Back in 2020, the onetime nü metal hitmakers Trapt went on an absolutely ridiculous Twitter rampage in defense of Donald Trump's COVID response. That was the initial impetus, anyway. It turned into a lot of stuff about Trump and also Trapt's own Pandora numbers, and it led to social media feuds with people like Ice-T and the late Power Trip frontman Riley Gale. (Richard Marx also got involved, somehow.) The Twitter spree went viral, and Trapt might be better known today for that now than for their their 2002 song "Headstrong." Trapt are still apparently making enemies, including the local openers from a show that they played over the weekend.
On Friday night, Trapt played their 2002 self-titled album in full at Guadalajara Mexico in Fort Pierce, Florida. They share the bill with the Maine band Sygnal To Noise and the local openers Dirty Crumbums, Fear Of Infirmity, and Limb Breaker. After the show, Dirty Crumbums frontman G Money posted on Instagram that their set was cut to 17 minutes, they were kicked out (for chanting “DCB” during Trapt’s set), and that Trapt or Sygnal To Noise broke Fear Of Infirmity guitarist Tai Vitolo’s amp. (Vitolo was apparently playing with DCB because the punk/groove/ska band split with their guitarist last week.)
Dirty Crumbums' Instagram video shows Chris Taylor Brown asking security to kick out all of the "DCB" chanters. We see them leaving the venue, with one of the band members saying, "They lost half the crowd!... "We didn't see 'Headstrong'!"
In his Stories, Vitolo added, “I think the funniest thing about this whole show is that Signal To Noise paid to play with Trapt. That’s pretty fucking embarrassing, that you paid to be on a fucking bill with a dead band. And if you look it up, it says they’re a one-hit wonder.”
On Sunday, Trapt responded with an Instagram post of a video of their set in Fort Pierce. In the caption, they wrote, "Great show in Fort Pierce the other night, despite a band called 'Dirty Butt Crumbs' going viral courtesy of our great friends at FB for making a post about getting kicked out of the venue for being absolute children. PA issues pushed back the start an hour, so openers had 10 mins cut from their sets and Trapt played at 10 as was scheduled. You should have heard the clapping of the 90% of people in there who were trapt fans. Never seen such crybabies in my life."
