Let There Be Rock
AC/DC is back for a second stop on the Black Ice world tour. What does it take to party with the diehards? Undying devotion and $750 don’t hurt By Graham Silnicki
When high-voltage Aussie rockers AC/DC stormed Toronto in November for the first time since SARSstock, 45,000 crazed fans descended on the Rogers Centre in a fist-pumping mass of shredded denim and flashing devil horns. Between tailgate parties, “Highway to Hell” singalongs and odes to guitarist Angus Young’s signature schoolboy duds, we pulled aside a few disciples of the Thunder From Down Under to talk rock.
Markus Carreiro, 24
Occupation: Acting teacher
What you paid to get in: $115
Tell us about your outfit. It’s a fashionable denim jacket made by Dungaree, with permanent marker accents
How many days a week
do you spend rocking out? Eight
Have you unleashed your inner Angus via Rock Band?
Hell yes
Angie Carriere, 37, and Shauntel Masi, 43
Occupation: Senior regional VPs of PartyLite Gifts Co.
What you paid to get in: $99 each
Tell us about your outfit. We’re twins and we rock. We’re old but we wanna
be young
If AC/DC is the god
of music, the devil is…
Air Supply
Chris Woodside, 24
Occupation: Management and productivity consultant
What you paid to get in: $115
Tell us about your outfit.
I won it in an air guitar
contest in 2000, during the Stiff Upper Lip tour
How many times have
you seen AC/DC live?
Six
Father and son Rick and Michael Beausoleil, 52 and 29
Occupation: Industrial millwright and construction worker
What you paid to get in: $750 each
Tell us about your outfit. We just bought these shirts off a vendor for $80
How many times have
you seen AC/DC live? This is the first time. It’s for our birthdays
Rachael Hughes, 24
Occupation: Counter
worker at Tim Hortons
What you paid to get in: $115
Tell us about your outfit.
I took some inspiration
from Angus
If AC/DC is the god
of music, the devil is… Neil Young
AC/DC returns to the Rogers Centre on Jan. 9. $69.50–$99.50. 1 Blue Jays Way, 416-870-8000, www.rogerscentre.com.
Photographs by Lisa Kannakko
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