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Take a sneak peek into the mind of Mike Portnoy! Watch as he listens to “Burn It To The Ground” by Nickelback for the very first time and attempts to play along.
In the video Mike explains how this came about:
“I got a call from Nickelback in spring of ’22. Their drummer [Daniel Adair] I guess was having surgery and they asked me to play a show with them. And I said ‘Yeah, that’d be a fun gig!’
I was all set to play this gig with Nickelback – it was for a festival [in Vancouver, Canada] – and the festival ended up getting canceled. But I was this close to playing a gig with Nickelback.”
Drumeo asked Portnoy to play Nickelback’s song “Burn It To The Ground”, which he’d never heard before. He played it with lots of double kick and later admitted “I would’ve been fired immediately.“
“Chad [Kroeger] sent me the set list. My daughter and my wife were like ‘You’re gonna know every one of these songs’ and I was like “I’ve never heard any of these songs!”
“I don’t listen to the radio so I don’t know any Nickelback songs.”
Watch the video below.
