WWE corridor of famer X-Pac has revealed that he rejected having the Pink Sizzling Chili Peppers do his wrestling theme music.
Various music throughout the pro-wrestling was quite common throughout the top of the game within the early 00s. For instance, Disturbed recorded a model of ‘Stone Chilly’ Steve Austin’s entrance theme and bands resembling Limp Bizkit, Saliva, Motörhead and Drowning Pool carried out at WWE’s greatest occasion, Wrestlemania.
Talking to Chris Van Vliet in a brand new interview, X-Pac – actual identify Sean Waltman – opened up about how he turned down having the rock aristocrats create a theme music for X-Issue, his skilled wrestling steady he based in early 2001 with fellow WWE wrestlers Justin Credible and Albert.
“Shane McMahon comes as much as me and goes, ‘Hey, we’re eager about having Pink Sizzling Chili Peppers do your new theme music,’” he informed Van Vliet, “and I’m going, ‘No, I would like Uncle Kracker!’”
After being requested if the Pink Sizzling Chili Peppers have been actually “in line” to report the observe, X-Pac replied: “After they say one thing like that, and particularly at that time that the place WWE was, we have been fairly sizzling.”
He continued: “I used to be the one which picked Uncle Kracker, as a result of I knew him, and that’s kinda how I used to be on the time.”
X-Issue would go on to be a brief lived group inside WWE. Although the steady remained largely forgotten, X-Pac would nonetheless be remembered for his legendary run as a part of D-Era X faction in 2000. Run DMC recorded a particular theme music for them that 12 months .
In different information, Pink Sizzling Chili Peppers’ drummer Chad Smith not too long ago joined Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl and the late Taylor Hawkins’ son, Shane Hawkins, and performed a collection of rock classics at a pizza bar in California.
The intimate, star-studded set befell on the Rock N Roll Pizza Bar in Simi Valley, California on Monday night (August 21), and was a part of a set by well-known covers band Chevy Metallic.
