Hinder drummer admits he “almost got beat up” by Nickelback’s Chad Kroeger over joke

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Nickelback‘s Chad Kroeger over a joke about the latter’s nationality.The post-grunge band’s co-founder appeared in a video interview by content creator Jesea Lee yesterday (December 5).Hanson began, stating that Nickelback was one of Hinder’s “favourite bands” and they became “buddies” with the ‘Lips Of An Angel’ band.They spent one summer with Kroeger, and they were accompanied by their crew and “a couple of girls”, who were talking amongst themselves about horses.

Hinder’s drum tech had gone over to Hanson laughing, telling him: “Chad says there’s no such thing as quarter horses”, in reference to a type of American horse breed.Hanson replied to his colleague: “‘Maybe ’cause he’s Canadian and they use the metric system'”.“Everybody starts laughing.

I wasn’t trying to be a dick,” maintained Hanson. “[Kroeger] comes over and wraps his arm around my neck, and I think he’s joking, right?

And then I notice he starts really squeezing.”“So I kinda shove him off and am like, ‘What the fuck are you doing, dude?’ And he’s like, ‘If you wanna make a person from Canada mad, the first thing you do is call him a Canadian.'”Hanson continued, adding that Kroeger stormed off with his bodyguard, with the drummer following him behind to his tour bus.“I’m so mad at this point and so upset.