It's not a secret that country music fans have been getting extra rowdy this summer. From handsy fans in Arizona at a Morgan Wallen concert, to Luke Bryan getting slammed in the face by a baseball, lately, country artists are having to entertain, but also keep their fans in check. However, heartthrob Zach Top decided to take a more humorous approach when it came to reprimanding his fans.
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While playing a sold-out show for fans in West Virginia, a fan threw an empty Fireball shooter at him mid-song. While other musicians might have reacted differently, Top put his own spin on the incident. "How rude was that?" he asked fans. "You're gonna throw a Fireball shot up here with nothing in it?"
Top then threw the shot back to the crowd along with an empty can of Coors Banquet. The singer quickly apologized afterwards, but perhaps he was too hasty. The crowd responded by throwing more fireball shooters at Top, and this time, they were full ones.
After grabbing one of the shots off his pedalboard, Top decided to keep his bit going. "This is warm. I hope this has been in somebody's boot. I don't wanna think about where else it might have been."
After an enthusiastic response from his audience, Top decided to take the shot with his fiddle player, commenting again on the alcohol's temperature. "Wow, that was so warm. I'm still really hungover from last night, I'm afraid."
Not Everyone Can Keep Their Cool Like Zach Top Can
The crowd got a kick out of Top's play on a situation that many performers have been dealing with lately. Unfortunately, not all of them seem to have as much patience as Top. Zach Bryan, for example, who is known to get frustrated on stage from time to time, has a different approach to this kind of situation.
At a show in Tacoma, Washington, Zach Bryan stopped during the middle of another one of his performances when a fan threw an unidentified object at his guitar player. Bryan, easily frustrated by the incident, asked his fans to come forward and admit to their rowdy behavior. "Who threw this? Who was it? Does anyone know? Don't throw s*** at concerts. He also gave his blessing to the other concertgoers, "And if you guys do know who threw it, you can get them out of here, if you ever find out who did it."
During another show in Portland, Oregon, last year, Bryan got upset after a fan threw a Zyn can while he was in the middle of performing his emotional song "Tourniquet." Bryan responded to this by stopping mid-song, holding up the Zyn Can and asking, "Alright, who threw it? Let's not be d***s, huh? Let's not throw stuff at concerts."
Even though it's understandable for a performer to react to that kind of behavior, it's nice to see someone put a humorous spin on that kind of situation. Honestly, Zach Top fans should be counting their lucky stars that they came to see him and not the other Zach, or their night might've turned out very differently.
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