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Fist fighting grandmas!

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Opinionated blowhard. But not mad about it.
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Man, I have played a LOT of gigs. I mean a LOT of gigs. I have seen just about anything you can imagine. But this was new. I played a wedding this past weekend. The grandmother and step grandmother of the bride got in a fist fight! I SAW grandma connect a perfect closed-fist right hook to step grandma's jaw. Turns out that step grandma was the "other woman" a few decades ago and grandma never got over it.

...and the band played on.
 
In the interest of full disclosure, I never met the photographer before that night. So I have no idea how serious he is/was about getting us the video.

Yes, grandma won. She totally knocked step grandma on her back with 30 years of pent up frustration. Can you imagine how many times she had rehearsed that punch in her head in THREE DECADES????? I bet that punch had something behind it.

By the way, we were playing mostly pop country female lead songs. Ha! The singer is a Nashville girl I fill in with from time to time and the wedding was for a friend of hers. She rarely does anything private. But that girl really wanted her college buddy on stage.

Other than the fight, it was a pretty chill water front wedding.