In the early 70's my Jersey band was touring the South. The ladies were very friendly, the local boys "not so much", there were a few fights (luckily our drummer was 6'5" and happy to oblige).
A few times there were guys in the building, these were mostly very large bar gigs, pushing their buddy who plays to jump on stage and show us how to "play right", basically cutting heads. Our sound tech was a former biker and he was pretty good at talking folks out of jumping on stage.
A few did sit in with us when it was better than a riot starting, they were sometimes better, sometimes not, but always better than beer bottles flying at the stage full of "Yankee boys".
The 70's were something..................
