Stone Cold Steve Austin Says He Was ‘Lost’ Before He Began Using His Iconic Theme Music
Stone Cold Steve Austin reflects on how he felt 'lost' before he began using his iconic theme music.
Stone Cold Steve Austin reflects on how he felt ‘lost’ before he began using his iconic theme music.
The sound of glass shattering followed by his iconic ‘I Won’t Do What You Tell Me’ theme song is one of the most iconic themes in the history of professional wrestling, proving to become instantly recognizable for fans whenever his theme hit. However, he didn’t always use that theme song in WWE.
While speaking to Insight With Chris Van Vliet in a new interview, Stone Cold Steve Austin spoke about his iconic theme music, admitting he was lost before he began using it.
“I remember when I was down in WCW, I had a pretty decent little entrance song. It was pretty rocking for as cocky as Stunning Steve was. Then when I came into WWE, as I was using the Million Dollar Dream as my finish, and I was a Million Dollar Champion, they had this dreamy slow music. I’m like, man, what the f*ck? How do you walk to the ring with any kind of swagger to this? I was lost. Finally, they want to redo my music, because I turned into Stone Cold Steve Austin, and I just hit Jim Johnston with, ‘Hey, man, I like Bulls on Parade from Rage Against the Machine.’ So if he listened to it once, twice, or didn’t listen to it, and he came up with what he came up with, and he put the siren in there and the glass breaking, which wasn’t part of that song. So I’ve always given him just the nth amount of credit, because, man, he made winners. And yeah, God dang if that ain’t one of the best entrance songs, or top three, I don’t know what is.”
Elsewhere in the same interview, Austin spoke about a potential dream match with CM Punk. You can read more about that here.
Thank you to Chris Van Vliet for the quote(s)
