Country music superstar Zach Bryan issued a warning for fans — Don’t touch his guitar.
Bryan said he took one interaction “personal” when his beloved instrument was nearly snatched from his hands by an overzealous fan.
Footage captured Bryan, 27, walk through the group at Albany’s MVP Arena on May 26, where he held the guitar in front of him before the show’s encore.
An unidentified woman then grabbed Bryan’s guitar and refused to let go for a transient moment because the singer asked his security team to “get her out of here.”
“I give J-45’s out at a whole lot of concert events,” Bryan said. “The one in my hands when this happened was mine, my sweet ol’ gal, we’ve been in every single place together and written every song in the previous few years together. Took it personal, but nothing against whoever wound up getting kicked out.”
The “Something within the Orange” singer often gifts a signed version of the acoustic Gibson J-45 guitar, which roughly costs $3,000, to a random audience member during his concert events.
“I don’t mind people being respectful and attempting to touch me or the guitar, but in case you attempt to rip it out of my hands I promise I’ll rip you out of whatever venue we’re at, respectfully, after all,” Bryan added.
Bryan, considered one of country music’s hottest acts, sold out his “The Burn, Burn, Burn” tour in 30 seconds, which is able to feature a two-night gig at NYC’s Forest Hills Stadium in June.
“I didn’t care about selling out the tour in thirty seconds, I cared about people getting within your means tickets,” Bryan said in February. “We sold all of the tickets in 3 waves to actual fans, we hired teams to limit bots, and we sacrificed a whole lot of personal things to provide real people, real seats. Thanks guys so, a lot.”
He made waves within the ticketing world when he called out Ticketmaster’s pricing system last yr before releasing a live album titled, “All My Homies Hate Ticketmaster.”
The Oklahoma native vowed to make his current tour prices as “low-cost as possible to prove to people tickets don’t need to cost $450 to see and honest show.”
Bryan sold his tickets through ticket outlet AXS relatively than through Ticketmaster and listed the stubs between $40 and $130.
“Seems there may be a large issue with fair ticket prices to live shows currently. I actually have met kids at my shows who’ve paid upwards of four-hundred bucks to be there and I’m done with it,” Bryan said.
“I’m so uninterested in people saying things can’t be done about this massive issue while huge monopolies sit there stealing money from working-class people.”
