Simple plan is my Favorite band i really like all of their songs! hope u also like Simple Plan! just listen to their songs to find out why i like
it! i really love like the voice of pierre d vocalist of d simple plan!!!Drunken behaviors, strange habits, being phonies, having a mental age of 12, pushing Celine Dion off the cliff... What's exactly up with Simple Plan? Find out!
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We've heard about Pierre's penchant for getting naked when he's drunk. Tell us more about that.
Pierre: I don't remember any of those nights.
David: When Pierre has a few alcoholic drinks inside of him, he becomes this crazy animal and he gets naked and he jumps up and down, all over the furniture in the bus.
Pierre: And David films me. (Makes like camera gesture with hands)
David: And then his balls are hanging out and I focus on this region right here (Gestures to Pierre's crotch), and then I'll sell it on eBay!
Chuck: He likes to take cold baths in front of total strangers as well. That's big!
All: Yeah!
Do the rest of you have any strange or interesting habits we should know about?
Pierre: Everything else's pretty normal.
David: Like you? (All laugh)
Jeff: I think he was referring to you.
Pierre: Err...I don't know. Strange habits...
Chuck: David, when he's talking, like every 5 seconds... (Makes exaggerated throat-clearing noise)
Jeff: Chuck talks on the phone and he's always like... (Puts index finger across his open mouth)
David: Oh! Chuck has a weird habit, picks his nose.
The five of you all have very distinct personalities. How do they all fit together in the band?
Jeff: We've actually been friends for a very long time, we went to high school together. We met David in the streets and we saved him and he's very grateful for that.
Pierre: I think it's the French language that keeps us together.
Chuck: We can make fun of people and friends and they don't even know what we're saying.
Pierre: We all hate each other in a different way, so that keeps us together.
David: Like brothers. Brothers and sisters. Dogs and cats.
Why the band name Simple Plan?
Jeff: We actually had a show to play when we were in the studio for a demo. First time around, when we were recording demos. And we had no name that actually was decent. So, we stole it from a movie. Called it "A Simple Plan", and decided to change it eventually to a better name.
Pierre: We took off the "A." (All laugh)
Jeff: And we kinda stuck with it.
David: We reversed it "A." We're "Simple Plan A."
Tell us about life before Simple Plan, previous jobs, e.t.c.Jeff: I was actually a music teacher in a very lousy school.
Sebastian: I used to go to school as well. Engineering school but then I dropped out.
Chuck: Yeah, I went to school as well. I was in university, and then I dropped out. My parents were very sad. They cried.
Pierre: I used to play in another band. I just do music. You guys are all phonies.
David: (Points to Pierre) This guy used to work, in a chicken rotisserie.
Jeff: That was the real gig.
David: That's what it was!
Pierre: It was.
David: And I used to work at McDonald's.
What is the mental age of the band, and why?David: 12? All of us together?
Jeff: You can see the mental age of the band is pretty low.
Pierre: Well actually there's a formula. I forgot it, but there was a formula. I figured out…take all our ages and divide it by five?
Sebastian: You divide it by five, you get back to the same age, and then you subtract 12 and that makes us 16.
Pierre: I think we're all a little immature but when it comes down to business, we're very serious.
Chuck: But this record, I gotta tell ya, it's a step forward. So much more mature. Our anguish level is, so much...higher. We learned a few new words and, a few new pronouns, and just feel a lot better in terms of English and gammer.
David: Like Pierre would say, my fellow Pierre right here, you know being in a band, stuff you bring from growing, and then you grow and become your brain.
Jeff: (To Pierre) Did you say that? (All look confused)
You guys write great songs about growing up, the struggle of growing up, what, growing up from your background, has enabled you to write songs like that?Pierre: Puberty.
Sebastian: High school and all.
Jeff: I think on this record that we just finished, we're touching a little more on different issues that are closer to what we're living right now. But definitely when we were growing up it was always hard, y'know. You don't know what your personality is, your kind of look, you're trying to find out where you're fitting in with your friends. The society you're evolving in, it's always very stressful and I think for everyone, you don't know where you're going. And basically it's just a struggle to figure it out. I mean, yeah we just discussed that, isolation, a little bit of issues with what's going on with the world around us. That's basically what inspired us in the first place
If you had to push any of these three fellow Canadians off a cliff: Celine Dion, Bryan Adams or Alanis Morisette, who would it be and why?David: Celine Dion. No offense to her.
Jeff: She's great, she's awesome.
Sebastian: She's really good but we just like the other ones better.
David: We understand a lot of money was put into her new look and everything, but you know, we think Alanis is pretty cool, and Bryan Adams is the rodgiest man alive!
Jeff: She just doesn't rock as much as the other two.
David: Even though she's really sincere and everything (All laugh) Over the cliff she goes!
What sets Simple Plan apart from other young punk pop bands?Sebastian: The French language probably.
Jeff: I don't know. I think we're not trying to be necessarily like totally different. We're just doing our thing and we're just... I mean, we're five guys who like certain types of music, and we like it a certain way, and that's what we do. We don't really think about setting ourselves apart.
Chuck: I think that with everything that we write, and every album that we'll make in the future, we're just finding more of our voice and more of who we are. Maybe the first record had some resemblance with the other bands, but I think that with the new album, and the new sound that we wrote, it's definitely more "us." We're just forgetting the other rules. We'll still have influences but I think we're just becoming more like Simple Plan. Like, not a pop-punk band, not a punk band, just a band, y'know? It's just like ourselves, and I think that's the goal with every band. It's just kinda like, define your own voice. So I think it's the lyrics and the way we write, and the way we perform them, people and our personalities and stuff. And the fact that we're French!
Choose: Critics or fans, and why?Pierre: Fans! Critics suck. Critics don't like us anyway.
Sebastian: Critics hate us.
Pierre: That's why we call the record Still Not Getting Any..., because it meant still not getting any good reviews.
Chuck: And that's ok 'coz if the critics like you, it's probably like what you never said to maybe five critics? So that would be a pretty bad show 'coz five people like it. I'd rather have 10,000 people or 5000 kids who really love your music and really care about your band and have been supporting you for a long time. To me, and to everybody in the band, it's a lot more important, I think. It's a lot more real. They really love music, they don't just wait for free CDs or free tickets to a show, they go and they support it, y'know?
What's the best part about being in a live show? What are some of the best sights and sounds of the experience?
Jeff: I think that the best part about playing live is just obviously doing the music that you love and like having a crowd in front of you. The interaction, your feedback getting it from the crowd, like it's just so much energy. It's just really what makes you wanna keep on going. Even if you're tired, or you don't feel like going on-stage, as soon as you hit the stage, I guess it's just like, so much energy that it keeps you going.
Chuck: I think the most awesome part is going all over the world, and seeing different kind of reactions for different songs. And seeing like how some people will totally react differently. It's kinda mind-blowing for a band like us from Montreal to go and travel all across the world and come to a new city or new country and go, "Wow, I can't believe people actually know the band!" And they actually know all the words and love the music, y'know? Till today we still shocked when you go to an airport and see people waiting for you there. It's like, after you travel 20 hours, and people who care about you being over there. It's pretty dope.
What is the new single, "Welcome to My World," all about?
Jeff: It's a Simple Plan song.
Sebastian: Yes! That it is!
Jeff: It's just our Simple Plan sound, I guess.
Pierre: And the chorus is in minor, which is a first.
Jeff: A first. Yes, it is.
Chuck: I think it just felt right to have it as a first song, from the new album. 'coz it captures the mood of the album very well. And I really feel it's probably one of the most personal honest songs that we wrote. It came from all the stories that we heard from kids on tour. We kinda sometimes go through rough times and all that, so we just figured that we would write that and it just felt right to release it. We wanted to have a song that would have an impact on people, I think that the song, so far from the feedback we're getting already, they're saying to me "Yeah well. That's exactly my life. It really feels like you guys wrote all about me." That's the best complement you could ever get, y'know. And I really like the song. I think it came out great.
You said that the video for "Welcome to My Life" is "off the hook." Why?
Sebastian: Actually, it was ON the hook.
Pierre: I was on the hook actually. I was on top of the bridge and I was hooked up. But yeah, the video's great. I think that it came out really good and the performance shots were really awesome. And this really good aerial helicopter/chopper shot which was really awesome.
Chuck: We blocked off the bridge for a day that's pretty cool. I mean you don't get to do that everyday so, that was really fun.
Sebastian: Big traffic jam too.
Chuck: Yeah.
Jeff: That was a bit of a daredevil sitting on the edge of a tall bridge. That was pretty grandiose.
Sebastian: (Clapping) Bravo there!
Currently listening to: Welcome To My Life
Currently feeling: masaya!
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