Although Pantera have been groove steel kings within the ’90s, their music tastes ventured past all issues heavy and Nickelback bassist Mike Kroeger has shared certainly one of Vinnie Paul’s stunning musical loves throughout a current podcast look.
Actually, Kroeger revealed one explicit pop star that Paul tried to promote him on throughout certainly one of their journeys to the well-known Clubhouse strip membership in Dallas.
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Kroeger was a visitor on The Meep Meep Podcast with Ryan Rainbro when he addressed Nickelback’s lengthy operating friendship with Pantera. Inside the dialogue, Kroeger shared that regardless of Pantera’s standing as steel icons and Nickelback’s place at the moment as probably the most standard rock radio bands that was crossing over to mainstream radio, there was no second ideas about what others would possibly assume.
“He was an enormous fan. He was an enormous, huge fan of my brother [Chad Kroeger] …. each of these guys – Vinnie and Dime – have been each unapologetic followers too. I’m certain that there was various instances when some the steel standard-bearers have been most likely like, ‘What do you imply Nickelback? What are you speaking with them for? Who provides a fuck about these guys?’ They usually liked it, and so they liked us,” mentioned Kroeger.
It was then that the bassist used one other instance to point out the brothers unapologetic love towards all kinds of music.
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“I keep in mind using in a limo with these guys from a gig in Dallas to the Clubhouse one time. And Vinnie was identical to, if you happen to may do backflips in a limo, he can be doing backflips in a limo for Christina Aguilera,” recalled Kroeger.
“He was like, ‘Take heed to this shit!’ And he would simply crank this Aguilera stuff, Like, Okay, wow, what a Twilight Zone episode man,” remembered the bassist. “Like, I received probably the most influential steel drummers on the earth, ever, enjoying me Christina Aguilera songs, on the best way to a strip joint.”
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Vinnie Paul’s Love of Christina Aguilera
Kroeger’s account of Vinnie Paul’s love for Christina Aguilera checks out, because the drummer had shouted out the pop star on a number of events within the media. Throughout a pink carpet video for Fuse asking laborious rock and steel musicians their responsible pleasure songs, Paul, then a member of Hellyeah, remarked, “What a Woman Desires, what a woman wants. All day and all evening, come on.”
In a separate 2014 interview with NYS Music, he commented, “I don’t assume there are any huge ‘secrets and techniques’ as to one thing in my [music] vault that you just don’t know something about. I really like feminine singers. I like Christina Aguilera.”
He went on to shout out Coronary heart’s Wilson sisters, Halestorm’s Lzzy Hale and Pat Benatar as favorites as nicely inside that piece.
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