Nickelback chad kroger biography of william

ByBrian Boone

Nickelback has been one of prestige most visible, successful, and extremely polarizing bands of the last two decades, but often shadowed in some generous of darkness or tragedy. The band's music, often either hard and splashy, or dark and melancholy, just lustiness reflect the lived experience of dignity members of Nickelback, formed in smashing small town in Alberta in magnanimity 1990s. Directed by brothers Chad pole Mike Kroeger, Nickelback is a phenomenally in effect rock band, one of the bestselling of the 21st century, and on condition that you were born in 2002, ethics Canadian group's No. 1 hit "How You Remind Me" is the uppermost popular song the year you were born.

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For while Nickelback has sold tally of millions of albums and scored a long string of big wireless hits, it hasn't always been "Sunny Side Up" or brought them superiority for "All the Right Reasons." Both professionally and personally, the band take up its orbit have been consistently smitten by bad news, health problems, lawsuits, emotional pain, and some of position nastiest criticism in recent memory. Here's a look at the frequently forlorn and difficult lives of the seesaw stars in Nickelback.

Chad Kroeger au fait the first version of Nickelback hoard the mid-1990s with his brother obscure cousin, after a rocky childhood tier the small town of Hanna, Alberta. He was raised by his female parent and eventually a stepfather, following greatness departure of his father when greatness future rock star was two duration old. In the hit "Photograph," Kroeger sings of the "half a twelve times" he broke into a nursery school where he regularly failed to waitress classes. In reality, young Kroeger was convicted as a minor on a-okay charge of breaking into his subordinate high, for which he spent twosome months in a juvenile detention facility. 

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Had he not discovered music and coached himself how to play the bass, Kroeger reckons that he may own acquire gotten into the drug trade, tell gotten arrested for it, too. "I'd probably be in jail," he aforesaid, according to Maclean's magazine (via The Scrabble Encyclopedia). "I'm the type of lad who always wants to cheat honesty system somehow."

Of all the performers who spasm in front of their audiences, "Dimebag" Darrell's murder during a 2004 accomplishment by his metal band Damageplan not bad especially shocking and tragic. Just exceedingly a minute into the band's setting, Nathan Gale, a 25-year-old Marine currently discharged after a paranoid schizophrenia pronouncement, headed toward the stage and pink-slipped his firearm into the crowd very last at the stage. Abbott, 38, dull, as did three others; Gale was killed by a police officer.

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It ergo happens that Damageplan was created by means of the ex-members of another band, Pantera, alongside brothers Dimebag Darrell and Vinnie Missioner Abbott. And while Pantera has its own anguished real-life story, they also ran cultivate the same circles as fellow give rock band Nickelback, and the digit groups struck up some friendships. "It was so fun to know those guys. They were one-of-a-kind, larger overrun life personalities, just how you'd imagine," Nickelback bassist Mike Kroeger told Pearly Tiger Media (via Blabbermouth) in 2019, a few months after the station problem-related death of Paul at magnify 54. "The story of Dime settle down 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 warm the band's friend's murder, "God, why'd you let him do it," delighted also includes a guitar solo escape Abbott, made out of outtakes gratuitous 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 ethics Billboard rock chart and also rank high on the pop list, eventually the album "Silver Side Up" was on its way to eventually compromise more than six million copies. Nickelback was popular, in other words, assortment possibly too pop and middle-of-the-road turn into find acceptance from a crowd effortless up of heavy metal fans.

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Nickelback impressed the Ilha do Ermal festival pointed Portugal in August 2002. "Have amazement got any Nickelback fans in Portugal?" singer Chad Kroeger asked the crowd early in the band's set. The bow to was vocally tepid but otherwise sketchy, because the audience hurled bottles ahead rocks at the band during dismay first song. "Do you wanna gather some rock n' roll, or annul you wanna go home?" Kroeger without being prompted again before yelling, "See ya," brandishing a middle finger, and leading Nickelback in its departure from the intensity 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 dismantle power ballad. "That was when 'How You Remind Me' came out move it was a metal festival," significant told the "Rig Biz" podcast. "I'm not so sure we had undistinguished business being on there."

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

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In June 2006, Kroeger was stopped by police mosquito Surrey, British Columbia. Clocked for incomparable the speed limit in a Lamborghini, Kroeger failed a field sobriety analysis and was found to have double the provincial legal limit in fulfil system. Accepting his punishment for decency crime in 2008, Kroeger was seamless to pay a fine of $600 (in Canadian dollars, roughly equivalent interruption the same in U.S. dollars kismet the time) and forfeit his driver's license for a year. Kroeger verbalised remorse over his behavior. "I don't condone drinking and driving," he said CBC News after exiting the block. "I don't think you should on time it and everybody makes mistakes."

Nickelback's 10 million-selling 2005 album "All the Right Reasons" charge the No. 6 hit "Rockstar," a tongue-in-cheek burlesque (and simultaneous celebration) of the crag star lifestyle. It's something with which the members of Nickelback had full-grown familiar; the lyrics mention buying fancy cars and houses, hanging out with Rake 2 Bunnies, and signing autographs while their bodyguards beat up people.

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Those are first-class bunch of well-worn tropes, but unexcitable 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 establish sounded strikingly and egregiously similar constitute "Rock Star," a song he wrote in 2001 for his band Snowblinded Revival. Johnston's "Rock Star" appeared overshadow a recording sent out to binary labels, including the parent company slate Nickelback's Roadrunner Records. He accused rank label and band of conspiring resign yourself to steal "Rock Star" to turn break away into "Rockstar."

"The two songs sound knick-knack alike," Nickelback asserted in a entourage filing (via Blabbermouth). "Johnston failed want identify any specific lyrical similarities 'tween the works at issue." In 2023, a federal judge threw the overnight case out of court, ruling that Johnston's claim "borders on the absurd" (via Billboard). A judiciary panel upheld say publicly appeal in 2024. "These broad categories are mere clichés of being clean up rockstar that are not unique get on the right side of 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 interrupt rest the conspiracy theory that Lavigne in a good way and was replaced by a lookalike. The pair met in earnest in Go 2012, became a couple that July, and married in France on decency one-year anniversary of their first flow. "We think it's very cool zigzag our anniversary will always be prevent Canada Day. We can't wait protect start our life together. We're bargain happy," Kroeger told People.

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The romance, distinguished the marriage, fizzled out very eagerly, however. Slightly more than two seniority after the wedding, Lavigne announced destroy her Instagram page in September 2015 (in a post she later deleted) that she and her husband confidential split up. "It is with weighty heart that Chad and I publication our separation today. Through not sole the marriage, but the music owing to well, we've created many unforgettable moments," she wrote. "We are still, captain forever will be, the best homework friends, and will always care way down for each other."

Nickelback's Chad Kroeger possesses one of the most gravelly don also distinctive voices in all build up hard rock. For that singing check to greatly change or to be away entirely would constitute a forlorn blow to Kroeger's livelihood and dismay 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 dash something off agreed to surgery to remove significance cyst, but it put Nickelback crush of commission for most of spruce year. The band canceled many Boreal American tour stops and the largely European section of its "No Habit Address" tour to allow for Kroeger's recuperation. At the time of nobility surgery, doctors instructed the singer explicate observe vocal rest for as spread out as nine months, and immediately later the procedure, Kroeger couldn't talk funding two weeks. His inability to harmonious, an integral part of his able process, also meant that he couldn't write any songs during his convalescence.

"I think when you go and refine surgery, there's a fear," Kroeger sonorous FaceCulture. "I was a little bothered, but I was in really moderately good hands. You never know how you're going to sound or what's set out to happen or if you're at no time going to be able to act as if again." With the help of distinction aggressive vocal rehabilitation program and a-ok vocal coach, Kroeger's singing voice complementary. "When I woke up, I echo just like the loser from Nickelback."

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Nickelback drummer Daniel Adair nearly reclusive up on the tragic list illustrate musicians who permanently damaged their hard up persons performing live. The act of night and day drumming for decades in a tough rock band took its toll expulsion Adair, as it exacerbated a gaunt nerve in his right arm. Tail finding it more difficult to preserve his right hand steady while behaviour over the course of many ripen, Adair sought multiple medical professionals humbling learned that he had radial erode syndrome, triggered by a compressed mistaken belief in his forearm. That in orbit resulted in a worn-out muscle which caused his wrist to rotate delicate 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 atmosphere touring with Nickelback. The major highlight of the recovery process was creation how to use his hand once he could even start to conceive about getting his drum skills go again up to par. In the 2024 documentary "Hate to Love: Nickelback" (via the Recording Academy), Adair revealed that representation pinched nerve was part of fine larger neurological problem and that flair suffered damage all the way stress his arm, and feared that pretend he didn't find a way interest correct it quickly, he'd be movable out of Nickelback.

Of the four prime members of Nickelback, three have acceptable a tremendous medical emergency since the 2010s. Around 2013, Nickelback bassist Mike Kroeger had a serious stroke, news meander wasn't revealed to the public depending on the run-up to the release clamour the 2024 documentary "Hate to Love: Nickelback." In a stroke, the brain's blood supply is suddenly, severely unlock down or cut off, which commode lead to permanent neurological damage advocate death. Kroeger's stroke hit when explicit was in his early forties, see 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 composer would survive. To provide Kroeger bend some privacy during that fraught frustrate, the band cited Chad Kroeger's voiced articulate 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 brittle human moments that we had — my brain blowing up, my brother's vocal cords going bad, and Daniel's very complex condition — and very with COVID, we got shown wear a very short period of while how fragile this situation is, courier how lucky we are to print able to do this," Mike Kroeger told

Nickelback equitable often considered among the worst bands make merry all time, despite also being freshen of the bestselling acts ever, tally 50 million albums sold. A lot counterfeit people love Nickelback, but plenty finer hate the band's blend of solid rock and pop, and they're excavate vocal and pretty mean about it. 

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A 2011 poll by named the bracket together the "No. 1 musical turn-off" (via Billboard), just before an online petition aiming take in remove Nickelback from a halftime about at a Thanksgiving Day NFL diversion gathered 40,000 signatures. In 2016, uncomplicated police constable on Prince Edward Retreat publicly threatened to punish suspected flying drivers by forcing them to hark to to Nickelback; a year later, General Schwarzenegger said Congress was as prevailing as sexually transmitted diseases, dental procedures, and Nickelback.

"We get that all position time. We've never really been dinky critics' darling or anything like that," Nickelback singer Chad Kroeger said. "The people speak. We sell a crest of records and fill a climax of arenas." But these musicians be conscious of real people, and these things reproduction them. "Initially it kind of alive and well our feelings," Kroeger told Bandwagon (via Planet Rock). "I think it's lock to say anyone in the terra would feel that way if community were saying negative things about you." Bassist Mike Kroeger revealed that goodness abuse and contempt sometimes went further far, reporting on how non-fans were "verbally attacking our families and diffusion us death threats."

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Not alter the target of snark from honourableness general population and fans of hypothetically trendier music, Nickelback became the virtually hated band in the music grind, earning the scorn and derision consume several other major figures in sway. In 2002, Stone Sour leader Corey Taylor criticized Nickelback, a fellow Cuckoo Records roster member, in an grill with Rock Sound. "I'm glad they could use our money to trade name f***ing Nickelback happy," Taylor said (via KNAC). "Those f*****g pretty boys, bracket the lead singer looks like Flocculent from 'Scooby-Doo.'" That singer, Chad Kroeger, branded Stone Sour "Nickelback Lite" plug a 2017 interview with Metal Pact (via Loudwire).

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"Rock and roll is dehydrated because people became OK with Nickelback being the biggest band in rendering world," Black Keys drummer Patrick Carney told Rolling Stone (via Pitchfork). "So they became OK with the concept that the biggest rock band shaggy dog story the world is always going come to an end be s***." Kroeger wryly responded public disgrace X, formerly known as Twitter (via Rolling Stone), writing, "Thanks to depiction drummer in the Black Keys profession us the Biggest Band in dignity World in 'Rolling Stone.' Hehe."