Talk:The Concert

maybe we will have to turn on the speakers and play One bad man and Midnight Riders to attract the helicopter?

Finale gameplay
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsIbDRydKDQ There we go. Regulust 02:23, November 16, 2009 (UTC)

Midnight Rider
I don't want to just pile more stuff into the Trivia list, because I suspect that eventually Midnight Rider will get their own wiki page. I'll just jot a few things down here and let someone else worry about making it pretty. When I first saw the poster for Midnight Rider in-game, my mind actually turned to the Ku Klux Klan, which was a little troubling. They were often called "night riders" back in their first incarnation, and I've also heard it turned into "midnight riders". The phrase appears in the old folk song "God's Gonna Cut You Down" (Moby sampled it for his song "Run On" in 1999), where it's reasonable to guess that it alludes to the Klan.

Looking just a little harder, though, I realized that Valve almost certainly meant the name to refer to the hit song "Midnight Rider" by the Allman Brothers Band. Both bands would qualify as Southern rock. On the other hand, the name of the lead guitarist, Dusty, might be a nod to the pro wrestler Dusty Rhodes, who used to wrestle under the name "Midnight Rider". --96.246.55.43 07:11, November 20, 2009 (UTC)

Dusty could also be a reference to Dusty Hill, of ZZ Top.--CloudT 02:21, November 23, 2009 (UTC)

Nick may have a unique saying aswell.
Unfortunately i'm not entirely sure what triggered it, and it's possible that this was just a line that just came out right when I was walking up to the mic. I usually play as Nick, and on my first run through Dark Carnival, during the finale, I was enjoying the microphone thing and often stand near it. While a horde of zombies was attacking, I ran up to the mic and Nick said something to the effect of "We're the four riders of the goddamn apocalypse!". Since I was right at the mic, I assume it was from that, but, seeing my friend walk up to the mic over and over as Ellis and have him constantly singing, while I try and get nothing, makes me wonder if it was just random chance he said that just then? Anywho. Just mentioning it just incase.--CloudT 18:00, November 30, 2009 (UTC)