{"id":244872,"date":"2026-01-21T19:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T19:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/244872\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T19:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T19:48:08","slug":"kyle-gass-teases-tenacious-d-comeback-bigger-than-oasis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/244872\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyle Gass Teases Tenacious D Comeback “Bigger Than Oasis!\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

After an ill-timed joke<\/a> about the attempted Trump assassination led to Tenacious D<\/a> taking an indefinite pause, co-founder Kyle Gass<\/a> has broken his silence, expressing remorse for his remarks, teasing a comeback (\u201cit\u2019s gonna be bigger than Oasis!\u201d), and explaining what went down between Jack Black<\/a> and himself.<\/p>\n

On July 14th, 2024 \u2014 Gass\u2019s birthday \u2014 a Tenacious D concert in Sydney, Australia featured a birthday cake. Gass\u2019s birthday wish: \u201cDon\u2019t miss Trump next time.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m human, I made a mistake. I was going for a joke,\u201d Gass said in a new interview with Rolling Stone<\/a>. \u201cBut timing is everything. If there was ever a \u2018too soon,\u2019 it was this.\u201d<\/p>\n

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He added, \u201cIt was terrible. It was terrible judgment, obviously. I\u2019ve felt terrible ever since, because it\u2019s such a responsibility to not screw up like that.\u201d<\/p>\n

As he recalled, \u201cWe were discussing what we were going to do [with the band]. I think we were considering taking a show off and getting back out there. I thought I could apologize onstage, like, \u2018Hey, I wasn\u2019t thinking straight.\u2019 But at that point there were safety concerns.\u201d The band received threats. \u201cAnd once you get into that, it just doesn\u2019t matter.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gass posted a public apology the next day. He thought, \u201cPeople are really disturbed and hurt by this, I have to apologize. It was hard to think straight, but I had some time to craft it. I did it myself. I ran it by the manager, and it seemed like I got what I wanted to say. And then that became a story.\u201d<\/p>\n

The \u201ctsunami of shit\u201d picked up speed. \u201cThe next day, my agent dropped me. And I was like, \u2018Well, gee, it would have been nice to at least talk to you or something.\u2019 But I think he wanted to get in the news cycle too\u2026 It did feel like an overreaction. But that speaks more to my relationship with my agent. I\u2019ve been around a long time and I guess he was tired of me saying no to too many projects or something. He saw an opening.\u201d<\/p>\n

As Gass tells it, he accidentally poured gas on the fire by deleting his apology<\/a> from Instagram. \u201cI\u2019m usually [just] recording Seventies covers on my Instagram,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd so [the apology] was out for four or five days, and I thought, \u2018It looks like a dead fish just laying there.\u2019 I really did apologize, but I took it down because it\u2019s out there. I saw it printed everywhere. I think that was definitely a misunderstanding. If I would have recanted, I would\u2019ve said, \u2018I\u2019m taking this down because now on further reflection\u2026\u2019 But no. It\u2019s out there. And then, it\u2019s like, should I put it back up? It just felt so wrong at that point. To have that be a separate news story was really disappointing.\u201d<\/p>\n

For a short time, Gass did not speak directly to his partner, Black. \u201cNo, we were in our own camps at that point. Jack has an agent, manager, and publicist, all that stuff, and they were doing their thing. And I was over here trying to figure out the best thing to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

He understood why Black released his own statement, and does not agree with critics who think it threw Gass under the bus. Black \u201cwas doing what he felt he had to do. We\u2019re separate people, always, and we\u2019re on different career paths. I totally understood what he needed to protect. I didn\u2019t begrudge him any of that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI might have deserved it,\u201d he continued. \u201cHe had to protect himself from his loose cannon partner over here. I totally understood once safety concerns got in.\u201d<\/p>\n

Later on, however, \u201cWe hashed it out. And it was hard. It is like a marriage. You go through these ups and downs, and try to understand your partner.\u201d<\/p>\n

And Gass confirmed the return of Tenacious D<\/a>: \u201cWe\u2019re gonna come back \u2014 it\u2019s gonna be bigger than Oasis!\u201d he said. \u201cWe will be back. We will return.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After an ill-timed joke about the attempted Trump assassination led to Tenacious D taking an indefinite pause, co-founder…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244873,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-244872","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}