Category : TRUNK REPORT

2/16: TMS BACK W/GEDDY & SURPRISES, ROBIN ZANDER PODCAST, ALICE, PITT & NJ GIGS!

Just home from a long day in NYC. All day rehearsals for That Metal Show with the crew. New set looks cool and we now have Lemmy and Dio on our walls! Tomorrow it’s for real as show 1 tapes with Geddy Lee, John Petrucci on guitar and a special surprise guest for our top 5. The surprise guest will be revealed tomorrow since we tape with a live audience. I’ll tweet it and post photos with him when I get to the set. So all will be revealed soon. Was just asked to keep it a surprise for our live audience until we shoot. It is the singer in a major rock band… So psyched we are finally back! The show we shoot tomorrow premieres this Saturday 9P ET on VH1 Classic!

TONS of requests for audience tickets. I do not control it. www.gothamcasting.com does. Hit them up. Thanks.

Thanks to my guests Doug Aldrich, Ricky Warwick and Damon Johnson on my SiriusXM show tonight, The new Black Star Riders is great! Both Black Star Riders and Doug’s new band Revolution Saints have their latest albums out a week from tomorrow. Rev Saints very much like Journey. Check them both out.

All new podcast  EXCLUSIVE interview posts this Thursday with Robin Zander! Free on Itunes or www.podcastone.com

Don’t forget this Wednesday I am in Hollywood FL at the Hard Rock hosting Alice Cooper. Meet me at The Hard Rock Cafe in the casino after the show.

This Friday live with Don & Jim and Jackyl at Starland in NJ and Saturday with Don & Jim for 2 shows at The Rex Theater in Pittsburgh.

Lot’s going on! Follow on Twitter for more and up to the second news and photos @EddieTrunk . My ONLY twitter account.

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2/13: CRAZY WEEK COMING AND TMS ABOUT TO START SHOOTING!

Hope everyone has a great holiday weekend. Things go pretty nuts for me work wise starting Monday. That’s my first day visiting the new TMS set in NYC and going over a bunch of stuff in prep for the first shoot this coming Tuesday with Geddy Lee, John Petrucci and a surprise guest! Then Wednesday I fly to FL to host Alice Cooper Wed night at the Hard Rock in Hollywood. Then home Thursday, then a live show in NJ at Starland with Don, Jim and Jackyl Friday. Then fly to Pittsburgh Saturday for a 2 live shows Saturday night at The Rex with Don & Jim. Then do it all over again the next week! Not complaining, blessed to have this life doing what I love, but things are going to be really nuts for a while! Keep up on Twitter, FB, here when I have time. And please check the home page appearances for all my upcoming stuff on the road. Hope to see you all soon one way or the other. Oh yeah, and in the middle of all that I will do a live SiriusXM show this Monday too 6-10P ET on channel 39 TRUNKNation for Presidents Day. Doug Aldrich among the guests. I’m tired already but livin the dream, have a good one!

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2/10: WELCOME FT WAYNE IN 98.9 THE BEAR!

Always a huge thrill to welcome a new station to my syndication network. I truly appreciate all the stations I have that give me 3 hours of their weekly schedule to bring my radio show to the audience. We are always looking to add new believers who will give their audience 3 hours of new and classic hard rock and metal. All they have to do is say they want the show. Pleased to welcome a new station on board that will start this Saturday. 98.9 The Bear in Ft Wayne Indiana is our newest affiliate. Thanks to Gasman and his crew for putting me on. This station also streams live so you can tap in from anywhere and hear the show as well. All of the places and ways to hear my FM show every week can be found here:

EDDIE TRUNK ROCKS

Welcome 98.9 The Bear and if you want your local rock station to carry my show let them know about it! Thanks to all the stations and listeners for their support. Everything I have done in my career traces back to this radio show that I started over 32 years ago and it is still very much a major passion of mine to do it every week!

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2/9: THE GRAMMY’S, MOTOR SISTER, ALICE COOPER, MORE

Lot’s of reaction about The Grammy’s who I have consistently hammered about their utter consistent cluelessness when it comes to rock and metal. The nominations seem random at best and the winners can be even more head scratching. Because they have destroyed any real level of credibility when an artist that is actually deserving wins it does nothing for their career and has no real impact. It is sad that another mainstream music institution is so lost when it comes to rock and metal and has been for over 20 years. And there are no signs of anything changing with the laughable decision to give Tenacious D a Grammy for best Metal performance last night for a Dio cover. Now don’t get me wrong, I love Dio as you know and love the album this song came from and the cause it was put out for. But is a metal comedy act really the best metal performance over nominees like Motorhead (who once won one for a Metallica cover!), Mastodon, Slipknot (a #1 album!) and Anthrax (again nominated for a cover!). I mean you just couldn’t make it up! I have nothing against Tenacious D but even they have to be thinking “what the fuck?”. Outside of that AC/DC were great and it looks like Chris Slade has the gig on drums. That was about all there was to discuss rock wise from the show. Oh and it was very cool to see Nuno Bettencourt playing with Paul McCartney! Nuno is having some year reuniting Extreme, still working with Rhianna, recently touring with Steven Tyler, etc. Incredible stuff for a great talent and congrats to him.

Live on SiriusXM channel 39 tonight 6-10P ET. Scott Ian, Pearl and Jim Wilson from Mother Superior in studio and Alice Cooper calls in. See you tonight for TRUNKNation!

Next Eddie, Jim, Don live shows 1/20 at Starland NJ, and 1/21 Rex theater Pittsburgh. TONS of new shows for me added, please see the home page and come on out if you can.

TMS back 2/21 9P ET ALL NEW

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2/4: GEDDY LEE, JOHN PETRUCCI, & MORE IN THAT METAL SHOW DEBUT 2/21!

Extremely psyched to welcome Geddy Lee of Rush for the hour as our guest on the first new episode of That Metal Show in almost a year! I really wanted someone huge for our debut and once again the Rush camp stepped up. Back in season 1 we had Geddy and Alex on and it was a great solid they did me at the time. You see TMS was in it’s infancy and nobody knew what was going to happen with the show. Ged & Alex flew down from Toronto to come on when we were just a 30 minute show not many had yet seen. Now 5 years and about 125 episodes later Geddy is back with us! I am also pleased to welcome Dream Theater guitar virtuoso John Petrucci as our guest musician. We will of course talk with John a bit during the show. Look forward to having him on for his TMS debut and see what guitar fireworks he has in store! I can also tell you there are some special surprises being planned for this episode that will not be announced in advance. It promises to be an epic return! We shoot it in NYC in less than 2 weeks and you will see it at our new start time of 9PM ET on VH1 Classic with a replay at 11PM and replays all week as usual. The remaining guests for the 12 episode new season will be announced as we go. Since we are shooting weekly everything is subject to change. But we have some great guests for the other 11 shows lined up with a very diverse roster, maybe more so than ever. TMS is back! Thanks for all the support as always. Here is the VH1 press release on episode 1 and more in the news section too: : https://eddietrunk.com/rushs-geddy-lee-confirmed-for-season-14-premiere-of-vh1-classics-flagship-series-that-metal-show-dream-theaters-john-petrucci-will-make-his-debut-as-gues/

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2/3: TMS ANNOUNCEMENT TOMORROW, MUCH MORE

Hope everyone is having a good Tuesday. My schedule has just been insane as we are now exactly 2 weeks from taping the first new episode of That Metal Show in almost a year. The debut episodes guest will be announced tomorrow at noon. The guest musician on our 2/21 debut will also be announced. He is a guitar player who has never been on before that I have had many requests for. I truly think everyone will be pleased with our debut! All the guests will be announced soon but since we are taping weekly we are going week to week. I also just confirmed a singer from a major band as a surprise guest coming soon! This new season of TMS will be our most diverse yet when it comes to rock and metal artists and the eras they come from. Obviously impossible to please everyone but this season has a little something for all and is still playing out. Don’t forget the debut is 2/21 and we have a new start time of 9P ET with a replay at the usual time of 11. More soon on TMS and the debut guests will be announced on this site in news at Noon ET tomorrow!

Weather sucks here in NJ but did make it in for a live SiriusXM show last night. Great guests including John 5, Jesse James Dupree (see Jackyl with me, Don & Jim at Starland 2/20!) and Counting Cars star Danny Koker. Was a fun jammed show!

My podcast this week will be my recent interview with Michael Sweet which recently made some news when he discussed possibly producing Seabastian Bach. Hear what Michael really said (he was asked by the label, he is on the same label as Bach) and also hear us talk VH, Stryper and his new project with George Lynch. It is free to download or stream on Itunes or www.podcastone.com

TONS of stuff going on, next 6 months for me already jammed. So keep up here, see the appearances on the home page and follow on Twitter @EddieTrunk. Live shows next in NJ and Pitt, plus a quick visit to the Hard Rock in Hollywood FL to host Alice Cooper 2/18! Also the Extreme Guitar show is this Sunday at BBs. Congrats to my ticket winners who have now been notified. Remember to visit “ETs Box Office” on this site to win tickets. Also check out my new Pick Of The Week every week under Media tab.

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