VIDEO: Hells Bells! AC/DC's Brian Johnson is seriously quick in the Top Gear Reasonably Priced Car
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You gotta love Brian Johnson. Plucked from (relative) obscurity by AC/DC in 1980 to replace Bon Scott (R.I.P.), Johnson and the band then recorded Back in Black, the second most successful album in history, just behind Thriller by What's His Face. Johnson – who maybe stands five feet five inches tall – also hasn't changed his shirt, taken off his hat or had to learn a new song in nearly 25 years. What a life.
On this week's Star in a Reasonably Priced Car, Jezza puts Johnson through the usual paces before we quickly learn that Mr. Gets Knocked Out By American Thighs is a serious gearhead. How serious? He drives a 1920s Bentley 4.5-liter to get the newspaper. That's class. And once in Moscow he micturated on Sputnik. That's a different sort of class. Oh, and it turns out that Mr. Johnson is quite a talented driver. How talented? You're going to have to jump and find out.
[Source: YouTube via Road Runner Records]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Lucas 7:40PM (7/29/2009)
Cool dude.
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Typesbad 7:43PM (7/29/2009)
All right, I admit, I had to look up "micturated" (and wasn't disappointed). How about the rest of you?
Great comment about Johnson's life BTW.
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cdwrx 7:45PM (7/29/2009)
I had to look it up too. I didn't think Autoblog would be expanding my vocabulary, but damn, first "palliative" then "holophrastic" and now "micturate." Two of those aren't even in my browser's dictionary.
atlasfugged 7:55PM (7/29/2009)
Now you have to promise to use the word in everyday conversation.
Matt 10:28PM (7/29/2009)
Seeing as I saw Top Gear on Sunday, I knew exactly what he was talking about.
Gavin S. 5:52PM (7/30/2009)
Not a Big Lebowski fan, I assume.
ChopperDave 9:18AM (7/30/2009)
@Gavin S: Ha, that's how I know he word, too ...
Obviously you're not a golfer.
Epyx 9:57AM (7/30/2009)
Jonny is not your average semi-literate autoblog blogger. His writing actually makes sense the first time one reads it and I find it very refreshing.
Gavin S. 7:10PM (7/30/2009)
Chopper Dave, a Friend of mine here in Louisville, Ky is one of the co-founders of something called Lebowskifest, which is an annual gathering of fans who dress up in bathrobes, get drunk on Caucasians and bowl. People come from all over the world to attend this thing. It's nuts. Great movie.
Franz 7:43PM (7/29/2009)
I think this may have been the only time I actually enjoyed the SIARPC... I usually just skip to the end, but I'm glad i had watched this one. Very entertaining.
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Farris 7:57PM (7/29/2009)
This is just about the only SIARPC that I recognize (and the only one I have seen in person).
I love when he talks about his old Mini with the sliding windows. :D :D
JayP 7:45PM (7/29/2009)
This is the first time I ever bothered to watch that segment. I usually fast forward.
A real car guy who appreciates cars... not just buying them for fashion.
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atlasfugged 7:54PM (7/29/2009)
I'm shocked that he could reach the pedals.
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Jonny Lieberman 9:12PM (7/29/2009)
Me too!
Milos 7:55PM (7/29/2009)
I know i will sound naive and i already know the answer, but I'm still hoping to be proven wrong so I'll ask anyway since TG is my favorite TV show. I know that TG is not live show and that there's very little spontaneous in it, and that's expected cause there's lot of money invested into production every week so no one wants to risk anything...Well my stupid question is there in their hall, where they shoot their episodes, some kind of NOW APPLAUD!!! sign or are at least those applauses spontaneous. I always hated fake laughter and applaud-on-demand in tv shows, sitcoms, cause they make me feel like chimp that doesn't know human languages and that can't think for itself what's funny and what is not.
this question obviously goes to UK readers of this site and i know that there are many of them
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tankd0g 12:22AM (7/30/2009)
I've never been there but I'd say it's more of a "hold your applause" sign then an "applaud now sign".
MAXLD 8:20AM (7/30/2009)
Lately I've noticed some of the laughs/applauds and they seem quite fake, because sometimes they start/end very quickly and good synchronized. Usually people laugh differently, and in TG sometimes they all seem to have the same type/tone. Also, some people can't stop laughs immediately... so, I suspect they use either a laugh/applause track when editing the episode to compensate "irregular" TV moments.
EU_reader 9:08AM (7/30/2009)
Come on, not so cynical.
Yes, the other items are heavily scripted, and I see re-occuring "Clarkson jokes" in this season all the time. The "news" will still be composed of a certain number of bullet points and 'must have' 'funny' jokes, but how they present it is fairly free form.
The SIARPC is a genuine conversation. At least, that's what I think based on the videos and common sense. Not all of them are funny, so there's not always laughter.
What happens is that the interview can last for 30 minutes, but the crew needs to edit it down to 10 minutes to fit in the show. That's often very obvious where the cuts are. They just make a nice sounding dialog based on the whole interview. That's why laughter or similar often sounds 'cut off', because it is.
BigTeebo 8:23PM (7/29/2009)
Wouldn't it be easier for AutoBlog to post a link to the Top Gear ep torrent than 3-4 stories about each TG episode? Watch the whole thing and enjoy.
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Farris 8:28PM (7/29/2009)
No, because then we'd get a million people on each torrent link either complaining about:
1) A link to a possibly illegal download
2) Something that is posted weekly on finalgear.com a few hours after the episode airs, which is easily accessible by anyone with a pulse.
or
3) Not being able to figure out how to work a torrent.
This way is much better, IMO.