![]() ![]() Show with Bob and David and a 1998 performance of "Sex Supreme" - which sang the praises of a ménage à trois with KG and JB - on Saturday Night Live hinted at the duo's just-beneath-the surface popularity, which began to rise into the mainstream with the group's 1999 HBO series. The following year, their appearances on Bob Odenkirk and Cross' brilliant HBO sketch comedy program Mr. The D soon headlined shows at venues like Pedro's and Largo, planting the seeds of a die-hard cult following not even their inauspicious film debut in 1996's Bio-Dome slowed their momentum. The duo met at an acting class and began playing together in 1994, making their live debut later that year at Al's Bar, playing just one number, the aforementioned homage to the world's greatest song, "Tribute." In the audience that night was comedian/actor David Cross, who invited Black and Gass to appear with him and other like-minded performers such as Ben Stiller and Janeane Garofalo in a series of alternative comedy shows. Similarly, the D's act showcased Black's theatrical, versatile vocals and Gass' deft support on the guitar in seemingly stream-of-consciousness songs about smoking pot, the duo's musical and sexual prowess, and subjects straight out of Dungeons & Dragons, as well as in equally absurd and inventive sketches. The crazed, wide-ranging sense of humor and intensity that Black brought to Tenacious D also made him a sought-after character actor, appearing in films like Bob Roberts, The Cable Guy, and Saving Silverman Gass' film career includes supporting roles in Jacob's Ladder, Idle Hands, and Evolution. But the sheer charisma, humor, and energy - not to mention inspired songwriting - of singers/guitarists/actors Jack Black and Kyle Gass (aka JB, Jables, KG, and Kage, among other aliases) took them from L.A.'s underground comedy scene to their own series on HBO and a major-label album deal. Actually, Tenacious D was probably so successful precisely because they were so unlikely: few people would imagine that two chunky guys bashing on acoustic guitars, singing songs like a tribute to the greatest song in the world (because they forgot how the greatest song in the world went after conquering the Devil with it), became one of the biggest cult bands of the late '90s and 2000s. Am G Ah, xxxx! Good God, God lovin', D F So surprised to find you can't stop it.Biography Rightfully hailed as "the greatest band on Earth," the super-sized acoustic metal/comedy duo Tenacious D was an unlikely success story. F Am G D This is just a tribute! You gotta' believe me! F Am G D F And I wish you were there! Just a matter of opinion. Am G D Ti Tuga digga tu Gi Friba fligugigu Uh Fligugigu Uh Di Ei Friba Du Gi Fligu F Am fligugigugi Flilibili Ah Fligu wene mamamana Sacrebleu! G D F Am G D F Am G And the peculiar thing is this my friends: D F The song we sang on that fateful night, Am G D It didn't actually sound anything like this song. G D F Am To The Greatest Song in the World, All right! G D F Am It was The Greatest Song in the World, All right! G It was the best muthaxxxxin' song D F The greatest song in the world. Am G F Couldn't remember The Greatest Song in the World. ![]() We are but men!" ROCK! D F C G Ahhh, ahhh, ahhh-ah-ah, F Ohhh, whoah, ah-whoah-oh! Am G F This is not The Greatest Song in the World. He asked us: "Be you angels?" And we said, "Nay. Whip-crack went his schwumpy tail And the beast was done. This Verse is also Am played continually -Īm Needless to say, the beast was stunned. D F Once every hundred-thousand years or so, C G When the sun doth shine and the moon doth glow F And the grass don't grow. D F Look into my eyes and it's easy to see C G One and one make two, two and one make three, F It was destiny. "Okay" Am G And we played the first thing that came to our heads, F Just so happened to be, Am G F The Best Song in the World, it was The Best Song in the World. "Play the best song in the world, or I'll eat your souls." Am Well me and Kyle, we looked at each other, And we each said. All of a sudden, there shined a shiny demon. Long time ago me and my brother Kyle here, We was hitchhikin' down a long and lonesome road. DO NOT SHOW ADS Verse - Am throughout the whole Verse -Īm This is the greatest and best song in the world.
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