Photo TR: Crowder Concert at Six Flags Over Mid America

[spaceace12]

Yesterday JoyFM had David Crowder (christian rock band) at Six Flags St. Louis. When he was talking about the park, he called it Six Flags Over Mid America. But first, lets talk about the park. I arrived around 4:30 park time and headed straight for Evel Knievel. Being June, a concert and a coaster event, I expected major crowds and lines. When I got to EK, there was no line visible. I had a "skip the line" pass and decided not to use it on there. So I went into the que and walked right into the station with a one train wait. It was great as usual and wasn't even squealing. I then decided with the 90's as the temp, it was a great day for water rides. I headed towards log flume and the line wasn't bad (10 minutes). I usually don't ride water rides when visiting other parks just for the day, but being hot and bringing extra clothes, it was worth getting wet. Log flume doesn't get you real wet, but it does cool you off a bit. While in line for the log flume, found out a family of three was trying to get tickets for the concert and couldn't get them, I had three extra so I gave my extras to them. After getting the concert tickets, I headed over to Tidal Wave as I was getting hot. TW really gets you wet. Since I was already soaked, I figured I would hit up thunder river. I started waiting in line, and after being line jumped by some people who thought they could have someone save their spot, I decided to line jump all of them. I used my skip the line pass and rode. I think TR gets the most wet of all three water rides. It was getting close to concert time so I went out to my car and got my dry clothes and changed and went into the concert.

 

I have never been to a christian rock concert and loved the way he integrated with the audience. I think the fun things was seeing the families singing and having a good time because the music is something that is good for the whole family without having to worry about bad words, references to things you wouldn't want kids to hear so young.

 

Another neat thing was that on top of playing the keytar, he also had a Wii Guitar Hero that was set up to play music with, and also had a button on the Wii controller set up for the Super Mario brothers sound for getting a coin, which he had one of his band members demonstrate.

 

Anyway, since no one is really paying attention now, I will put up pictures.

They did Rock Concert movement number 78 about 50 minutes in. Of course no one left because we all knew it was a fake, Concert lasted about an hour and a half. I was 12 rows up, not bad for free tickets.

something with crowd participation.

Electric Fiddle.

i think they were playing "I will fly away".

Banjo makes any song better to me. I want to play Banjo at some point.

twittering during the concert.

Guitar Hero controller.

a gnome is protecting is someones water.

Hey, a train...Hi Rapidsnerd...again.

Hey, it is a Mac.

At some point he did remembering the 80's. (Keytar), also had a band member play the Super Mario Brothers theme on a mini keyboard, jump like a coin sound is played, and a Bon Jovi overhead clap.

That is right...Hi Rapidsnerd. You get two shout outs.

Keytar...reminds me of something.

any picture with a drummer is worth posting.

David Crowder himself.

Drummers Rock...of course I am a little biased.

The rest of the band.

This is most of the band.

Concert time.

Another old picture Hi Rapidsnerd.

This is an old photo.

[TheRapidsNerd]

A great TR and that definitely brightens my day. Incidentally, I think Roland did bring out a new Keytar as a successor to it's AX-1 model...and it had the voices internal.

 

Back to topic, looks like a great day at the park and good show for helping the family out with the tickets.

 

Many thanks friend!