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Gilroy festival shooting: Band member recounts the chaos he witnessed from the stage

The classic-rock band TinMan was in the middle of Grand Funk Railroad's "We're an American Band" on Sunday during the final set of the Gilroy Garlic Festival in Gilroy, Calif., when lead singer Christian Swain heard what sounded like firecrackers.

"Keep playing," he recalls telling his bandmates. Swain is a bar-band veteran. Fights break out all the time, he says. "You're always told by management just keep playing, because that'll calm

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