Tony Khan is no stranger to paying for the rights to well known songs. He’s done it many times since AEW’s inception, and Orange Cassidy has benefitted twice from his boss’ willingness to spend on classic tunes.
During an appearance on Q101 in Chicago, the popular AEW star revealed how he was able to get both “Jane” by Jefferson Starship and “Where Is My Mind” by The Pixies.
“I guess I can get into it a little bit,” he said. “Before I was on AEW, I was coming out to ‘Jane’ by Jefferson Starship, and I just loved it because I loved the movie ‘Wet Hot American Summer’ and I like the way it started with that. When I got to AEW, Jefferson Starship’s like, ‘No. We’re not letting you use that for this guy,’ and because Tony Khan is who he is, he’s like, ‘We’re gonna get another one,’ and I was like, ‘I mean, you don’t have to. I can just get a custom one.’ He’s like, ‘No, no. We’re gonna.’“
He continued: “We were up late one night and on the fourth floor of the hotel we were staying at after a show and just talking about stuff, and he came up with The Pixies or maybe it was Chuck Taylor. I’m not sure. I wanna say it was Tony because that’s probably a better answer to say — I’m pretty sure it was him — that he suggested The Pixies and they reached out and Pixies was like, ‘Sure. We’ll do it…’“
“Then there was an article on Pitchfork saying like, oh, ‘This new wrestler is coming out to the Pixies.’ Jefferson Starship reached back out… And they said, ‘Hey, we’ll do something’ and now I have two very expensive theme songs.”
Watch Orange Cassidy’s full interview below.
