I’m now less than a month away from the release of my second book Eddie Trunk’s Essential Hard Rock & Heavy Metal VOL 2. Thanks to all who purchased my first book in 2011 my publisher asked for another, and I was happy to do it. So many bands I love got cut out of book one for space, so it was easy to come up with another 35 main chapter bands for VOL 2. Now that this one is done I’m already bummed about bands cut from this for space, so maybe VOL 3 one day? But I’m getting ahead of myself! VOL 2 is the exact same format as the first book which many told me they loved with a forward by Slash. Easy reading, playlists, cool exclusive photos, and much more. It’s the same publisher (Abrams) as book one, so it looks and feels like the sequel it’s intended to be. The official release is 9/24 physical and digital wherever books are sold. Pre Orders now on Amazon at a special low price. The first leg of my nationwide signing tour is listed on the home page with more cities and stops to come. And of course the first book is still available now anywhere you buy books physical and digital (Itunes also). You can also still buy book 1 direct from me if you’d like it signed and personalized. Just hit book tab on the site for info. Please note I can not sell VOL 2 directly on my site as signed copies until a couple months after the 9/24 nationwide release. So please order through Amazon or your favorite book store and come to the signings if you can. Happy to sign any and all there or anywhere you catch me. Also note that many of the locations I am doing signings in require you to buy a book from them to have it signed at the event. All signings will also have copies of my first book available as well. Thanks so much for the support. Really excited for the release and the tour! It all starts 9/24 at the Hard Rock in Times Sq at 6:30P. More to come but here for the first time is the list of the 35 main chapter bands featured in VOL 2, some were teased as “More Essentials” in the first book. Now they are getting the full treatment. (please note there are other bands also represented in VOL 2, this is just a list of the main full chapter bands):
Accept
Alice In Chains
Angel
Blue Oyster Cult
Buckcherry
Cinderella
Dokken
Dream Theater
Exodus
Extreme
Lita Ford
Ace Frehley (solo years)
Great White
Glenn Hughes
King’s X
Yngwie Malmsteen
Manowar
Marilyn Manson
Night Ranger
Ted Nugent
Overkill
Queensryche
Quiet Riot
Ratt
Riot
Saxon
Slash (outside GnR)
Testament
WASP
Warrant
White Lion
Whitesnake
Zakk Wylde (BLS, solo)
Y&T
42 Responses
looks good if you do a volume 3 please include uriah heep
Thinking the same thing. These guys were very influential especially thinking about STYX and RAINBOW, considering HEEP came first. ABOMINOG is the true follow up to DIARY OF A MADMAN and Daisley copied some of that on later OZZY stuff. With Matt Harvey on the shelf ’till 2015, Eddie can write Volumes 3 – 10 during next baseball season.
Rainbow was more influential than anyone can measure. Blackmore, Dio, Powell, Bonnet, Turner? Need I say anymore?
Wow. No Whitesnake?! I know in the first book, you commented that Whitesnake could have gotten a full article in book 1. However, there are so many good bands out there, and I can’t wait to dive into Volume 2!!
I agree with Dave. Whitesnake always has a killer band, and are the best of the best when it comes to heavy blues rock.
It seems that, now esp. with 2 books, this technically could go on forever or as long as there are bands out there, but that’s not a bad thing!
No Danzig, Whitesnake or Faster Pusseycat? All of these guys were on That Metal show. Book still looks great, first day buyer.
Whitesnake is in, that was my typo
Lets get STRYPER, Helloween in next book.