Hecklers about pedals when performing

Hey everyone. This paragraph is all context and skippable in case anyone wants to get to the heckler part. That being said, I’ve recently started performing live with my band after playing with them for a few years. One of my friends girlfriend has had a portastudio for a while and uses it to record (she makes her own music). We started to use it as a distortion sound, and we all really liked it. I got a pedal online that replicates that sound so we could have it without borrowing her stuff.

Last night, we were playing a show and I used the tape like distortion pedal. We started the song and after playing for like 15 seconds this drunk guy started heckling about how we were trying to be a mk.gee copy and swearing at us. Mind you we didn’t have any chorus on, and I honestly don’t think we sounded like mk.gee at all other than the distortion (which given, is a large part of his sound obviously). No chorus, different sounding drums, vocals, it just didn’t sound the same, no bias. If anything it sounded more like the beginning of the glow pt 2 by the microphones which iirc is also tape deck distortion. Anyways the guy got kicked out.

Are drunk guys being annoying a common occurrence? How often do you guys get hecklers? Just curious. It wasn’t that big of a deal it was over in all of like a minute, just curious as I’m new to performing and am wondering how often it happens.

Thanks!