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The Steve Austin Show

Steve with Jim Johnston, WWE Composer - SAS CLASSIC

The Steve Austin Show

PodcastOne

Society & Culture, Comedy, Sports, Wrestling, Talk Radio

4.88.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2024

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Steve sits down with the man behind all of your favorite wrestler's ring entrance music, Jim Johnston!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Podcast 1 presents the Steve Austin Show Classics.

0:05.0

Hey everybody I'm talking to Jim Johnston, the creative force behind all the W.W.

0:10.0

Superstar Music, Jim, good morning, how are you? I'm great. How about you? Hello I'm hanging out I'm doing good out here in Los Angeles

0:16.4

California. The weather is absolutely beautiful as you and I were talking before you came on the air.

0:21.2

I think it's a cold brutal day over there am I correct

0:24.2

It is winter in New England. Yes,

0:26.2

Winter in New England. Hey man, do you live in Stanford? No, I live in the next town over in Greenwich.

0:33.0

Okay, you're over with the rich folks.

0:36.0

Yeah.

0:37.0

They pay you good money to write all these WWE Superstar themes.

0:41.0

Well, if you work for someone for 85 years eventually it adds up. You're not

0:47.5

living next to Vince are you? Oh God no no you would not allow so you're not

0:52.3

in that part of Greenwich?

0:54.0

No, no, I'm not in that neighborhood.

0:57.0

Hey, Jim, let's talk a little bit about this because I remember when I first walked in the doors,

1:01.0

you not kind of hit it off right off the bat.

1:03.4

I'm a big music fan.

1:04.6

Obviously, you've been doing this for a long time.

1:06.9

You've been in WWE since 1985?

1:10.6

Yeah, since right around WrestleMania 1.

1:14.0

Yeah, it was an interesting time because there,

1:17.0

there really wasn't music in the show, per se.

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