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Jack Black<\/a> has always been a student of rock and roll from the moment that he heard his first records. Whereas most people claim to like the music now and again, Black has absorbed all stripes of rock as part of his DNA, to the point where School of Rock really felt like him living his normal life while teaching a classroom of kids. But one of the greatest strengths that Black had was knowing how to see rock and roll from every possible angle.\u00a0<\/p>\n If there\u2019s one genre that Black will be defined with until the day he dies, it\u2019s hard rock and heavy metal. This is the same guy who insisted that people like Ronnie James Dio was in Tenacious D\u2019s movie and wanted to get Led Zeppelin\u2019s permission to use \u2018Immigrant Song\u2019 for School of Rock, so he always knew that there was nothing better than a kickass guitar riff and a screaming singer howling their way above everything.<\/p>\n That kind of music is all well and good for when people are getting used to rock and roll, but when they start delving beneath the surface, there\u2019s a lot more to explore when they reach the underground. Because if someone like Ozzy Osbourne was a madman, he paled in comparison to what Iggy Pop had been doing a few years prior to him, like cutting himself up onstage and walking on people\u2019s hands in the crowd.<\/p>\n But whereas most people from the underground seemed fairly laid-back, no one was prepared for what Nirvana did the minute they hit it big. Kurt Cobain may have been looking to be a rock star, but \u2018Smells Like Teen Spirit\u2019 took alternative rock into the mainstream, to the point where every single kid who was listening to Warrant and Poison were starting to look well behind the times when they came out with records after that.<\/p>\n Then again, Cobain would have been the first to tell people that he was only listening to what he heard in his record collection. Sure, some of that record collection did feature pop songs by bands like The Beatles and the riffs of Aerosmith<\/a>, but Black knew when he heard them that they weren\u2019t doing anything that Pixies hadn\u2019t been doing as far back as the mid-1980s on albums like Surfer Rosa.<\/p>\n