Jericho asks Austin who he used to travel with during his wrestling career, and what kind of music they’d listen to. Austin notes that he traveled with several different performers during his career including DDP, Billy and Bart Gunn, Brian Pillman, Raven and more. He notes that they never really listened to music because they’d always be talking about the business. He drove quite frequently and wouldn’t let guys like Mick Foley or DDP drive. If he was driving, he’d have control over the radio.
He adds that he’d always have a notepad with him if he was driving and listening to heavy metal music because some of those lyrics would match up perfectly with the “Stone Cold” character, and sometimes he’d use those lyrics for t-shirt ideas.
Austin says that Triple H’s WrestleMania 17 entrance when Motorhead played his theme live is one of the greatest entrances of all time. He got goosebumps watching that entrance and it made the hair stand up on his arms. Jericho notes that Lemmy was very smart, polite and respectful, and whenever Motorhead played Triple H’s entrance theme live Triple H lost, and that actually bothered Lemmy.
Austin informs that he was approached by MARS Records to pick a list of songs for a compilation cd in 1998 entitled, “Stone Cold Metal”. That album sold nearly 400,000 copies and they all made some money from that. They followed that up with “Stone Cold Country”. Jericho says that goes to show how popular Austin and wrestling in general was back in those days.
That sums up today’s episode of Talk is Jericho. You can listen to the show yourself anytime here, and I’ll catch ya next week for another recap!
