Cody Hanson shared how a joke about Canada caused physical reaction from Nickelback’s Chad Kroeger in a recent interview with content creator Jesea Lee.
The drummer started by noting that his band was a fan of and friends with Nickelback. He then recalled a summer they spent together, during which a chat about horses came up.
Hinder’s drum tech told Hanson at some point, “Chad says there’s no such thing as quarter horses,” referring to a type of American horse breed.
The drummer responded, “‘Maybe ’cause he’s Canadian and they use the metric system.’ Everybody starts laughing. I wasn’t trying to be a d*ck. [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 f*ck 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.’”
The incident turned into a verbal fight between the two that left Hanson in tears under alcohol’s influence. By the next day, though, they made up, as Kroeger approached the Hinder drummer and offered him a handful of Viagra.
Earlier this year, Nickelback released a documentary titled ‘Hate To Love: Nickelback’ to reflect on their history from their own perspective.
