Nickelback

The guys in Nickelback join us to talk new music, new album, new tour and more1

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
What's Mario a little bit? It's upper Al Mario Lopez
join me now on Zoom the guys and Nickelback. Welcome
to the show, gentlemen, How are you good? Thank you
for taking the time. Congrats you've announced a new album,
get Rolling, your first album in five years. Uh, why
the long hiatus to get back into the studio, Ryan

(00:21):
didn't feel like recording an album, weren't inspired. Okay, you
need a little break sometimes they get in you know,
the the last album to the Machine. Uh, we toured
that until the end of twenty nineteen, I guess, and
then we started the pandemic happened, and and uh, you know,
it just took a while for us to stuff over
that period of time and then we kind of rushed

(00:42):
until the beginning of this year. But uh, yeah, it's yeah,
it feels like it's the longest break we've had between albums,
like five years. It's a while. Yeah, But I say
people needed a break from us. Maybe maybe that's part
of it. I don't give people a chance to miss you.
I always say that, just like a relationship, give him,
give him a minute to appreciate you right there. Um,
this this is uh a special because it's your tenth album. Um,

(01:05):
congrats on that. That's just accomplishment right there. How did
you say the band sound has evolved since your first albums?
Since our first album? That sounds a lot of that's
a lot of revolution. We we sound way better, I
would hope. I think the songwriting is, uh, that's for

(01:26):
sure evolved. Uh, you know, just become better songwriters. Uh.
You kind of get steeped in whatever you're you're exposed to,
uh initially and then over time it's a bunch of
other things too. So it's like, I don't know, I
like to think that it's kind of progressed in a
positive direction for songwriting, at least at that point. Is

(01:47):
there any significance to the title get rolling? Doesn't mean
anything that one? We uh were just sort of leaning into,
uh song lyrics from one of the songs on there.
The song is called high Time, UM, and it's literally

(02:09):
just about getting in a van going across the country,
picking up strangers. And you know, since since marijuana is
legal in Canada, I can say this up here, I
don't know about down there but or wherever even for
most of it. Honestly, yeah, I know it's legal. Down here.
It's Kelli. It might beat you guys to the punch

(02:31):
right um, right there? Um the first single San Quentin. Uh,
any of you guys done time or what's the story
behind this one? Um? Yeah I did sometime and you know,
like juvie, I haven't done any serious time, but no

(02:55):
hard time. Um. No. I actually met the warden, uh
her San Quentin at at a birthday party. My buddy
was having this massive birthday party and and I, I
honestly didn't believe it was him until everybody around him
was like, yeah, dude, think that's actually that's really the warden.

(03:16):
And the second I realized I was honestly speaking to
the warden. And the reason I didn't believe it is
because he was so young. This guy was way too
young to be the warden at a prison. And like,
from that moment on, it was pretty much John c
Riley and get Hard. I was just just what name

(03:36):
of the thank you you can get Hard? In his career? Uh,
where he's having a fight with his wife and she
spits out a line and you can just see him
kind of go blank, and she's like, don't you do it?
What you dare? Do it? Dudey Cox, what you dare
write a song right now? That was me. I was
just sort of staring at a blankly, just like I'm

(03:56):
gonna write a song called san Quentin. And I mean
he must have talked for and I was just sitting
there the whole time, going, I'm gonna write a song
called Seguent. Yeah, you never know what inspires you. That's
cool man. Um, what about touring. You guys gonna be
hitting the road to promote this album? Yep, summer. Nice
let me get through the release or in November and

(04:16):
then uh yeah, I get things prepared graad role in June.
I think around June. Nice man, Good for you. What
are your thoughts on a lot of these bands and
an artists in general that are selling their catalog? Um? Yeah,
a pretty good, pretty good chunk of dough right there?
Is that something you guys that are consider go take
the money and run. Um we are not only are

(04:40):
we considering it, We're of the way through one of
these deals. Okay. Yeah, so we'll we'll see, We'll see
how things turn out over the next week here. But yeah,
that's uh. I think if it's you get to a
certain stage in your career and and uh, I mean

(05:02):
we're not gonna we're not gonna sell the whole ship. Bang,
We're gonna hold some back. But oh you can do that. Okay,
I didn't know that was there was a thing carved
these things out however you want. You can really, you
can really tailor these two whatever what truly whatever you're
you're thinking. Um, but I know there's some some a
lot of artists have done that. Like the number is

(05:25):
far more than we know they are doing these deals. Um.
I think it's the ultimate compliment, I would say, because
for someone to want, first of all, you have a
body of work that that people want to purchase, and um,
um you can. Obviously you're you're still going about your life.
It's not like you're cashing, you're not checking out. But
you get it's kind of like a company going public, right,

(05:46):
you take your company public, it's a lot. It's Yeah,
that's insightful that it's a lot like a company going public. Yeah,
for sure. So that's it. We'll congrats on that. Hope
that goes through for you guys, Chad. When you think
about that comic who pranks town halls calls themselves Chad Crow,
I think that's his real name, isn't it isn't that.
I don't know because the whole everything that dude says

(06:07):
is like a prank, So I don't know if he's joking.
I don't know if it's his real name. I think
his name actually is Jack Krueger. I say Krueger, k
r O uh e g R. You guys are used
to say Kroger because of the you guys have the supermarket,
the supermarket in America. Oh is it Krueger? Okay, it's Krueger.
There's a we took the umlat. I'm gonna put the
umlat back on. I don't think it's gonna help. I

(06:29):
don't think it's gonna help, but I don't think it's
gonna help either. But anyway, I think that, uh, I
think his name actually is and uh. I wish you
would say that he has no affiliation with the band,
because he goes to these town hall meetings and he's like, uh, yeah,
I just want to say that we should be able

(06:51):
to party, you know, because we liked party and I
loved party my whole life. And they're like, thank you
very much, very much, Chad Death, and they just like
cut this guy. I like that. I think I think
there's a missed opportunity here. I think we have to
get Chad Kroeger and Chad Krueger together. Do you like
unify for a for a good cause of some sort.
I think there's something there. There's got to be a crossover.

(07:13):
I agree, I think there is. I agree. Well, good
luck on that, good luck on the catalog purchase, and meanwhile,
get Roland drops on November eight. Guys, thanks for hanging
out and check it in. Thank you so much. You
gotta take care of you. On with Mario Lopez