Boggy Creek keyboardist John McKinnon, left, being filmed during the Mushroom Records concert.
SEVENTIES rock band Madder Lake may have played at Sunbury and they may have supported The Doors but on Saturday night the band performed to their largest ever crowd as 75,000 music fans packed the Melbourne Cricket Ground. For south-west Victorian keyboardist and Boggy Creek publican John McKinnon one of the most impressive things about Mushroom's 25th anniversary concert was performing to an audience that spanned three generations. "There's people there of course that have seen you and you're working to a couple of new generations which is interesting," he said. When not playing to the crowd John was signing CDs and records - some of which were for fans who weren't born when the albums were recorded. "It's almost like the band's got its own mystique now," he said. As well as the opportunity to perform to a new audience, the Mushroom concert provided the band with a chance to catch up with other industry veterans, many of whom cheered from the sidelines, John said. After getting a taste of the big crowds again the band is considering taking to the stage for a Sydney Mushroom concert and the Legends of Sunbury tour early next year. However, those events were very much in the planning stages, he said.
