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“If the dragon was diving or ascending or banking and rolling, Mason would be thrown around in the saddle, like a jockey on a racehorse,” says DeBlois.

He added that it had "been a while" since they played big shows, but were keen to use Big Weekend to "get back in the saddle for us and find our home again".

He may never return to the victor's throne, but being back in the saddle could be comfort enough.

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But it was a ruse to get to a tweaked version of Aerosmith’s “Back in the Saddle,” which Black rocked out on, running through the audience, and high kicking after being joined by Gardner, Kenan Thompson and Marcello Hernández and a seven-person marching band.