Eddie I know everybody Trunk .He’s a man whose kept metal and rock n’ roll
alive and without him the genre would have died a terrible death
and that is a direct quote from Eddie Trunk himself. I'm of course kidding. But today i
wanted to take a look at some of his feuds and why some people aren’t fans of his.
Radio host Eddie “I know everybody’ trunk has long expressed his distaste for the band Steel Panther.
It was during his show he was asked to name one band he never thought would make it
and he singled out steel panther saying “It amazes me – the amount of shows and attention… They’ve
gotten huge in England, but in America, they’re still basically a House of Blues-level band,
but it always amazed me how popular Steel Panther got from what they started out as,
which was a band called Metal School. “They’re still a parody, a spoof, on ’80s
rock. I think there’s a segment of their fanbase that isn’t even in on the joke, that is younger.
It was a year earlier he was a little more critical saying “I have nothing personal
against anybody in the band. They are good people, they are good players and all that.
But it’s a spoof. It’s an act. It’s mocking 80’s hard rock….“My time and energy are going to be
invested into the bands from that era, that are still trying to make new, credible, real music. …
The bass player [Lexxi Foxx] literally applies makeup while the show is happening. His hands
aren’t even on the bass. Cause I guess they are running a track or something. Guitarist Satchel
would respond to Trunks comments as he said here People that look at the cover of the book and go
I am going to hate that book I'm not gonna read it like you Eddie Trunk Eddie Trunk
hates us. He doesn't hate butter and he doesn't even know what we sound like. Somebody once asked
him a question one time they went oh you know they've got this song like
you know blah blah blah and he went oh yeah I know well this song's probably about this and awe went
have you listened to it and he went no but I'm sure it's probably like he hadn't even listened
to the song he was critiquing by us and I thought if that doesn't take your credibility away as a
reviewer, then I don't know what will. You can't you can't bag on a band without listening to it.
Rob “Blasko” Nicholson of OZZY OSBOURNE’s band would
slam Trunk in a tweet put in late 2019 writing
“Was just listening to Eddie Trunk Live on Sirius XM… That dude can go get f'd! Since when is that
douche bag the ambassador of Metal?” Trunk would respond with a tweet saying
“Heard that Blasko said some stuff about me on Twitter while listening to my Saturday show.
Don’t know the guy, no idea what his problem is!" he would write.
Sharon Osbourne - I first became aware of this feud back in 2015-2016 when Eddie Trunk
appeared briefly on Howard Stern’s sirius XM show and talked about his problem with Sharon Osbourne.
Trunk would claim that Sharon has barred Ozzy from appearing on his radio program
or when he had that Metal Show on VH1. Classics.
He would tell Steppin Out’ in 2012 “She apparently has some issue with me. I don’t know her and have
no idea what it is," "She has not allowed Ozzy on the TV show after all these years."
Trunk used to have a radio program on the Siriux XM channel boneyard,
but once it became Ozzy Boneyard, Trunk’s program got moved to Hair Nation.
It was a move that upset Trunk as he does not think it’s a good pairing as he claims the
music he plays on his show is not just limited to hair metal. Trunk would add in the same interview
“You would have to ask Sharon Osbourne,. [She] decided my 4 hours of live radio a week was not
going to work for her when the 'Boneyard' became 'Ozzy’s Boneyard.' It is bizarre for sure.""I
have never said anything critical about Ozzy that he didn’t say about himself many times,"
it was years later that Eddie trunk would reveal that one possible source for the
feud is that he's had a number of Ozzy's former bandmates on the show which have spoken pretty
critically of Sharon Osbourne as a manger claiming they've been ripped off by her.
Paul Stanley - This is a feud that is not entirely clear where it originated from. While Trunk has
been a longtime fan of Kiss, he’s also stated on his show that he is not a blind worshipper
of the any band and has called out Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons out several times and that could
be where the beginning of the feud started. in addition to Trunk being friends with former Kiss
guitarist Ace Frehley. Trunk would claim that Kiss is a sensitive band and any criticism of the group
comes with being branded an enemy of the band. Trunk would also claim on his show that the
world would have to end before paul stanley would ever agree to come on his show and be interviewed.