By Fred Topel | Image property of New Line Cinema.
Tenacious D is not only the greatest rock band on earth, they may be the funniest too. The boys are just playing around, says Kyle Gass.
Interview: Kyle Gass on Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny
“Childish, sophomoric, scatological,” Gass describes his music. “The satirization really begins with.. I think we’re poking fun at the pomposity of rock stuff. It’s really just about us though. These guys rockin’? People respond to the weird confidence about the mission. We have this grand mission to rock and we have acoustic guitars. It seems to connect that way.”
Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny
The guys may be ridiculous but their music is not. “I think it’s important for us that it’s as good as we can do it just musically-wise,” says Gass. “I think it’s what makes us a little different from some guitar comics. We love music and just try to make really great songs.”
The process begins with improvisations and Gass getting musically inspired by Jack Black’s verbal riffing. “Kyle is always a bubbling cauldron of tunes,” said Black. “He’s always playing and working on little melodies and riffs and then I would need to have something that I think is funny, a concept that I want to riff on, or, I need a type of song that I want to make that we’ve never made before. Then we can just start jamming and always recording.”
Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny opens to theatres on November 22nd.
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