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A LITTLE REVIEW
A LITTLE REVIEW I FOUND BY THE ! AND ONLY CAPTAIN SLOW OF TOP GEAR FAME Courtesy of James May & The Telegraph AC/DC are a band for jumping up and down to. Something about the AC/DC rock pump reduces the complex and troubled human condition to a simple desire to jump up and down. Other bands were good for this but have now gone, and newer bands may be good for it, too, but they don't have the authority that only age and endurance can bestow. AC/DC are the best, and have an uninterrupted history of being AC/DC. Jumping up and down to AC/DC, like going to a pub and the pox, is a great leveller. Prejudice, class and other trifling differences are swept aside as all peoples become united in a common conviction of an intensity that faith leaders and politicians can only dream of. Jumping! Up and down! Jumping up and down is a life-affirming activity, like seeing the sun come up or smelling blossom. It's a free and natural high bestowed by the gods on everyone. There is a sensory node somewhere in the base of the spine that can release an ecstatic shot to the whole system, that can be mildly aroused at 6,000rpm in an air-cooled Porsche, but which is fully stimulated only by jumping up and down. Try it now. It feels good and is good for you. If AC/DC are playing you can jump up and down for two hours without realising how hard you're working. So why spend good money on an exercise bike? You can get a copy of the band's High Voltage album for a fiver. I sometimes wonder if the world would be a better and more peaceful place if AC/DC could stride on to a giant cosmic stage and say "Good evening Earth". Then the mood that infused the O2 arena last week could inhabit all hearts and put an end to war and suffering and famine. For what is religion? What is territory? What is mineral wealth, culture, race and the conceit of kings compared with the visceral and spiritual satisfaction of jumping up and down? The girl's got rhythm, according to AC/DC. The whole planet could have it. After the show, I met Mr Johnson himself. Following a discussion on the postmodern irony implicit in Hell's Bells, I asked him what he drove, and he drives a Rolls-Royce Phantom: not because he's a wealthy man, but because he genuinely loves it. He drives it himself, not into a swimming pool, and claims that no member of the band has ever been sick in it. This is as it should be. Supercars and giant SUVs are fine for pretenders to the throne, but the frontman of AC/DC should have a Royce. He is a messiah in waiting, and we should see his coming. Let there be rock. And let there be Rolls. Given he's a certifiable car nut with a degree in music, I feel he kills two birds with one stone here,gets the obligatory car mention in AND gives a review that lesser journalists would give their palm pilots to be able to conjure up. Hats off to Mr. May, you have to love his laconic style.
James May is a legend!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I heard some other people who had been to the O2 gig,who said that they had spotted James May and Richard Hammond there haha. Can't wait for the new series of top gear start! Well.....whenever it starts again haha.
I know Hammond from Top Gear on BBC America, but who is James May? Is that the other guy on Top Gear?