Following Trapt frontman Chris Taylor Brown‘s multi-day Twitter tantrum, Power Trip frontman Riley Gale has stepped up to challenge Brown and his claims of his band’s current relevance. As seen across his Twitter the past few days, Brown has consistently touted the success of his band and their streaming numbers as well as the money earned from their shows.
Countering this, Gale has thrown down the gauntlet to see who can outdraw each other: Trapt or Power Trip. Gale‘s challenge would see the bands putting on shows in the same town on the same night with the band who draws the smaller audience forced to donate their show guarantee to charity. Gale tweeted the following to Brown this morning:
i bet my band out draws yours in your own home town @TRAPTOFFICIAL. want to put it to the test? two shows, different venues, same night. loser donates their entire guarantee to a charity of the winners choosing. @powertriptx is the band. step up or be labeled COWARDS.
— Justin Toguys (@RILEY_CYRUS) March 19, 2020
You idiots didn’t do anything but give my views publicity…. You dumb fucks ??
— TRAPT (@TRAPTOFFICIAL) March 19, 2020
sounds like you’re scared to play the game. is this where i drop the sell out figures from our headlining tours, or our high presale numbers from everywhere else? how about hometown? don’t even get me started on walk up numbers. you’ve already lost, but pick your poison, nerd. https://t.co/5r02PyhywJ
— Justin Toguys (@RILEY_CYRUS) March 19, 2020
oh that’s right, you’re probably broke from delusional fantasies of real success. my bad. we could just make it an easy $20 wager, if that helps?
— Justin Toguys (@RILEY_CYRUS) March 19, 2020
i know. put the show anywhere, idc. i just want shove it in their face how irrelevant their band and their opinions are.
— Justin Toguys (@RILEY_CYRUS) March 19, 2020
Just post a pic of a crowd you have recently played for. Very easy… Hurry up bitch
— TRAPT (@TRAPTOFFICIAL) March 19, 2020
that’s weird, i’d call countless US headliners and european tours and getting flown to indonesia for the 1st time last year just to headline a festival of 8k+ people is more than “anything”. but keep avoiding the challenge, pal. cuz ya know you’ve already lost. https://t.co/fILw7JNb91
— Justin Toguys (@RILEY_CYRUS) March 19, 2020
Buddy your band is never going to do anything ever. You will forever be scraping by. This is why you are a Bernie bitch
— TRAPT (@TRAPTOFFICIAL) March 19, 2020
i’d be willing to bet my band would outdraw yours with only 24 hours notice to promote it. i’ll give y’all 24 weeks. hell, i’ll give you 24 months. might as well call it your last show because we’d bury you. @TRAPTOFFICIAL
— Justin Toguys (@RILEY_CYRUS) March 19, 2020
nice! our last 3 bay area shows were all over 1000 people. keep grinding guys, you’ll get there!
— Justin Toguys (@RILEY_CYRUS) March 19, 2020
Next Bay Area show we do, we will do better numbers than your shitty metal band…. Til then. Oh and 30 dollar tickets. Your fans have no money. Your spotify and Pandora numbers are absolutely horrible.
— TRAPT (@TRAPTOFFICIAL) March 19, 2020
I thought this power trip band was some local band, 😂…. Okay so you have a metal label promoting you and you play for the same metal heads who go to all the same fucking metal shows… why can you only do numbers in the Bay Area?? Your spotify and Pandora number are low AF…
— TRAPT (@TRAPTOFFICIAL) March 19, 2020
Stfu you douchebag! Not one person in your band can sing! You sound like every other metal band…. you nerd🤓
— TRAPT (@TRAPTOFFICIAL) March 20, 2020
us vs. you. same time last year. what’s up now? @TRAPTOFFICIAL https://t.co/g59La4ZhY9 pic.twitter.com/sfZ3kHhkla
— Justin Toguys (@RILEY_CYRUS) March 19, 2020
oh. and we don’t rely nor cares about streaming income… wanna know why? because people come to our shows, we move plenty of merch – records, cds, and tapes. a lot of them. you can ask @dark0perative for the numbers if you wanna compare. robots can’t buy vinyl ;)
— Justin Toguys (@RILEY_CYRUS) March 19, 2020
Bro! Come talk to me in person…. can’t wait. We will def do the show by show date and see who wins and after you and I can meet for a drink, right?
— TRAPT (@TRAPTOFFICIAL) March 19, 2020
my email is in my profile. leap, froggy
— Justin Toguys (@RILEY_CYRUS) March 20, 2020
Given the way Twitter is setup there could be a little bit lost in context in the above. As for the recent headlines Brown‘s ongoing Twitter war has generated, Brown has since repeatedly claimed that he welcomes the promotion to the views he shares. Should you want to dive in to the continued onslaught, hit up his Twitter.
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