Boys Will Be Boys -- The Video Adventure

 

Okay, I'm going to skip around just for a moment. While various Newsboys tell their stories in this section, the video occasionally cuts away to concert footage. So, I'm gonna show all the concert footage pictures first, then let the 'Boys tell their stories. Sound good?

 

So here we are: random concert shots. The early Newsboys really had a habit of dressing in US flag-inspired clothing. Note all the stars and stripes. Even Peter's bill has a huge star on it. And, of course, one strap on his overalls in undone. Remember when that was all the rage? I do. I feel so old sometimes...

 

Vernon: Being the only American in the band, I, I have a, a special task interpreting when we go through Alabama, Louisiana, and those parts unknown. And the Australians have a difficult time understanding "yehhhhs" and "fuuuuuuuel" and all that good red-neck stuff, see?

 

Peter: One gig we were playing on a place called the Gold Coast. John: Ah, no. Peter: In Australia. John: You're not gonna tell that, are you? Neh neh!		Peter: Yeah, I'm gonna tell them. Just before we started, there was all these birds in the trees making all this noise like "aaaaah!" John: Millions of birds! Peter: What happened was, we got on the drums and started playing: "Dzzzzt!" John: BANG!!!
Peter: As soon as we hit the first drum, all these birds took off in the air and flew and...and they pooed all over us! All over the whole band!		John: There must have been, there must have been a million birds...went to the toilet, all at once! Peter: Yeah. All at once!
John: All over the band. It was like a shower of bird droppings just, just covered us all over!

 

John: My, my, my! It's good to be back here where all the radical Christians seem to hang out!

 

Then Vernon makes the most bizarre series of noises, finally ending in a raspberry. During the noises, John spazes. Then John dashes away and gestures grandly towards Vernon, who promptly falls over. And here John is waving as if saying, "ah, nah, get out of here..." These must have been the weirdest shows...

 

John: The biggest lie that's ever come out of this world: that being a Christian's boring, or being a Christian's for wimps. You cannot have any fun.

 

John: You gotta walk around like you've been sucking, heh heh, sucking on lemons all day. And straight away, you can't be a teenager and have fun. We're getting across to the young people of America that, that, that they're the ones that are missing out if they don't know Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior on the most energetic, the most fun, the most fulfilling, the most rewarding adventure, and that's following Jesus Christ.

Peter: Very energetic is the word. Energetic is the key.

 

 

We're almost there. Check your pulse. Still alive? Then on we go to the last video: Kingdom Man