It's D-Day for the 'greatest band in the world'

TENACIOUS D have no beef with Hugh Jackman. Honestly. It is all a media creation.

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TENACIOUS D have no beef with Hugh Jackman. Honestly. It is all a media creation.

Jack Black bears no animosity to "Australia's Nicest Guy" for beating the American funnyman to the Golden Globe for Best Actor in a musical or comedy.

And of course he wasn't being churlish when he mentioned to Rolling Stone that Jackman has yet to score a Grammy nomination.

The D contested the Best Comedy Album with their Rize Of The Fenix comeback album and unfortunately lost the Grammy gong to Jimmy Fallon this week.

"If it's a contest of who can sing better Dio covers, I think I would smoke (Hugh). If it's who's gonna be better at Sunday in the Park With George, then he's gonna take the cake," Black told the magazine.

When asked about his comments on Our Hugh, Black isn't biting.

"Oh. My. God. I felt I was goaded into that with that question 'Is Hugh better than you?' They were trying to pick a fight," an indignant Black says.

"I love Hugh. You are trying to poke the tiger in the cage. When you are the best, you don't have to call people out. Do you ever hear the D saying 'F... the Stones!'? Crowing about how great you are, that's not being your best.

"And I would say it's kind of bulls... we only got a Grammy nomination for comedy. Anyone who listens to our f...ing album knows it is better than any album that came out last year."

Whatever you do, don't get Black and his partner-in-musical-crime Kyle Gass, also known as Kage, started about Coldplay winning a nomination in Best Rock Album.

"And he does that song about him being the 'king of the world'?" Black says.

Gass adds: "And our favourite, para-para-Paradise. They write some catchy tunes. But they don't really rock."

Since forming more than 20 years ago, The D have created The Greatest Song In The World. Their bragadoccio-meets-Dio sensibilities have won them fame and friends, including their drummer Dave Grohl.

Tenacious D opened for Foo Fighters on their last Australian stadium tour in late 2011 and they were one of the frontman's many high-calibre guests when he filled in as host of cult talk show Chelsea Lately in the lead-up to the Grammys.

"Dave Grohl is an amazing creation; I'm not sure how he does all the things he does. He is a musician, he is a film-maker and does the acting and now a talk show host. He's a quadruple threat," Black says with uncharacteristic awe.

The D will match their skins-man in one major life goal in May when they return to Australia for an acoustic tour of illustrious venues, including the Sydney Opera House.

Yes, Tenacious D, one of the self-proclaimed "Greatest Rock Bands In The World", are doing theatres.

"In honour of the House, we are doing strictly opera. We are going to do the Barber of Seville, or we could do stuff from Tommy - that makes sense," Black says.

"It will just be the two of us. We're going to go back to our roots, to the old school. The first couple of times we came to Australia, it was just me and Kyle.

"And there's a magic to it we want to reclaim, that special kind of magic when it's Kage versus the world. We will blow your minds with just the two of us and how two guys do that with guitars is like a magic trick."

While Rize Of The Fenix was their "magnum opus", the D promises their fourth album will be "even better".

"That's where the magic usually happens. Led Zeppelin IV was their best. The Beatles' fourth album ... ah, what was it, Kage? Was it Revolver? No? OK, that wasn't a great album, whatever it was."

Gass reveals they already have the working title for the next record.

"It will be Tenacious D Led Zeppelin IV. Or maybe Grammys Time."

SEE Tenacious D

VIC: Palais Theatre, Melboure, May 17.

QLD: Brisbane Convention Centre, May 10. Tickets on sale from 9am on February 25.

NSW: Sydney Opera House, May 11. Tickets on sale from 9am on February 25.