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22 December 2023
When somebody mentioned that Dynamite Kid had a CD coming out, my ears perked right up. I always wondered what he was doing since he retired from wrestling, after a tag match against Don Muraco and Cowboy Bob Orton left him with a severely damaged spine.
Damn, you know, it was a real tragedy that Dynamite Kid wasn’t able to keep wrestling. He was a legend. The guy was trained by Stu Hart (Bret and Owen’s dad) in Calgary, alongside fellow British Bulldog Davey Boy Smith. He was one of the premiere high-flyers of the Eighties, using moves that Rey Mysterio and Billy Kidman would steal a decade later. His series of matches with Tiger Mask helped make wrestling big in Japan. And it all ended because Don-fucking-Muraco couldn\'t keep his knee out of his spine.
Well, judging from the contents of this CD, after Dynamite retired he went to college and broke up with a lot of girls. Either that, or he broke up with one girl and wrote 12 songs about it. The lyrics to every song are about how complicated their relationship was or how much saying goodbye hurts (but he never mentions if it hurt more than crippling spinal injuries), and the music is light alt-rock that would’ve fit right in on the soundtrack of a mid-Nineties romantic comedy... I’m thinking So I Married An Axe Murderer.
This is probably the best instance of professional-wrestler-turned-musician so far, though, after Macho Man’s baffling debut album. But it’s so mellow, you’d never guess that Dynamite Kid used to body slam people for a living.
Damn, you know, it was a real tragedy that Dynamite Kid wasn’t able to keep wrestling. He was a legend. The guy was trained by Stu Hart (Bret and Owen’s dad) in Calgary, alongside fellow British Bulldog Davey Boy Smith. He was one of the premiere high-flyers of the Eighties, using moves that Rey Mysterio and Billy Kidman would steal a decade later. His series of matches with Tiger Mask helped make wrestling big in Japan. And it all ended because Don-fucking-Muraco couldn\'t keep his knee out of his spine.
Well, judging from the contents of this CD, after Dynamite retired he went to college and broke up with a lot of girls. Either that, or he broke up with one girl and wrote 12 songs about it. The lyrics to every song are about how complicated their relationship was or how much saying goodbye hurts (but he never mentions if it hurt more than crippling spinal injuries), and the music is light alt-rock that would’ve fit right in on the soundtrack of a mid-Nineties romantic comedy... I’m thinking So I Married An Axe Murderer.
This is probably the best instance of professional-wrestler-turned-musician so far, though, after Macho Man’s baffling debut album. But it’s so mellow, you’d never guess that Dynamite Kid used to body slam people for a living.
artid
2390
Old Image
6_10_dynamitekid.jpg
issue
vol 6 - issue 10 (jun 2004)
section
entertainmental