Eddie Trunk's Essential Hard Rock and Heavy Metal Book

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  • Mr Walker
    Crazy Ass Mofo
    • Jan 2004
    • 2536
    #1

    Eddie Trunk's Essential Hard Rock and Heavy Metal Book

    Anyone pick this up?
    I grabbed it off Amazon for $11.
    I'll always like Trunk because of his undying loyalty to the band UFO, especially the Chapman era... but I'll be god damned over all the fucking Hagar love the dude sprays around.
    It's like an oversized magazine and I have to say, some of the pictures are phenomenal. Eddie has a buddy who must have spent many years shooting concerts on the East Coast (right in my backyard in the tri-state area). Great shot of EVH on guitar with a big bra hanging off the stand circa 1980 and another great shot of KISS from the spectrum in 1979.
    Listening to Trunk on the Opie and Anthony show and I have to hand it to comedian/actor Jay Mohr for calling Trunk out on his Sammy love and the shitty VH playlist he put in his book with all the shitty Van Hagar songs he stuck on it.
    All things considered... even with a chapter dedicated to Bon Jovi (mind you a chapter is only a few pages), I'd recommend the book as great for reading on the shitter. Plus I amassed a lot of my favorite hard rock vinyl LPs the same way trunk did... winning them on the Seaside boardwalk.
    Tags: eddie, trunks
    • ELVIS
      Banned
      • Dec 2003
      • 44120
      #2
      Is this an April fools joke ??

      If not you should flush the rag down the shitter...


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        • Mr Walker
          Crazy Ass Mofo
          • Jan 2004
          • 2536
          #3
          "This is the gayest shit I've ever heard" - Jay Mohr on the song 'Poundcake'... "This is garbage"
          They are killing Trunk for leaving 'Unchained' off his list where he put 'Poundcake' on it.

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            • Mr Walker
              Crazy Ass Mofo
              • Jan 2004
              • 2536
              #4
              "You fucking Dolt! How did you miss 'Hot For Teacher'!"

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                • ELVIS
                  Banned
                  • Dec 2003
                  • 44120
                  #5
                  Trunk is an embarrassment to hard rock and metal...

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                    • Mr Walker
                      Crazy Ass Mofo
                      • Jan 2004
                      • 2536
                      #6
                      Originally posted by ELVIS
                      Trunk is an embarrassment to hard rock and metal...
                      I disagree, but some of his opinions are questionable.

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                        • ELVIS
                          Banned
                          • Dec 2003
                          • 44120
                          #7
                          He'sa lot like Hagar in that his work ethic has gotten him a long way, but he's still totally lame...


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                            • Mr Walker
                              Crazy Ass Mofo
                              • Jan 2004
                              • 2536
                              #8
                              Originally posted by ELVIS
                              He'sa lot like Hagar in that his work ethic has gotten him a long way, but he's still totally lame...


                              Good point.

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                                • ELVIS
                                  Banned
                                  • Dec 2003
                                  • 44120
                                  #9
                                  Thankyaverymuch...

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                                    • sadaist
                                      TOASTMASTER GENERAL
                                      • Jul 2004
                                      • 11625
                                      #10
                                      Originally posted by ELVIS
                                      He'sa lot like Hagar in that his work ethic has gotten him a long way, but he's still totally lame...




                                      That's funny cause it makes me remember the interview with Eddie & Alex where Ed says about Sammy

                                      "bottom line, the guys work ethic sucked"

                                      LOLOLOLOL
                                      “Great losses often bring only a numb shock. To truly plunge a victim into misery, you must overwhelm him with many small sufferings.”

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                                        • Unchainme
                                          ROTH ARMY SUPREME
                                          • Apr 2005
                                          • 7741
                                          #11
                                          can someone tell me what qualifies Hagar as heavy metal singer?

                                          really?

                                          I mean if you're going down that road, shouldn't Mike Reno for loverboy be in the discussion, because the two's early work sounds remarkably similar. Or Jimmy Buffet for that matter? Who Hagar is trying to rip..err..I mean emulate since about the mid-90's?

                                          without Roth and the classic van halen era of music that he was in, bands like Anthrax, Pantera, Motley Crue, would not have been nearly as inspired. Hell, bands like Green Day consider Classic Van Halen a major reason why they decided to get into music (Green Day sucks, but that's for another time)

                                          Give me a reason why Van Hagar should be remembered at all. I have never heard a prominent musician of any sort give those years a ringing endorsement. Hell, even Ed and his Kid seem embarrassed by that shit.
                                          Still waiting for a relevant Browns Team

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                                            • Mr Walker
                                              Crazy Ass Mofo
                                              • Jan 2004
                                              • 2536
                                              #12
                                              Originally posted by Unchainme
                                              can someone tell me what qualifies Hagar as heavy metal singer?
                                              They put that question to Trunk and he responded "the first 2 Montrose albums".
                                              For the record... I disagree, I always found Montrose to be a very lame band.

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                                                • hambon4lif
                                                  Crazy Ass Mofo
                                                  • Jun 2004
                                                  • 2810
                                                  #13
                                                  Here's my list of Montrose songs that are worth a damn. (in no particular order)

                                                  1. Rock Candy
                                                  2. Rock Candy
                                                  3. Rock Candy
                                                  4. Rock Candy
                                                  5. Rock Candy

                                                  I may have left out some more that I'll think of later, but that's pretty much it.

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                                                    • Guitar Shark
                                                      ROTH ARMY SUPREME
                                                      • Jan 2004
                                                      • 7576
                                                      #14
                                                      Originally posted by hambon4lif
                                                      Here's my list of Montrose songs that are worth a damn. (in no particular order)

                                                      1. Rock Candy
                                                      2. Rock Candy
                                                      3. Rock Candy
                                                      4. Rock Candy
                                                      5. Rock Candy

                                                      I may have left out some more that I'll think of later, but that's pretty much it.
                                                      LOL... my thoughts exactly.
                                                      ROTH ARMY MILITIA


                                                      Originally posted by EAT MY ASSHOLE
                                                      Sharky sometimes needs things spelled out for him in explicit, specific detail. I used to think it was a lawyer thing, but over time it became more and more evident that he's merely someone's idiot twin.

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                                                        • Mr Walker
                                                          Crazy Ass Mofo
                                                          • Jan 2004
                                                          • 2536
                                                          #15
                                                          Originally posted by hambon4lif
                                                          Here's my list of Montrose songs that are worth a damn. (in no particular order)

                                                          1. Rock Candy
                                                          2. Rock Candy
                                                          3. Rock Candy
                                                          4. Rock Candy
                                                          5. Rock Candy

                                                          I may have left out some more that I'll think of later, but that's pretty much it.
                                                          here's my list of Montrose songs worth a damn...
                                                          1.
                                                          2.
                                                          3.
                                                          4.
                                                          5. :dafinger:

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