Last month during an episode of WWE’s Monday Night Raw, it was announced that Tool’s Adam Jones added extra guitar work to Pénta’s “The Fire Is Coming” entrance theme. WWE announcers described Jones as “one of the greatest guitarists of all time,” and said that the track features Jones’ “specific playing technique that has been heard since the early Nineties and around the globe.”
Jones, who also beefed up the entrance music for Ray Fenix, is a longtime fan of wrestling and the WWE. He performed the national anthem at Summerslam back in 2011, and the guitarist also wore a Pénta-style mask during a Tool performance in 2016.
Earlier this week, Triple H posted a video paying Jones for his work. The price tag? A buck. “Worth every penny,” Triple H tweeted. “Thank you to Adam Jones of Tool for bringing your sound to these epic entrances!! You can check out Penta & Rey Fenix’s new tracks wherever you get your music.”
Jones previously told Rolling Stone about his love for wrestling. “I grew up with WWF, now WWE – it was one of my outlets; I was into horror movies and creepy comics, but also sports, so wrestling kind of had it all. And a lot of times there was blood!” Jones said. “As I got older, my interests expanded to include makeup effects and music, but wrestling truly makes me feel like a little kid. For a long time I kept it personal. You know, I wouldn’t tell people I was into it – but now that I’m older, I don’t give a sh*t what people think about me. A lot of my friends give me shit – “Why don’t you watch UFC? It’s real” – but I tell them, ‘Look, what these guys do is exciting! It’s entertainment!’ No one is going to hit anyone with a chair in UFC.”
