Trivia

An avid investor. He had amassed over one million dollars before graduating high school, and now gives financial advise in his spare time.

His first acting job was for Nationwide Insurance when he was a teen. He got the job through his drummer's mother, Sharon Hillegas, who was the casting director for the commercial. The entire band was cast.

Owns a winery in Reading, Pennsylvania - even though he doesn't drink wine.

He is the grandson of big band-era musician, Wellington "Duke" Madenfort. And the nephew of author Wellington John Madenfort, Jr.

Turned 18 years old while performing on stage. Unable to legally be in a bar while underage, it was announced that he turned 23.

Eddie Trunk opened Season 7 of That Metal Show (2008) on VH-1 Classic by announcing the death of Henrik Ostergaard, lead singer of Dirty Looks. The band had reunited and was writing new material for the upcoming reunion tour, but Ostergaard's declining health, followed by his death, ended any chance of ever seeing the band back together.

After leaving Dirty Looks, he was was hired to play guitar with an Alice Cooper tribute band, but didn't get the chance to perform any live shows with them because he was hired to play with the real Alice Cooper.

As Executive Media Liaison for ABC's music division, Richard Madenfort, made a cameo appearance in every episode of Nashville (2012) beginning with with the first episode of season two, through the end of its 4th season when ABC canceled the show.

Was a founding member of the blues band, Nine Below Zero, along with Bryce Alan Flurie and Mike Hillegas, who's mother, Sharon Hillegas, managed the band.