"San Quentin" is a song by Canadian rock band Nickelback from their tenth studio album, Get Rollin'.
"San Quentin" is described as a hard rock and heavy metal song[4][5][6] with elements of metalcore.
He is.’ Guy Fieri’s a buddy of mine, and I was at his birthday party a few years back.
And the entire time we were talking, I’m speaking to this guy, but in my head all I could think about was, ‘I’m gonna write a song called 'San Quentin’.
And then once the riff was down, I think I screamed out this line, 'Can somebody please keep me the hell out of San Quentin?’ And we just took it from there.”[8][9] On August 26, 2022, students attending school at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia received a newsletter stating they were invited to attend and participate in a video shoot Nickelback will be hosting on August 30, 2022 for their forthcoming single, outside the Convocation Mall on campus.