The Wrestling Boot Band
| The Wrestling Boot Band | |
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| Origin | United States |
| Genres | AOR, pop, rap rock |
| Labels | Select Records |
| Past members |
Hulk Hogan Linda Bollea Jimmy Hart J.J. Maguire |
| Hulk Rules | |
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| Studio album by Hulk Hogan | |
| Released | 1995 |
| Genre | AOR, pop, rap rock |
| Length | 29:34 |
| Label | Select Records |
| Producer | Hulk Hogan, Jimmy Hart, J.J. Maguire, Linda Bollea |
| Professional ratings | |
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| Allmusic |    |
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." Hulk Rules rose into the Top Ten on Billboard's children's chart, despite the negative feedback from critics.
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. When Hulk went out to wrestle, he saw that the seat was empty. Later, he was informed that the young "Hulkamaniac" had died before the match had begun. The lyric "Guess there'll be an empty seat when I wrestle at Wembley," was a direct result of the situation, despite the fact that Hogan has never wrestled at Wembley Stadium, and had not wrestled at Wembley Arena yet at that point (although he would eventually wrestle at the arena in September 1994 for WCW). Proceeds from the album went to help the young boy's family, who was having trouble paying the medical bills.
That night, Hogan and Jimmy Hart wrote several songs for the album. 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."
All songs written by Terry G. Bollea, Jimmy R. Hart and John J. Maguire.
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."
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