The Greatest Band in the World
I discovered Tenacious D’s Fuck Her Gently with my buddies back in the early 00’s and clambered eagerly aboard the Jack Black train of intensity. I’m still kicking myself for not roadtripping it down to Burlington to see them live when they played live at Higher Ground.
The D’s first movie, several years in the works, is coming out on Friday and I can’t think of a modern band that embodies satire more than these guys. I especially love how they take the piss out of the whole devil & rock ‘n roll connection.
The D recently sat down for an interview with the Onion’s A.V. club who asked them, among other things, “Do you think Satan is a necessary component of rock ‘n’ roll?”
Jack Black responds:
No. There are some great bands that never incorporated Satan. But it’s a bygone era where Satan really participated. And there was a while there where you knew that you were a big band if there was a priest out front telling you not to go in. That is the measure of success.
Common priests. Where’s all the love/hate these days?
