The highlight of the day, though, had to be Ol’ Yeller’s finale right before BTS came on. Rich Mattson and Co. brought out the Brian Boru Pipe Band, who were marching through the crowd between bands (in honor of Finnegan’s Irish roots, as if the potato beer wasn’t Irish enough). What song could a quartet of garage-rockers perform with a quartet of bagpipers? AC/DC’s “It’s a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock ‘n’ Roll),” of course, the one where Bon Scott showed off his Scotsman pipe-blowing talent. OY guitarist Andy Schultz, it turns out, can sing a great Bon. Not only was it a high point of the ShamRock, Romantica bassist Tony Zaccardi — watching from the crowd, mouth-agape like I was — went so far to call it “the highlight of the summer.”
