The whole starting point of this Toronto trip was the AC/DC concert Thursday night at Downsview Park.  I’d be lying if I said that seeing AC/DC was at the top of my to-do list musically speaking.  In fact, they are playing Wrigley Field this week and I had passed on the chance to get tickets.  But, as a wise man once said, you only live once, and, seeing as this is likely their last go-around, I guess you can say that I’m glad to have seen them.

Thanks to traffic, we completely missed the opening act, who I had never heard of.  It actually turned out pretty well, as we got in to the show just as AC/DC were starting.  The show itself was both good and bad.  The songs are what you expect, but there was no real flow to the show, probably due to the band’s conditioning, or lack thereof.  After each song, the lights went down and there was a brief break before the next song would begin.  The net result of this was a disjointed experience, where each song stood on its own without there being any coherence in the set.

Years from now, I’m sure I’ll be happy to say that I saw AC/DC at some point, even if it was near the end, so I guess it was worth it.  After 40 years of rock and roll that has been the soundtrack of a generation, they deserve to go out on their own terms.