The Five, used yesterday’s edition of the programme (August 26) to pay tribute to Riley Gale, the late frontman of thrash metal band Power Trip who died earlier this week aged 34.Despite differing political views – Gutfeld is a registered Libertarian, while Gale was outspokenly progressive – the two had struck up a friendship after the band objected to their music being used on The Five.Wearing a Power Trip t-shirt given to him by Gale and describing the singer as “an all-around brilliant dude,” Gutfeld said that after he played two songs from the band’s acclaimed 2017 album ‘Nightmare Logic’ on the show, the band asked him on Twitter to “cease and desist”.“But Riley wanted to talk about it so I called him up,” Gutfeld said. “The phone call.
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