Time for some quality on the band of the week.

Ladies and gentlemen I give you Tenacious D.

Many of you are probably familiar with the movie "Tenacious D And The Pick Of Destiny", well yes this is a real band and they are very well known amongst the teenage crowd for their comedic music, including songs such as "Car Chase City" and "Tribute".

The band was formed as a side project by Jack Black and Kyle Gass when they met during the Edinburgh Fringe of 1989 in Scotland. Theywere both members of the Los Angeles theatre troupe, The Actors' Gang which was performing Tim Robbins' and Adam Simon's play Carnage. Initially there was clashing between the two as Gass felt threatened by Black, who was the main musician for the Actor's Gang, though they eventually worked out their differences, and agreed to form a band. Gass taught Black to play guitar, in exchange for Black helping Gass with his acting. Initially when Black and Gass performed live they covered songs by Bobby McFerrin.

Up until 1994 the duo did not have a name, so they gave the audience at their first concert, at the now defunct Al's Bar, the chance to vote for one. Black and Gass gave them the choiceto vote. "Tenacious D did not get the majority of votes, however, but according to Black "we forced it through".

The band started their fame with their HBO series titled after them in 1997. While a total of three episodes consisting of two shorts, ten to twelve minutes in length, were produced, only the first was aired that year; the final two episodes did not air until the summer of 2000. According to Gass, the series was cancelled after HBO requested ten episodes, but in doing so, he and Black would have to relinquish their role as executive producers, and only write songs. Gass and Black decided to make a movie instead. this was the birth of their first album also titled after them.

In October 2003 Black announced that the screenplay for The Pick of Destiny, a fictional portrayal of the band's formation had been completed, Filming had been expected to take place by the end of 2003, however it was delayed by almost a year due to Black being cast in Peter Jackson's big budget remake of King Kong. The band started recording songs for the soundtrack of the movie, their second studio album, The Pick of Destiny. The album had John Konesky and John Spiker from Trainwreck on electric guitar and bass respectively. Dave Grohl again played drums, and further lent vocals to "Beelzeboss (The Final Showdown)" as well as acting in the film, as Satan. By 2010 Tenacious D is planning to release a new album entitled "Death Star". Kyle has commented that the new album only has "one to one and a half" songs written for it, and would like to write between 12 and 15.

Here are a couple live videos of them playing tell me what you think.