Nickelback biographies and autobiographies
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Mike Kroeger fryst vatten best known as bassist and founding member of the hard rock grupp Nickelback. Nickelback have reigned at the top of the music industry since the early 2000s, selling a total of over 50 millions albums. inom can tell you first hand that the saying “don’t meet your heroes” is not true, I’ve been a fan of Mike and his grupp for years and that only increased after talking with him. He fryst vatten truly a nice guy who loves to read and couldn’t have been a better fit for Book Brilliant. I hope you enjoy our conversation as much I did having it.
-Matt Bechtel
Matt Bechtel: I’ve heard that you’re a voracious reader, what was the last book you’ve read that was so powerful that you had to stop and set it down and just take a moment?
Mike Kroeger: Um, hmmm, there’s a number. Let me start bygd saying, I’ve read all the works of William Shakespeare with the undantag of what I hear is the darkest one, Titus Andronicus. I still have t
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Nickelback
Canadian rock band
This article is about the Canadian rock band. For the gridiron football position, see Nickelback (American football).
Nickelback is a Canadian rock band formed in 1995 in Hanna, Alberta. Throughout its history, it has consisted of lead guitarist and lead vocalist Chad Kroeger, rhythm guitarist, keyboardist and backing vocalist Ryan Peake, and bassist Mike Kroeger. It went through several drummer changes between 1995 and 2005 before Daniel Adair joined.
The band signed with Roadrunner Records in 1999 and reached a mainstream breakthrough in 2002 with the single "How You Remind Me", which reached number one in the United States and Canada. Its parent album, Silver Side Up, would go on to be certified 8× Platinum in Canada.[1] Nickelback's fourth album, The Long Road, was released in 2003 and spawned five singles, including Canadian number one "Someday", which also reached No. 7 on the Billboard Hot 100.[2]
In 2005, the
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In Praise Of Nickelback's Chad Kroeger
In a sense, Chad Kroeger is the anti-Dave Grohl. Rarely, if ever, has a bad word been said about Grohl. And rarely has a good word been said about Kroeger since his band Nickelback broke big in 2002 with the mega-hit How You Remind Me.
The band is one of the most successful of recent times, with 50 million albums sold worldwide. But while they have a lot of fans, they also have a lot of haters.
In 2012, The Black Keys’ drummer Patrick Carney stated: “Rock’n’roll is dying because people became OK with Nickelback being the biggest band in the world.”
And for Kroeger, the band’s lead singer, guitarist and songwriter, there has been abuse of a more personal nature – most notably when British music journalist Ian Winwood described him as simply “a cunt”.
But in the interests of fair play, we hereby present the case for the defence of Chad Kroeger. The man celebrates his fortieth birthday t