This section of the website is dedicated to the music used in ECW throughout the original promotion’s run from 1992-2001. Many wrestling fans look upon the time of “Extreme Championship Wrestling” (late-August 1994 through January 2001) as a time when the music was an integral part of the show ranging from:
- The original “This Is Extreme” theme as made by Harry Slash and the Slashtones for the promotion
- Wrestlers’ entrance music
- Music videos on ECW television
- Used in the commercials which sold ECW VHS tapes of previous shows
- Music used in the two ECW video games
- The ECW CD compilation albums including:
- ECW Extreme Music
- Anarchy Rocks Extreme Music Volume 2
- Much more
Credits For ECW Music (Per Harry Slash)
Harry reached out to us as he wanted to make sure that the performers with whom he worked on original ECW music received proper recognition from the fans. Per Harry, here are the names and the roles each individual served to help make the original music which ECW fans enjoyed:
The following musicians (and ECW wrestlers) performed on original ECW music produced by Harry Slash (in chronological order):
- Harry Slash: producer, vocals, bass, keyboards, guitar, engineer & song writer
- Steve Budgie Werner: drums
- Richie Scarlet: guitar & bass
- Andy Abbene: guitar
- Eddie Wohl: co-producer & engineer
- Roderick Kohn: guitar, bass, drum programming, keyboards, engineer, co-producer & song writer
- Taz: vocals
- Michael Lawler: guitar & backing vocals
- Tony Moore: vocals
- Arno Hecht: all saxophones and clarinet
- Even Steven Levee: bass
- Stephen Bondy: guitar, engineer, co-producer
- Francine Fournier: vocals
- Eddie Sperry: mastering, engineer & co-producer. (RIP)
- Garry G-Man Sullivan: drums
- Frankie Fortune: vocals (RIP)
- Mickey Leigh: guitar & song writer
- Frank Sannutto: drums
- Joey Fortune: guitar
- Dave E. Doom: guitar
- Adolph Marcellino: bass
- Joe Lynn Turner: vocals
We received permission to embed this video which was uploaded November 2021. It features an interview with Paul Heyman, and a good portion of the interview was dedicated to ECW’s use of music including the licensing situation. Many stories are not known to even most die-hard ECW fans, so enjoy this video!
Credits for the above video for Robert: YouTube channel, Squared Circle Pit podcast, and Twitter
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