{"id":8740,"date":"2015-09-14T08:24:39","date_gmt":"2015-09-14T14:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=8740"},"modified":"2015-09-13T20:03:56","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T02:03:56","slug":"we-salute-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/we-salute-you\/","title":{"rendered":"We Salute You"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"acdc\"<\/a>The whole starting point of this Toronto trip was the AC\/DC concert Thursday night at Downsview Park. \u00a0I’d be lying if I said that seeing AC\/DC was at the top of my to-do list musically speaking. \u00a0In fact, they are playing Wrigley Field this week and I had passed on the chance to get tickets. \u00a0But, 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.<\/p>\n

Thanks to traffic, we completely missed the opening act, who I had never heard of. \u00a0It actually turned out pretty well, as we got in to the show just as AC\/DC were starting. \u00a0The show itself was both good and bad. \u00a0The songs are what you expect, but there was no real flow to the show, probably due to the band’s conditioning, or lack thereof. \u00a0After each song, the lights went down and there was a brief break before the next song would begin. \u00a0The net result of this was a disjointed experience, where each song stood on its own without there being any coherence in the set.<\/p>\n

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. \u00a0After 40 years of rock and roll that has been the soundtrack of a generation, they deserve to go out on their own terms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The whole starting point of this Toronto trip was the AC\/DC concert Thursday night at Downsview Park. \u00a0I’d be lying if I said that seeing AC\/DC was at the top of my to-do list musically speaking. \u00a0In fact, they are playing Wrigley Field this week and I had passed on the chance to get tickets. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[565,5811,595],"class_list":["post-8740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-acdc","tag-downsview-park","tag-wrigley-field"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8740"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8749,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8740\/revisions\/8749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}