Q 1

PLAYBOY: There are many different versions of Tenacious D's origins. Some claim you were raised by a blind blues musician, while others insist you made a pact with the devil to become mock-rock superstars. Would you care to set the record straight?

Kyle Gass: You'll have to wait for our new movie, The Pick of Destiny. We did it as a way to satisfy public curiosity about us once and for all. We're finally going to give it to you straight, but we're not giving anything away for free.

Jack Black: We're doing this for the fans. This is their chance to learn the truth about the band, to get answers to all those epic questions that have been asked through the ages: "How did you guys meet?" "Why are you called Tenacious D?" "How are you able to rock so hard?" "When did you first meet Sasquatch?" At long last you're going to find out.

Q 2

PLAYBOY: Just how much of this movie is autobiographical?

Kyle Gass: Everything is completely accurate. In a lot of ways it's almost a documentary. Maybe not the Pick of Destiny part--when we go searching for the guitar pick used at one time by every great musician in rock history--but the relationship between Jack and me is pretty truthful. When I met Jack I was the wise mentor and he was my student in rock. He looked up to me for about a day and a half, then realized I was full of shit and completely took over and dominated me after that. I think we capture that pretty well in the movie. In a lot of ways it's a typical Hollywood story: Boy meets boy, boy teaches boy how to rock, boy loses boy, boy gets boy back, boys reach rock supremacy.

Q 3

PLAYBOY: Is there anything you don't share in this movie? Anything that was too personal?

Jack Black: Not at all. We're not holding anything back. Whenever we do something, we do it like we think the earth is going to explode tomorrow. We put it all out there. We're not saving anything for the next movie. It's all coming now, all the way, full guns ablazing.

Kyle Gass: You mean full throttle?

Jack Black: That sounds dumb. I like "full guns ablazing" better.

Kyle Gass: Let it be known that Jack was making a motorcycle-throttle hand gesture. So I'm not misrepresenting him.

Jack Black: We're gonna open up the, uh----

Kyle Gass: Floodgates?

Jack Black: We're releasing the hounds.

Kyle Gass: We're opening the gates and releasing the hounds. Simultaneously.

Q 4

PLAYBOY: We find it curious that neither of you has a love interest in the movie. Are you trying to tell us something about your lifestyle choices?

Kyle Gass: Well, I don't think people want or need to know that Jack and I are lovers, but I guess, in a way, you could say there's a subterranean gay undertone to the movie, though we never intended it. In Hollywood it's almost de rigueur to have some sort of love interest. Even when it detracts from the story, they always tack it on anyway. And it's never funny. But this movie is just about us. We're egotistical enough to think that's all people want to see.

Q 5

PLAYBOY: You've spoken openly about your rivalry with Satan. Will the D finally settle the score in The Pick of Destiny?

Jack Black: We gave Satan a major speaking role, though we don't actually do any hand-to-hand combat with him. There is a battle between a wizard and the devil. Some people will say we stole it from The Lord of the Rings, but that's BS.