Show was something I had to learn about through word of mouth in hallowed tones. My family didn’t have HBO, and this was years before YouTube, so his work on Mr. Loud and buffoonish and slovenly though he may have been, for teenage me, Jack Black represented a super cool and unattainable intersection of rock stardom and Hollywood celebrity. Far be it from me to overthink an album full of dick jokes, but: Looking back, there was such a fascinating tension at work at the peak of Tenacious D.
