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Tenacious D’s Trump shocker upends a career of perfectly judged musical comedy
Jack Black and Kyle Gass’s duo are on hiatus after an off-colour comment about the Trump shooting – a rare misstep after years of arena-filling antics
Their shows may long have been littered with F-bombs, references to sexual deviancy, drug abuse, inflatable Satans and a parody of a power ballad titled Fuck Her Gently, but it’s always been in good fun and there’s never been anything actively, properly outrageous. From Black’s operatic metal vocal to their exquisite guitar duelling, the musicianship has always been impeccable and while their songwriting wasn’t always as good, their best epic anthems could almost have been lost rock classics themselves (had they not been full of lyrics about beasts and farting). Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The GuardianTheir fortunes certainly waxed and waned – The Pick of Destiny flopped at the box office – but 2012 album Rise of the Fenix hit the US and UK Top 10 and this latest tour returned them to arenas around the world.
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