You can't kill the metal. The metal will live on. Honestly not a surprise at all on any of this. People seem to have forgotten the dumb stoner culture that brought us Tenacious D in the first place. Yeah, KG and Jables have gotten older. They're "media friendly" now, so ofc they have to go into heavy damage control mode after saying dumb stoner shit on stage. Jables is getting that Disney and Nintendo money now. Gotta pay extra attention to that retirement fund these days.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

I actually had a friend who actually tours as a musician school me on the whole situation...

He thinks Jack did this to try to save the asses of every road gig worker they employ. There were risks of not being able to get venues insured over it and it put the rest of the shows they were doing at risk of being cancelled anyway due to that. (You can't get a venue insured if they think there's definitely going to be attempted violence, even if that violence doesn't come from your fans but from people who hate you)

As much as I'm behind Kyle all the way, it's correct to admit that he put a lot of people out of a job with a thoughtless joke.

Maybe, just maybe, Jack wasn't just thinking about himself and his safety, but was also thinking about the safety of all the road gig workers employed by Tenacious D. Do they deserve the risk of right wing violence because Kyle made a throwaway joke? Not really. Maybe that's why Jack was so upset about, even, because he understands the Tenacious D tour is a business and with a dumb joke Kyle just wrecked the businesses ability to do business.

Anyway, a small consideration for Jack Black maybe not just doing this to save his own skin and income.

[–] StereoTypo@beehaw.org 6 points 3 months ago

I hope they can reconcile if this is the case.

[–] Tramort@programming.dev 6 points 3 months ago

Really interesting point

[–] SuperSteef@beehaw.org 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

This is very much a case of "When the rich play games, it is the poor that lose". There is no positive outcome from this, regardless of what side of this story you are on.