Metal Anarchy

During an appearance on The Jesea Lee Show, Hinder’s Cody Hanson reflected on a past altercation he had with Nickelback’s Chad Kroeger. According to him, he “almost got beat up by Chad Kroeger and his bodyguard, and [he] cried.”

Hanson said the following:

“In the early days, we were out touring with Nickelback, and we always loved Nickelback growing up, one of our favorite bands. We’d kind of become buddies with them. We spent a couple summers recording in Vancouver, one of the summers was at Chad Kroeger’s house, right? So we kinda knew the guys.”

One night … we were sitting outside of a hotel, and it was us and our crew, and Chad and a couple of girls. And they were like these country girls sitting in back of their trucks, and they start talking about horses. And my drum tech and buddy at the time, he starts laughing, he’s like, ‘Cody, man, come here, Chad says there’s no such thing as quarter horses’, and he’s laughing, kinda poking fun at him.

So, I think to myself, ‘well, why would he say that? Oh, maybe it’s ’cause he’s Canadian and they use the metric system.’ So that’s what I said, right? So everybody starts laughing. I wasn’t trying to be a dick, I was just trying to figure out what it was, right?

So, he comes over and wraps his arm around my neck, and I think he’s joking, right? And then I notice he starts really squeezing and 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.’

And I’m super confused at this point, and we’re all drunk as shit, right? And so he kinda storms off, and then I get mad. And so I kinda start walking after him, and he’s got this massive security guard. And every time I get close to him, he’s like ‘Cody, don’t.’ Like, ‘mind your shit.’

I mean this dude, he would have squashed me. And so I follow him onto his bus and I’m so mad at this point and so upset. I’m yelling at him. He’s yelling at me. And then ya know being drunk, once you get so mad, your emotions overtake you. I started crying, crying like a little bitch. I couldn’t control it man. I was so embarrassed. So embarassed.

So the next day, he comes in the dressing room, and he’s kinda like, ‘Wow, the train really came off the tracks last night, huh?” And he’s got a handful of Viagra so he’s just passing out Viagra as like this peace offering to us the next day. So anyway, that’s the most embarrassing story that I have.”

[via The PRP]