the sound tent. The few times I took a stroll up front, I was shocked how many chairs were up there. People really are inconsiderate. Maybe Lockn' will fix that next year along with a quicker exit. Took me two hours to get out Monday morning.

All I can say is; What a bunch of whiners we have on this forum! Seriously.
For crying out loud, the flags, and the chairs, and all the sometimes inconvenient nuances are all just part of the festival experience.
I've been going to shows for over 40 years, and back then there were no flags. There were no chairs. You sat on the ground next to piles of garbage and beer bottles that were 3 foot high and tried to remember the shapes of certain garbage piles so you had some sort of landmark to follow! Sometimes if ya had to piss really bad, you pissed where ever you could find a place, if any! 
Today's festivals are most definetly a lot better run and managed than they were years ago and I'm sure some of the older folks here can attest to that. I'm not putting my past experiences down, I'm just saying that there has been improvement in leaps and bounds over yester year's concerts and festivals.
 
Sure I had flags in my way, and I tripped over quite a few chairs during all of this, but if it wasn't for some of the flags I would have never found my way back to my people. I for one am glad there was flags.  Flags add to the festival atmosphere just as much as everything else you see and experience at a venue of this size. I can guarantee that if the rules next year stated that flags were forbidden, people would still find something else to fuckin' whine about! Like the blankets, or people sprawled out sleeping or some other shit.

Hey, I agree everyone is entitled to have a good time after spending a lot of their own money, but when you're dealing with that many people all crowded together for one weekend, ya gotta either make some sacrifices, or just stay home with mom! This shit aint for the faint hearted or the weak spirited and if people started to realize that this whole freakin' world doesn't revolve around them, then they would probably have a better time.

Personally I can find more good things to say about my two Lockn experiences, then to sit here and waste everybody elses time whining about the little shit.