Eddie Trunk Quotes

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• Jon Bon Jovi is remarkable.
• I want to be the Letterman of metal. I want five nights a week, Monday to Friday, 11 to 12, live. I always shoot for…
• I still love radio, but TV is also an awesome platform.
• I wrote the music column in my high school newspaper.
• One thing people would be surprised about is that although hard rock and heavy metal are without question 90% of what I listen to and…
• VH1 Classic is the destination for people who would be interested in a music talk show.
• In a way, Jersey really supports rock, maybe more than New York City and Long Island. I know plenty of bands that tour and do…
• Skid Row would probably be my favorite Jersey band.
• Black Sabbath invented heavy metal, in my opinion.
• Metal never goes away. It drifts in and out, but the true fans are always there for it.
• Metal has always been somewhat marginalized, and I love to prove the perception and stereotypes that go with it wrong.
• Years ago, I carved out an identity, and it has always been about having a voice to tell people about stuff I love.
• Jersey gets a bad rap. Most people make an assessment of this state on the ride from Newark Airport into Manhattan.
• Hard rock for me is AC/DC, Def Leppard, Tesla, Kiss. Metal tends to be louder, ruder, darker, like Judas Priest, Slayer, Iron Maiden.
• I have literally been working in music just about my entire life.
• The only time people get pressured into doing reunions to make more money is when the current lineup is underperforming. And by bringing back the…
• When I do interviews, I never pre-plan them at all, radio or TV.
• I think that, for me, the great books like that, autobiographies, are great when the artists who write them throw caution to the wind and…
• I still love physical product. I still hold out for actual CDs, because in radio, everyone just wants to send you a file to play.
• I have an iPod, but I put my music in it from my CDs, and then I have that CD in my library.

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