Uploaded January 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
If thinking about the sounds of glass shattering or funeral bells tolling on live TV send chills down your spine, you've already met Jim Johnston —you just didn’t know his name.
In this episode of Tape Spaghetti, Scott & Blake break kayfabe and pull back the curtain on how WWE's most legendary entrance themes, which often emerged out of pure chaos.
The in-house composer who scored wrestling's golden era under absurd pressure, Johnston often had as little as 90 minutes to write the music that would define a character forever.... but somehow he nailed it again and again and again.
The guys break down his creative process, from layering car crash sounds to evoke violence, to writing funeral music rooted in childhood loneliness, to inventing gibberish death-metal lyrics because, well, no one would understand them anyway.
They also dig into Johnston’s fraught relationship with WWE, publishing trade-offs, and why modern wrestling themes just don’t hit the same. It’s part music theory, part pro wrestling lore, and part love letter to the sounds that could make an arena explode before a single haymaker was thrown.
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If thinking about the sounds of glass shattering or funeral bells tolling on live TV send chills down your spine, you've already met Jim Johnston —you just didn’t know his name.
In this episode of Tape Spaghetti, Scott & Blake break kayfabe and pull back the curtain on how WWE's most legendary entrance themes, which often emerged out of pure chaos.
The in-house composer who scored wrestling's golden era under absurd pressure, Johnston often had as little as 90 minutes to write the music that would define a character forever.... but somehow he nailed it again and again and again.
The guys break down his creative process, from layering car crash sounds to evoke violence, to writing funeral music rooted in childhood loneliness, to inventing gibberish death-metal lyrics because, well, no one would understand them anyway.
They also dig into Johnston’s fraught relationship with WWE, publishing trade-offs, and why modern wrestling themes just don’t hit the same. It’s part music theory, part pro wrestling lore, and part love letter to the sounds that could make an arena explode before a single haymaker was thrown.
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WHAT'S OUR DEAL?
Stringjoy is a boutique guitar string manufacturer located in Music City—Nashville, TN. Through innovative designs, first-rate materials, and labor-intensive winding techniques, we make it our mission to craft the finest strings in the world, bar none.
FIND US AT...
Our Homebase: stringjoy.com
Instagram: instagram.com/stringjoy
TikTok: tiktok.com/@stringjoy
Facebook: facebook.com/stringjoy
Twitter: twitter.com/stringjoystaff
