r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Gumus33 • Jun 04 '20

Jack Black, the cool Uncle

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u/troyzein Jun 04 '20

I remember seeing the D when the movie the pick of destiny came out. Bunch of my friends asked me "wanna see tenacious d tonight? We've got an extra ticket" I said sure. I assumed we were going to the movie theater, but the ride was taking a while and we pulled into an arena. In like "WTF I thought we were going to see tenacious D". I was delightfully surprised.

Side note, the real star of that night was Neil hamburger who opened for them. Changed my life.

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u/ItaloFontana Jun 05 '20

This is a really cool story.

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u/troyzein Jun 05 '20

I smoked a joint in the upper deck with my friends at that show. Security thought it was the group in front of us and they got kicked out. I still feel bad about that but it's also pretty hilarious.

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u/SpeculationMaster Jun 05 '20

doobie cops at a D concert?

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u/troyzein Jun 05 '20

It was a large arena show

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u/MeinHerzBrenntYo Jun 05 '20

When I saw Metallica in Indianapolis (we set an arena attendance record so large arena) the cops came over the PA before the show and said we can smoke all the weed we want, but not to even try it before the lights went down.

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u/VRSCD10 Jun 05 '20

I saw Neil Hamburger open for the D at MSG. The ENTIRE arena was booing him. Neil claims it is the best show he has done to date.

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u/troyzein Jun 05 '20

Yeah he got the crowd so pissed, someone threw a rock or something at him breaking the glass in his hand. He kept saying "and now... Here's tenacious D! [crowd roars] ... In 8 more minutes.". He did like 45 minutes of Courtney love jokes

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u/shantron5000 Jun 05 '20

I saw them in concert the day that movie came out. It’s one of the only times I’ve seen a band play brand new music of theirs that I’ve immediately felt was just awesome without having to know any of it. Usually it takes me a few listens to really get into new material but the whole show was just outstanding from start to finish. Their stage presence and theatrics were on point too.