Newsflash: Deutschland - Helmut Von Kilmeister, lead bass player for the world's most popular heavy metal tribute band BRAH, has retired. Exact circumstances are unclear at this point, according to unnamed sources, but the abrupt departure from his professional music career apparently stems from his having played "the perfect note."
Duke LiChetta, who attended the concert last Sunday night at House of Blues, described the scene as "strangely inspiring. The guy, Helmut, you know - America's favorite German cannibal bassist - was just playing the song. It was perfectly normal until he moved his left hand a little bit higher. That's when his eyes closed and I could tell he must have finally hit the perfect note."
Von Kilmeister commented on the situation later that night. "I was simply trying to play ze note and ze note began to play differently and I felt like I was on holiday in ze alps or frolicking in ze meat fields of my home township of Eisenhuttenstadt. Certainly I knew it was very important to end ze note but I could not easily determine when to do so. So I am going to retire, I think, so I can contemplate ze note and, perhaps, tweet about ze note on my netbook. I would also like to create several facebook quizzes about ze note."
Rock fans are correlating this incident to similar happenings in the late 80's when metal band Twisted Sister took several months off after recording their perfect cover of "Leader of the Pack."
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