Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny
Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny is a 2006 American rock musical black comedy film about comedy rock duo Tenacious D. Written, produced by and starring Tenacious D members Jack Black and Kyle Gass, it is directed and cowritten by musician and puppeteer Liam Lynch. Despite being about an actual band, the film is a fictitious story set in the 1990s about the bands origins, and their journey to find a pick belonging to Satan that allows its users to become rock legends.
As a young man, JB Jack Black leaves his religious family and oppressive Midwestern town for Hollywood on a quest to form the worlds most awesome rock band. There he meets acoustic guitarist KG Kyle Gass, who is performing on the street, and begins worshipping him as a rock god because of his skills and attitude. KG feeds JBs fantasy by pretending to be famous with a selfnamed band The Kyle Gass Project, and exploits him to do work such as cleaning his apartment and buying him weed under the promise that JB can audition for his fictitious band. After JB learns KG is actually unemployed and living off his parents, the two become equal, and KG apologizes to JB by giving him a brandnew guitar. They create their own band Tenacious D, named for birthmarks found on their behinds. JB has a birthmark which says Tenac, and KG has a mark which reads ious D.Soon JB and KG learn the deepest secret of rock all the rock legends used the same guitar pick, The Pick of Destiny, which has supernatural powers. It was created by a dark wizard from a piece of Satans tooth, as a gift to a blacksmith who saved his life from the great demon. The pick gives its holder unnatural abilities with stringed instruments. Infatuated by the prospect of becoming the next great rock star, JB immediately sets Tenacious D on a quest to steal the Pick of Destiny from a rock history museum. Along the way, the band briefly splits up, when KG decides that sex comes first in sex, drugs and rock n roll, while JB wants to stick to the mission at hand. ........
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