The Wrestling Boot Band

The Wrestling Boot Band, also known as the Wrestling Boot Traveling Band, was a musical group fronted by Hulk Hogan, which also included "The Mouth of the South" Jimmy Hart, Hogan's then-wife Linda, and John "J.J." Maguire. They released one album, Hulk Rules, in 1995, under the name "Hulk Hogan and the Wrestling Boot Band."

The Wrestling Boot Band
OriginUnited States
GenresAOR, pop, rap rock
LabelsSelect Records
Past membersHulk Hogan
Linda Bollea
Jimmy Hart
J.J. Maguire

Hulk Rules
Hulk Rules
Studio album by
Hulk Hogan and The Wrestling Boot Band
Released1995
GenreAOR, pop, rap rock
Length29:34
LabelSelect Records
ProducerHulk Hogan, Jimmy Hart, J.J. Maguire, Linda Bollea

Hulk Rules includes songs in the genres of rock, pop, hip hop and other genres.

The song "American Made" was used as Hogan's theme song in World Championship Wrestling when he wasn't fronting the nWo. According to Hogan, "Hulkster in Heaven" was written in 1992 in honor of a Make-A-Wish Kid whom Hogan had invited to sit ringside at a show in the UK.[1] When Hulk went out to wrestle, he saw that the seat was empty.[1] Later, he was informed that the young "Hulkamaniac" had died before the match had begun.[1] The lyric "Guess there'll be an empty seat when I wrestle at Wembley," was a direct result of the situation. He would go on to wrestle at the arena in September 1994 for WCW.[2] Proceeds from the album went to help the young boy's family, who was having trouble paying the medical bills.[3]

That night, Hogan and Jimmy Hart wrote several songs for the album.[3] Hogan let his wife at the time Linda sing back up vocals on a couple of the songs because, according to him, she sounded better than "the rest of the stuff."[3]

The song "Beach Patrol" features a sample from "Tidal Tempest" from Sonic CD, as heard on Sonic CD's album release of the American Soundtrack known as Sonic the Hedgehog Boom.[4]

Track listing

All songs written by Terry G. Bollea, Jimmy R. Hart and John J. Maguire.

  1. "Hulkster's in the House"
  2. "American Made"
  3. "Hulkster's Back"
  4. "Wrestling Boot Traveling Band"
  5. "Bad to the Bone"
  6. "I Want To Be A Hulkamaniac"
  7. "Beach Patrol"
  8. "Hulk's The One"
  9. "Hulkster in Heaven"
  10. "Hulk Rules"

Reception
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[5]

Although panned commercially the album has become a cult classic. The pro wrestling website WrestleCrap criticized the album as such: "Hulk Rules; The Hulkster's in the House, and invading your eardrums with the force of a class A killstorm. Highlights include every song mentioning Hogan by name (no egotism here) and Jimmy Hart singing with a clothespin on his nose."[6]

Personnel

Adapted from the album's page[7] at Discogs.

  • Hulk Hogan – vocals, bass
  • J.J. Maguire – guitar, keyboards, vocals, bass, drums
  • Linda Bollea – vocals, percussion
  • Jimmy Hart – vocals, percussion, effects

Chart history
Chart (1995) Peak
position
Top Kid Audio (Kid Albums)[8] 12

The album was featured on Jimmy Fallon's segment "Do Not Play List" on an October 8, 2012 episode of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.

"The Hulkster's in the House" was featured in Malcolm in the Middle episode "The Bully".

Notes
  1. Hogan, Hulk, Hollywood Hulk Hogan p.255
  2. "WCW 1994". Thehistoryofwwe.com. Retrieved 13 August 2012.
  3. Hogan, Hulk, p.256
  4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jI5joRVM9mI
  5. Griffith, JT. The Wrestling Boot Band at AllMusic. Retrieved 25 January 2016.
  6. Reynolds, RD (30 December 2012). "Past Inductions". WrestleCrap. Retrieved 4 June 2013.
  7. "Hulk Rules at Discogs". Discogs. Retrieved 4 June 2013.
  8. "Hulk Rules - Hulk Hogan & The Wrestling Boot Band". Billboard. Retrieved 24 May 2012.

See also

References
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