{"id":1303324,"date":"2019-02-06T11:33:58","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T18:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1802741"},"modified":"2019-02-06T11:33:58","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T18:33:58","slug":"eric-church-stands-toe-to-toe-with-fighting-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/eric-church-stands-toe-to-toe-with-fighting-fans\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Church Stands Toe-to-Toe with Fighting Fans"},"content":{"rendered":"
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by Alison Bonaguro<\/a><\/span> 34m ago<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n

I will never understand fighting at country concerts. Ever.<\/p>\n

I mean, sure. A two-hour show fueled with alcohol and jockeying for position may contribute to a less-than-peaceful environment.<\/p>\n

But then again, all of your concert neighbors \u2014 whether you\u2019re in the pit or up on some amphitheatre lawn \u2014 are the very people you have the most in common with. They are there for the exact same reasons you are: the songs you love, the artist you love, and maybe a few cold beers. On top of that, everyone presumably paid a lot of money to be there.<\/p>\n

So what could go wrong? SMH, right?<\/p>\n

At Eric Church\u2019s Boston show<\/a> on Friday (Feb. 1) at the TD Garden, someone on Twitter named RebelRevln shared a video of Church\u2019s own SMH moment when two of his fans started fighting. \u201cNever have I ever seen EC have to stop a show before. Night 1 of Boston & he had to pause These Boots. Drunk lady hit a teenager with her boot, started a ruckus. @ericchurch good job for how you handled it,\u201d the post read, via Whiskey Riff<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Never have I ever seen EC have to stop a show before. Night 1 of Boston & he had to pause These Boots. Drunk lady hit a teenager with her boot, started a ruckus. @ericchurch<\/a> good job for how you handled it!! pic.twitter.com\/uiXmsXiQoM<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 rebelrevln (@rupunzl_ssps) February 2, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And while the fight itself isn\u2019t visible in the video, Church\u2019s reaction to it is.<\/p>\n

After singing the third verse of \u201cThese Boots\u201d \u2014 a song that has been an absolute concert essential since it showed up on his 2006 debut album, even though it was never released as a radio single \u2014 about riding a bull in Cheyenne, Church stops playing the guitar and stops singing and shakes his head and says, \u201cHey, hey, hey. No fighting, no fighting, no fighting, I don\u2019t sing if you fight, that\u2019s the way it goes. I don\u2019t sing if you fight.\u201d<\/p>\n

When the kerfuffle dies down, Church asks the crowd, \u201cYou good?\u201d And immediately followed it up with those three little words. \u201cQuit that shit,\u201d he demanded before resuming the song right at the chorus.<\/p>\n

The moral of this story is that concerts are better when country fans are kind to other country fans. More music > anger management.<\/p>\n

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Alison makes her living loving country music. She’s based in Chicago, but she’s always leaving her heart in Nashville.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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by Alison Bonaguro 34m ago I will never understand fighting at country concerts. Ever. I mean, sure. A two-hour show fueled with alcohol and jockeying for position may contribute to a less-than-peaceful environment. But then again, all of your concert neighbors \u2014 whether you\u2019re in the pit or up on some amphitheatre lawn \u2014 are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1303324","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 10:41:08","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1303324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1303324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1303324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1303324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}