Early on in their career, Midland definitely played in some rowdy honkytonks and bars, and they’ve witnessed more than a few bar brawls, but for lead singer Mark Wystrach, that’s nothing new. As he explains, “My family owns a restaurant, live honkytonk bar and saloon, and when I got bigger up to about 200 pounds my brother and I would come home and we would bounce the bar. After like nine o’clock, the restaurant shut down and turned into a honkytonk, and let’s just say I’ve seen my fair share of like roadhouse-esque brawls in there.”
Even now, with a #1 song under their belt, and their latest song, “Burn Out,” sitting in the top ten on the charts, the guys are not immune to an occasional fight breaking out at their shows, but luckily, they have other people to break it up and handle the chaos, and they can focus on performing and putting on a great show.
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Mark Wystrach – “My family owns a restaurant, live honkytonk bar and saloon, and when I got bigger up to about 200 pounds my brother and I would come home and we would bounce the bar. After like nine o’clock, the restaurant shut down and turned into a honkytonk, and let’s just say I’ve seen my fair share of like roadhouse-esque brawls in there.”