Upcoming: Outside Lands Festival (Interview with Tenacious D and Dave Matthews)

As many of you probably know, we will be front and center at this year's Outside Lands Festival, a three day music fest featuring the likes of Pearl Jam, Incubus, Black Eyed Peas, The Mars Volta, Modest Mouse, The Dead Weather, Dave Matthews Band and Tenacious D.



We'll be snapping pictures and recording the greatest Flip-ing video footage ever! In preparation of our descent down the music rabbit hole, we had the privilege of chatting with Jack Black and Kyle Glass (a Walnut Creek native) of Tenacious D, as well as none other than Dave Matthews himself.

But let's be clear about our conversation. To those who aren't privy to the inner workings of the press, please allow us to besiege a bit of disappointing and unglamorous knowledge on you fine folks. Our conversation with these gods of rock was part of a collective phone conference with publicists and other journos. What transpires is usually a muddy conversation wherein the subjects get to rant and rave and goof around while we journos can just listen and wait our turn (Example: press star 1 to get in line to ask a question). Full transcript at the end.

Nevertheless, Jack Black is hilarious, even on the phone.


On Modest Mouse:

Jack Black: We burned some mother down that night. And Modest Mouse was all up our butt

wanting to hang with us, and we’re like who are you chumps? We got to go hang with like the Mayor

of Texas. If I could turn back time, I would crawl right up their butts and create a rip in the time butt

continuum.

On plans to rock San Francisco on Aug. 30:

Jack Black: Oh. And yes, we’re going to close it out, and I just want to say one thing. If there’s any dogs barking on the day August 30 before we go on, don’t be alarmed. That’s just them sensing the earthquake of rock that’s coming. Dogs have an innate sense when a gigantic rock storm is coming. That’s all it is.

I’m seriously afraid for California because we haven’t rocked for a while. We haven’t rocked since Redding and London, and there’s so much buildup that when we let loose, it may – it may shake the foundations of the – what’s that fault line ((inaudible))?

Kyle Glass: San Andréa’s?

Jack Black: The San Andreas. And California may be shaking loose from the rest of the country. And the question is when that crack in the earth happens and it comes between your legs, where are you going? Are you going with America, or are you going to jump on California Island? You have to make a (split-cision) decision, or else you’re going down in the lava.

Download the full interview with Jack Black, Kyle Glass and Dave Matthews here.

View a video of DMB's new video Funny the Way It Is here. (Sorry, Youtube has disabled the embeds).

And keep checking back for upcoming OSL coverage!