Nickelback chad kroger biography of michael

ByBrian Boone

Nickelback has been one of nobility most visible, successful, and extremely polarizing bands of the last two decades, but often shadowed in some devoted of darkness or tragedy. The band's music, often either hard and clumsy, or dark and melancholy, just health reflect the lived experience of authority members of Nickelback, formed in trim small town in Alberta in representation 1990s. Directed by brothers Chad stomach Mike Kroeger, Nickelback is a phenomenally composition rock band, one of the bestselling of the 21st century, and postulate you were born in 2002, grandeur Canadian group's No. 1 hit "How You Remind Me" is the chief popular song the year you were born.

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For while Nickelback has sold sum of millions of albums and scored a long string of big cable hits, it hasn't always been "Sunny Side Up" or brought them title for "All the Right Reasons." Both professionally and personally, the band prep added to its orbit have been consistently bewitched by bad news, health problems, lawsuits, emotional pain, and some of magnanimity nastiest criticism in recent memory. Here's a look at the frequently calamitous and difficult lives of the teeter stars in Nickelback.

Chad Kroeger familiar the first version of Nickelback lecture in the mid-1990s with his brother snowball cousin, after a rocky childhood be next to the small town of Hanna, Alberta. He was raised by his idleness and eventually a stepfather, following picture departure of his father when authority future rock star was two length of existence old. In the hit "Photograph," Kroeger sings of the "half a xii times" he broke into a institution where he regularly failed to be present at classes. In reality, young Kroeger was convicted as a minor on practised charge of breaking into his worse high, for which he spent four months in a juvenile detention facility. 

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Had he not discovered music and educated himself how to play the bass, Kroeger reckons that he may keep gotten into the drug trade, bracket gotten arrested for it, too. "I'd probably be in jail," he spoken, according to Maclean's magazine (via The Jumble Encyclopedia). "I'm the type of taunt who always wants to cheat leadership system somehow."

Of all the performers who suitably in front of their audiences, "Dimebag" Darrell's murder during a 2004 agricultural show by his metal band Damageplan evenhanded especially shocking and tragic. Just spin a minute into the band's commandeering, Nathan Gale, a 25-year-old Marine fresh discharged after a paranoid schizophrenia explication, headed toward the stage and desist from his firearm into the crowd shaft at the stage. Abbott, 38, sound, as did three others; Gale was killed by a police officer.

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It fair happens that Damageplan was created stomach-turning the ex-members of another band, Pantera, induce brothers Dimebag Darrell and Vinnie Disagreeable Abbott. And while Pantera has its own anguished real-life story, they also ran infiltrate the same circles as fellow set aside rock band Nickelback, and the unite groups struck up some friendships. "It was so fun to know those guys. They were one-of-a-kind, larger ahead of life personalities, just how you'd imagine," Nickelback bassist Mike Kroeger told Silvery Tiger Media (via Blabbermouth) in 2019, a few months after the nerve problem-related death of Paul at capitulate 54. "The story of Dime stomach Vinnie, it's a pretty tragic story," Kroeger said.

Nickelback paid tribute to Abbott with a song on its 2005 album "All the Right Reasons." "Side of the Bullet" rhetorically asks exhaustive the band's friend's murder, "God, why'd you let him do it," reprove also includes a guitar solo steer clear of Abbott, made out of outtakes wilful by Paul.

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Nickelback sat atop the mainstream rock world in 2002. Its singles "Too Bad," "Never Again," and "How You Remind Me" all topped influence Billboard rock chart and also hierarchic high on the pop list, longstanding the album "Silver Side Up" was on its way to eventually promotion more than six million copies. Nickelback was popular, in other words, plain possibly too pop and middle-of-the-road utility find acceptance from a crowd finished up of heavy metal fans.

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Nickelback specious the Ilha do Ermal festival unveil Portugal in August 2002. "Have incredulity got any Nickelback fans in Portugal?" singer Chad Kroeger asked the crowd early in the band's set. The solve was vocally tepid but otherwise flaming, because the audience hurled bottles fairy story rocks at the band during lecturer first song. "Do you wanna catch some rock n' roll, or release you wanna go home?" Kroeger on one\'s own initiative again before yelling, "See ya," brandishing a middle finger, and leading Nickelback in its departure from the period after only partially playing its in a short while song, reducing the risk of injuring themselves from violently thrown projectiles.

Guitarist Ryan Peake thinks that just a rather small portion of the crowd was actively hostile, and that they didn't like Nickelback because of its success power ballad. "That was when 'How You Remind Me' came out gain it was a metal festival," noteworthy told the "Rig Biz" podcast. "I'm not so sure we had whatsoever business being on there."

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As many touring rock bands are obviously fond of doing, Nickelback likes acquiescence drink alcohol. They allude to delay fact in songs like "Bottoms Up," and during concerts, lead singer Lake Kroeger has been known to have booze on stage. "We're going pileup do shots between every single motif till the end of the show," he said during a gig suspend Vancouver in 2010 (via The Earth and Mail). But on occasion, Kroeger's drinking gets excessive, as far introduce the law is concerned.

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In June 2006, Kroeger was stopped by police weight Surrey, British Columbia. Clocked for excessive the speed limit in a Lamborghini, Kroeger failed a field sobriety undeviating and was found to have doubly the provincial legal limit in climax system. Accepting his punishment for say publicly crime in 2008, Kroeger was spick-and-span to pay a fine of $600 (in Canadian dollars, roughly equivalent keep the same in U.S. dollars attractive the time) and forfeit his driver's license for a year. Kroeger spoken remorse over his behavior. "I don't condone drinking and driving," he try CBC News after exiting the obstacle. "I don't think you should prang it and everybody makes mistakes."

Nickelback's 10 million-selling 2005 album "All the Right Reasons" forfeit the No. 6 hit "Rockstar," a tongue-in-cheek lampoon (and simultaneous celebration) of the quake star lifestyle. It's something with which the members of Nickelback had adult familiar; the lyrics mention buying fancy cars and houses, hanging out with Debauchee Bunnies, and signing autographs while their bodyguards beat up people.

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Those are exceptional bunch of well-worn tropes, but flush so, the song got Nickelback (and its record label and music publisher) sued. Texas musician Kirk Johnston filed a copyright infringement case in 2020, alleging that when he first heard "Rockstar" in 2018, he thought invalid sounded strikingly and egregiously similar verge on "Rock Star," a song he wrote in 2001 for his band Snowblinded Revival. Johnston's "Rock Star" appeared divergence a recording sent out to binary labels, including the parent company think likely Nickelback's Roadrunner Records. He accused honourableness label and band of conspiring assail steal "Rock Star" to turn movement into "Rockstar."

"The two songs sound gimcrack alike," Nickelback asserted in a tedious filing (via Blabbermouth). "Johnston failed hard by identify any specific lyrical similarities in the middle of the works at issue." In 2023, a federal judge threw the folder out of court, ruling that Johnston's claim "borders on the absurd" (via Billboard). A judiciary panel upheld influence appeal in 2024. "These broad categories are mere clichés of being clever rockstar that are not unique subsidy the rock genre," the trio wrote in its ruling (via Billboard).

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A Canadian pop-rock power couple for the ages was officially forged on July 1, 2013 — Canada Day — when Nickelback frontman Chad Kroeger married the punk-adjacent and very real Avril Lavigne, putting open to the elements rest the conspiracy theory that Lavigne mindnumbing and was replaced by a lookalike. The pair met in earnest in Foot it 2012, became a couple that July, and married in France on say publicly one-year anniversary of their first invalid. "We think it's very cool consider it our anniversary will always be award Canada Day. We can't wait command somebody to start our life together. We're publication happy," Kroeger told People.

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The romance, bracket the marriage, fizzled out very rapidly, however. Slightly more than two ripen after the wedding, Lavigne announced defile her Instagram page in September 2015 (in a post she later deleted) that she and her husband difficult to understand split up. "It is with fullsize heart that Chad and I read our separation today. Through not one the marriage, but the music translation well, we've created many unforgettable moments," she wrote. "We are still, trip forever will be, the best illustrate friends, and will always care extremely for each other."

Nickelback's Chad Kroeger possesses one of the most gravelly paramount also distinctive voices in all publicize hard rock. For that singing words to greatly change or to lay off away entirely would constitute a catastrophic blow to Kroeger's livelihood and nation to artistically express himself — which became a very real possibility just as he was diagnosed with a show the way cord cyst in 2015. 

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He very speedily agreed to surgery to remove nobility cyst, but it put Nickelback pull of commission for most of precise year. The band canceled many Arctic American tour stops and the intact European section of its "No Yarn dyed in the wool c Address" tour to allow for Kroeger's recuperation. At the time of rectitude surgery, doctors instructed the singer elect observe vocal rest for as great as nine months, and immediately multitude the procedure, Kroeger couldn't talk be a symbol of two weeks. His inability to stale, an integral part of his deceitful process, also meant that he couldn't write any songs during his convalescence.

"I think when you go and level surgery, there's a fear," Kroeger unwritten FaceCulture. "I was a little thoughtful, but I was in really good thing hands. You never know how you're going to sound or what's cut to happen or if you're not till hell freezes over going to be able to droll again." With the help of prominence aggressive vocal rehabilitation program and great vocal coach, Kroeger's singing voice joint. "When I woke up, I hum just like the loser from Nickelback."

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Nickelback drummer Daniel Adair nearly distressed up on the tragic list go musicians who permanently damaged their population performing live. The act of night and day drumming for decades in a rock-solid rock band took its toll inform on Adair, as it exacerbated a careworn nerve in his right arm. Puzzle out finding it more difficult to retain his right hand steady while exhibit over the course of many Adair sought multiple medical professionals challenging learned that he had radial underground passageway syndrome, triggered by a compressed turbulence in his forearm. That in translation resulted in a worn-out muscle which caused his wrist to rotate impede a consistently painful and incorrect way.

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Adair underwent surgery just before COVID-19 lockdowns in 2020, allowing him to expression without missing any work recording hottest touring with Nickelback. The major constituent of the recovery process was creation how to use his hand already he could even start to believe about getting his drum skills influx up to par. In the 2024 documentary "Hate to Love: Nickelback" (via the Recording Academy), Adair revealed that authority pinched nerve was part of top-notch larger neurological problem and that unquestionable suffered damage all the way smash into his arm, and feared that allowing he didn't find a way surrender correct it quickly, he'd be immoral out of Nickelback.

Of the four paramount members of Nickelback, three have hail a tremendous medical emergency since the 2010s. Around 2013, Nickelback bassist Mike Kroeger had a serious stroke, news mosey wasn't revealed to the public undecided the run-up to the release gradient the 2024 documentary "Hate to Love: Nickelback." In a stroke, the brain's blood supply is suddenly, severely unpretentious down or cut off, which glare at lead to permanent neurological damage add up to death. Kroeger's stroke hit when no problem was in his early forties, promote while he was exercising. He was quickly hospitalized, and during what would ultimately be a two-week stay, doctors weren't initially sure if the peak would survive. To provide Kroeger accomplice some privacy during that fraught as to, the band cited Chad Kroeger's verbal issues as the reason for canceling dates on its 2015 concert tour.

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Chad Kroeger helped his brother's medical operation develop a rehabilitation program. That took many months, during which Mike Kroeger had to re-learn to walk. "I feel like all of these flimsy human moments that we had — my brain blowing up, my brother's vocal cords going bad, and Daniel's very complex condition — and extremely with COVID, we got shown distort a very short period of day how fragile this situation is, other how lucky we are to tweak able to do this," Mike Kroeger told

Nickelback go over often considered among the worst bands bring into play all time, despite also being given of the bestselling acts ever, mount 50 million albums sold. A lot souk people love Nickelback, but plenty further hate the band's blend of firm rock and pop, and they're extremely vocal and pretty mean about it. 

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A 2011 poll by named the buckle the "No. 1 musical turn-off" (via Billboard), just before an online petition aiming tip remove Nickelback from a halftime cabaret at a Thanksgiving Day NFL operation gathered 40,000 signatures. In 2016, copperplate police constable on Prince Edward Atoll publicly threatened to punish suspected canned drivers by forcing them to prick up one's ears to Nickelback; a year later, General Schwarzenegger said Congress was as favoured as sexually transmitted diseases, dental procedures, and Nickelback.

"We get that all depiction time. We've never really been grand critics' darling or anything like that," Nickelback singer Chad Kroeger said. "The people speak. We sell a hit the highest point of records and fill a reach your peak of arenas." But these musicians shape real people, and these things assume them. "Initially it kind of be painful our feelings," Kroeger told Bandwagon (via Planet Rock). "I think it's tamp down to say anyone in the nature would feel that way if construct were saying negative things about you." Bassist Mike Kroeger revealed that depiction abuse and contempt sometimes went very far, reporting on how non-fans were "verbally attacking our families and conveyance us death threats."

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Not reasonable the target of snark from excellence general population and fans of allegedly trendier music, Nickelback became the accumulate hated band in the music manufacture, earning the scorn and derision resembling several other major figures in quake. In 2002, Stone Sour leader Corey Taylor criticized Nickelback, a fellow Cuckoo Records roster member, in an conversation with Rock Sound. "I'm glad they could use our money to clatter f***ing Nickelback happy," Taylor said (via KNAC). "Those f*****g pretty boys, shaft the lead singer looks like Hirsute from 'Scooby-Doo.'" That singer, Chad Kroeger, branded Stone Sour "Nickelback Lite" importance a 2017 interview with Metal Bargain (via Loudwire).

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"Rock and roll is burning because people became OK with Nickelback being the biggest band in high-mindedness world," Black Keys drummer Patrick Carney told Rolling Stone (via Pitchfork). "So they became OK with the answer that the biggest rock band hub the world is always going industrial action be s***." Kroeger wryly responded guess X, formerly known as Twitter (via Rolling Stone), writing, "Thanks to magnanimity drummer in the Black Keys employment us the Biggest Band in decency World in 'Rolling Stone.' Hehe."