A tribute to Power Trip’s Riley Gale, a self-styled ordinary guy who made a modern metal masterpiece
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nme.comPower Trip, who has died at the age of 34, was part Otto, The Simpsons’ everyman bus driver. He was part lowly comic bookstore employee, the one who tries to get you to reconsider your purchase and buy something cooler by Grant Morrison instead.
The guy was plain. He wore holy Obituary t-shirts and the sort of peeked cap you get free after buying a six-pack of beer at a gas station.
You know: ordinary.And then he opened his voice.Riley was no Montserrat Caballé, but the authenticity of what he said, and how he said it – onstage and off – was as pure as virgin snow.
Onstage he sang like a dog barking at a dustbin van. Offstage he was calm, even serene, the cool best mate you’d love to have.
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