By Steve Newton
Maybe because he figures he still owes me for getting him backstage at Iron Maiden and Mötley Crüe gigs when he was a teenager in the ’80s, my nephew Jeff recently gave me something cool for a belated birthday present.
When he drove down from the Okanagan to take me to see my favourite rock band, the Drive-By Truckers, Jeff handed me a cool canvas objet d’art that he had made from a cell-phone photo he took when AC/DC played Vancouver’s BC Place Stadium in April.
It captures lead-guitarist Angus Young wailing away on his famous cherry-red SG while a storm of multi-coloured confetti rains down around him.
I think it’s awesome, and a worthy addition to my man cave.
And I’ve got no complaints about the beer koozie Jeff threw in, either.
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