OK, first of all, no one of Toby Keith's country-bar touring era in the '90s ever had to sing on stage behind chicken wire to protect them from thrown beer bottles, etc. That was purely '50s hard-core honky-tonk joints, like George Jones played.
Second of all, no one has ever drunk BEER "from a mason jar" per the lyrics in the song. Mason jars were for storing/drinking illegal moonshine (hard liquor) back in the Prohibition years.
Other than that, a fairly good picture of some Austin dive bars that I used to hang out in for 10 years back in the '90s, with a vast array of people from all walks of life and a "live and let live," laid-back attitude toward all characters, regular or otherwise, who found themselves there.
The Yuppie scenes in the opening of this video are false, though. First, these types of dudes shown here are '80s stereotypes, not something from the early 2000s. Second, even when college kids came "slumming" to such bars (like middle-class people used to take bus tours of Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco in the late '60s to see the "freaks"), the kids behaved themselves, because the crowd they were around was obviously so much older and rougher than they were. They tended to watch, open-mouthed, rather than mouthing off in any way.
Second of all, no one has ever drunk BEER "from a mason jar" per the lyrics in the song. Mason jars were for storing/drinking illegal moonshine (hard liquor) back in the Prohibition years.
Other than that, a fairly good picture of some Austin dive bars that I used to hang out in for 10 years back in the '90s, with a vast array of people from all walks of life and a "live and let live," laid-back attitude toward all characters, regular or otherwise, who found themselves there.
The Yuppie scenes in the opening of this video are false, though. First, these types of dudes shown here are '80s stereotypes, not something from the early 2000s. Second, even when college kids came "slumming" to such bars (like middle-class people used to take bus tours of Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco in the late '60s to see the "freaks"), the kids behaved themselves, because the crowd they were around was obviously so much older and rougher than they were. They tended to watch, open-mouthed, rather than mouthing off in any way.
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