RobertKron
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- Sep 1, 2007
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showing my age here but i remember back in high school i had this friend who wasalways talking up this local band that not a lot of people knew called nickleback. it was the late 90s and they had this song that was on semi-regular rotation on 99.3 the fox that sounded exactly like the band bush.
and i thought, yeah that’s what the world wants to listen to, a cancon version of bush (x)
well they sure showed me right?
Yeah, they got tons of play on CFOX in the mid-late90s with Detangler and Fly, IIRC. I unintentionally saw them play live in early summer 2001; they played their upcoming single "How You Remind Me," and I thought they were better when they were a generic grunge-sounding band instead of this new sound as a generic medium rock band. Next thing you know, a couple weeks later that song was being played on the radio somewhere in the world 24/7.
Did run into them and shoot the shit briefly after that show and they seemed like nice enough dudes and shared their beers with my friends. It's wild to think how their lives were about to change.
Also, that album was released September 11, 2001.
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