Mike Kroeger recently appeared as a guest on NME’s ‘Rock ‘N’ Roll Kill Braincells?!’ quiz and revealed his chat with Dave Grohl over his negative words on Nickelback.
In 2012, a fake Grohl account appeared on social media. Some thought it was real. This fake account used to tweet negative things about Nickelback. Kroeger recalled that period:
“What was funny was that directly after that happened, we had Dave Grohl in our dressing room at the Forum in Los Angeles, and I got to ask him about it. He explained his Twitter was being impersonated, and I poured him a Crown Royal and Coke, and we hung out.”
What The Fake Account Wrote
Here is one of the tweets from the fake account:
“Nickelback walks into a bar…there’s no punchline because ruining music isn’t funny.”
In another post, the person wrote:
“If you play a Nickelback song backwards, you’ll hear messages from the devil. Even worse, if you play it forwards, you’ll hear Nickelback.”
Later, Foo Fighters made a public announcement in a tweet that it wasn’t Grohl. They tagged the drummer’s real account.
Mike Talks About Nickelback’s Negative Reputation
Kroeger also recently addressed the hate against Nickelback in a chat with Talkin’ Rock with Meltdown. He said:
“Well, what the thing about it’s like not to fat shame, but it is the 800 lb gorilla in the room, and I don’t mind addressing it myself, and that’s why I’m kind of doing the rounds on this stuff is because I’m like… I guess I’ve never really taken any of that very seriously. It’s hurt me and my family as you’ll see in the documentary. That’s a spoiler alert, but now I don’t really care about it, and now I kind of want to use it.”
The bassist also thinks Machine Gun Kelly is now more disliked than Nickelback. Nickelback’s new 90-minute documentary, ‘Hate To Love: Nickelback,’ played in cinemas on March 27. It will have another session on March 30.
