IN THE PICK OF DESTINY
Q&A with Jack Black and Kyle Gass
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| TENACIOUS D IN THE PICK OF DESTINY Q&A with Jack Black and Kyle Gass |
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Continued from page 1 Kyle, obviously you were a kind and gentle teacher when you taught Jack how to play guitar. How kind was Jack when giving camera tips? KYLE GASS: Hmm...yeah, actually Jack's really good. He's good about acting stuff. Often I'd say, "Jack, how can I be funny right here?" JACK BLACK: No, he doesn't like taking tips. It's like older brother taking tips from the younger brother. He bristles and the rooster tail goes up. KYLE GASS: Jack's pretty generous though with help. Did either of you have any hissy fits about who got the biggest trailer? KYLE GASS: About 10 minutes ago we each investigated each other's suite to make sure one didn't get a larger one, but I've had to accept kind of a secondary role. JACK BLACK: It's always been straight down the line, 50-50. KYLE GASS: I've got it pretty good. I've got a good cut. It's not too bad. This movie exists in a permanent level of excitement. How do you cope with being so awesome on a daily basis? KYLE GASS & JACK BLACK: How do we cope with being so awesome? KYLE GASS: A fine question indeed. Well usually I feel kinda normal and lame, and I'll go to like the coffee shop and someone will say, "You rock!" and then I remember how awesome I am, and then I'm just back to normal. JACK BLACK: I mostly stay in my bubble, in my golden bubble cage. KYLE GASS: Mmhmm JACK BLACK: I just had a child. I took the kid in a couple of days ago to the paediatrician and she was measuring him in all different places and then she gave a percentage and apparently his head in the 86th percentage of heads, meaning that only 14 percent of the population has a bigger head than him and that's it. So he's got a huge head. And then she said do you mind if I measure yours, and I said go ahead, and she was shocked cos I was in the 100th percent. Less than 1 per cent of the world's population has a bigger head than mine so.... KYLE GASS: I think that leaves just Elephant Man and myself. JACK BLACK: But anyway, I guess that means I'm pretty full of myself or something. Or that I have some huge brain. Notions of parenthood occurred to me when I was listening to your CD, which I brought with my own money and enjoyed very much... KYLE GASS: Wow! I guess we should thank you [laughs] that you didn't rip it off the Internet. I just need to remember not to play it near my kids! I just wonder if being a dad is going to change some of the excesses? KYLE GASS: We recorded a clean version of this one, for the children. JACK BLACK: The clean version we did... KYLE GASS:...is more for Wal-Mart... JACK BLACK:...is for the adults who want to listen to it but they've got their kid in the car, but there's a version with some ridiculous words. Sometimes it's funnier. 'F**k her Gently' - has that changed much? JACK BLACK: Oh no, we don't have a clean version of the first album. Who's in your fantasy band, alive or dead? KYLE GASS: Good question. JACK BLACK: Mozart on bass KYLE GASS: I go Beethoven on keys. JACK BLACK: I go Bach on the Klavier. KYLE GASS: On drums, I'm gonna pick the first caveman. and say "Dude you're on it!". I don't know. There's a lot of great musicians. Who'd you want? [Turns to Jack] JACK BLACK: You've gotta go Hendrix on the electrix KYLE GASS: That's good. I think I'd like Jaco Pastores on bass. JACK BLACK: Isn't he the Jazz guy? KYLE GASS: Yeah. It's kinda a fusion band. JACK BLACK: That sounds horrible. KYLE GASS: I think we've got the best drummer going. We've got this guy Brooks Wackerman from Bad Religion. The weird thing is I wouldn't be in my own band. I'd be just like watching. Would you put yourself in the fantasy band Jack? JACK BLACK: Of course! You've got to put yourself in the fantasy band or else it's someone else's fantasy. What can fans expect from your UK tour? JACK BLACK: Well in the past we've gone on tour with just me and Kyle with no production whatsoever just to hoard in all the money possible, so we'd just plug into a toaster oven, but on this tour we're going all out. We're actually losing money on the tour because we wanna give it back to the fans. It's gonna be better than Pink Floyd's The Wall. KYLE GASS: We're gonna build our own instruments. JACK BLACK: It starts off in Kyle's apartment and then ends up in hell. We've recreated the entire landscape of hell and then we pick up a band in hell. We have our choice of any musicians. So it's kinda theatrical, there'll be a movie. Liam's gonna direct the movie that happens. KYLE GASS: We were able to get Colonel Sanders on drums. JACK BLACK: Dude, I don't know if we should say who the whole band are... KYLR GASS: He killed a billion chickens, people! JACK BLACK: Yeah that's enough, you've gotta stop telling people that stuff! So, that's a taste of who's in the band.... Do you think children's musical education is lacking in an introduction to the classics of rock? JACK BLACK: I'm not that up on children's musical education. I bet there's probably more attention to the classics here in England. When you live in California, people always say "Oh, you can't have your kids go to school in LA, you've gotta take them to New York", and then when you're in New York, they'll say "Oh, you can't have your kids learn anything in New York, you've gotta send them to London". Do you find there are many children who like you anyway despite the parental advisory on your album, that have discovered you through other mediums, like the Internet? JACK BLACK: Yes. And they'll be going to watch the film I imagine. KYLE GASS: Well in our country, they'll have to be accompanied by a parent if they're under 18. In our movie there's no sex or violence, it's just Jack swearing all the time. Continued on page 3 |
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