I know what you're saying. You're thinking..."What in the world was a headbanging alternaboy like Derek Walker doing at a Brother's concert?!!"
My youth group went to this killer youth convention called Acquire The Fire that is the bomb. I'm not going to go into killer stories about playing football at 2 A.M. in the hotel parking lot, hitting my friend in the head with a soft taco, or why I attempted to give the biggest youth counselor there a wedgie (nope, those stories can wait). Nor will I even speak of the rockin' praise and worship or Ron Luce's powerful messages. No, today I speak of The Brothers.
For those who don't know who The Brothers are, we don't like them very much. In fact, in my eyes, comparing a band to The Brothers is a serious accusation...don't go there. So it was the first night, and Ron Luce is wrapping up, and he mentions a surprise musical guest who will give a surprise concert in a couple of minutes. Now me and my friends are all getting psyched because we think it's gonna be Code of Ethics. But no, he shouts in the microphone, "put your hands together for the...BROTHERS!!!" Now part of me wanted to leave (I have an allergic reaction to fake alternarap), but I realized...this is a group that I have been making fun of for two years...I owe it to myself to check them out.
So me, Pat, Adam, and Tony make our way to the front, just as 3 kids (I think they're like 9, 11, and 13) come out on the stage dressed in '70s clothes (y'know, bellbottoms and what not). Bass starts booming out the speakers, they start lipsync...I mean singing, and doing these crazy little dance steps that give off the assumption that some small animals have found their way into the Brother's bellbottoms. This group of guys next to us start breakdancing, spinning on their head and all that, and we decide to do it too, only I must not be as talented as them because I could only stay on my head for about 3 seconds (Adam did it for about 5), but the other guys start giving us hard looks, so we decide to do something else. We start moshing (even though it's easier to mosh to Yanni than The Brothers), and have some fun until the security guard asks us nicely to quit. So we begin doing the Wave, and it actually carries across the crowd to the other side, but that get's boring, so we start breakdancing again.
Without a doubt, the worst part was when they anounce that they're gonna do a cover of the Who song "Won't Get Fooled Again", which happens to be a killer song. But it wasn't killer when they do it...I'm sorry, but Roger Daltrey never sounded like he was going through puberty. And when they covered "People Get Ready", it was all I could do to keep from vomiting.
All in all, the concert bit the big one, but it doesn't mean that ATF did. It's always killer, and I heard that next year, they're trying to get Plankeye...that'd be a big improvement.