Who is Eddie Trunk? Eddie Trunk Biography and Wiki
Eddie Trunk (born Edward Scott Trunk) is an American music historian, radio personality, talk show host, and author, best known as the host of several hard rock and heavy metal-themed radio and television shows. He is also notable for his popular shows which include WNEW-FM-New York City’s “Friday Night Rocks,” the nationally-syndicated “Eddie Trunk Rocks,” and a Sirius XM Radio program called “Trunk Nation.”
Eddie Trunk Age and Birthday
Trunk was born on August 8, 1964, in Madison, New Jersey, United States of America. He celebrates his birthday on August 8th every year. Trunk will be 56 years old on Aug. 8th, 2020.
Eddie Trunk Height and Weight
Trunk stands at an average height and moderate weight. He appears to be quite tall in stature of his photos, relative to his surroundings, are anything to go by. However, details regarding his actual height and other body measurements are currently not publicly available. We are keeping tabs and will update this information once it is out.
Eddie Trunk Education
Trunk went to Madison High School where he made his usual stop at the local record shop he passed every day with a friend. It was there that he was introduced to a record by a band called Kiss. Their brand new album at the time was called Rock & Roll Over. However, since his buddy hadn’t heard that one yet, he recommended the previous Kiss LP called Destroyer. Needless to say, like any other kid growing up in the 70s, the Kiss obsession began (and still continues!).
From there it led to other hard rock favorites such as Aerosmith, UFO, Black Sabbath, Billy Squier (whom Eddie had seen open for Kiss with his old band Piper at his first concert ever in December of ’77 at Madison Square Garden), Rush, Y&T, and countless others.
Trunk never cared about trends and if bands were considered “cool,” and was often made fun of for the bands and music he liked (there was no band considered more un-cool than Kiss in the very early 80s). As a result, he never spent much time with the “in crowd” in high school, and spent time listening to records and reading about his favorite bands.
As a senior in high school (where he never had good grades), Trunk was asked to write a record review section for the high school newspaper. It was there that he could earn school credit, while also doing what he loved, listening to music. A music career was born.
It was also at this time that Eddie’s high school was approached by one of the local colleges to have high school students learn radio during the summer. This would not only give the high school students exposure to the radio but also enable the college students to keep the station on-air when they went home for the summer.
Trunk volunteered, learning how to cue up records and run a radio board. Quickly, worried about building security, the college canned the idea mid-summer, but it was enough to light the fuse in Ed’s mind about a job in radio.
Upon graduation, Eddie attended the local community college for a brief time, but he just wasn’t into it. They didn’t even have a cool radio station! He then landed a job at a local record store in 1983, right across the street from his favorite local NJ radio station, WDHA-FM. Many of the DJs and station management often came into the record shop, and Trunk got to know many of them.
As the resident “Metal Head” of the record store staff, he was always tipping off the station program director about a cool hard rock he should be playing. Not knowing how to handle it, the PD resisted. Then a friend told Eddie about a “pirate” radio station, an illegal broadcast that originated from somebody’s basement.
Trunk visited the station, did a few shows, and took the tapes to DHA. Although the tapes weren’t that impressive, his commitment to join DHA was. It was also around the time that heavy metal was about to explode. Quiet Riot, Def Leppard, Metallica, and others were set to explode. The offer came to “hang out” at DHA for a little while. Kind of like an unpaid intern that wasn’t going to any school!
Eddie Trunk Parents
After doing our research, details about his parents are not known to the public and it is also not known if he has any siblings.
Eddie Trunk Wife
Trunk likes to keep his personal life private however, it is known that he married his loving wife, Jen Trunk, and are blessed with two children, Raymond and Elizabeth, and three cats. The family resides in New Jersey.
Eddie Trunk Salary
Per our average wage estimates for a journalist in the United States, Trunk receives annual salary ranging between $ 24,292 and $ 72,507 that translates to an hourly average wage of between $ 10.15 and $ 31.32.
Eddie Trunk Net Worth
Trunk has enjoyed a long career in the journalism industry spanning almost three decades. Through proceeds from his work as a music historian, radio personality, talk show host, and author, he has been able to accumulate a huge fortune. Trunk is approximated to have a net worth of about $100,000 – $1 Million.
Eddie Trunk Measurements and Facts
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Eddie Trunk Bio and Wiki
- Full Names: Edward Scott Trunk
- Popular As: Eddie Trunk
- Gender: Male
- Occupation / Profession: Music historian, radio personality, talk show host, and author
- Nationality: American
- Race / Ethnicity: White
- Religion: Not Known
- Sexual Orientation: Straight
Eddie Trunk Birthday
- Age / How Old?: 55 (2020)
- Zodiac Sign: Not Known
- Date of Birth: August 8, 1964
- Place of Birth: Madison, New Jersey, United States
- Birthday: August 8th
Eddie Trunk Body Measurements
- Body Measurements: Not Available
- Height / How Tall?: Not Known
- Weight: Not Known
- Eye Color: Green
- Hair Color: Brown
- Shoe Size: Not Available
- Chest Size: Not Available
- Waist Size: Not Available
- Chest Size: Not Available
Eddie Trunk Family and Relationship
- Father (Dad): Mr. Trunk
- Mother: Not Known
- Siblings (Brothers and Sisters): Not Known
- Marital Status: Married
- Wife/Spouse or Husband/Spouse: Married to Jen Trunk
- Children: Sons (Raymond) Daughter(s) (Elizabeth)
Eddie Trunk Networth and Salary
- Net Worth: $100,000 – $1 Million
- Salary: $ 24,292 and $ 72,507
- Source of Income: Music historian, radio personality, talk show host, and author
Eddie Trunk House and Cars
- Place of living: New Jersey
- Cars: Car Brand to be Updated
Eddie Trunk Career
Eddie Trunk Show
Speaking of his career, Trunk came to prominence from late 1983 through 1994 when he hosted WDHA, the station he grew up listening to. Over the 10 years he spent at DHA (all on low maintenance premise), he hosted, produced, and modified the stations popular metal show, notwithstanding doing normal air shifts, remote broadcasts, interviews, and promotions.
Trunk hosted Friday Night Rocks and Saturday Night Rocks for WNEW-FM in New York City until the radio broadcast experienced an arrangement change in 2003. He was additionally a standard DJ on Q104.3 before joining WNEW-FM and was a VJ who hosted the end of the week scenes of Metal Mania on the satellite TV slot VH1 Classic.
He additionally hosted a week after week Saturday four-hour program on XM Radio’s Ozzy’s Boneyard Channel. Trunk was suspended after an interview with New York Mets catcher Mike Piazza in which Piazza was condemning of XM Radio’s modifying on the Boneyard Channel. Trunk was not heard on XM again until late November 2006, when he showed up on the Ron and Fez show to declare his arrival to XM. He started facilitating Eddie Trunk Live on the Boneyard starting the primary week in December 2006.
In May 2006, Guns N’ Roses lead vocalist Axl Rose made an unexpected visit on Trunk’s Q104.3 radio show. Rose strolled in suddenly to Trunk’s radio studio in New York and burned through over two hours live broadcasting in real-time with Trunk and different visitors.
Trunk uncovered in 2019 that he had recorded support vocals on Anthrax’s 1989 cover of the KISS melody Parasite and was credited in the extraordinary thanks as Ed “Parasite” Trunk. Starting in 2012, Trunk’s present work includes the broadly coordinated radio show, Eddie Trunk Rocks, which is recorded at the New York radio broadcast, Q104.3 (WAXQ), on the FM recurrence, and is coordinated by Radio KG.
Trunk likewise has Trunk Nation on the Sirius XM Radio stations Volume (Channel 106) and Hair Nation (Channel 39) (some time ago known as Eddie Trunk Live when Trunk was with The Boneyard station) and is a music host and interviewer for the MSG Network, a link network based out of New York City. He has “The Eddie Trunk Podcast” on PodcastOne. Eddie hosted the Hall of Heavy Metal History on January 18, 2017.
Eddie Trunk Book
Trunk was likewise the host and co-producer of That Metal Show, which broadcast week after week on VH1 Classic from 2008 to 2015. He has composed two books, Essential Hard Rock and Heavy Metal Vol 1 and 2.
Frequently Asked Questions About Eddie Trunk
Who is Eddie Trunk?
Trunk is a famous music historian, radio personality, talk show host, and author, best known as the host of several hard rock and heavy metal-themed radio and television shows. He is also notable for his popular shows which include WNEW-FM-New York City’s “Friday Night Rocks,” the nationally-syndicated “Eddie Trunk Rocks,” and a Sirius XM Radio program called “Trunk Nation.”
How old is Eddie Trunk?
Trunk is an American national born on August 8, 1964, in Madison, New Jersey, United States.