Nickelback.During a recent appearance on education drum channel Drumeo, Portnoy – who has in the past performed with Dream Theater, The Winery Dogs and Avenged Sevenfold among other bands – revealed that he was contacted by Nickelback to fill in on drums for a gig in 2022 after their drummer wasn’t able to make a show.For his appearance on Drumeo, Portnoy was tasked to perform a song he had never heard of, which turned out to be Nickelback’s ‘Burn It To The Ground’.
Providing some backstory, Portnoy said: “Their drummer I guess was having surgery and they asked me to play a show with them.
And I said ‘Yeah, that’d be a fun gig!’”“I was all set to play this gig with Nickelback – it was for a festival – and the festival ended up getting canceled.
But I was this close to playing a gig with Nickelback.”Portnoy then added that he had received the setlist for the gig, but that ‘Burn It To The Ground’ wasn’t on it, and that he had never heard most of the songs on the intended show’s list: “Chad [Kroeger] sent me the set list.
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