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Yep! rode the Big Boy today as Media day deal! It is everything that you could ask for Ladies and Gents!!! take a look at POV video on KOLR10 Facebook page ( I am having trouble making link stick here today for some reason???) It's big and Fast and great fun and you are all gonna DIG IT!!!

Ok... Here's some weirdness associated with Orange flavored sippers.
I used to shoot the long cannon (napolean type) and the two mortars on top of the hill every night to signal park closing. great, loud fun! Much too dangerous and cool to exist as an activity any more... Anyhoo, an orange sipper full of water would occassionally find its way into the barrel of the big gun. I used a half-pound of single F blackpowder, a tight baseball sized wad of newspaper, and then the sipper "slipped" onto top of rammed load.
That dern thing would fly over the church and towards TableRock lake like a , well... BULLET! If you did not know if was in there, you could not see it fly. My buds were in on it and we would watch about two hundred yards downrange for the flying citrus.
Now THAT was fun!
And the statute of limitations has surely worn off, right?

Thanks all for the warm welcome! I was blessed with a great memory for details and names for some reason and it is useful occassionally.
I do have a bunch O' pics that I need to start scanning and categorizing from the Fun days and i hope to be able to do that sooner rather than later.
There were days/times when myself and Milnes and James B. McFerron and Terry Wayne Sanders and other associated dudes were issued guns and blanks and just basically set loose! That's as fun as it gets in this world, folks! I even wrote a short book on how to care for all those weapons. We have literally a dozen assorted handguns and probably 5 shotguns to keep working and I soon found I was not a bad Colt "mechanic." I was raised hunting and shooting and the knowledge paid-off! Some time I will write about shootig the cannon and mortars every night to signla close of park. Now THAT was fun! There are probably a lot of little orange fruit juice sippers still in the woods beyond the church and just short of TableRock Lake! (enuff said!!!)
Ozarkdrb

Howdy all!
That was definitely "Umy and the Goodtimers" and they were guests many times during the music fest and other times at SDC. The gent in the wheelchair played with them for years and years and they had a coupla ladies that danced and sang also. Pulled HUGE crowds! I do mean HUGE!
The old classic originator of the Rainmaker was a man by the name of Rex Matzenbacher who goes way-back as SDC family entertainer! Also known as "Snake" as he raised and demonstrated poisonous snakes! I was very impressed by his ability to let Rattlers run around and not get bit.  The other unidentified Rainmaker is Jim Waddell!
I was Pa MCCoy a lot in those days and I have NO idea why I was not in the shot of the street crew. Perhaps I was off, perhaps I actually took that pic! Who knows...
That was DA Calloway with that dern pig. Not a great critter to deal with as he and I had to trim its tusks. Pretty tough gig!

Hi, All! i am an old-timer that has finally had his memory tweaked.
There was The Blue Show at Corncrib folks like Wayne Milnes,Ray Jones, Jana Henleben, DA Callaway, Maybe Jim Moskeau (?) and of course Shad, and Dan Embree and others.
When it moved out to a house and farmland over by the State Park, that was rented by JIIIIMMMMM WWWWAAAADDDDEEEELLLL!!! ( a traditional greeting we had for him..) it got huge! I was in a couple of them as was Terry Sanders as a singer (yes) and he did bring a film or two that he narrated live. I was most memorably pasr of a big Blues Brrothers type blues band called The Blue Show Brothers Show Band. Let's see... I sang blues, Bo Brown (undergrass Boys ) was on lead elecrtric, George Horne (Undergrass Boys) was on Bass and I think he also worked out arrangement. Guys from DixieLand band played strong horns. Vert fun! Loud! Big act to follow... We even played a bar in Springfield after that as it WAS winter back then and there was nothing going on. A VERY different time in the Ozarks to be young and free. Show did get too big and weird and someone was either going to get killed or arrested in a serious manner. Lots of camping - me and Richard Valhdick drug a player piano through a bonfire there with his Landcruiser as kind of a Finale. Yes, there WAS liquor involved.

Do any of you old cats remember "The JR Jam?? It was an invitation outdoor music party festival that got big ang weird and fun thrown by JR Rollins - Fiddle player. It was out really in the sticks towards Cape Fair if I recall, and it might have moved a few times. Once again, got too big, too weird, too many possible liabilities. 
Sigh! What have we come to?
Now I have no place to hang-out for days and nights at a time with beautiful girls at bonfires on an Ozarks night surrounded by people I worked with day and night who were VERY talented and would never do me any harm.
I am getting pretty old! I was Pa McCoy out on the streets with Theresa Ayres, Bonnie as a hatfield, Terry Sanders as well... whatever the day brought, Jim Waddell, Judy andRichard Young,  DA Callaway ( I think he was also one of the band Midnight Plowboy) Richard Valhdick, and Rex Burdette, Wayne Milnes, Dan Embree, and sssooo many other old faces that really lit the place up. Those were truly unique and strange time that will never be duplicated now that the worl d is so Organized and Uptight. I will always treasure those folks and that SDC place!