Black Widow
03-12-2008, 12:18 PM
- Newsday has picked up on WWE’s announcement that Jeff Hardy has been suspended for 60 days for violating the company’s Wellness Policy. The article does not give any new details regarding the suspension but you can read it below. This is certainly not the kind of press WWE wants before WrestleMania.
began in 2006 sted last year. Moving on general news and sports services.
STAMFORD, Conn. (AP) _ World Wrestling Entertainment has suspended one of its most popular performers for a second violation of the company's drug policy.
Stamford-based WWE spokesman Gary Davis says wrestler Jeff Hardy, who has headlined numerous live and pay-per-view events, has been suspended for 60 days. He would not say what drugs were involved.
Davis says there have been about 30 suspensions under the WWE substance abuse and drug testing policy begun in 2006, which requires tests for steroids and other drugs.
A wrestler faces a 30-day suspension without pay for a first violation, a 60-day suspension for a second violation and firing for a third violation. Performers are tested at least four times per year.
Last August, WWE suspended 10 wrestlers for violations of its drug testing policy involve drug purchases, mostly human growth hormones.
newsday.com
- For those wondering why Finlay debuted new theme music last week, only for it to return to his original theme on last night’s edition of Raw, there is a story by The Boston Herald that might explain why. According to the publication, WWE’s music coordinator contacted the Irish/folk punk band, Swaggerin’ Growlers, through MySpace about recording a track to be used as Finlay’s theme music. The Swaggerin’ Growlers went into the studio for a 13 hour recording session to get the track down, as singer and acoustic guitar player Jonny Swagger said, “I think it was the 11th hour and a nine-ounce flask of whiskey later, and we had a vocal track. I did some of my finest growling.” You can read the full article below.
24Wrestling.com
WWE finally figured it out: Drinking is practically synonymous with Boston punk, and pro wrestling isn’t as much fun to watch sober.
The behemoth wrestling conglomerate recently tapped local Irish/folk punkers the Swaggerin’ Growlers to record the new entrance theme for Fit Finlay, a superstar wrestler formerly known as the Belfast Bruiser (Hear it - and see Finlay strutting to it - on youtube.com).
Four days after receiving a Myspace message from WWE’s music coordinator, and the morning after playing a late-night show in Portland, Maine, the Growlers zipped into Somerville’s Q Division studios for a 13-hour session.
“I think it was the 11th hour and a nine-ounce flask of whiskey later, and we had a vocal track. I did some of my finest growling,” said singer and acoustic guitar player Jonny Swagger in the Brookline apartment he and several band members share.
While the unsigned Growlers, who play at Great Scott in Allston on Thursday, are psyched for continuous national TV exposure, they’ve also thought about the broader implications of their brush with the mainstream.
“(Social networking) technology enabled somebody like WWE to find independent artists to help them produce something wonderful,” said Swagger. “Kind of blows the old paradigm out of the water. If we were on a label, things would have been held up in lawyers and red tape. The lower you go down the food chain, the more freedom you have.”
WWE composer James A. Johnston conceptualized the song, so the Growlers were paid as work-for-hire musicians and don’t expect additional royalties. In other words, they’re still not rich. Nonetheless, if DIY purists consider performing music for wrestlers as selling out, they’re missing the big picture.
“Conservatively estimated, you’ve got a couple million kids out there watching wrestling, who might be living out in backwater/anywhere, USA,” mused Growlers’ drummer Chestnut P. Growler, who also plays guitar and sings. “They may not be exposed to stuff we’re exposed to here, like the punk scene. They might pick up our album and, all of a sudden, hear songs about labor unions, being drunk before noon and sticking it to The Man. ”
Entirely likely. The band’s first CD, “The Bottle and the Bow,” is a rambunctious testimonial of poverty, boozin’ and defiance. Swagger contends the pending follow-up will confound anyone pigeonholing the Growlers as archetypal Irish-punk, which is no reason not to utilize their musical lineage to its fullest. The Growlers made their debut as a band on St. Patrick’s Day three years ago. This year they’ll mark the holiday by playing the WFNX-FM Irish Breakfast in their acoustic incarnation, Saint Poitin; then the full band treks to Portland for another set.
Whether providing the soundtrack for choreographed donnybrooks or unrehearsed shenanigans, the Growlers take unapologetic satisfaction in their frequent involvement in the fun kinds of trouble.
“We’re uppity bastards,” said Swagger, “and we’re proud of it.”
bostonherald.com
began in 2006 sted last year. Moving on general news and sports services.
STAMFORD, Conn. (AP) _ World Wrestling Entertainment has suspended one of its most popular performers for a second violation of the company's drug policy.
Stamford-based WWE spokesman Gary Davis says wrestler Jeff Hardy, who has headlined numerous live and pay-per-view events, has been suspended for 60 days. He would not say what drugs were involved.
Davis says there have been about 30 suspensions under the WWE substance abuse and drug testing policy begun in 2006, which requires tests for steroids and other drugs.
A wrestler faces a 30-day suspension without pay for a first violation, a 60-day suspension for a second violation and firing for a third violation. Performers are tested at least four times per year.
Last August, WWE suspended 10 wrestlers for violations of its drug testing policy involve drug purchases, mostly human growth hormones.
newsday.com
- For those wondering why Finlay debuted new theme music last week, only for it to return to his original theme on last night’s edition of Raw, there is a story by The Boston Herald that might explain why. According to the publication, WWE’s music coordinator contacted the Irish/folk punk band, Swaggerin’ Growlers, through MySpace about recording a track to be used as Finlay’s theme music. The Swaggerin’ Growlers went into the studio for a 13 hour recording session to get the track down, as singer and acoustic guitar player Jonny Swagger said, “I think it was the 11th hour and a nine-ounce flask of whiskey later, and we had a vocal track. I did some of my finest growling.” You can read the full article below.
24Wrestling.com
WWE finally figured it out: Drinking is practically synonymous with Boston punk, and pro wrestling isn’t as much fun to watch sober.
The behemoth wrestling conglomerate recently tapped local Irish/folk punkers the Swaggerin’ Growlers to record the new entrance theme for Fit Finlay, a superstar wrestler formerly known as the Belfast Bruiser (Hear it - and see Finlay strutting to it - on youtube.com).
Four days after receiving a Myspace message from WWE’s music coordinator, and the morning after playing a late-night show in Portland, Maine, the Growlers zipped into Somerville’s Q Division studios for a 13-hour session.
“I think it was the 11th hour and a nine-ounce flask of whiskey later, and we had a vocal track. I did some of my finest growling,” said singer and acoustic guitar player Jonny Swagger in the Brookline apartment he and several band members share.
While the unsigned Growlers, who play at Great Scott in Allston on Thursday, are psyched for continuous national TV exposure, they’ve also thought about the broader implications of their brush with the mainstream.
“(Social networking) technology enabled somebody like WWE to find independent artists to help them produce something wonderful,” said Swagger. “Kind of blows the old paradigm out of the water. If we were on a label, things would have been held up in lawyers and red tape. The lower you go down the food chain, the more freedom you have.”
WWE composer James A. Johnston conceptualized the song, so the Growlers were paid as work-for-hire musicians and don’t expect additional royalties. In other words, they’re still not rich. Nonetheless, if DIY purists consider performing music for wrestlers as selling out, they’re missing the big picture.
“Conservatively estimated, you’ve got a couple million kids out there watching wrestling, who might be living out in backwater/anywhere, USA,” mused Growlers’ drummer Chestnut P. Growler, who also plays guitar and sings. “They may not be exposed to stuff we’re exposed to here, like the punk scene. They might pick up our album and, all of a sudden, hear songs about labor unions, being drunk before noon and sticking it to The Man. ”
Entirely likely. The band’s first CD, “The Bottle and the Bow,” is a rambunctious testimonial of poverty, boozin’ and defiance. Swagger contends the pending follow-up will confound anyone pigeonholing the Growlers as archetypal Irish-punk, which is no reason not to utilize their musical lineage to its fullest. The Growlers made their debut as a band on St. Patrick’s Day three years ago. This year they’ll mark the holiday by playing the WFNX-FM Irish Breakfast in their acoustic incarnation, Saint Poitin; then the full band treks to Portland for another set.
Whether providing the soundtrack for choreographed donnybrooks or unrehearsed shenanigans, the Growlers take unapologetic satisfaction in their frequent involvement in the fun kinds of trouble.
“We’re uppity bastards,” said Swagger, “and we’re proud of it.”
bostonherald.com