Heavy rain — and a light(ning) show in the sky that at times equaled anything on the stage — weren’t nearly enough to dampen the desire for Rod Stewart’s fans to see him for what he said will be One Last Time on Tuesday night, Aug. 12, at the Pine Knob Music Theatre.

Weather predictions did push the show forward a half-hour early, meaning opening act Cheap Trick was cranking into favorites such as “Ain’t That a Shame” and “Dream Police” while a good many of the 12,000 or so fans were still lined up outside the venue. Stewart himself finished before 10 p.m. — certainly user-friendly for the 80-year-old and the baby boomers who dominated the crowd.

Then again, Stewart has long been about straddling a line between defying age and working within those confines — gracefully, even. He may, und

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