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Post by Rudy Gobert Fadeaway on Sept 8, 2023 13:24:12 GMT -5
And jizzing $500,000 up the wall to book them. The amount of money WCW wasted on music-related stuff around that time was crazy. Master P was paid millions to make a few appearances and take part in that terrible No Limit Soldiers/West Texas Rednecks feud. They paid James Brown to show up and dance for a couple minutes at Superbrawl but the way it was built up it seemed like The Cat was a delusional heel who was lying so no one really expected Brown to actually be there and they never got any extra PPV buys out of it. Big money to Kiss for that concert and the rights to use the Demon character. Also The Demon was contracted to have a certain number of PPV main events even though he sucked and wasn't over so he would just wrestle a crappy lowcard match but the commentators would describe it as "one of our main events tonight" so I guess that was enough to fulfil that contractual obligation or KISS just didn't care enough to kick up a fuss about it. Megadeth paid to close Nitro with a concert that was ratings poison then paid more to license Crush Em as Goldberg's theme which they gave up on after a couple months because it just didn't fit Goldberg at all and was hurting his crowd reactions. Goldberg's Megadeth theme is my f***ing favourite waste of money because it's not even a normal Megadeth song, it's some shit that sounds like Maroon 5 cause Megadeth wanted more radio hits 😭
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Post by Rudy Gobert Fadeaway on Sept 8, 2023 13:32:09 GMT -5
You always knew it was Goldberg time when you heard that [checks notes] funky guitar
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Post by "Playboy" Don Douglas on Sept 8, 2023 13:38:22 GMT -5
The amount of money WCW wasted on music-related stuff around that time was crazy. Master P was paid millions to make a few appearances and take part in that terrible No Limit Soldiers/West Texas Rednecks feud. They paid James Brown to show up and dance for a couple minutes at Superbrawl but the way it was built up it seemed like The Cat was a delusional heel who was lying so no one really expected Brown to actually be there and they never got any extra PPV buys out of it. Big money to Kiss for that concert and the rights to use the Demon character. Also The Demon was contracted to have a certain number of PPV main events even though he sucked and wasn't over so he would just wrestle a crappy lowcard match but the commentators would describe it as "one of our main events tonight" so I guess that was enough to fulfil that contractual obligation or KISS just didn't care enough to kick up a fuss about it. Megadeth paid to close Nitro with a concert that was ratings poison then paid more to license Crush Em as Goldberg's theme which they gave up on after a couple months because it just didn't fit Goldberg at all and was hurting his crowd reactions. Goldberg's Megadeth theme is my f***ing favourite waste of money because it's not even a normal Megadeth song, it's some shit that sounds like Maroon 5 cause Megadeth wanted more radio hits 😭 Not wrestling related, but as a side note, my favorite example of a band trying for radio hits and failing miserably is the Butthole Surfers. After the success of “Pepper,” they wanted more. Frontman Gibby Haynes openly said in an interview, “With this new album, we want to sell out. We want to get played on the radio and make a lot of money. We got Kid Rock to help write the first single (this was early 2000s, so he was at least somewhat relevant.” The single was “The Shame of Life,” and Kid Rock’s contribution was apparently the opening lines - “I love the girls and the money and the shame of life; my shallow mind is just a sign of your game of life.” The next lyrics, written by the band? “There were girls in the front, there were girls in the back, there were girls pettin’ squirrels, there were squirrels smoking crack.” The Surfers were just too weird to sell out.
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Post by agent817 on Sept 8, 2023 13:42:32 GMT -5
I am curious about this: What was the deal with having Aaron Neville appearing on WCW? I could understand him singing the national anthem at Spring Stampede 1994 but interfering in a match in 1999? I never understood that.
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Post by Milkman Norm on Sept 8, 2023 21:05:45 GMT -5
As mentioned earlier in the thread, every once in while it comes up that Bob Mould worked for late stage WCW and every time it sounds so preposterous I instantly forget about it until I read about it again.
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Post by Ozman on Sept 8, 2023 21:43:35 GMT -5
I can't get over that WWE had a young performer named Onicka Maraj do "I Ain't The Lady To Mess With" for Victoria, and it just... never seemed to occur to them to do anything with that song ever again once the now Nicki Minaj became one of the biggest goddamn names in music. I don't even like her, and that's bafflingly stupid. I discovered that Nicki Minaj did “I Ain’t The Lady To Mess With” around the same time that she started to get mainstream popularity along side Drake and Lil Wayne.
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Post by Feyrhausen on Sept 9, 2023 8:06:44 GMT -5
WCW using KISS in 1999. also see the Misfits....kinda, it was Graves era Misfits so they don't really count. Also WCW having Bob Mold work for them and do nothing musically was a bit silly. KISS in the late '90s were in the midst of an attempted big push for a new album, the "Detroit Rock City" movie, and the WCW thing fed into that. The bigger issue is more just that Bischoff was paying them too much money for it. It did end up being a bit of a flop, the KISS revival, but it was a current underperformance, at least. :P Any amount of money was too much really. KISS is trying to push their album and movie then if anyone is getting paid it should have been WCW. They were the hotter act, having a Demon wrestler and live concert was more benefit to KISS than WCW.
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Sept 9, 2023 8:19:39 GMT -5
every time they trot out bigoted piece of shit way past it Kid Rock, for starters.
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Post by Rudy Gobert Fadeaway on Sept 9, 2023 8:42:24 GMT -5
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Post by agent817 on Sept 9, 2023 9:49:32 GMT -5
I remember watching Nitro that night and thinking that it just did not seem right when Goldberg ran out to that song.
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Post by Jindrak Mark on Sept 10, 2023 11:21:32 GMT -5
Scott Hudson: "What's that noise?" And omg the way Sid sells that Goldberg punch and just nopes out of the ring.
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