Country star runs into crowd mid-show to defend his dad from security

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Team Nickelback is facing some heat — but not for the reason you'd expect.
The Canadian rock act has become a figure that the masses love to hate, but this time Nickelback's sound guy — not the band themselves — is the one catching flak. Country singer Gavin Adcock took to social media this week to call out the engineer, who allegedly stirred up trouble with his family at the Rock the Country festival in South Carolina. The incident allegedly caused the artist to run into the crowd mid-performance to intervene.
According to Adcock's two Instagram posts, the brouhaha began when the mother of his acoustic guitar player left an empty drink on a soundboard. Nickelback was also on site to perform at the festival, and when their sound engineer saw the drink, he tossed it off the equipment, and began 'cussing out' the mother, per Adcock's account.
Adcock's family was also present at the show, and when his father saw the exchange, he stepped in.
'My Dad hears it, probably about five, 10 yards away, steps over, gets in the dude's face,' Adcock said. 'Basically tells him 'you better back up dude, because people from the South don't act that way, we don't know where you're from, but you need to get out of here.''
Adcock witnessed the incident unfold from the stage, he said, noting that the engineer then got 'on his phone like a little snake.'
He added: 'I'm up there singing 'Cigarette' — he gets security to come down there, and I see him, and they're about to grab my Dad, and I just run down the alley and tell 'em, 'nah, you ain't kicking me out, he's the one causing problems."
From there, Adcock said security removed the sound engineer.
'My family had been standing there for 17 songs,' Adcock said in a separate video. 'I watched them the whole show, not causing any problems. You come up in my family's face, trying to get my Dad kicked out..and you know what? I got you kicked out.'
In addition to Adcock and Nickelback, performers at the South Carolina festival included Kid Rock, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and Hank Williams Jr., among others.
Adcock is currently gearing up for the release of his new album 'Own Worst Enemy,' which arrives August 15.
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