During that time, he earned executive producer credit on some works from bands like Anthrax, Raven, T.T. He became vice president of the company at age 25. During high school, he began to write reviews of records for school credit and soon found his passion in music.Īround 1986, Trunk became an employee of Megaforce Records which had signed both Metallica and Anthrax. As a teenager, Trunk became a fan of Kiss, Raspberries, and other bands including Aerosmith, Rush, UFO and Black Sabbath. He grew up in Madison, New Jersey, where he attended Madison High School. Trunk was born on August 8, 1964, in Summit, New Jersey. He was very naughty about things like that.Music historian, radio producer, radio personality, talk show host, authorĮdward Scott Trunk (born August 8, 1964) 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. So Ronnie started writing ‘Magic’ as well. And when I did an autograph, I’d write ‘Magic.’. He was very naughty about things like that. And he called one of his songs ‘One Foot In The Grave,’ I jokingly said, ‘We should call the album One Foot In The Grave.’ And then when he left, he called one of his songs that. The album title Sacred Heart that’s where I used to go to school. “But he made it famous, so I didn’t care. “There’s a lot of things that he nicked off me that he claimed that he was the originator,” Butler added. I was just doing it ’cause Aleister Crowley used to do it.” And if you look at the Yellow Submarine album cover, John Lennon‘s cartoon character is doing it, in 1966 or whatever it was. And it was just an alternative to Ozzy‘s peace signs, I was doing it. As I say, I’ve got pictures of me doing it in 1971. When asked why he had never publicly revealed before that he was responsible for showing Dio the devil horns, Butler responded: “I didn’t really think much of it. And he started doing it from there and made it famous.” I feel like I should be doing something back to them.’ He says, ‘What’s that sign that you do in ‘Black Sabbath’?’ And I showed him the devil horns sign. “And on the first couple of Heaven And Hell tour shows, Ronnie was saying, ‘When I’m going on stage, everybody is doing the peace sign to me, and that’s an Ozzy thing. And I always used to do it in the breakdown in the song ‘Black Sabbath’ - just before it goes into the fast part at the end, I’d do that sign to the audience. In 2021, Butler said in an episode of SiriusXM‘s “Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk”: “I’ve been doing that sign since - I’ve got pictures of me doing it since 1971. Do you mind if I borrow what you’re doing, the devil-horn thing?’ I said, ‘Yeah, go for it.’ So he did it in every song and made it his. And he saw me doing the devil-horn thing in the song ‘Black Sabbath.’ And a couple of nights later, he says, ‘I can’t do Ozzy‘s V-sign thing. And when Ronnie joined the band, on our very first live gig, everybody was doing the Ozzy peace signs to him and Ronnie just didn’t know how to respond. From 1968 onwards, I was doing the devil horns. “I always did it in the song ‘Black Sabbath’,” Geezer said in a new interview with The Rock Experience With Mike Brunn. Despite this, Dio‘s association with the hand gesture has been cemented in rock history, with many fans continuing to use it as a symbol of rock and metal culture. While Dio is often credited with making the gesture a staple of rock concerts, Butler says that Dio actually got the idea from watching him use it during their time together in BLACK SABBATH.
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