Famous Canadian journalist Nardwuar finally interviewed Nickelback bandmates Chad Kroeger and Ryan Peake for the first time in an hour-long conversation at Neptoon Records in Vancouver last week.
Band members Kroeger and Peake explored various topics in their sweeping interview with the eccentric media personality, including a story about how their former drummer, Kroeger’s cousin Brandon, quit the band in 1996.
In the extensive interview, Nardwuar, in typical well-researched fashion, reminds Kroeger and Peake of the 1996 show date in which Nickelback and industrial rock band Stabbing Westward performed together at Vancouver’s Starfish Room. READ MORE: Lewis Capaldi Welcomes Chad Kroeger Onstage At Vancouver Concert Kroeger recalled how his cousin saw Stabbing Westward’s “brand-new, huge tour bus,” immediately causing Brandon to quit band life. “They were on tour opening up for KISS, and they came to town on this brand-new, huge tour bus… And we had never been on a tour bus before.
We were a van band,” Kroeger explains. The Nickelback frontman remembered how the band had been travelling across Canada in a van pulling a trailer, describing themselves as a “van band.” Once they saw Westward’s tour bus, Kroeger was extremely curious to see how comfortable other musicians travel.
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