Expect plenty of crowd-participation singalongs in the middle of big, crunchy electric guitar riffs that make up insanely catchy songs. The duo describe themselves (with tongue firmly in cheek) as "The Greatest Band in the World." From venues like Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion to Radio City Music Hall, Tenacious D tour-goers lucky enough to see them in concert will get every single cent's worth of their ticket price through all the big laughs in their rollicking and foul fake arena-rock songs. Head on over to /zane to hear the full interview, as well as Tenacious D's At Home With playlist.Featuring two of the funniest comedy minds in America, the hard-rocking, hilarious duo of Jack Black and Kyle Gass - better known as Tenacious D - have delivered thousands of side-splitting laughs through their profanely hysterical songs ever since their inception in 1994. We definitely needed that jam to show us the way."
Would we have done Tribute if we had never heard The Devil Went Down To Georgia? It's doubtful.
And they were definitely a big influence on Tenacious D. Well yeah, we did it, but they did it first. "And of them all, I think The Devil Went Down To Georgia is probably the most powerful, iconic version of that story. "There's a great tradition of doing battle with Satan in rock'n'roll music and before rock'n'roll," he says. Later in the interview, Jack also praises The Devil Went Down To Georgia (which was originally written and released by the Charlie Daniels Band in 1979, and later covered by Primus 20 years later) and the impact that had on The ’D. They got a lot of great jams, Enter Sandman, this and that, all of the rest…" They know that people are waiting for One. "You can tell that it's their best song, because whenever you see them live, they always save that for the end. "It was a trailblazing song," agrees the frontman. But really, you can't say that that was a greater inspiration than Stairway To Heaven."Īs Kyle reflects how Jack got him into Metallica in the first place, he explains: "They were going places that people didn't normally go, but also with really staccato riffs. Read this: " Tribute was our Mona Lisa": An oral history of Tenacious D's self-titled debut albumĪs Kyle nods, "I'm saying a large portion, yeah," Jack then argues: "When we were talking about what's the greatest song in the world, at the time it was Metallic – One, some would say.
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