Steve Austin Admits He Was Lost Before WWE Made This Major Change
Steve Austin felt “lost” in WWE before WWE changed his theme song.
Austin recently appeared on Chris Van Vliet’s Insight podcast, where he revealed that he only got into his groove once WWE changed his theme music.
Upon arriving in WWE in 1995 as “The Ringmaster” (Ted DiBiase’s Million Dollar Champion), Steve Austin used dreamy, slow orchestral music that lacked swagger and clashed with his cocky persona, making ring walks feel directionless.
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.
Steve Austin Credits Jim Johnston For Composing One Of The Best Entrance Songs Ever
As Steve Austin evolved into the rebellious “Stone Cold” character in late 1996, he pitched composer Jim Johnston to emulate Rage Against the Machine’s “Bulls on Parade” vibe.
Johnston delivered the explosive track with breaking glass and a siren, which transformed Austin’s presence into one of wrestling’s most legendary.
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.