The latest episode of former WCW President Eric Bischoff’s podcast Bischoff on Wrestling was released this past Wednesday night!
You can find some of Eric ‘s comments regarding how he obtained the rights to Jimi Hendrix’s “Voodoo Child” for the NWO entrance song transcribed below.
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#BischoffOnWrestling The Jimi Hendrix mention had me curious; how does one go about securing music rights to someone like him? @WZRebel
— J.S. Trudel (@JohnSTrudel) May 18, 2017
EB: To this day I am a huge Jimi Hendrix fan. When the opportunity came about I knew I wanted something really unique and really cool that would not sound like traditional wrestling entrance music. I wanted to brand the NWO with Hulk Hogan. I reached out to see who had the rights. I oversaw this because it was important to me. I researched who owned the rights to the Jimi Hendrix estate and after working with a few attorneys we found out that his sister, at the time, oversaw the estate and managed the rights for all things Jimi Hendrix. We negotiated with Jimi’s sister for those rights. They cost me $100,000 which at at the time everyone thought, “Bischoff has lost his mind! $100,000 for Voodoo Child?!” But I had worldwide rights and I could use it multiple times in a broadcast. I can’t remember all the specific details but I remember I could only play it for like 15 or 20 seconds at a time so I couldn’t play the whole song. I played around with it so I could do a long entrance with it or an outro with it. I could use it on PPVs, I could use it on television and I could use it worldwide. For $100,000 it was the best investment I ever made. You couldn’t come close to that for less that $5 million today for the rights I had.
If you have a question that you would like Eric to answer on next week’s episode please use the hashtag #BischoffOnWrestling on Twitter!
This week’s episode of Bischoff on Wrestling features Eric discussing a couple of stories from around the business of pro wrestling with Nick. Including:
- Impact Wrestling President Ed Nordholm contact pro wrestling sites and releasing a time line and correspondence with Matt Hardy regarding the “Broken Universe”
- The $1 million offer made to CM Punk to wrestle this summer in the UK
- Jinder Mahal winning the WWE Championship
- NJPW announcing plans to launch a US subsidiary in 2018
- WWE announcing it’s first ever Women’s Money In The Bank Match
- John Cena’s upcoming one-man shows in Australia
- More…
Eric then answers questions from the #BischoffOnWrestling mailbag regarding:
- How he acquired the rights to Jimi Hendrix’s Voodoo Child for use in WCW
- If he thinks a WCW weekly show like the ECW one WWE did could of work
- How WWE would fare on PPV npw
- If he prefers a 2 or 3 man booth and who enjoyed doing commentary with
- WWE RAW’s stint of having celebrities GMs
- What WCW artifacts he has
- His favorite films
- Pro sports being “fixed”
- Whether wrestling finishers should have gimmicknames or be called by their actual technical names
- Wrestlers being taken out via stretcher and if it’s over done
- Working with Larry Zbyszko
- More…
You can find a special Bischoff on Wrestling Overrun on IRWNetwork.com, or listen in the embedded audio player below, featuring Eric chatting former WWE Superstar Hornswoggle. Some of the topics they discuss include:
- How he broke into the pro wrestling business
- Having to get major back surgery at a young age
- What led to him getting hired by WWE
- Working with Fit Finlay
- His reaction to be cast as a leprechaun
- What the original plans were for him as the Anonymous RAW GM
- Who helped him transition to the independent wrestling scene following getting fired by WWE
- His busy schedule
- More…
