1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 3 00:00:24,608 --> 00:00:27,820 ["Perfect" by Simple Plan] 4 00:00:53,387 --> 00:00:54,847 [Pierre, speaking English] What are you doing here? 5 00:00:54,847 --> 00:00:55,890 [cameraman] What are you doing here? 6 00:00:55,890 --> 00:00:57,266 I'm practicing. 7 00:00:57,266 --> 00:00:58,642 [cameraman] Why do you guys need to practice? 8 00:00:58,642 --> 00:01:00,019 Because we suck! 9 00:01:12,948 --> 00:01:14,825 [crowd cheering] 10 00:01:14,825 --> 00:01:17,244 [crowd chanting] Simple Plan! Simple Plan! 11 00:01:17,244 --> 00:01:30,716 Simple Plan! Simple Plan! 12 00:01:30,716 --> 00:01:33,302 [drums] 13 00:01:33,302 --> 00:01:46,774 Simple Plan! Simple Plan! 14 00:01:46,774 --> 00:01:49,777 [heartbeat pounding] 15 00:01:52,196 --> 00:01:53,697 [guitar feedback] 16 00:01:53,697 --> 00:01:55,491 [crowd cheering] 17 00:01:55,491 --> 00:01:56,992 [Pierre] We are Simple Plan. 18 00:01:56,992 --> 00:02:00,079 Everybody make some noise! 19 00:02:03,541 --> 00:02:07,753 ["I'd Do Anything" by Simple Plan] 20 00:02:21,600 --> 00:02:23,727 [Jeff] Sometimes I feel like I accidentally got here. 21 00:02:23,727 --> 00:02:25,771 I was angry back then. I didn't fit in. 22 00:02:25,771 --> 00:02:29,066 My life just didn't make sense, and music was my escape. 23 00:02:29,066 --> 00:02:30,568 [crowd screaming] 24 00:02:30,568 --> 00:02:32,027 [Pierre] Have you ever seen a zombie movie? 25 00:02:32,027 --> 00:02:34,321 [woman] They are the definition of brotherhood. 26 00:02:34,321 --> 00:02:35,823 You love your brother, 27 00:02:35,823 --> 00:02:38,200 but you wanna fucking strangle him sometimes. 28 00:02:39,201 --> 00:02:40,327 This is Pierre, he's my friend. 29 00:02:40,327 --> 00:02:41,495 Yeah, my friend. I'm Chuck. 30 00:02:41,495 --> 00:02:42,830 Yeah, we're friends. 31 00:02:42,830 --> 00:02:46,125 ["I'd Do Anything" by Simple Plan continues] 32 00:02:47,751 --> 00:02:50,671 [David] I was collecting all these rejection letters, like, 33 00:02:50,671 --> 00:02:52,965 "Although you guys are good, it's not for us at this point." 34 00:02:52,965 --> 00:02:54,258 Nothing was happening with the band, 35 00:02:54,258 --> 00:02:56,385 and I went back to school, and then, boom! 36 00:02:56,385 --> 00:02:59,221 Nothing came easy, I mean, they worked. 37 00:02:59,221 --> 00:03:01,140 [Jeff] You think you know, but you have no idea. 38 00:03:01,140 --> 00:03:02,224 [Chuck] What's going on? 39 00:03:02,224 --> 00:03:04,268 [Nardwuar] Good guys, bad band! 40 00:03:04,268 --> 00:03:05,853 [man 1] You guys are too pop for punk. 41 00:03:05,853 --> 00:03:07,646 These guys are new, they're gonna have 42 00:03:07,646 --> 00:03:09,023 to pay their dues. 43 00:03:09,023 --> 00:03:11,525 ["I'd Do Anything" by Simple Plan continues] 44 00:03:12,610 --> 00:03:14,695 [man 2] Normally, the bands, they don't wanna work as hard. 45 00:03:14,695 --> 00:03:16,113 But these guys did it. 46 00:03:16,113 --> 00:03:17,698 [man 3] Sometimes, I wanna just shake them 47 00:03:17,698 --> 00:03:19,158 and say like, "Just go and have fun." 48 00:03:19,158 --> 00:03:21,160 [Jeff] We're leaving on tour. Once again. 49 00:03:21,160 --> 00:03:23,037 [Avril Lavigne] We're really just kids being kids. 50 00:03:23,037 --> 00:03:24,079 - Yeah!! - Yeah!! 51 00:03:24,079 --> 00:03:25,331 [Jeff] I lost my mind when 52 00:03:25,331 --> 00:03:26,957 we started being successful. 53 00:03:26,957 --> 00:03:28,584 This is a private jet! 54 00:03:28,584 --> 00:03:30,920 [Chuck] I'm a millionaire, now, 'cause of SP so. No, I'm not! 55 00:03:30,920 --> 00:03:32,212 I sold a million records, though! 56 00:03:32,212 --> 00:03:33,756 [Pierre] The mix of being naive, 57 00:03:33,756 --> 00:03:35,549 and young, I wasn't processing 58 00:03:35,549 --> 00:03:36,967 all that stuff a whole lot. 59 00:03:36,967 --> 00:03:38,260 [both] This is huge! 60 00:03:38,260 --> 00:03:40,262 [Pierre] Now put your hands up! 61 00:03:40,262 --> 00:03:41,805 [Sébastien] I didn't really feel close to the guys, 62 00:03:41,805 --> 00:03:44,600 I was living my own stuff. It was kind of like a shock. 63 00:03:44,600 --> 00:03:46,477 [Mark McGrath] The second hardest thing in the world 64 00:03:46,477 --> 00:03:49,021 in the music business is having a hit song. 65 00:03:49,021 --> 00:03:50,898 The hardest thing is staying there. 66 00:03:50,898 --> 00:03:54,401 [Pierre] We have had so much hate in this band. 67 00:03:54,401 --> 00:03:57,029 I can't believe after 20 plus years, 68 00:03:57,029 --> 00:03:58,781 we're still here doing this shit. 69 00:03:58,781 --> 00:04:00,658 - 40 years from now, these guys 70 00:04:00,658 --> 00:04:01,867 will still be out there kicking ass. 71 00:04:01,867 --> 00:04:03,786 [Pierre] My mom asked me when I was six, 72 00:04:03,786 --> 00:04:05,204 "What do you want to do in life?" 73 00:04:05,204 --> 00:04:06,914 And I told her, "I wanna be a rock star." 74 00:04:06,914 --> 00:04:09,083 And she's like, "Well, go be a rock star." 75 00:04:09,083 --> 00:04:11,418 [crowd screaming] 76 00:04:11,418 --> 00:04:12,544 [guitar riffs] 77 00:04:12,544 --> 00:04:14,129 You guys remember this song? 78 00:04:16,548 --> 00:04:19,802 Yeah, this song is called, "I'm Just A Kid". 79 00:04:22,513 --> 00:04:24,473 Were you one of those kids 80 00:04:24,473 --> 00:04:27,309 that was playing this song in your bedroom 81 00:04:27,309 --> 00:04:29,228 at your parents' house? 82 00:04:30,104 --> 00:04:33,691 And you were playing it over and over and over again? 83 00:04:34,483 --> 00:04:37,861 And your parents said, "God damn, shut that shit off!" 84 00:04:37,861 --> 00:04:39,238 [crowd cheering] 85 00:04:39,238 --> 00:04:41,323 And then, you said something like, 86 00:04:41,323 --> 00:04:43,033 "You don't understand. 87 00:04:43,033 --> 00:04:44,535 You don't understand, 88 00:04:44,535 --> 00:04:47,287 I love this song, I love this band." 89 00:04:47,287 --> 00:04:48,956 [crowd cheering] 90 00:04:48,956 --> 00:04:51,959 "This band is part of who I am." 91 00:04:52,876 --> 00:04:55,379 And then, your mom or your dad would say something like, 92 00:04:55,379 --> 00:04:57,923 "Oh don't worry, sweetie, it's just a phase, 93 00:04:57,923 --> 00:04:59,216 it's just a phase". 94 00:04:59,216 --> 00:05:02,052 [crowd cheering] 95 00:05:02,052 --> 00:05:06,598 And then you said, "Mom, Dad, it was never a phase!" 96 00:05:06,598 --> 00:05:09,226 ["I'm Just a Kid" by Simple Plan] 97 00:05:09,226 --> 00:05:11,562 [crowd singing along] 98 00:05:45,763 --> 00:05:47,598 [soft piano music] 99 00:05:56,356 --> 00:05:57,691 [speaking French] This right here, 100 00:05:57,691 --> 00:05:58,984 that’s how the Simple Plan movie should start. 101 00:06:00,736 --> 00:06:01,904 What do you think? 102 00:06:08,118 --> 00:06:09,036 Rolling? 103 00:06:09,203 --> 00:06:10,037 [cameraman, speaking English] Yes. 104 00:06:11,663 --> 00:06:13,123 - The way that I was introduced 105 00:06:13,123 --> 00:06:16,376 to Southern California pop-punk or punk rock 106 00:06:16,376 --> 00:06:18,295 was definitely through skateboarding 107 00:06:18,295 --> 00:06:19,963 and snowboarding movies. 108 00:06:19,963 --> 00:06:20,964 [punk rock music] 109 00:06:20,964 --> 00:06:22,174 There was bands on there 110 00:06:22,174 --> 00:06:23,967 like The Offspring, and Bad Religion. 111 00:06:23,967 --> 00:06:25,886 And I remember hearing that for the first time, 112 00:06:25,886 --> 00:06:28,972 and going like, "Wow, this sounds so cool." 113 00:06:28,972 --> 00:06:31,141 And it was also so fast, like, 114 00:06:31,141 --> 00:06:32,768 "Dah-dah, dah-da-dah da-dah!" 115 00:06:32,768 --> 00:06:34,645 And I was, I just was super excited by it, 116 00:06:34,645 --> 00:06:36,396 I thought it was way different 117 00:06:36,396 --> 00:06:37,648 and it just felt like, 118 00:06:37,648 --> 00:06:39,691 "Wow, this is what I wanna listen to." 119 00:06:39,691 --> 00:06:42,361 Everything about it was just magical to me. 120 00:06:42,361 --> 00:06:44,321 [punk rock music] 121 00:06:44,321 --> 00:06:45,989 [Chuck] When we were teenagers, 122 00:06:45,989 --> 00:06:49,576 and like in the 94, 95, 96 era, 123 00:06:49,576 --> 00:06:53,705 Montreal was the mecca of punk rock. 124 00:06:53,705 --> 00:06:55,666 It's the weirdest thing, I don't know why. 125 00:06:55,666 --> 00:06:58,085 Punk rock bands on Fat Records and Epitaph 126 00:06:58,085 --> 00:07:01,004 were rock stars here. 127 00:07:01,004 --> 00:07:04,550 Growing up and being fans of that music in Montreal, 128 00:07:04,550 --> 00:07:07,052 it was the perfect place at the perfect time. 129 00:07:07,052 --> 00:07:09,429 Sometimes, there were so many shows, my parents 130 00:07:09,429 --> 00:07:11,557 wouldn't let me go to like, 131 00:07:11,557 --> 00:07:13,308 there was Bad Religion on Wednesday, 132 00:07:13,308 --> 00:07:15,519 and there was like, Good Riddance on Friday night, 133 00:07:15,519 --> 00:07:18,772 and then Strung Out was playing on Saturday night, it was crazy. 134 00:07:18,772 --> 00:07:21,567 [cameraman] So what was it that really drew you to music? 135 00:07:21,567 --> 00:07:24,653 [Chuck] I think we went to see NOFX, it was probably our 136 00:07:24,653 --> 00:07:26,613 first real punk rock show. 137 00:07:26,613 --> 00:07:28,574 And I think the one thing that was really cool for me 138 00:07:28,574 --> 00:07:30,909 was that, it wasn't like the band was 139 00:07:30,909 --> 00:07:33,829 different than the kids, it felt like, it was almost like you, 140 00:07:33,829 --> 00:07:35,873 I could've been on stage. You know what I mean? 141 00:07:37,457 --> 00:07:38,959 [speaking French] I've lost all other identity 142 00:07:38,959 --> 00:07:40,878 I may have had; I’m Chuck's dad. 143 00:07:43,380 --> 00:07:46,008 Charles came in one morning, it was his birthday, 144 00:07:46,008 --> 00:07:48,051 and he said: "I found a drum set." 145 00:07:48,051 --> 00:07:50,721 I told my wife Françoise: "Don't worry, it's just a phase. 146 00:07:50,721 --> 00:07:53,056 In a few weeks, he'll be done with it." 147 00:07:53,056 --> 00:07:56,059 But I was very wrong. Because... 148 00:07:56,059 --> 00:07:57,895 ["Grow Up" by Simple Plan] 149 00:07:59,313 --> 00:08:02,691 The day the drum set arrived, the friends also came with it. 150 00:08:02,691 --> 00:08:04,401 Then came the guitars, 151 00:08:04,401 --> 00:08:07,154 and a few days later, they were making music. 152 00:08:07,154 --> 00:08:08,447 [speaking English] When did we figure out 153 00:08:08,447 --> 00:08:09,865 he would be on a different path? 154 00:08:09,865 --> 00:08:13,410 He just, music was an important part of his life, 155 00:08:13,410 --> 00:08:16,663 and he started writing at a very young age. 156 00:08:16,663 --> 00:08:19,333 ["Grow Up" by Simple Plan continues] 157 00:08:19,333 --> 00:08:20,918 [Pierre] I knew how to play a bit of guitar, 158 00:08:20,918 --> 00:08:23,170 my brother played guitar, my dad played guitar. 159 00:08:23,170 --> 00:08:25,172 But it really began when I started going 160 00:08:25,172 --> 00:08:27,382 to Chuck's parents' basement to play there. 161 00:08:27,674 --> 00:08:29,593 [in French] The first time I met Pierre, 162 00:08:29,593 --> 00:08:31,011 he showed up with orange hair. 163 00:08:31,011 --> 00:08:33,263 I was slightly worried. 164 00:08:33,263 --> 00:08:35,265 "Who’s this new friend?" 165 00:08:35,265 --> 00:08:36,892 [in English] My teacher at school recommended like, 166 00:08:36,892 --> 00:08:38,977 "You guys should start a band, play at the talent show 167 00:08:38,977 --> 00:08:40,354 at the lunch period. 168 00:08:40,354 --> 00:08:41,605 We were like, "Yeah. 169 00:08:41,605 --> 00:08:43,440 We should be in a band together." 170 00:08:43,440 --> 00:08:45,525 [heavy rock music] 171 00:08:50,906 --> 00:08:53,283 [in French] Come on, what is that? 172 00:08:53,450 --> 00:08:56,119 [in English] That gave us, sort of like that little bug of like, 173 00:08:56,119 --> 00:08:58,288 "Wow, that was really fun, that was cool to have people, 174 00:08:58,288 --> 00:08:59,456 people watching." 175 00:08:59,456 --> 00:09:01,583 [punk rock music] 176 00:09:05,212 --> 00:09:08,173 - I remember him telling me one day, 177 00:09:08,173 --> 00:09:11,218 "I can't write love songs, I'm 16 years old!" 178 00:09:11,218 --> 00:09:14,429 [Pierre] Let's get ready to rumble! 179 00:09:14,429 --> 00:09:16,723 Reset was kind of like learning the ropes. 180 00:09:16,723 --> 00:09:19,142 I remember playing my first show my parents came to, 181 00:09:19,142 --> 00:09:20,686 there was maybe 50 people there, 182 00:09:20,686 --> 00:09:23,230 and we were terrible. I swore a lot on stage, 183 00:09:23,230 --> 00:09:26,692 I screamed, my back was to the audience, and I was just, 184 00:09:26,692 --> 00:09:28,610 "Yeah, yeah!" And I walked off stage, 185 00:09:28,610 --> 00:09:31,446 and my mom was like, "Oh, that was so bad. 186 00:09:31,446 --> 00:09:33,573 Why are you screaming so much?" 187 00:09:33,573 --> 00:09:35,450 And I was, "I don't care, that's who I am." 188 00:09:35,450 --> 00:09:37,786 [punk rock music] 189 00:09:39,454 --> 00:09:43,458 - The songs, I must say, were... not so great. 190 00:09:43,458 --> 00:09:47,671 They were just very wild, aggressive. 191 00:09:47,671 --> 00:09:49,881 [Pierre] That's what punk rock is, 192 00:09:49,881 --> 00:09:51,341 it's just giving you this confidence, 193 00:09:51,341 --> 00:09:53,218 even though you might not necessarily 194 00:09:53,218 --> 00:09:54,803 have that much to be confident about. 195 00:09:54,803 --> 00:09:57,222 You're just like, "This is me, It's unapologetic. 196 00:09:57,222 --> 00:09:59,391 Take it or leave it, I don't care." 197 00:09:59,391 --> 00:10:01,685 I guess I was a counter-culture kind of kid. 198 00:10:01,685 --> 00:10:05,480 Being in a band in Montreal that had a bit of notoriety, 199 00:10:05,480 --> 00:10:08,066 it was really fulfilling, and it made me feel cool. 200 00:10:09,484 --> 00:10:11,570 [crowd cheering] 201 00:10:11,570 --> 00:10:13,155 [crew speaking indistinctly] 202 00:10:13,155 --> 00:10:14,990 Yeah. 203 00:10:14,990 --> 00:10:17,117 I first met the guys from Simple Plan 204 00:10:17,117 --> 00:10:20,746 when they were in their former band called Reset. 205 00:10:20,746 --> 00:10:22,331 Blink was touring, and we were kind, 206 00:10:22,331 --> 00:10:24,207 we were still a baby band, 207 00:10:24,207 --> 00:10:26,168 and we were kind of getting popular 208 00:10:26,168 --> 00:10:28,628 in south... Southern California. 209 00:10:28,628 --> 00:10:30,464 And then we were on tour, and we stopped 210 00:10:30,464 --> 00:10:34,634 at, uh, French Canada, in Quebec. 211 00:10:34,634 --> 00:10:37,262 - And we got invited to play on this mini tour, 212 00:10:37,262 --> 00:10:38,513 Sno-Jam. 213 00:10:39,556 --> 00:10:42,351 And this band called Blink 182 was on it. 214 00:10:42,351 --> 00:10:45,145 We ended up talking to them, just because we were 215 00:10:45,145 --> 00:10:47,606 on that tour as well. And when they came on stage, 216 00:10:47,606 --> 00:10:49,566 all the girls lost their minds! 217 00:10:49,566 --> 00:10:51,401 Like it was, 218 00:10:51,401 --> 00:10:53,028 something was like, you could feel 219 00:10:53,028 --> 00:10:56,656 the energy shifted. They really had a buzz going on. 220 00:10:56,656 --> 00:10:58,492 [Mark Hoppus] Reset were a lot younger than we were, 221 00:10:58,492 --> 00:11:00,160 so I always felt like they were younger brothers. 222 00:11:00,160 --> 00:11:01,870 Like, Chuck was always like my younger brother 223 00:11:01,870 --> 00:11:04,790 who I felt like I needed to watch out for. 224 00:11:04,790 --> 00:11:06,500 But I also treated him like a younger brother, 225 00:11:06,500 --> 00:11:07,959 and when he talked about his band and stuff, 226 00:11:07,959 --> 00:11:09,628 I was like, "Yeah, cool bud. Cool. 227 00:11:09,628 --> 00:11:11,380 Give it up, keep your chin up, kid!" 228 00:11:11,380 --> 00:11:14,508 And he was always just this kid that came to all the shows, 229 00:11:14,508 --> 00:11:15,842 and was a big supporter, 230 00:11:15,842 --> 00:11:18,470 and was always hyping up his own band. 231 00:11:20,680 --> 00:11:23,809 [director] Back in the Reset days, you kicked him out? 232 00:11:23,809 --> 00:11:26,645 Yup, uh, we did. 233 00:11:28,563 --> 00:11:31,400 [soft music] 234 00:11:31,400 --> 00:11:33,652 [Pierre] We started this band when we were like 14 years old. 235 00:11:33,652 --> 00:11:37,697 And by the time we were 18, we were on tour across Canada, 236 00:11:37,697 --> 00:11:39,616 with MXPX, in tight quarters. 237 00:11:39,616 --> 00:11:41,743 You're sleeping sometimes in people's houses, 238 00:11:41,743 --> 00:11:43,203 sometimes in your own van. 239 00:11:43,203 --> 00:11:45,747 ["Friend" by Reset] 240 00:11:45,747 --> 00:11:49,209 It was a lot for a bunch of kids that didn't really know 241 00:11:49,209 --> 00:11:51,336 how to appreciate each other, 242 00:11:51,336 --> 00:11:54,423 and how to give each other some space. 243 00:11:54,423 --> 00:11:56,842 And our personalities just started to clash. 244 00:11:59,803 --> 00:12:02,889 I remember having a conversation with my guitar player, Phil, 245 00:12:02,889 --> 00:12:04,599 and I think we were in a hotel room. 246 00:12:04,599 --> 00:12:06,852 And we were talking about Chuck, 247 00:12:06,852 --> 00:12:09,229 and Chuck happened to be just outside. 248 00:12:09,229 --> 00:12:11,398 [Chuck] And the door was closed, but I could hear them talk. 249 00:12:11,398 --> 00:12:13,150 "Fuck Chuck, we don't need him anymore, 250 00:12:13,150 --> 00:12:14,693 we're gonna be better off without him." 251 00:12:14,693 --> 00:12:16,194 And I just sat there for 40 minutes, 252 00:12:16,194 --> 00:12:18,071 while they made a whole plan about 253 00:12:18,071 --> 00:12:19,614 kicking me out of the band. 254 00:12:19,614 --> 00:12:21,575 And that they didn't, 255 00:12:21,575 --> 00:12:23,827 that I was a pain in the ass, that we're always fighting, 256 00:12:23,827 --> 00:12:26,288 and he's not that good anyways, and bla, bla, bla. 257 00:12:26,288 --> 00:12:29,040 And um, 258 00:12:29,040 --> 00:12:30,876 I remember, I finally, I walked in, it's like, 259 00:12:30,876 --> 00:12:32,752 "Yeah, you don't have to kick me out, I quit." 260 00:12:32,752 --> 00:12:36,256 You know? That was my baby, I cared so much, right? 261 00:12:36,256 --> 00:12:40,552 And to have it ripped away from me was so painful. 262 00:12:40,552 --> 00:12:43,388 I mean, it's a life-defining event for me. 263 00:12:43,388 --> 00:12:46,099 [Pierre] I feel really bad about that conversation. 264 00:12:46,099 --> 00:12:50,437 But I think Chuck's personality, with my personality, 265 00:12:50,437 --> 00:12:55,400 needed that breakup for both of us to, uh, 266 00:12:55,400 --> 00:12:57,694 mature a bit, and understand a little bit more 267 00:12:57,694 --> 00:13:01,531 about life in a band, and what it means to... 268 00:13:01,531 --> 00:13:04,326 compromise and sacrifice for the greater good. 269 00:13:08,288 --> 00:13:10,207 [Jeff] We're high school buddies. 270 00:13:10,207 --> 00:13:12,626 I was playing with Sébastien's brother 271 00:13:12,626 --> 00:13:14,753 in other bands, and we were very young. 272 00:13:14,753 --> 00:13:17,088 The guys were 13, I was 14, 273 00:13:17,088 --> 00:13:19,216 and we learned how to play music, 274 00:13:19,216 --> 00:13:21,218 you know, alongside. 275 00:13:21,218 --> 00:13:24,054 My mom bought me a guitar in sixth grade, 276 00:13:24,054 --> 00:13:26,473 and I saw Hendrix on TV, and I thought it was a cool-- 277 00:13:26,473 --> 00:13:28,850 He was burning the guitar, he was not even like playing it. 278 00:13:28,850 --> 00:13:30,810 But I thought it was a powerful image. 279 00:13:30,810 --> 00:13:33,104 And it was like, I wanna do this too. 280 00:13:33,104 --> 00:13:36,399 I was angry back then. I was like, I didn't fit in, 281 00:13:36,399 --> 00:13:37,984 I just didn't really understand the world. 282 00:13:37,984 --> 00:13:41,029 I couldn't get a girlfriend. My life just didn't make sense. 283 00:13:41,029 --> 00:13:43,073 And music was my escape. 284 00:13:43,073 --> 00:13:46,993 When I heard that Chuck had been kicked out of Reset, 285 00:13:46,993 --> 00:13:49,204 I let him chill a little bit, because I knew it was 286 00:13:49,204 --> 00:13:51,164 hard for him to swallow, but I called him up, 287 00:13:51,164 --> 00:13:54,167 and I asked him if he was ready to start a new band. 288 00:13:54,167 --> 00:13:55,961 And he was like, "No, absolutely not!" 289 00:13:55,961 --> 00:13:59,506 He had stopped music, and went to law school. 290 00:13:59,506 --> 00:14:01,633 And I thought it was a shame. Chuck underplays 291 00:14:01,633 --> 00:14:03,468 his abilities as a drummer. 292 00:14:03,468 --> 00:14:05,428 He's such a great performer, 293 00:14:05,428 --> 00:14:07,847 powerful drummer. I valued that. 294 00:14:07,847 --> 00:14:09,724 And I bugged him quite a long time 295 00:14:09,724 --> 00:14:12,477 before he actually accepted to play with me. 296 00:14:12,477 --> 00:14:15,230 We just basically started jamming the two of us. 297 00:14:15,230 --> 00:14:18,525 And then I got Chuck motivated again to be in a band. 298 00:14:18,525 --> 00:14:20,277 - Jeff is intense. - Rawr! 299 00:14:20,277 --> 00:14:22,654 [Chuck] He has mellowed out a lot over the years, 300 00:14:22,654 --> 00:14:24,489 but when we first met, 301 00:14:24,489 --> 00:14:26,616 we would argue a lot, he was very passionate 302 00:14:26,616 --> 00:14:29,286 and, a lot of time, he would be like, 303 00:14:29,286 --> 00:14:31,329 "Fuck this, I'm leaving. I quit." 304 00:14:31,329 --> 00:14:33,623 We would have to go and calm him down, 305 00:14:33,623 --> 00:14:36,042 it's like, "C'mon, Jeff, come back." 306 00:14:36,042 --> 00:14:38,295 As far as like, being a musician, 307 00:14:38,295 --> 00:14:42,424 he was way, way ahead of all of us. 308 00:14:42,424 --> 00:14:44,843 He had just finished like, classical guitar 309 00:14:44,843 --> 00:14:47,470 at the Conservatory in Montreal, like he had an actual 310 00:14:47,470 --> 00:14:50,890 diploma in music, which we absolutely did not. 311 00:14:50,890 --> 00:14:52,601 It was just me and Jeff, and uh, 312 00:14:52,601 --> 00:14:54,102 we were looking for guitar players. 313 00:14:54,102 --> 00:14:57,147 And then, Jeff's friend was like, "Just try my brother." 314 00:14:57,147 --> 00:14:59,149 But he was two years younger than me, 315 00:14:59,149 --> 00:15:00,525 and three years younger than Jeff, 316 00:15:00,525 --> 00:15:03,445 and he had like, a little bit of a, 317 00:15:03,445 --> 00:15:04,904 at the time, 318 00:15:04,904 --> 00:15:09,117 it didn't feel like he was the coolest dude around. 319 00:15:10,744 --> 00:15:13,705 Reluctantly, we said, "Okay, we'll give him a shot." 320 00:15:13,705 --> 00:15:15,749 [punk rock music] 321 00:15:15,749 --> 00:15:18,668 - And I was probably 13... 12 or 13 322 00:15:18,668 --> 00:15:20,295 is when I picked up the guitar. 323 00:15:20,295 --> 00:15:21,963 It was sort of musical in the house. 324 00:15:21,963 --> 00:15:24,299 My brother showed me a couple of chords, and that was it. 325 00:15:24,299 --> 00:15:26,134 And I was just like, "Okay, I'm playing guitar." 326 00:15:26,134 --> 00:15:27,761 [Bob] How did you pick up the guitar? I mean... 327 00:15:27,761 --> 00:15:29,971 [Sébastien] I videotaped a Green Day show on TV, 328 00:15:29,971 --> 00:15:31,473 and I was just watching it and watching it, 329 00:15:31,473 --> 00:15:32,807 and did the same thing he did 330 00:15:32,807 --> 00:15:34,601 with my fingers, and I, that's how I went out-- 331 00:15:34,601 --> 00:15:35,935 [Bob] You figured out how to play guitar 332 00:15:35,935 --> 00:15:37,896 - watching a Green Day video? - Yes. 333 00:15:37,896 --> 00:15:40,106 - You rock, dude. - Thank you, Bob Rock! 334 00:15:40,106 --> 00:15:44,569 My first memory is probably coming down the stairs 335 00:15:44,569 --> 00:15:46,404 at Chuck's parents', 336 00:15:46,404 --> 00:15:47,989 going into the basement, 337 00:15:47,989 --> 00:15:50,367 and I knew that this is where Reset was practicing before, 338 00:15:50,367 --> 00:15:52,577 and it was just like, "Okay, this is a little intimidating, 339 00:15:52,577 --> 00:15:53,787 but I can do this." 340 00:15:53,787 --> 00:15:55,622 - He arrived with his guitar on his back, 341 00:15:55,622 --> 00:15:58,041 in like a soft case, rollerblading, with like, 342 00:15:58,041 --> 00:16:00,752 the Oakley sunglasses, and I was like, 343 00:16:00,752 --> 00:16:02,420 this is not gonna work out. [laughing] 344 00:16:02,420 --> 00:16:04,464 It's no way this guy's in our band. 345 00:16:04,464 --> 00:16:06,049 And then, we started playing, 346 00:16:06,049 --> 00:16:07,050 Yeah! 347 00:16:07,050 --> 00:16:08,259 And man, like, he was great. 348 00:16:08,259 --> 00:16:09,969 Like, he was so solid. 349 00:16:09,969 --> 00:16:12,013 - Hello, caméra, my name is Seb, 350 00:16:12,013 --> 00:16:13,973 and I come from Canada. 351 00:16:13,973 --> 00:16:16,059 [Chuck] Okay, we have our guitar player now. 352 00:16:17,644 --> 00:16:19,104 We knew the first thing we had to do 353 00:16:19,104 --> 00:16:21,439 was to get a lead singer. 354 00:16:21,439 --> 00:16:23,650 We tried so many singers. 355 00:16:23,650 --> 00:16:26,027 And in my head, having been in a band 356 00:16:26,027 --> 00:16:28,154 with Pierre, he was the bar. 357 00:16:28,154 --> 00:16:30,532 [laughing] 358 00:16:30,532 --> 00:16:32,200 [Jeff] It took about two, three years of playing 359 00:16:32,200 --> 00:16:34,994 with a lot of musicians that didn't really work out. 360 00:16:34,994 --> 00:16:38,498 Now, in hindsight, I know precisely why. 361 00:16:38,498 --> 00:16:41,835 Chuck never really saw being in a band without Pierre. 362 00:16:41,835 --> 00:16:44,963 I kept thinking, like, 363 00:16:44,963 --> 00:16:46,464 it should be Pierre. 364 00:16:46,464 --> 00:16:48,508 He's the one. 365 00:16:48,508 --> 00:16:50,552 He's the one that should be in the band. 366 00:16:50,552 --> 00:16:53,555 So I had to step on, on my ego, 367 00:16:53,555 --> 00:16:54,889 'cause we didn't talk for two years. 368 00:16:54,889 --> 00:16:56,516 Like, we were best friends in the world, 369 00:16:56,516 --> 00:16:58,351 - and then we hated each other. - What the fuck? 370 00:16:58,351 --> 00:17:00,729 I bumped into Chuck, uh, a couple of years later 371 00:17:00,729 --> 00:17:02,355 at a Sugar Ray concert. 372 00:17:02,355 --> 00:17:04,774 [Chuck] So when I saw him, I was like, it's been two years, 373 00:17:04,774 --> 00:17:06,651 like, that's kind of stupid here, like, 374 00:17:06,651 --> 00:17:07,986 we should make amends. 375 00:17:07,986 --> 00:17:09,612 - In hindsight, I think it was probably 376 00:17:09,612 --> 00:17:13,158 his plan all along to get me to join his band. 377 00:17:13,158 --> 00:17:15,201 - It wasn't just like, "I want to be friends again," 378 00:17:15,201 --> 00:17:18,204 it's like, "You should be in the band, you know? 379 00:17:18,204 --> 00:17:20,081 "You should come and play with us." 380 00:17:20,081 --> 00:17:21,833 [guitar riff] 381 00:17:25,336 --> 00:17:28,381 [Sébastien] The first riff that I had brought to the band, 382 00:17:28,381 --> 00:17:29,799 Pierre ran with it. 383 00:17:32,385 --> 00:17:34,220 [Pierre] I used to drive a truck for my dad, 384 00:17:34,220 --> 00:17:35,638 which would be like 14 hours in a day. 385 00:17:35,638 --> 00:17:37,849 And I put it in the tape deck, I listened to it, 386 00:17:37,849 --> 00:17:39,476 and listened to it, and listened to it. 387 00:17:39,476 --> 00:17:40,977 And then I came up with the chorus for 388 00:17:40,977 --> 00:17:41,978 "I'd Do Anything". 389 00:17:41,978 --> 00:17:43,354 [humming melody] 390 00:17:43,354 --> 00:17:45,231 Oh yeah, like, I'd do anything. 391 00:17:45,231 --> 00:17:47,734 ["I'd Do Anything" by Simple Plan] 392 00:17:53,490 --> 00:17:55,992 What I was inspired by was writing songs 393 00:17:55,992 --> 00:17:59,621 about positive things, like falling in love with someone, 394 00:17:59,621 --> 00:18:03,374 because in Reset, there was not one song about girls. 395 00:18:03,374 --> 00:18:06,085 It was like about politics, and so for me 396 00:18:06,085 --> 00:18:08,004 to write a love song was like, 397 00:18:08,004 --> 00:18:10,381 wow, that's so refreshing. And I don't know 398 00:18:10,381 --> 00:18:12,550 how I came up with it, but it just kind of came out. 399 00:18:12,550 --> 00:18:15,011 [Chuck] He sang it, and I was like, 400 00:18:15,011 --> 00:18:16,554 "That's it, we got it." 401 00:18:16,554 --> 00:18:18,097 And that was our first song. 402 00:18:18,097 --> 00:18:20,683 Pretty much, the only song we jammed for the next month 403 00:18:20,683 --> 00:18:22,185 afterwards, you know? 404 00:18:22,185 --> 00:18:24,062 And that's how we became a band. 405 00:18:24,062 --> 00:18:26,356 ["I'd Do Anything" by Simple Plan ends] 406 00:18:26,356 --> 00:18:27,982 [crowd cheering] 407 00:18:27,982 --> 00:18:30,443 [in French] Thank you for being here for our first show ever! 408 00:18:30,443 --> 00:18:33,404 - Very glad you’re here! - Our first-ever show! 409 00:18:34,197 --> 00:18:35,365 [crowd cheering] 410 00:18:35,365 --> 00:18:37,200 [Pierre, in English] We are Simple Plan. 411 00:18:37,367 --> 00:18:39,786 [in French] Everybody, make some noise! 412 00:18:39,953 --> 00:18:41,204 [crowd cheering] 413 00:18:41,204 --> 00:18:43,623 [drum beat] 414 00:18:43,623 --> 00:18:46,793 [guitar riff] 415 00:19:03,184 --> 00:19:05,228 [crowd cheering] 416 00:19:05,228 --> 00:19:06,604 Oof! 417 00:19:20,535 --> 00:19:22,495 - When your first album came out, 418 00:19:22,495 --> 00:19:24,581 I was 7 years old. Music wasn't a part of my life then. 419 00:19:24,581 --> 00:19:26,124 It all started with I'd Do Anything. 420 00:19:26,624 --> 00:19:29,168 I swear! I remember the feeling I had, 421 00:19:29,168 --> 00:19:31,129 sitting in the back seat of the car. 422 00:19:31,129 --> 00:19:32,630 I never liked music before that. 423 00:19:33,506 --> 00:19:35,633 My dad couldn't stand hearing you anymore. 424 00:19:39,137 --> 00:19:40,054 Nice! 425 00:19:40,680 --> 00:19:42,223 Alright, thanks so much. 426 00:19:42,223 --> 00:19:45,852 - I still have the CD my dad burned for me when I was 14. 427 00:19:45,852 --> 00:19:47,520 I still play it in my fucking car. 428 00:19:49,063 --> 00:19:51,441 - I love it when you meet people who go: 429 00:19:51,858 --> 00:19:55,278 "I'm not a fan of Simple Plan, but I fucking loved Reset." 430 00:19:55,486 --> 00:19:56,988 [in English] Thanks for letting me know, bro! 431 00:19:59,198 --> 00:20:01,117 [in French] That's a small? A medium, then. 432 00:20:01,117 --> 00:20:02,660 Do you want a poutine? 433 00:20:03,286 --> 00:20:04,829 A classic? 434 00:20:04,829 --> 00:20:06,915 Two medium classic poutines, please. 435 00:20:07,540 --> 00:20:10,710 [in English] Nothing like an after-show poutine. 436 00:20:10,710 --> 00:20:13,755 That's when you know you're in your hometown, Quebec. 437 00:20:13,755 --> 00:20:15,214 [in French] To be honest, 438 00:20:15,214 --> 00:20:17,175 all my life, I heard your songs... 439 00:20:18,343 --> 00:20:20,345 and I thought you were American. 440 00:20:20,345 --> 00:20:21,763 I don't have an accent 441 00:20:21,763 --> 00:20:24,015 because I learned French and English at the same time. 442 00:20:24,015 --> 00:20:25,558 Are you Québécois? 443 00:20:25,558 --> 00:20:27,769 - Yes. My mom is anglophone and my dad is francophone. 444 00:20:27,769 --> 00:20:29,896 - I'm touched that you're Québécois. 445 00:20:29,896 --> 00:20:31,064 - Good night. - Take care. 446 00:20:31,064 --> 00:20:32,273 Thanks for the kind words. 447 00:20:32,273 --> 00:20:33,483 [Patrick, in English] Stick around, 448 00:20:33,483 --> 00:20:34,901 we got a great show. 449 00:20:34,901 --> 00:20:36,486 Simple Plan is here. 450 00:20:36,486 --> 00:20:38,071 This is Patrick's new look. 451 00:20:38,071 --> 00:20:39,697 - How you doing? - How you doing? 452 00:20:39,697 --> 00:20:41,324 My name is Patrick Langlois, 453 00:20:41,324 --> 00:20:44,452 uh, friends with Simple Plan for over 30 years. 454 00:20:44,452 --> 00:20:46,412 I think I was their very first fan. 455 00:20:46,412 --> 00:20:49,082 I was definitely their very first employee. 456 00:20:49,082 --> 00:20:50,959 Patrick, they want a CD. 457 00:20:50,959 --> 00:20:52,919 - For you, Seb. I've been waiting for you. 458 00:20:52,919 --> 00:20:54,796 And we had met this guy Pat, 459 00:20:54,796 --> 00:20:56,839 he became like my best friend, we bonded 460 00:20:56,839 --> 00:20:59,717 over our love for punk rock and Blink. 461 00:20:59,717 --> 00:21:03,554 - Pat was the ever-going funny guy, 462 00:21:03,554 --> 00:21:07,183 so sure of himself, really annoying! 463 00:21:07,183 --> 00:21:09,310 - The fan-proclaimed sixth member of the band. 464 00:21:09,310 --> 00:21:11,187 [girl 1] It's not Simple Plan, it's-- 465 00:21:11,187 --> 00:21:12,730 [girls] Pat and the band! 466 00:21:12,730 --> 00:21:14,899 [Jeff] He took way too much space, 467 00:21:14,899 --> 00:21:16,234 did not know when to stop. 468 00:21:16,234 --> 00:21:18,027 [crowd cheering] 469 00:21:18,027 --> 00:21:20,697 But it brought a lot of balance, Pat was important. 470 00:21:20,697 --> 00:21:22,073 We were not great 471 00:21:22,073 --> 00:21:24,242 at stopping and enjoying the moment, you know? 472 00:21:24,242 --> 00:21:25,910 Pat was definitely great at that. 473 00:21:25,910 --> 00:21:28,246 [Patrick] I had a video camera. As you can probably see 474 00:21:28,246 --> 00:21:30,248 by these archives, I learned by myself. 475 00:21:30,248 --> 00:21:31,791 [screaming, laughing] 476 00:21:31,791 --> 00:21:34,252 I am Jeff's brother, believe it or not. 477 00:21:34,252 --> 00:21:36,629 All of the best moments of my life, 478 00:21:36,629 --> 00:21:38,339 I lived with these guys. 479 00:21:38,339 --> 00:21:41,884 I got to live what it's like being in a band, 480 00:21:41,884 --> 00:21:43,928 without having learned a single note of music. 481 00:21:44,345 --> 00:21:46,055 [singing] 482 00:21:47,890 --> 00:21:51,019 Pierre in Simple Plan, the first shows, he was playing bass. 483 00:21:51,019 --> 00:21:53,438 And I think that they knew that they wanted 484 00:21:53,438 --> 00:21:55,773 Pierre to just have a bit more liberty on stage. 485 00:21:55,773 --> 00:21:58,192 [singing] 486 00:22:00,820 --> 00:22:03,823 They wanted vocal harmonies as well. 487 00:22:03,823 --> 00:22:05,575 And they're in need of a new singer, 488 00:22:05,575 --> 00:22:07,577 they find this guy David from Matane. 489 00:22:07,577 --> 00:22:09,245 [crowd cheering] 490 00:22:09,912 --> 00:22:11,873 [Jeff] He's a super great musician, 491 00:22:11,873 --> 00:22:13,791 played drums, bass, guitar. 492 00:22:13,791 --> 00:22:16,753 He kicked my ass at guitar, I was so frustrated back then. 493 00:22:16,753 --> 00:22:19,338 [Patrick] David could sing, David could play bass, and so 494 00:22:19,338 --> 00:22:22,425 that just made it the perfect storm to add David to the mix. 495 00:22:22,425 --> 00:22:24,427 [David] These are the days of our lives. 496 00:22:24,427 --> 00:22:26,888 [drum beat] 497 00:22:26,888 --> 00:22:28,723 [Sébastien] We all, you know, got our money together, 498 00:22:28,723 --> 00:22:31,434 we went to an awesome little studio in Montreal, 499 00:22:31,434 --> 00:22:32,810 and we made a demo. 500 00:22:32,810 --> 00:22:35,021 And printed as many as we could afford, 501 00:22:35,021 --> 00:22:38,066 and then we FedExed them to the Yellow Pages of rock. 502 00:22:38,066 --> 00:22:40,276 [Jeff, in French] 522-****. 503 00:22:40,485 --> 00:22:43,488 [in English] It was a book with every single major label. 504 00:22:43,488 --> 00:22:46,240 It had all the management companies, the agents. 505 00:22:46,240 --> 00:22:48,367 Their addresses were listed, and their phone numbers 506 00:22:48,367 --> 00:22:49,577 were listed. 507 00:22:49,577 --> 00:22:50,995 So, it was like, well, 508 00:22:50,995 --> 00:22:52,455 I'm gonna harass every single person 509 00:22:52,455 --> 00:22:53,915 in that book! 510 00:22:53,915 --> 00:22:55,958 We have this band called Simple Plan, they're awesome! 511 00:22:55,958 --> 00:22:57,877 You have to hear them. I was collecting 512 00:22:57,877 --> 00:22:59,128 all these rejection letters, like, 513 00:22:59,128 --> 00:23:00,088 "You guys are good, 514 00:23:00,088 --> 00:23:01,714 it's not for us at this point." 515 00:23:01,714 --> 00:23:03,299 I had a nice big collection of those. 516 00:23:03,299 --> 00:23:05,468 [Sébastien] And that lasted, probably like a year, 517 00:23:05,468 --> 00:23:07,011 or a year and a half. 518 00:23:07,011 --> 00:23:08,721 Because six months later, nothing was happening 519 00:23:08,721 --> 00:23:10,890 with the band. And I went back to school 520 00:23:10,890 --> 00:23:12,934 for like a couple of classes, just to, you know, 521 00:23:12,934 --> 00:23:15,770 say that I wasn't just sitting on my couch doing nothing. 522 00:23:15,770 --> 00:23:17,730 [Chuck] I'd just dropped out of school, 523 00:23:17,730 --> 00:23:19,690 and my parents were like "You're not gonna sleep 524 00:23:19,690 --> 00:23:21,526 until noon and do nothing all day, 525 00:23:21,526 --> 00:23:24,237 "You're gonna work, you're gonna be proactive about this band." 526 00:23:24,237 --> 00:23:26,864 So, every day, I would wake up and I would do that. 527 00:23:26,864 --> 00:23:30,993 I'm committed to this band, 100%. I will do anything... 528 00:23:32,036 --> 00:23:35,456 to bring it to the top of the charts, 529 00:23:35,456 --> 00:23:37,708 top of the pop, motherfuckers! 530 00:23:39,001 --> 00:23:41,212 [guitar riffs] [Pierre] Melbourne, Australia! 531 00:23:41,212 --> 00:23:43,548 [crowd cheering] Jump! 532 00:23:43,548 --> 00:23:45,675 [guitar riffs and drums] 533 00:23:51,347 --> 00:23:52,682 Get the fuck up! 534 00:23:52,682 --> 00:23:54,475 - Uh, just starting to walk now. 535 00:23:55,935 --> 00:23:57,395 Who's locking all these doors? 536 00:23:57,395 --> 00:24:00,022 ["Jump" by Simple Plan] 537 00:24:08,072 --> 00:24:10,032 [cheering] 538 00:24:42,315 --> 00:24:44,192 [cheering, whistling] 539 00:24:49,113 --> 00:24:50,740 [Patrick] Eric, you're looking good today. 540 00:24:50,740 --> 00:24:52,200 Thank you. 541 00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:53,951 [Patrick] Why don't you give us your best camera face? 542 00:24:54,952 --> 00:24:56,287 Is that it? 543 00:24:56,287 --> 00:24:57,955 - Someone kept calling the office saying, 544 00:24:57,955 --> 00:24:59,916 "I'm the manager for Simple Plan, 545 00:24:59,916 --> 00:25:01,542 my name is Charles. 546 00:25:01,542 --> 00:25:04,295 I really think that this band is something special, 547 00:25:04,295 --> 00:25:06,088 but we need help outside of Quebec, 548 00:25:06,088 --> 00:25:09,133 and can you listen to our music? You know, it's pop-punk." 549 00:25:09,133 --> 00:25:11,510 And, dude, I don't like pop-punk. 550 00:25:11,510 --> 00:25:13,512 I said, why don't we do this. Invite these guys 551 00:25:13,512 --> 00:25:15,473 to come to Toronto, they're gonna probably suck, 552 00:25:15,473 --> 00:25:17,016 and then I can tell them to go home 553 00:25:17,016 --> 00:25:18,392 and they'll stop bugging us and everything, 554 00:25:18,392 --> 00:25:19,685 and we can carry on with our lives. 555 00:25:19,685 --> 00:25:21,729 ["Addicted" by Simple Plan] 556 00:25:21,729 --> 00:25:24,023 [Eric] And they set up. I'm sure my face was like this. 557 00:25:24,023 --> 00:25:24,982 Like... 558 00:25:27,235 --> 00:25:28,861 And then they started playing, 559 00:25:28,861 --> 00:25:31,030 and I'm like, looking around, like... 560 00:25:31,030 --> 00:25:32,281 Fuck, these guys are good. 561 00:25:32,281 --> 00:25:34,533 ["Addicted" by Simple Plan continues] 562 00:25:38,371 --> 00:25:41,249 Everything that you see on stage now was going on. 563 00:25:41,249 --> 00:25:43,084 Two minutes, changed my mind completely. 564 00:25:46,879 --> 00:25:47,964 Whoo! 565 00:25:47,964 --> 00:25:49,257 [applause] 566 00:25:49,257 --> 00:25:50,633 [Eric] And then I said to them like, 567 00:25:50,633 --> 00:25:52,593 "Hey, where is this manager, 568 00:25:52,593 --> 00:25:54,053 like, I only see band guys. 569 00:25:54,887 --> 00:25:56,472 Chuck puts his hand up. 570 00:25:56,472 --> 00:25:58,516 He goes, "I figured that if I called the office, 571 00:25:58,516 --> 00:26:00,643 I would get some respect if I said I was the manager 572 00:26:00,643 --> 00:26:01,936 instead of the drummer." 573 00:26:01,936 --> 00:26:03,271 And I instantly liked Chuck. 574 00:26:04,146 --> 00:26:06,315 [Chuck] So we're like maybe a year, year and a half 575 00:26:06,315 --> 00:26:08,234 into the band. For us, in our heads, 576 00:26:08,234 --> 00:26:10,528 it's been a long time. We've been working hard 577 00:26:10,528 --> 00:26:13,197 at this thing, and we're a bit desperate 578 00:26:13,197 --> 00:26:14,991 for something, for the next step to happen. 579 00:26:14,991 --> 00:26:18,494 And we were still missing the record label part. 580 00:26:18,494 --> 00:26:20,579 And Eric Lawrence had a really good relationship 581 00:26:20,579 --> 00:26:22,290 with Sony Canada. We played for them, 582 00:26:22,290 --> 00:26:24,083 we showed them our songs. 583 00:26:24,083 --> 00:26:25,584 And they were really interested. 584 00:26:25,584 --> 00:26:27,169 So finally, they're like, 585 00:26:27,169 --> 00:26:29,088 "This is it, we're gonna sign you guys." 586 00:26:30,631 --> 00:26:34,051 So they're drawing up the contracts and everything. 587 00:26:36,137 --> 00:26:38,681 And then out of nowhere, 588 00:26:38,681 --> 00:26:40,850 Sony Canada's president gets fired. 589 00:26:40,850 --> 00:26:43,352 And this new person comes in, and she's like, 590 00:26:43,352 --> 00:26:46,439 "I'm not feeling that band. I don't like it, 591 00:26:46,439 --> 00:26:48,357 I'm not signing you guys." 592 00:26:48,357 --> 00:26:50,818 And that was a huge blow 593 00:26:50,818 --> 00:26:51,986 for the band and for me personally, 594 00:26:51,986 --> 00:26:54,655 'cause I was trying to tell my parents, 595 00:26:54,655 --> 00:26:56,073 "Hey, it's happening, look I told you, 596 00:26:56,073 --> 00:26:57,992 like, it was a good idea to drop out of school, 597 00:26:57,992 --> 00:27:02,038 like, this is gonna work." And then, boom, like, 598 00:27:02,038 --> 00:27:03,331 a huge slap in the face, 599 00:27:03,331 --> 00:27:05,082 like, we're not getting signed anymore. 600 00:27:05,082 --> 00:27:07,543 [soft music] 601 00:27:10,087 --> 00:27:12,131 Out of nowhere, 602 00:27:12,131 --> 00:27:14,425 Patrick got a job at Aquarius Records, 603 00:27:14,425 --> 00:27:17,136 as an intern, or something like that, and he calls me up, 604 00:27:17,136 --> 00:27:20,097 and he's like, "Dude, you're not gonna believe what's happening." 605 00:27:20,097 --> 00:27:21,891 [Patrick] Andy Karp from Atlantic Records was gonna 606 00:27:21,891 --> 00:27:24,060 be coming into town to see another band 607 00:27:24,060 --> 00:27:25,936 that was signed to the record label I worked with. 608 00:27:25,936 --> 00:27:27,563 We organized kind of a secret show 609 00:27:27,563 --> 00:27:29,607 to make sure that Andy could go see them. 610 00:27:29,607 --> 00:27:32,151 [in French] Patrick's been pretty useless up until now. 611 00:27:32,151 --> 00:27:34,278 [Chuck, in English] The problem for us was that, 612 00:27:34,278 --> 00:27:35,738 it was four days out. 613 00:27:35,738 --> 00:27:38,407 - We basically had to call every single bar in Montreal 614 00:27:38,407 --> 00:27:39,617 to find a spot. 615 00:27:39,617 --> 00:27:41,494 - We had nowhere to play, we had nothing. 616 00:27:41,494 --> 00:27:43,162 - Didn't have an audience, right? 617 00:27:43,162 --> 00:27:46,040 Uh, so we called up all our friends and told them, 618 00:27:46,040 --> 00:27:47,917 two dollar beers. Let's go! 619 00:27:47,917 --> 00:27:49,919 - Say whoa! - [woman] Woo! 620 00:27:49,919 --> 00:27:51,504 Okay, this one's called "Anything". 621 00:27:51,504 --> 00:27:52,713 It's an old song. 622 00:27:52,713 --> 00:27:54,840 It's pretty rocking. If you wanna dance, 623 00:27:54,840 --> 00:27:57,593 you come on down, you dance with me, you ready? 624 00:27:57,593 --> 00:27:58,636 Chuck? 625 00:27:58,636 --> 00:27:59,720 - [Chuck] I'm fucking ready, man! 626 00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:01,305 [guitar riff] 627 00:28:01,305 --> 00:28:03,349 And at the time, it felt desperate. 628 00:28:03,349 --> 00:28:05,267 It felt like, if this doesn't work, 629 00:28:05,267 --> 00:28:07,019 maybe this is it, it's not gonna work for us, 630 00:28:07,019 --> 00:28:08,896 it's not meant to be. 631 00:28:08,896 --> 00:28:11,232 [Jeff] And we were playing the same songs over and over, 632 00:28:11,232 --> 00:28:14,318 stopping, drinking with them, mingling, 633 00:28:14,318 --> 00:28:15,736 but we had someone at the door, 634 00:28:15,736 --> 00:28:17,488 waiting for Andy Karp to come in. 635 00:28:19,407 --> 00:28:21,992 [Patrick] I was at dinner with Andy Karp, under disguise, 636 00:28:21,992 --> 00:28:23,786 'cause I'm working for the other record label, 637 00:28:23,786 --> 00:28:25,371 and I'm texting Chuck, we're still at dinner. 638 00:28:25,371 --> 00:28:27,581 You need to push the showcase back. 639 00:28:27,581 --> 00:28:28,999 [Chuck] The owner's like, 640 00:28:28,999 --> 00:28:31,377 "It's 10:30, get on stage. What are you doing?" 641 00:28:31,377 --> 00:28:33,796 ["I'd Do Anything" by Simple Plan] 642 00:28:36,674 --> 00:28:39,301 And then this guy finally walks into the door. 643 00:28:43,055 --> 00:28:45,099 We gave it everything we had. 644 00:28:45,099 --> 00:28:46,684 [Jeff] Everybody was hammered. 645 00:28:46,684 --> 00:28:48,477 We had handed out lyrics sheets 646 00:28:48,477 --> 00:28:51,689 to everybody, so everybody knew the lyrics to the songs. 647 00:28:51,689 --> 00:28:55,818 And it looked like the craziest show you could ever imagine. 648 00:28:55,818 --> 00:28:57,153 It was all our friends. 649 00:28:57,153 --> 00:28:59,655 [Chuck] We played our hearts out. Like, 650 00:28:59,655 --> 00:29:03,325 it felt like it was the last chance. 651 00:29:03,325 --> 00:29:06,996 ["I'd Do Anything" by Simple Plan ends] 652 00:29:06,996 --> 00:29:09,165 [crowd cheering] 653 00:29:09,165 --> 00:29:10,916 After the show, 654 00:29:10,916 --> 00:29:13,210 we sat down and he asked us all these questions, 655 00:29:13,210 --> 00:29:14,837 like what's your vision for the band, 656 00:29:14,837 --> 00:29:16,464 what kind of record do you want to make? 657 00:29:16,464 --> 00:29:17,673 He's like, thank you so much, guys, 658 00:29:17,673 --> 00:29:18,924 appreciated it, thanks for the time. 659 00:29:18,924 --> 00:29:20,217 And the next day at the airport, 660 00:29:20,217 --> 00:29:22,052 he called Rob, and he says like, 661 00:29:22,052 --> 00:29:23,888 "Let's make a record. I'm signing Simple Plan." 662 00:29:23,888 --> 00:29:25,055 [laughing] Sorry, 663 00:29:25,055 --> 00:29:26,515 I'm getting emotional to think about it, 664 00:29:26,515 --> 00:29:27,808 but yeah. 665 00:29:30,060 --> 00:29:32,188 - [woman] You can have a seat. - Thank you. 666 00:29:32,188 --> 00:29:34,023 - Thank you. - You're welcome. 667 00:29:34,023 --> 00:29:36,859 [in French] I'm a municipal lawyer in Québec. 668 00:29:36,859 --> 00:29:38,527 [in English] We're signing a contract! 669 00:29:38,527 --> 00:29:40,404 [André, in French] I read his contract... 670 00:29:40,404 --> 00:29:41,947 I didn't understand much. 671 00:29:41,947 --> 00:29:44,241 But one thing struck me: 672 00:29:44,241 --> 00:29:47,161 "The territory: the world." 673 00:29:47,620 --> 00:29:49,205 [in English] It worked, you know? 674 00:29:49,205 --> 00:29:51,165 And I think it worked because 675 00:29:51,165 --> 00:29:53,501 it was coming from our hearts, you know? 676 00:29:53,501 --> 00:29:55,002 And it was real. 677 00:29:55,002 --> 00:29:56,253 And he could feel it. 678 00:29:56,253 --> 00:29:57,838 And he said, like, "When I sign bands, 679 00:29:57,838 --> 00:29:59,882 I sign bands that I feel 680 00:29:59,882 --> 00:30:01,675 could be somebody's favorite band. 681 00:30:01,675 --> 00:30:04,178 [crowd cheering] 682 00:30:04,178 --> 00:30:06,555 Could this band's poster be in somebody's room? 683 00:30:06,555 --> 00:30:09,016 [Louise] They got their contract and he was 21 years old 684 00:30:09,016 --> 00:30:10,100 and that was it. 685 00:30:10,100 --> 00:30:11,519 [punk rock music] 686 00:30:11,519 --> 00:30:14,271 [Jason Flom] Atlantic Records, you want the best, 687 00:30:14,271 --> 00:30:15,731 you deserve the best. 688 00:30:15,731 --> 00:30:19,026 Those guys weren't available tonight, so instead, 689 00:30:19,026 --> 00:30:20,694 we're gonna have Simple Plan! Give it up! 690 00:30:20,694 --> 00:30:22,071 [applause] 691 00:30:22,071 --> 00:30:24,031 [Patrick] That's a fucking money shot! 692 00:30:26,742 --> 00:30:28,744 That's right, that's what I'm talking about. 693 00:30:28,744 --> 00:30:30,913 All of a sudden, we were making an album! 694 00:30:30,913 --> 00:30:32,790 - I'm here in Toronto, where Simple Plan are recording 695 00:30:32,790 --> 00:30:35,626 their debut record. How have you been, bro? Okay! 696 00:30:35,626 --> 00:30:37,461 They've got a big-screen TV. There's Chuck, 697 00:30:37,461 --> 00:30:38,712 he's on the computer. Oh my God, 698 00:30:38,712 --> 00:30:40,130 they got a kitchen here. 699 00:30:40,130 --> 00:30:41,757 [Sébastien] So this is Chuck going to bed right now. 700 00:30:41,757 --> 00:30:43,634 - Normally, the bands, they don't want 701 00:30:43,634 --> 00:30:46,053 to work as hard. But these guys did. 702 00:30:46,053 --> 00:30:47,263 [Sébastien] What's wrong with you? 703 00:30:47,263 --> 00:30:48,639 - What the fuck are you looking at? 704 00:30:48,639 --> 00:30:50,599 [guitar intro] 705 00:30:52,142 --> 00:30:54,603 [Jeff] Fuck. Let's do it again. 706 00:30:55,312 --> 00:30:57,189 One more. 707 00:30:57,189 --> 00:30:58,399 Let's do it again. 708 00:30:58,399 --> 00:30:59,817 I'm getting there! 709 00:30:59,817 --> 00:31:02,236 Most challenging musical experience of my life, for sure. 710 00:31:02,236 --> 00:31:04,822 - Hey not so Simple Plan, I'll be back in a few minutes. 711 00:31:04,822 --> 00:31:06,198 [Patrick] Alright, see you later. 712 00:31:06,198 --> 00:31:07,199 [Chuck] Alright. 713 00:31:07,199 --> 00:31:08,284 Making the first record, 714 00:31:08,284 --> 00:31:09,702 it was like playing tug of war 715 00:31:09,702 --> 00:31:11,287 with Arnold Lanni, the producer. 716 00:31:11,287 --> 00:31:13,622 We always had an opinion about how something should sound, 717 00:31:13,622 --> 00:31:17,209 how we should record it, and he was always saying, 718 00:31:17,209 --> 00:31:19,253 "No, let's do it this way instead." 719 00:31:19,253 --> 00:31:21,380 And it was really hard for a young band 720 00:31:21,380 --> 00:31:24,883 to always feel like it was us against him. 721 00:31:24,883 --> 00:31:26,594 Okay, enough of this shit, let's go. 722 00:31:26,594 --> 00:31:28,721 [Chuck] We wanted to be a Warped Tour band, 723 00:31:28,721 --> 00:31:30,681 and Arnold, he wanted to turn us into 724 00:31:30,681 --> 00:31:32,891 like, this quirky, power pop band. 725 00:31:32,891 --> 00:31:35,477 [Arnold] I think they came into it with the right attitude, 726 00:31:35,477 --> 00:31:37,479 but they underestimated 727 00:31:37,479 --> 00:31:40,190 just how much I was gonna kick their ass. 728 00:31:40,190 --> 00:31:42,818 Now, 25 years later, 729 00:31:42,818 --> 00:31:44,903 I feel like the approach could have been different. 730 00:31:44,903 --> 00:31:46,280 [maniacal laughter] 731 00:31:46,280 --> 00:31:47,448 [Chuck] We were going a little crazy. 732 00:31:47,448 --> 00:31:48,782 We would work all day, 733 00:31:48,782 --> 00:31:50,284 and he would come in and listen to something, 734 00:31:50,284 --> 00:31:51,493 "I don't like it, do it again." 735 00:31:51,493 --> 00:31:53,621 ["The Worst Day Ever" by Simple Plan] 736 00:31:56,540 --> 00:31:58,250 - Do it again, do it again, do it again. 737 00:31:58,250 --> 00:32:00,377 [Chuck] We'd be like, ah, fucking Arnold, he's crazy. 738 00:32:00,377 --> 00:32:01,754 Why does he want us to do that? 739 00:32:01,754 --> 00:32:03,088 I've been here for six months. 740 00:32:03,088 --> 00:32:04,840 [Patrick] How many takes did you guys do yesterday? 741 00:32:04,840 --> 00:32:07,593 - Eight thousand. And now we're realizing that they all suck. 742 00:32:07,593 --> 00:32:10,012 - I put them up in my studio. - This is what Simple Plan 743 00:32:10,012 --> 00:32:11,472 does in the studio. Look at this. 744 00:32:11,472 --> 00:32:13,599 - No, it's not! - It was like a frat house. 745 00:32:13,599 --> 00:32:15,392 - We're just a bunch of lonely guys in here! 746 00:32:15,392 --> 00:32:17,186 [Arnold] Party until three in the morning, go to sleep, 747 00:32:17,186 --> 00:32:18,520 and then wake up and start it again. 748 00:32:18,520 --> 00:32:19,813 - [Patrick] How's it going? - Good. 749 00:32:19,813 --> 00:32:21,190 They're all still asleep. 750 00:32:21,190 --> 00:32:22,232 Every day. 751 00:32:22,232 --> 00:32:24,610 ["One Day" by Simple Plan] 752 00:32:27,029 --> 00:32:28,364 [Pierre] Woo! 753 00:32:28,364 --> 00:32:31,075 Dude, we must have re-recorded that album 754 00:32:31,075 --> 00:32:32,826 20 times? Maybe more. 755 00:32:32,826 --> 00:32:36,246 Looking back, I think that might have created some of the magic 756 00:32:36,246 --> 00:32:38,540 of what that first record is. 757 00:32:38,540 --> 00:32:41,043 - The way we care about harmony, uh, 758 00:32:41,043 --> 00:32:42,544 the way we care about melody. 759 00:32:42,544 --> 00:32:45,047 That stems from working with Arnold. 760 00:32:46,715 --> 00:32:48,884 - I don't remember the first time that I heard 761 00:32:48,884 --> 00:32:50,844 "I'd Do Anything", 762 00:32:50,844 --> 00:32:53,389 but it was far beyond 763 00:32:53,389 --> 00:32:55,140 what they had been doing in Reset. 764 00:32:55,140 --> 00:32:56,475 And so from the beginning, I was like, 765 00:32:56,475 --> 00:32:58,394 that song has something special about 766 00:32:58,394 --> 00:32:59,520 it, keep doing that. 767 00:32:59,520 --> 00:33:01,897 - I'm sitting in my parents' basement, 768 00:33:01,897 --> 00:33:03,315 and I get this email. 769 00:33:03,315 --> 00:33:04,608 "Hey Chuck, I've been listening 770 00:33:04,608 --> 00:33:06,568 to your demo all day, and right now, 771 00:33:06,568 --> 00:33:08,696 "I'd Do Anything" is my favorite song. 772 00:33:08,696 --> 00:33:12,366 Let me know whatever I can do to help you guys out, I will. 773 00:33:12,366 --> 00:33:14,493 I think I made a conference call with everyone, 774 00:33:14,493 --> 00:33:15,953 reading them the email. 775 00:33:15,953 --> 00:33:17,788 - I just thought that I was helping out my friends, 776 00:33:17,788 --> 00:33:19,957 and it's kind of what people in punk rock did. 777 00:33:19,957 --> 00:33:22,000 Like, that's what I love about the punk rock community 778 00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:24,461 is that when a band gets some shine 779 00:33:24,461 --> 00:33:26,338 and gets some light on them, they bring their friends. 780 00:33:26,338 --> 00:33:28,006 And Simple Plan was one of the first bands 781 00:33:28,006 --> 00:33:29,425 that I felt like I could help out. 782 00:33:29,425 --> 00:33:30,926 [Pierre] What are we doing? [Chuck] Oh, we're going 783 00:33:30,926 --> 00:33:32,511 to this place called Studio West. 784 00:33:32,511 --> 00:33:33,721 We'll have Mark Hoppus, 785 00:33:33,721 --> 00:33:35,180 from a small band called Blink 182, 786 00:33:35,180 --> 00:33:37,224 sing on the record. It's gonna be wicked. 787 00:33:37,224 --> 00:33:39,351 [Mark Hoppus] Chuck has said, "Oh, we're tracking this song, 788 00:33:39,351 --> 00:33:41,186 and we'd love to have you on it." 789 00:33:41,186 --> 00:33:42,479 And I was like, "Oh cool, yeah, 790 00:33:42,479 --> 00:33:45,149 if you can get out here, uh, sure, I'll do it." 791 00:33:45,149 --> 00:33:47,735 I kind of made it a little difficult, 792 00:33:47,735 --> 00:33:49,361 and then he flew his ass out. 793 00:33:49,361 --> 00:33:52,072 He showed up in San Diego and made it happen. 794 00:33:52,072 --> 00:33:53,699 [Patrick] Chuck's about to call Mr. Hoppus-- 795 00:33:53,699 --> 00:33:55,075 [Chuck] Don't film me! 796 00:33:55,075 --> 00:33:56,869 [Patrick] We are, we are in San Diego, yes, we are. 797 00:33:56,869 --> 00:33:59,538 It was kind of like stepping into a world 798 00:33:59,538 --> 00:34:02,666 that we so wanted to be a part of. 799 00:34:02,666 --> 00:34:04,293 [Chuck, in French] I'm so stressed out. 800 00:34:04,877 --> 00:34:06,003 - You? - Yeah. 801 00:34:06,670 --> 00:34:08,672 ["I'd Do Anything" by Simple Plan] 802 00:34:10,048 --> 00:34:11,592 [Pierre, speaking English] How'd that feel for you? 803 00:34:11,592 --> 00:34:13,260 [Mark Hoppus] Like a big shitburger. 804 00:34:13,260 --> 00:34:14,636 [Pierre] Okay, so let's do it again. 805 00:34:14,636 --> 00:34:17,181 [Mark Hoppus] They directed me how to sing it, 806 00:34:17,181 --> 00:34:18,640 and so I sang it. 807 00:34:18,640 --> 00:34:21,727 [Pierre] Follow the rhythm, go, "Put you in the past". 808 00:34:21,727 --> 00:34:24,188 [singing] 809 00:34:25,189 --> 00:34:27,691 Yeah, that's gonna sound good. We just gotta nail it. 810 00:34:27,691 --> 00:34:29,526 [Chuck] And again, when I think about it now, 811 00:34:29,526 --> 00:34:31,445 like, he had no reason to do this. 812 00:34:31,445 --> 00:34:33,363 I think it changed everything for us. 813 00:34:33,363 --> 00:34:35,449 ["I'd Do Anything" by Simple Plan] 814 00:34:38,243 --> 00:34:39,787 Then we had to make a music video, 815 00:34:39,787 --> 00:34:42,873 and again, we had to ask for one more favor. 816 00:34:42,873 --> 00:34:45,459 It's like, hey, you sang on the song, now, 817 00:34:45,459 --> 00:34:48,545 would you be in the music video? [chuckling] 818 00:34:48,545 --> 00:34:50,422 I feel like every time I call Mark, it's for like, 819 00:34:50,422 --> 00:34:52,841 "Hey, could you help us?" I feel fucking terrible. 820 00:34:52,841 --> 00:34:54,718 - Chuck was like, "Oh, we're doing the video 821 00:34:54,718 --> 00:34:57,513 for 'I'd Do Anything', and uh, we want you to be in it." 822 00:34:57,513 --> 00:34:59,681 And I was like, "Oh, I'm busy, I'm on tour." 823 00:34:59,681 --> 00:35:02,851 And then, uh, I was like, "Oh, but you know, 824 00:35:02,851 --> 00:35:04,770 we're playing a show in Cleveland, 825 00:35:04,770 --> 00:35:06,396 maybe if you guys could get to Cleveland 826 00:35:06,396 --> 00:35:07,898 and make it happen, we can do that." 827 00:35:07,898 --> 00:35:09,817 And he got his ass to Cleveland! 828 00:35:09,817 --> 00:35:12,236 With a fucking crew and everything. 829 00:35:12,236 --> 00:35:15,906 - Gonna shoot a video today. This is where we shoot. 830 00:35:15,906 --> 00:35:17,908 - And they're like, "Okay, the shoots tomorrow 831 00:35:17,908 --> 00:35:20,285 at whatever it was, two o'clock in the afternoon." 832 00:35:20,285 --> 00:35:22,496 And I was like, "What do you mean, tomorrow? 833 00:35:22,496 --> 00:35:24,039 I'm in Cleveland." And they're like, "Yeah, 834 00:35:24,039 --> 00:35:25,791 we got the crew and everything, it's all set up, 835 00:35:25,791 --> 00:35:27,459 we got a location, you just have to be there." 836 00:35:27,459 --> 00:35:29,419 And I was like, "Goddamnit! Okay, fine." 837 00:35:29,419 --> 00:35:31,338 Showed up, and it actually turned out really cool, 838 00:35:31,338 --> 00:35:32,673 but again, it's Chuck just taking the ball 839 00:35:32,673 --> 00:35:34,508 and running with it. 840 00:35:34,508 --> 00:35:38,136 ["I'd Do Anything" by Simple Plan continues] 841 00:35:42,099 --> 00:35:44,101 [Chuck] It was the seal of approval, 842 00:35:44,101 --> 00:35:46,937 of the biggest band, 843 00:35:46,937 --> 00:35:49,314 the most credible band in pop-punk. 844 00:35:49,857 --> 00:35:51,108 [crew] Look at the camera. 845 00:35:51,108 --> 00:35:52,317 [Pierre] Ohh! 846 00:35:52,317 --> 00:35:53,443 Look at the camera, guys. 847 00:35:53,443 --> 00:35:54,278 What the fuck! 848 00:35:54,278 --> 00:35:55,654 This is Seb Lefebvre, 849 00:35:55,654 --> 00:35:57,155 reporting for Simple Plan.com 850 00:35:57,155 --> 00:35:58,574 - Revenge! - Almost died. 851 00:35:58,574 --> 00:35:59,575 We almost died. 852 00:35:59,575 --> 00:36:01,034 We're filming a movie right now. 853 00:36:01,034 --> 00:36:02,327 [guitar riff] 854 00:36:02,327 --> 00:36:03,579 [Jeff] It took forever. 855 00:36:03,579 --> 00:36:05,956 Over a year to record that first album. 856 00:36:05,956 --> 00:36:08,959 And we wanted to play shows. We were ready. 857 00:36:08,959 --> 00:36:11,169 [Sébastien] As soon as we were done with the album, 858 00:36:11,169 --> 00:36:13,839 and the mixes were done, and that the mastering was done, 859 00:36:13,839 --> 00:36:15,757 we went on tour with Sugar Ray. 860 00:36:15,757 --> 00:36:17,217 [in French] We're going to Chicago tomorrow 861 00:36:17,217 --> 00:36:18,594 to play with Sugar Ray. 862 00:36:18,594 --> 00:36:20,637 - A lot of people are counting on you 863 00:36:20,637 --> 00:36:25,225 to put the Montreal punk rock scene on the map. 864 00:36:25,225 --> 00:36:28,562 They'll be famous everywhere in North America! 865 00:36:28,937 --> 00:36:30,898 [crowd cheering] 866 00:36:30,898 --> 00:36:32,774 [in English] Hey, what's up, everybody? It's Mark McGrath, 867 00:36:32,774 --> 00:36:35,152 from the band Sugar Ray, off the charts 868 00:36:35,152 --> 00:36:37,696 but always in our hearts. 869 00:36:37,696 --> 00:36:40,741 And the first time I ever heard about Simple Plan was from um, 870 00:36:40,741 --> 00:36:44,328 our record label at the time. We were doing a college tour, 871 00:36:44,328 --> 00:36:46,079 and I thought it would be perfect for them. 872 00:36:46,079 --> 00:36:47,956 You know, young, teenage audiences, 873 00:36:47,956 --> 00:36:49,666 I think this would be a good match. 874 00:36:49,666 --> 00:36:52,002 [Pierre] I think it was a great way to kick it off. 875 00:36:52,002 --> 00:36:54,880 We had just gotten signed, the record was coming out 876 00:36:54,880 --> 00:36:56,173 a couple of weeks later. 877 00:36:56,173 --> 00:36:58,091 So having this tour with Sugar Ray 878 00:36:58,091 --> 00:36:59,760 was just like, this is good times. 879 00:36:59,760 --> 00:37:02,054 [Sébastien] There was two legs to this tour, 880 00:37:02,054 --> 00:37:03,472 it was three weeks and three weeks. 881 00:37:03,472 --> 00:37:06,183 The first bit of it, we did in a Winnebago, 882 00:37:06,183 --> 00:37:07,601 with Pierre's dad driving us. 883 00:37:07,601 --> 00:37:10,812 ["God Must Hate Me" by Simple Plan] 884 00:37:13,440 --> 00:37:14,483 [in French] I’ll turn that off. 885 00:37:15,400 --> 00:37:17,277 [Réal Bouvier, speaking English] Is nobody gonna save me? 886 00:37:17,277 --> 00:37:18,362 [laughing] 887 00:37:18,362 --> 00:37:19,780 [Simple Plan ringtone] 888 00:37:22,824 --> 00:37:24,159 [in French] Sorry. 889 00:37:24,159 --> 00:37:25,369 [director, in English] Is that your ringtone? 890 00:37:25,369 --> 00:37:26,286 [in French] Yes! 891 00:37:27,621 --> 00:37:28,914 [Pierre, speaking English] On our first tour, 892 00:37:28,914 --> 00:37:30,749 I had told my parents we were gonna rent a van, 893 00:37:30,749 --> 00:37:32,459 with a trailer in the back, and we're gonna be 894 00:37:32,459 --> 00:37:34,795 driving, a lot of times through the night. 895 00:37:34,795 --> 00:37:37,214 And my dad at the dinner table one day, he said like, 896 00:37:37,214 --> 00:37:38,674 "Oh, I can drive you guys, you know." 897 00:37:38,674 --> 00:37:41,176 And my mom was like, "Oh Réal, 898 00:37:41,176 --> 00:37:42,970 you're not gonna drive these kids. 899 00:37:42,970 --> 00:37:44,888 "You could never do it." And then, my dad's like... 900 00:37:44,888 --> 00:37:46,598 [scoffs] "Of course, I could!" 901 00:37:46,598 --> 00:37:49,017 [Réal] Rock and roll! [man] You ready to go? 902 00:37:49,017 --> 00:37:50,852 [Réal] Yes sir! Let 'er go! 903 00:37:50,852 --> 00:37:52,646 [Pierre] For the record, that's not my dad! 904 00:37:52,646 --> 00:37:54,189 [laughter] 905 00:37:54,940 --> 00:37:56,233 [in French] Hey, Pierre! 906 00:37:56,650 --> 00:37:58,318 [Patrick, in English] We got Pierre's dad handling the map. 907 00:37:58,318 --> 00:38:00,153 Where we're going, Peoria. 908 00:38:00,153 --> 00:38:02,739 [Chuck] We cross the border, going into the United States 909 00:38:02,739 --> 00:38:04,533 for the beginning of the tour, and in the front seat 910 00:38:04,533 --> 00:38:05,784 is my dad driving. 911 00:38:05,784 --> 00:38:07,452 And we pull up at two in the morning, 912 00:38:07,452 --> 00:38:09,621 at the border crossing, my dad opens the window. 913 00:38:09,621 --> 00:38:11,164 [Réal] Where are you going? 914 00:38:11,164 --> 00:38:12,582 [in French] I'm going to Peoria, Illinois. 915 00:38:12,708 --> 00:38:14,167 [in English] "And what are you going there for?" 916 00:38:14,167 --> 00:38:18,213 - And my dad, super excited to be there, says, 917 00:38:18,213 --> 00:38:20,424 "We're in a rock band!" 918 00:38:20,424 --> 00:38:23,301 The customs officer looks at my dad in this big RV, 919 00:38:23,301 --> 00:38:27,514 and he's like, "You know what? Just go ahead." 920 00:38:27,514 --> 00:38:29,850 - Out here, first Sugar Ray date. 921 00:38:29,850 --> 00:38:31,935 Perori, Peoria, Illinois. 922 00:38:31,935 --> 00:38:36,148 [Patrick] That's our ride. And this is not. 923 00:38:36,148 --> 00:38:37,899 [Pierre] It's called the automatic hair spikers. 924 00:38:37,899 --> 00:38:39,818 [Patrick] Alright! Ready to play a show. 925 00:38:39,818 --> 00:38:43,572 [Mark McGrath] They were like little puppies let out of an RV, 926 00:38:43,572 --> 00:38:46,408 ready to take on the world and have their dream come true. 927 00:38:46,408 --> 00:38:48,076 - First night of the Sugar Ray tour, I swear, 928 00:38:48,076 --> 00:38:49,536 Simple Plan are gonna make it or break it. 929 00:38:49,536 --> 00:38:51,872 - Break a leg. - We will. 930 00:38:52,789 --> 00:38:54,624 [Pierre] Hey, what's up Peoria! 931 00:38:54,624 --> 00:38:56,710 [crowd cheering] 932 00:38:56,710 --> 00:38:59,713 [guitar riffs and drums] 933 00:38:59,713 --> 00:39:03,175 We went on tour with Sugar Ray, and nobody knew who we were. 934 00:39:03,175 --> 00:39:05,218 They're from Montreal, Canada. 935 00:39:05,218 --> 00:39:06,636 Their record's coming out tomorrow, 936 00:39:06,636 --> 00:39:09,306 and, you know, you couldn't meet 937 00:39:09,306 --> 00:39:11,183 a cooler group of guys, man. 938 00:39:11,183 --> 00:39:12,642 Give it up for Simple Plan. 939 00:39:13,685 --> 00:39:15,562 - We're going to buy our record. 940 00:39:15,562 --> 00:39:17,105 'Cause it came out today! 941 00:39:17,105 --> 00:39:18,690 [Sébastien] I want one record today, one! 942 00:39:21,318 --> 00:39:23,987 - We might not have it. What was the name of the album? 943 00:39:23,987 --> 00:39:27,657 [Jeff] Uh, "No Pads, No Helmets, Just Balls." Simple Plan. 944 00:39:27,657 --> 00:39:29,117 That's the name of the band. 945 00:39:29,117 --> 00:39:31,078 [coughs] 946 00:39:31,078 --> 00:39:33,080 Doesn't look too good, eh? 947 00:39:33,080 --> 00:39:35,123 Gimme one second, okay? 948 00:39:35,123 --> 00:39:37,209 [Patrick] If you guys don't have it, you're in trouble. 949 00:39:37,209 --> 00:39:40,170 [Jeff] The album came out, it was such an underwhelming 950 00:39:40,170 --> 00:39:42,506 moment, very anticlimactic. 951 00:39:42,506 --> 00:39:44,466 It was not available. 952 00:39:44,466 --> 00:39:46,510 It just wasn't going well at all. 953 00:39:46,510 --> 00:39:49,346 [Chuck] "I'm Just A Kid" came out, and it's stiff. 954 00:39:49,346 --> 00:39:52,849 It tanked so bad, like, no radio station played it. 955 00:39:54,434 --> 00:39:56,103 [Pierre] I think we were realistic about it, we knew 956 00:39:56,103 --> 00:39:58,438 the record was gonna come out, and it wasn't gonna be a hit 957 00:39:58,438 --> 00:40:00,732 right away, we had to turn it into a hit. 958 00:40:00,732 --> 00:40:03,068 I think getting a record deal and putting out a record, 959 00:40:03,068 --> 00:40:04,319 that's the starting line. 960 00:40:04,319 --> 00:40:05,946 [host] What is your simple plan? 961 00:40:05,946 --> 00:40:08,031 - Where do you guys want to be? - [Pierre] Just more touring. 962 00:40:08,031 --> 00:40:09,991 - We're leaving on tour, once again. 963 00:40:09,991 --> 00:40:11,993 - That's right. - I have to drive this, 964 00:40:11,993 --> 00:40:13,370 we're gonna die. 965 00:40:13,370 --> 00:40:14,871 [Patrick] Very slowly, they had to, 966 00:40:14,871 --> 00:40:16,957 to just keep pushing and keep working, 967 00:40:16,957 --> 00:40:18,625 and nothing came easy. 968 00:40:18,625 --> 00:40:20,502 And they worked, they worked. 969 00:40:20,502 --> 00:40:22,379 [Jeff] We were just chasing opportunities. 970 00:40:22,379 --> 00:40:24,089 So it was very all over the map, 971 00:40:24,089 --> 00:40:25,674 we were travelling quite a bit. 972 00:40:25,674 --> 00:40:28,885 And we would do promo tours, live shows. 973 00:40:28,885 --> 00:40:30,887 It was very chaotic, not very organized. 974 00:40:30,887 --> 00:40:32,430 - [beeping] - [Patrick] That's us 975 00:40:32,430 --> 00:40:33,807 running out of gas. 976 00:40:35,058 --> 00:40:36,601 Whatcha doing there? 977 00:40:36,601 --> 00:40:38,728 [Sébastien] It was no plan, we would just grab whatever 978 00:40:38,728 --> 00:40:40,814 was coming our way. Nobody knew us, 979 00:40:40,814 --> 00:40:43,066 we were a brand new band, and we were starting to play 980 00:40:43,066 --> 00:40:45,193 on a few radio stations here and there. 981 00:40:45,193 --> 00:40:47,779 [Chuck] I remember, we were on the Pop Disaster tour, 982 00:40:47,779 --> 00:40:49,406 which was Blink and Green Day. 983 00:40:49,406 --> 00:40:51,658 [crowd cheering] 984 00:40:51,658 --> 00:40:53,577 - I think they played in the parking lots. 985 00:40:53,577 --> 00:40:56,496 - How's it going in the parking lot? Yeah! 986 00:40:58,248 --> 00:41:00,333 [Chuck] Before people got into the venue, 987 00:41:00,333 --> 00:41:03,753 they had built this little stage in the parking lot. 988 00:41:03,753 --> 00:41:06,173 And we were the band playing there. 989 00:41:06,173 --> 00:41:08,633 [Jeff] We actually were walking around with Discmen 990 00:41:08,633 --> 00:41:11,928 and headphones, and we were playing music to anybody 991 00:41:11,928 --> 00:41:14,556 who would listen, and invite them to the show. 992 00:41:14,556 --> 00:41:17,601 And we would gather these pretty immense crowds, 993 00:41:17,601 --> 00:41:20,729 from all that hustling throughout the day. 994 00:41:20,729 --> 00:41:22,397 And it kind of created a buzz. 995 00:41:22,397 --> 00:41:24,649 [punk rock music] 996 00:41:24,649 --> 00:41:27,569 [Patrick] We were young kids in our twenties. 997 00:41:27,569 --> 00:41:29,988 No kids, no wives, 998 00:41:29,988 --> 00:41:31,656 girlfriends came and went. 999 00:41:31,656 --> 00:41:33,116 Like, we'd go home and we couldn't wait 1000 00:41:33,116 --> 00:41:34,284 to go back on tour. 1001 00:41:34,284 --> 00:41:35,410 [Jeff] We basically were chasing 1002 00:41:35,410 --> 00:41:37,245 whatever was happening, you know? 1003 00:41:37,245 --> 00:41:38,830 So if someone wanted to have us 1004 00:41:38,830 --> 00:41:40,123 to play a show in Germany, 1005 00:41:40,123 --> 00:41:41,917 we would fly to Germany and play a show. 1006 00:41:41,917 --> 00:41:43,126 We're here in Hanover. 1007 00:41:43,126 --> 00:41:44,502 Simple Plan just took the stage, 1008 00:41:44,502 --> 00:41:46,213 I'm just gonna go check out what it's like inside. 1009 00:41:46,213 --> 00:41:48,590 ["The Worst Day Ever" by Simple Plan] 1010 00:41:50,550 --> 00:41:53,887 The official headcount is about 12 people. 1011 00:41:53,887 --> 00:41:55,889 - You didn't film this, did you? [Patrick] Yeah. 1012 00:41:55,889 --> 00:41:57,015 Fuck! 1013 00:41:58,391 --> 00:42:00,560 [Patrick] And the relationships were great. We were friends, 1014 00:42:00,560 --> 00:42:02,896 and very quickly kind of all became brothers. 1015 00:42:02,896 --> 00:42:05,732 - This is Pat's favourite jelly. Shh! 1016 00:42:06,358 --> 00:42:07,859 ["You Don't Mean Anything" by Simple Plan] 1017 00:42:07,859 --> 00:42:09,277 Mmph... 1018 00:42:09,277 --> 00:42:10,904 [laughter] 1019 00:42:10,904 --> 00:42:12,572 [Pierre] I think that being in a band 1020 00:42:12,572 --> 00:42:14,950 with four other guys is like probably the ultimate 1021 00:42:14,950 --> 00:42:16,201 test of your friendship. 1022 00:42:16,201 --> 00:42:17,535 [choking] 1023 00:42:22,290 --> 00:42:26,002 We're together 24 hours a day, we basically, you know, 1024 00:42:26,002 --> 00:42:27,545 sleep together. 1025 00:42:27,545 --> 00:42:29,381 We wash together. We, you know, 1026 00:42:29,381 --> 00:42:32,550 hang out together, eat together. We brush our teeth together, 1027 00:42:32,550 --> 00:42:34,719 and we're still having a great time, we still love it. 1028 00:42:34,719 --> 00:42:36,513 We're still best friends, they're my only friends. 1029 00:42:36,513 --> 00:42:38,765 I don't even have any other friends, so... 1030 00:42:38,765 --> 00:42:41,643 - It's just a bond that will never die. 1031 00:42:41,643 --> 00:42:45,522 But we travel in this cylinder with wheels. 1032 00:42:45,522 --> 00:42:46,940 Holy shit! 1033 00:42:46,940 --> 00:42:48,650 [punk rock music] 1034 00:42:50,902 --> 00:42:54,322 We've been on tour for about a year now. Everyday, nonstop, 1035 00:42:54,322 --> 00:42:56,783 we've been playing shows, and this has been our home. 1036 00:42:58,243 --> 00:43:00,453 [Pierre] Everywhere that we played a show, 1037 00:43:00,453 --> 00:43:03,415 we could see record sales have a little bump. 1038 00:43:03,415 --> 00:43:05,834 We'd sell a few hundred records in that city. 1039 00:43:05,834 --> 00:43:07,502 [Sébastien] This is where we're playing tonight. 1040 00:43:07,502 --> 00:43:09,004 [Pierre] Our record label would tell us, 1041 00:43:09,004 --> 00:43:10,964 keep doing that and keep doing that, and we did. 1042 00:43:10,964 --> 00:43:13,049 We kept doing it. 1043 00:43:13,049 --> 00:43:15,218 Thank you very much, you guys fucking rock! 1044 00:43:15,218 --> 00:43:17,470 [crowd cheering] 1045 00:43:23,476 --> 00:43:25,353 [Chuck] We just played our first show in Japan, like, 1046 00:43:25,353 --> 00:43:26,938 it was sold out tour. 1047 00:43:26,938 --> 00:43:30,066 The people are so nice, so friendly. 1048 00:43:30,066 --> 00:43:31,901 It was awesome, it was so different. 1049 00:43:31,901 --> 00:43:34,321 That was the first time that we really felt like rock stars. 1050 00:43:34,321 --> 00:43:36,364 For real, like Japan makes you feel like you're 1051 00:43:36,364 --> 00:43:39,409 the biggest band in the world, which is a good feeling! 1052 00:43:39,409 --> 00:43:40,869 [Patrick] Who's your favorite member? 1053 00:43:40,869 --> 00:43:43,788 - Jeff!! - Yeah!! 1054 00:43:43,788 --> 00:43:46,124 [screaming] 1055 00:43:48,626 --> 00:43:50,754 Ohh, thank you! 1056 00:43:50,754 --> 00:43:52,630 [cheering] 1057 00:43:52,630 --> 00:43:55,008 - We wanted to make music that we love, 1058 00:43:55,008 --> 00:43:57,218 but we were hoping that that music that we love 1059 00:43:57,218 --> 00:44:00,472 was gonna bring us into like, 1060 00:44:00,472 --> 00:44:01,848 the big stages and having 1061 00:44:01,848 --> 00:44:04,059 some commercial success and all that. 1062 00:44:04,059 --> 00:44:05,310 [Pierre] Uh-huh! 1063 00:44:05,310 --> 00:44:07,771 [guitar riffs and drums] 1064 00:44:07,771 --> 00:44:11,024 [Chuck] But we also knew that that was gonna come with, 1065 00:44:11,024 --> 00:44:13,818 you know, some backlash. 1066 00:44:13,818 --> 00:44:17,947 - Simple Plan was never cool, unfortunately. 1067 00:44:17,947 --> 00:44:20,575 We called them, what did we call them? 1068 00:44:20,575 --> 00:44:23,036 GGBB. 1069 00:44:23,036 --> 00:44:24,954 That was, "Good guys, bad band." 1070 00:44:24,954 --> 00:44:27,165 [Nardwuar] Good guys, bad band. 1071 00:44:27,165 --> 00:44:29,000 - Oh, maybe. - Good guys, bad band. 1072 00:44:29,000 --> 00:44:30,668 Have you encountered that, like, good guys, "Oh, 1073 00:44:30,668 --> 00:44:32,504 you're great guys", but bad band? 1074 00:44:32,504 --> 00:44:34,964 - Uh, it happened. - You know what, usually-- 1075 00:44:35,298 --> 00:44:37,592 - You don't like us, do you? - Yes, I do like you! 1076 00:44:37,592 --> 00:44:38,927 - Cool, awesome. - What would this, 1077 00:44:38,927 --> 00:44:40,595 why, why would you think I would not like you? 1078 00:44:40,595 --> 00:44:42,180 - I was just asking, I wasn't sure. 1079 00:44:42,180 --> 00:44:46,476 [Leslie] It seemed like Simple Plan liked being liked. 1080 00:44:46,476 --> 00:44:50,522 It did appear formulaic, and it might have looked 1081 00:44:50,522 --> 00:44:54,317 like it was concocted. 1082 00:44:54,317 --> 00:44:56,319 - There was a lot of bands that made me feel like 1083 00:44:56,319 --> 00:44:58,446 we weren't enough or weren't good enough, 1084 00:44:58,446 --> 00:45:01,658 or the fact that we sounded different and more poppy, 1085 00:45:01,658 --> 00:45:04,452 I felt that they were looking at me like, 1086 00:45:04,452 --> 00:45:06,579 "Heh. Wow, that band sucks." 1087 00:45:06,579 --> 00:45:10,834 - "No Pads, No Helmets, Just Balls", 1088 00:45:10,834 --> 00:45:13,711 is the worst album title I have ever heard. 1089 00:45:13,711 --> 00:45:15,088 [laughing] 1090 00:45:15,088 --> 00:45:17,757 Who came up with that, the marketing department? 1091 00:45:17,757 --> 00:45:19,843 - There's always a big debate on what it means 1092 00:45:19,843 --> 00:45:21,219 to be punk rock. 1093 00:45:21,219 --> 00:45:24,013 - We just do what we love, and I mean, if it's punk, 1094 00:45:24,013 --> 00:45:26,391 if it's punk-pop, if it's punk, if it's emo, it's like, 1095 00:45:26,391 --> 00:45:28,935 it doesn't really matter. It's like, I think being punk, 1096 00:45:28,935 --> 00:45:31,521 one thing about that is just doing whatever you wanna do, 1097 00:45:31,521 --> 00:45:33,648 and not listen to what everybody else tells you to do. 1098 00:45:33,648 --> 00:45:35,400 - When we came out, we never said, 1099 00:45:35,400 --> 00:45:38,862 "We're a pop-punk band." That was a very media thing. 1100 00:45:38,862 --> 00:45:41,114 Okay, I guess we're a pop-punk band now. It was always 1101 00:45:41,114 --> 00:45:43,741 the press and the media would always put you in something. 1102 00:45:43,741 --> 00:45:45,952 - They pretty much called any band that got popular 1103 00:45:45,952 --> 00:45:48,413 pop-punk. Because, you know, popular punk. 1104 00:45:48,413 --> 00:45:49,998 But that's not what they meant by it, 1105 00:45:49,998 --> 00:45:53,585 they meant by this sound that is easy listening. 1106 00:45:53,585 --> 00:45:55,587 - We've been called everything from punk 1107 00:45:55,587 --> 00:45:58,673 to, to just rock, to terrible! 1108 00:45:58,673 --> 00:46:00,300 - [laughter] - Pop, pop-punk. 1109 00:46:00,300 --> 00:46:03,178 Courtney, Courtney Love said, "You guys are a great pop band." 1110 00:46:03,178 --> 00:46:05,305 - And that was the thing is it always made you 1111 00:46:05,305 --> 00:46:07,015 kind of shudder, because pop, the word pop 1112 00:46:07,015 --> 00:46:09,976 is like the antithesis to punk typically, right? 1113 00:46:09,976 --> 00:46:12,061 [Mark Hoppus] When it started bubbling up into popular culture 1114 00:46:12,061 --> 00:46:14,606 bands that were going from the underground, 1115 00:46:14,606 --> 00:46:16,941 and the underground labels, were actually being played 1116 00:46:16,941 --> 00:46:18,401 on the radio, and so there was 1117 00:46:18,401 --> 00:46:20,361 this whole backlash from the punk rock community 1118 00:46:20,361 --> 00:46:23,531 about, "Don't sell out our community 1119 00:46:23,531 --> 00:46:24,991 to these big corporations." 1120 00:46:24,991 --> 00:46:27,702 There was definitely this gatekeeping thing, 1121 00:46:27,702 --> 00:46:29,662 and it kind of was around the time that the Warped Tour 1122 00:46:29,662 --> 00:46:31,664 became really popular. 1123 00:46:31,664 --> 00:46:33,917 [Chuck] The Warped Tour really started with some of 1124 00:46:33,917 --> 00:46:37,045 the classic punk bands like Rancid, Bad Religion, NOFX. 1125 00:46:37,045 --> 00:46:39,047 [Mark Hoppus] The Warped Tour was such a huge part 1126 00:46:39,047 --> 00:46:40,715 of the punk rock community, 1127 00:46:40,715 --> 00:46:43,218 and also the punk rock community becoming so mainstream. 1128 00:46:43,218 --> 00:46:45,637 - It was different. It was community. 1129 00:46:45,637 --> 00:46:48,306 All the bands kind of, we were all in it together. 1130 00:46:48,306 --> 00:46:50,266 There was no hierarchy. 1131 00:46:50,266 --> 00:46:52,268 - If you came here to throw fucking dirt, 1132 00:46:52,268 --> 00:46:54,229 come back so we can kick your ass 1133 00:46:54,229 --> 00:46:56,981 and show you what real punk rock's about. 1134 00:46:56,981 --> 00:46:59,901 You came here to see bands, this is bullshit! 1135 00:46:59,901 --> 00:47:02,320 - Anybody that was vaguely pop, 1136 00:47:02,320 --> 00:47:04,405 was really bullied on that tour. 1137 00:47:04,405 --> 00:47:06,533 - Warped Tour will test you, they're like, those kind 1138 00:47:06,533 --> 00:47:08,409 of bands that have been around a while, that were on 1139 00:47:08,409 --> 00:47:10,745 the Warped Tour, they're gonna be standoffish at first, 1140 00:47:10,745 --> 00:47:12,664 'cause you're the new band on the block. 1141 00:47:12,664 --> 00:47:14,874 People that are precious about punk, 1142 00:47:14,874 --> 00:47:16,209 they'll shit on you if they don't feel 1143 00:47:16,209 --> 00:47:17,460 like you belong in that club. 1144 00:47:17,460 --> 00:47:19,879 ["I'm Just A Kid" by Simple Plan] 1145 00:47:27,387 --> 00:47:29,430 [crowd cheering] 1146 00:47:29,430 --> 00:47:31,849 [Pierre speaking indistinctly] 1147 00:47:32,225 --> 00:47:33,434 Take care of yourselves. 1148 00:47:33,434 --> 00:47:35,395 That was fucking close! 1149 00:47:35,395 --> 00:47:36,521 See ya. 1150 00:47:41,234 --> 00:47:44,404 [Chuck] People started throwing bottles at us on stage. 1151 00:47:44,404 --> 00:47:47,115 At the end of the set, they had to bring brooms, 1152 00:47:47,115 --> 00:47:49,325 to like get rid of all the bottles. 1153 00:47:49,325 --> 00:47:51,160 Like, it was literally, like this high, 1154 00:47:51,160 --> 00:47:52,912 everywhere. And people were putting rocks in them, 1155 00:47:52,912 --> 00:47:54,831 and like, piss in them, 1156 00:47:54,831 --> 00:47:57,542 like it was, it was pretty brutal. 1157 00:47:57,542 --> 00:48:00,336 [Pierre] You guys ready? Let's do it! 1158 00:48:00,336 --> 00:48:03,590 [Sébastien] I definitely did try to focus on the people 1159 00:48:03,590 --> 00:48:05,466 in the front row that were having fun. 1160 00:48:05,466 --> 00:48:07,051 I just thought it was dumb. 1161 00:48:07,051 --> 00:48:08,720 You know, like, you're playing at big festivals, 1162 00:48:08,720 --> 00:48:10,722 there's like, I don't know, 30 bands. 1163 00:48:10,722 --> 00:48:13,933 And you decide to come watch the band you don't like? 1164 00:48:13,933 --> 00:48:15,893 Like, that's just... You're just an idiot. 1165 00:48:15,893 --> 00:48:19,105 [Chuck] I remember like, the message board at the time 1166 00:48:19,105 --> 00:48:21,899 and all that, like, it was like, "Man, these guys fucking suck." 1167 00:48:21,899 --> 00:48:23,860 "I hope they choke on broken glass." 1168 00:48:23,860 --> 00:48:26,654 I remember reading that, and going like, "Man, wow. 1169 00:48:26,654 --> 00:48:29,616 That is intense." It was hurtful. 1170 00:48:30,783 --> 00:48:32,702 [Jeff] You guys are too pop for punk. 1171 00:48:32,702 --> 00:48:37,540 It's always like, not enough, or, of something. 1172 00:48:38,875 --> 00:48:41,836 And I started believing people. 1173 00:48:41,836 --> 00:48:45,214 [Pierre] So we get faced with this choice. 1174 00:48:47,925 --> 00:48:50,720 We have an opening slot possibility with Avril Lavigne 1175 00:48:50,720 --> 00:48:53,598 on her first tour ever. 1176 00:48:53,598 --> 00:48:56,059 It's arenas, sold out, 1177 00:48:56,059 --> 00:48:58,394 and we could be the support band. 1178 00:48:58,394 --> 00:49:00,480 And we knew that if we would take the Avril Lavigne 1179 00:49:00,480 --> 00:49:02,899 opening slot, a lot of rock radios would just be like, 1180 00:49:02,899 --> 00:49:04,651 "We thought about maybe playing you, 1181 00:49:04,651 --> 00:49:07,654 but now we're not gonna, because now you're a pop band, 1182 00:49:07,654 --> 00:49:09,155 and we're not doing that. 1183 00:49:09,155 --> 00:49:11,157 So we had to decide, what do we wanna do? 1184 00:49:11,157 --> 00:49:13,826 Do we wanna keep chasing this dream of being 1185 00:49:13,826 --> 00:49:16,496 played by rock radio? Or do we wanna go open up 1186 00:49:16,496 --> 00:49:18,247 for Avril Lavigne in front of 25,000 people 1187 00:49:18,247 --> 00:49:20,708 every night, and hopefully gain some new fans 1188 00:49:20,708 --> 00:49:22,585 and see where that goes? 1189 00:49:22,585 --> 00:49:25,755 [Patrick] Do you fight to be in a club that you'll always 1190 00:49:25,755 --> 00:49:27,382 feel like you're not really a part of? 1191 00:49:27,382 --> 00:49:30,426 Or do you create your own path? 1192 00:49:30,426 --> 00:49:33,012 - My next guests will be on tour with Avril Lavigne 1193 00:49:33,012 --> 00:49:34,347 beginning April 15th, 1194 00:49:34,347 --> 00:49:35,682 they're here tonight performing a song 1195 00:49:35,682 --> 00:49:37,850 from their current CD, "No Pads, No Helmets, 1196 00:49:37,850 --> 00:49:41,479 Just Balls." Please welcome Simple Plan! 1197 00:49:41,479 --> 00:49:43,231 [crowd cheering] 1198 00:49:43,231 --> 00:49:45,483 ["Addicted" by Simple Plan] 1199 00:49:55,827 --> 00:49:57,245 Hi! 1200 00:50:00,707 --> 00:50:02,875 Hey! 1201 00:50:03,042 --> 00:50:04,335 [in French] Hello! 1202 00:50:05,545 --> 00:50:06,838 How's it going? 1203 00:50:08,381 --> 00:50:09,882 Our albums are... 1204 00:50:10,007 --> 00:50:11,801 [in English] That sounded, so what? 1205 00:50:11,801 --> 00:50:16,222 Like, our albums came out at the exact same time, in 2002. 1206 00:50:16,222 --> 00:50:20,518 And I feel like we were both supporting each other. 1207 00:50:20,518 --> 00:50:22,687 It was really cool for me to bring another band 1208 00:50:22,687 --> 00:50:26,983 out on the road, and expose them to my fan base, and vice versa. 1209 00:50:33,030 --> 00:50:34,991 We were all living on tour buses, 1210 00:50:34,991 --> 00:50:36,367 just kids being kids. 1211 00:50:36,367 --> 00:50:38,619 Hanging out in each other's dressing rooms, 1212 00:50:38,619 --> 00:50:41,247 drinking beer and getting into some kind of trouble. 1213 00:50:42,790 --> 00:50:46,335 [Pierre] When we played that tour, pop radio really started 1214 00:50:46,335 --> 00:50:47,837 playing us. I think in some ways, 1215 00:50:47,837 --> 00:50:51,507 it's what made us into a "pop" pop-punk band, 1216 00:50:51,507 --> 00:50:54,010 instead of a "punk" pop-punk band. 1217 00:50:54,010 --> 00:50:58,055 - Simple Plan is not gonna be able to sign any autographs, 1218 00:50:58,055 --> 00:50:59,891 'cause there's too many people. 1219 00:50:59,891 --> 00:51:03,144 Move away from the door, they're not in there! 1220 00:51:03,144 --> 00:51:05,480 ["Addicted" by Simple Plan] 1221 00:51:24,707 --> 00:51:27,335 - Just like Pierre quotes, we're back again, 1222 00:51:27,335 --> 00:51:29,086 it's 20 years later. 1223 00:51:29,086 --> 00:51:32,256 Sometimes it feels like nothing's changed! 1224 00:51:38,012 --> 00:51:40,014 [drum intro] 1225 00:51:41,724 --> 00:51:43,726 [Pierre] Come on! 1226 00:51:43,726 --> 00:51:46,312 Warped Tour 2003 was the year 1227 00:51:46,312 --> 00:51:49,690 where we were like, "Okay, we're a big band now." 1228 00:51:49,690 --> 00:51:52,318 It was the explosive year of Simple Plan. 1229 00:51:53,694 --> 00:51:57,073 [Sébastien] The fact that we went from the Avril tour 1230 00:51:57,073 --> 00:52:00,201 to Warped Tour is a good example of the type of band 1231 00:52:00,201 --> 00:52:01,828 we are, and wanted to be. 1232 00:52:01,828 --> 00:52:03,996 [Chuck] You were not supposed to be on both sides, 1233 00:52:03,996 --> 00:52:07,416 and we were trying to do that. In our minds, it made sense. 1234 00:52:07,416 --> 00:52:10,336 ["Grow Up" by Simple Plan] 1235 00:52:10,336 --> 00:52:12,505 [Eric] We made a conscious effort to like, 1236 00:52:12,505 --> 00:52:14,090 let's get ourselves on Warped Tour 1237 00:52:14,090 --> 00:52:15,758 and keep aligning with those bands. 1238 00:52:15,758 --> 00:52:17,218 The bands that they love. 1239 00:52:17,218 --> 00:52:18,636 They kept adjusting and adjusting, 1240 00:52:18,636 --> 00:52:20,304 so there's no slow songs, 1241 00:52:20,304 --> 00:52:22,265 like, all like fast, fast, fast, fast, fast. 1242 00:52:22,265 --> 00:52:24,225 ["Grow Up" by Simple Plan continues ] 1243 00:52:27,436 --> 00:52:30,523 And I think that was key 1244 00:52:30,523 --> 00:52:32,483 to the band, because they just kept 1245 00:52:32,483 --> 00:52:34,193 going back, and back, and back, 1246 00:52:34,193 --> 00:52:35,653 and people stopped throwing shit. 1247 00:52:36,904 --> 00:52:39,866 [Jeff] It was not a very linear path. 1248 00:52:39,866 --> 00:52:42,493 It was all like little steps, gradually, gradually, gradually. 1249 00:52:42,493 --> 00:52:44,412 The tipping point? 1250 00:52:44,412 --> 00:52:46,038 There were none. 1251 00:52:46,038 --> 00:52:48,416 It was a long process. 1252 00:52:50,793 --> 00:52:51,836 Thank you! 1253 00:52:51,836 --> 00:52:54,297 [crowd screaming] 1254 00:52:54,297 --> 00:52:56,507 [La La] Welcome to TRL! 1255 00:52:56,507 --> 00:52:58,926 We're live from Times Square. I'm Lala, this is D. 1256 00:52:58,926 --> 00:53:00,011 I'm Damien. 1257 00:53:00,011 --> 00:53:01,095 TRL could literally 1258 00:53:01,095 --> 00:53:04,432 send your album to number one. 1259 00:53:04,432 --> 00:53:06,350 You have to understand, we didn't have social media, 1260 00:53:06,350 --> 00:53:07,810 so you would rush home from school, 1261 00:53:07,810 --> 00:53:09,687 watch your favorite celebrities 1262 00:53:09,687 --> 00:53:11,230 on this live television show. 1263 00:53:11,230 --> 00:53:14,567 - MTV at the time was the pinnacle 1264 00:53:14,567 --> 00:53:18,362 of mainstream music success. 1265 00:53:18,362 --> 00:53:21,157 To get on TRL was a huge deal. 1266 00:53:21,157 --> 00:53:22,533 Every major band did. 1267 00:53:22,533 --> 00:53:25,244 - [Patrick] Operation MTV! - [Pierre] TRL, baby! 1268 00:53:25,244 --> 00:53:27,622 - Let's go check out the set, I'm nervous. 1269 00:53:28,497 --> 00:53:30,041 [Pierre] Hey, what's up? We're Simple Plan 1270 00:53:30,041 --> 00:53:33,377 from Montreal, Canada. It's time to go crazy! 1271 00:53:33,377 --> 00:53:35,046 [crowd cheering] 1272 00:53:35,046 --> 00:53:36,839 ["I'd Do Anything" by Simple Plan ] 1273 00:53:36,839 --> 00:53:39,467 - That's when things started to completely change for us. 1274 00:53:39,467 --> 00:53:41,761 [Pierre] From then on, it was just like a whirlwind. 1275 00:53:41,761 --> 00:53:44,639 We got caught up in a crazy adventure. 1276 00:53:44,639 --> 00:53:47,391 ["I'd Do Anything" by Simple Plan continues] 1277 00:53:47,391 --> 00:53:50,061 [Pierre] We're all over MTV, we're all over MuchMusic. 1278 00:53:50,061 --> 00:53:51,228 We're all over radio. 1279 00:53:51,228 --> 00:53:52,647 [Chuck] Montreal, TRL. 1280 00:53:52,647 --> 00:53:55,066 - There's probably a cut-out poster of us at Walmart. 1281 00:53:55,066 --> 00:53:58,027 - We are joined by le Simple Plan. 1282 00:53:58,027 --> 00:54:00,446 - It's a Canadian Simple Plan bonanza. 1283 00:54:00,446 --> 00:54:02,949 - It was so fast, it was a tornado. 1284 00:54:02,949 --> 00:54:05,284 [Pierre] When I look back at those years when we were on TRL, 1285 00:54:05,284 --> 00:54:07,995 and we were doing all these things, it feels a bit surreal. 1286 00:54:07,995 --> 00:54:10,748 - Our next guests have become fixtures on the Billboard chart. 1287 00:54:10,748 --> 00:54:12,208 - [in French] They're back from Japan. 1288 00:54:12,208 --> 00:54:13,834 - [in English] Please welcome Simple Plan. 1289 00:54:13,834 --> 00:54:15,628 - Simple Plan. - Simple Plan! 1290 00:54:15,628 --> 00:54:17,922 [Jeff] I was still broke. But we were selling 1291 00:54:17,922 --> 00:54:19,590 90,000 records a week! 1292 00:54:19,590 --> 00:54:21,467 [Pierre] That's right, Video Music Awards! 1293 00:54:21,467 --> 00:54:24,011 Apparently, I'm a nominee. I don't believe it, but hey! 1294 00:54:25,513 --> 00:54:27,306 [Patrick] It was always a "pinch me" moment. 1295 00:54:27,306 --> 00:54:30,142 "Yo, do you realize that P!nk knows who I am?" 1296 00:54:30,977 --> 00:54:33,646 - The Red Carpet at the MTV Awards was just nuts. 1297 00:54:33,646 --> 00:54:35,731 We started this band four years ago, 1298 00:54:35,731 --> 00:54:38,275 and never even knew where it was gonna take us. 1299 00:54:38,275 --> 00:54:40,152 With all those celebrities, I'm sitting there as a nominee, 1300 00:54:40,152 --> 00:54:41,529 it's like a big dream come true. 1301 00:54:41,529 --> 00:54:43,239 Thank you! 1302 00:54:43,239 --> 00:54:44,615 [crowd screaming] 1303 00:54:45,449 --> 00:54:48,035 [Jeff] And then, "Perfect" started playing on the radio, 1304 00:54:48,035 --> 00:54:49,704 which really changed our lives. 1305 00:54:49,704 --> 00:54:52,039 ["Perfect" by Simple Plan] 1306 00:54:56,544 --> 00:54:59,422 [crowd singing along] 1307 00:55:02,508 --> 00:55:04,593 [Pierre] I started seeing the reaction of people 1308 00:55:04,593 --> 00:55:06,721 tearing up at the show, crying. 1309 00:55:06,721 --> 00:55:10,224 Seeing fans respond when that song came out, 1310 00:55:10,224 --> 00:55:13,769 I was like, "Okay, this is way more than just a good song, 1311 00:55:13,769 --> 00:55:15,146 this is, something's happening." 1312 00:55:15,146 --> 00:55:17,023 ["Perfect" by Simple Plan continues] 1313 00:55:20,484 --> 00:55:23,904 [Chuck] We never had anyone cry when we played a show. 1314 00:55:23,904 --> 00:55:26,032 That was not the kind of music we were making. 1315 00:55:27,283 --> 00:55:32,371 All of a sudden, there was a new dimension to Simple Plan. 1316 00:55:32,371 --> 00:55:33,706 [banging on car] 1317 00:55:33,706 --> 00:55:35,207 Don't open the car, Dad! 1318 00:55:35,207 --> 00:55:36,125 [banging] 1319 00:55:36,125 --> 00:55:37,752 [laughing] 1320 00:55:37,752 --> 00:55:40,504 [screaming] 1321 00:55:40,504 --> 00:55:42,131 [Patrick] Do you like making records? 1322 00:55:42,131 --> 00:55:43,466 I love making records. 1323 00:55:43,466 --> 00:55:45,926 As soon as we figured that we were done 1324 00:55:45,926 --> 00:55:48,012 touring the first album, 1325 00:55:48,012 --> 00:55:49,430 we started writing the second album, 1326 00:55:49,430 --> 00:55:52,224 and as soon as we had enough songs that we liked, 1327 00:55:52,224 --> 00:55:54,351 we booked the studio and went right into it. 1328 00:55:54,351 --> 00:55:58,314 - We want the band to sound bigger, more rock. 1329 00:55:58,314 --> 00:56:01,650 ♪ We have a simple plan ♪ 1330 00:56:01,650 --> 00:56:03,235 ♪ We got a simple plan ♪♪ 1331 00:56:03,235 --> 00:56:05,905 [Sébastien] That's why we decided to record it 1332 00:56:05,905 --> 00:56:08,824 with Bob Rock, which had made fantastic albums. 1333 00:56:08,824 --> 00:56:11,243 - He made the Black album for Metallica. 1334 00:56:11,243 --> 00:56:14,121 Don't ever, ever 1335 00:56:14,121 --> 00:56:16,540 point that fucking thing at me again. 1336 00:56:16,540 --> 00:56:18,417 - Oh, don't! - [laughter] 1337 00:56:18,417 --> 00:56:20,628 [guitar riff] 1338 00:56:20,628 --> 00:56:21,879 That's better. 1339 00:56:21,879 --> 00:56:23,422 [Chuck] He has a studio in, on Maui. 1340 00:56:23,422 --> 00:56:26,509 Beautiful, on the beach, like, it's paradise. 1341 00:56:26,509 --> 00:56:28,469 After touring for almost three years 1342 00:56:28,469 --> 00:56:30,137 on "No Pads, No Helmets, Just Balls", 1343 00:56:30,137 --> 00:56:31,847 we were like, "Nah man." 1344 00:56:31,847 --> 00:56:36,727 Like, we wanna make the record at Studio Piccolo in Montreal! 1345 00:56:36,727 --> 00:56:39,355 ["Shut Up" by Simple Plan] 1346 00:56:39,355 --> 00:56:42,525 We rented like, an apartment in downtown Montreal, 1347 00:56:42,525 --> 00:56:45,236 we would record all day and we would go out at night, 1348 00:56:45,236 --> 00:56:48,823 like all together as a band. It was the best summer ever. 1349 00:56:48,823 --> 00:56:52,910 ["Shut Up" by Simple Plan continues] 1350 00:56:53,536 --> 00:56:55,246 - [song ends] - [Bob] Second half. 1351 00:56:55,246 --> 00:56:57,248 [Chuck] This is the most important record of our career. 1352 00:56:57,248 --> 00:56:58,791 It's not good enough, we need more songs, 1353 00:56:58,791 --> 00:57:01,127 it needs to be better. I was definitely pushing that 1354 00:57:01,127 --> 00:57:02,586 a lot on Pierre. 1355 00:57:02,586 --> 00:57:04,547 It keeps going, and going. 1356 00:57:04,547 --> 00:57:05,798 [Pierre] It's like a Dylan song. 1357 00:57:05,798 --> 00:57:07,716 Most songs for Simple Plan 1358 00:57:07,716 --> 00:57:09,593 start with an idea for a lyric. 1359 00:57:09,593 --> 00:57:11,428 Chuck has a lyric book, he writes a bunch of lyrics 1360 00:57:11,428 --> 00:57:13,264 or words, or a sentence 1361 00:57:13,264 --> 00:57:15,057 that will kind of kickstart everything 1362 00:57:15,057 --> 00:57:17,560 as a concept. And from there, we'll build on it together 1363 00:57:17,560 --> 00:57:18,978 and write everything else. 1364 00:57:18,978 --> 00:57:20,563 [Chuck] To me, it was just words on paper, 1365 00:57:20,563 --> 00:57:21,814 and then he would take it, 1366 00:57:21,814 --> 00:57:23,607 and he would magically turn it into a song. 1367 00:57:23,607 --> 00:57:25,651 - I think "Welcome To My Life" is one of 1368 00:57:25,651 --> 00:57:27,403 my favorite songs we've ever written. 1369 00:57:27,403 --> 00:57:29,488 ["Welcome To My Life" by Simple Plan] 1370 00:57:32,324 --> 00:57:35,369 [Chuck] I remember thinking like, welcome to my life, 1371 00:57:35,369 --> 00:57:37,163 that's a cool line. And then Pierre came up 1372 00:57:37,163 --> 00:57:39,832 with an amazing way to sing those words. 1373 00:57:39,832 --> 00:57:42,960 Gave me goosebumps when he came up with it. 1374 00:57:42,960 --> 00:57:45,171 - When it was done, I remember us just being like, 1375 00:57:45,171 --> 00:57:47,798 "Holy shit, this is a really good song!" 1376 00:57:47,798 --> 00:57:49,675 ["Welcome To My Life" by Simple Plan continues] 1377 00:57:53,345 --> 00:57:56,140 It stood the test of time. I can listen to it today, 1378 00:57:56,140 --> 00:57:58,058 and still feel the same way. 1379 00:58:00,477 --> 00:58:02,938 ["Welcome To My Life" by Simple Plan plays live] 1380 00:58:02,938 --> 00:58:05,858 [crowd singing] 1381 00:58:20,831 --> 00:58:22,625 [crowd] Welcome to my life! 1382 00:58:22,625 --> 00:58:23,751 Hey! 1383 00:58:25,002 --> 00:58:26,921 [crowd cheering] 1384 00:58:26,921 --> 00:58:29,131 [Chuck] I remember, we looked at each other 1385 00:58:29,131 --> 00:58:31,634 and we said like, "We got it, that's it." 1386 00:58:31,634 --> 00:58:33,052 It's a new record. 1387 00:58:33,052 --> 00:58:34,345 [guitar riffs and drums] 1388 00:58:34,345 --> 00:58:36,430 This is a private jet, 1389 00:58:36,430 --> 00:58:38,224 and we are the coolest people in the world, 1390 00:58:38,224 --> 00:58:40,184 because we're in it! 1391 00:58:40,184 --> 00:58:43,062 We don't usually do this, but uh, it was urgent. 1392 00:58:43,062 --> 00:58:44,647 We have to go to New York City. 1393 00:58:44,647 --> 00:58:46,690 - Our record is coming out. - Kind of big deal. 1394 00:58:46,690 --> 00:58:49,568 Hi, we're in Times Square, New York City. 1395 00:58:49,568 --> 00:58:51,820 We're gonna go buy our record. Remember last time, 1396 00:58:51,820 --> 00:58:53,572 on the other DVD when we tried to buy our record 1397 00:58:53,572 --> 00:58:54,698 and they didn't have it? Well, hopefully, 1398 00:58:54,698 --> 00:58:56,033 this time, they have it. 1399 00:58:57,493 --> 00:58:59,370 [Patrick] There's a pretty solid jump between the first 1400 00:58:59,370 --> 00:59:02,373 and the second in that, things did blow up. 1401 00:59:02,373 --> 00:59:04,541 We got 3 million records sold, 1402 00:59:04,541 --> 00:59:07,211 and 3 million records sold is a big deal. 1403 00:59:07,211 --> 00:59:08,545 [Pierre] Yeah! 1404 00:59:08,545 --> 00:59:10,631 [crowd screaming] 1405 00:59:10,631 --> 00:59:12,299 [all screaming] 1406 00:59:22,017 --> 00:59:25,104 Oh my God! Oh my God! 1407 00:59:25,104 --> 00:59:26,146 [screaming] 1408 00:59:26,146 --> 00:59:27,022 [crowd chanting] Simple Plan! 1409 00:59:27,022 --> 00:59:28,565 Simple Plan! 1410 00:59:28,565 --> 00:59:31,318 [all screaming] 1411 00:59:31,318 --> 00:59:32,736 [sirens blaring] 1412 00:59:32,736 --> 00:59:34,530 [singing "Welcome To My Life" by Simple Plan] 1413 00:59:36,782 --> 00:59:39,410 [crowd singing in unison] 1414 00:59:39,410 --> 00:59:41,912 [screaming] 1415 00:59:41,912 --> 00:59:44,498 [Jeff] Felt like the Beatles there. Holy shit! 1416 00:59:44,498 --> 00:59:46,333 Thank you. 1417 00:59:46,333 --> 00:59:47,584 [in French] Please welcome Québec’s most popular band 1418 00:59:47,584 --> 00:59:49,545 in the world. Here is Simple Plan. 1419 00:59:49,586 --> 00:59:51,046 [singing "Crazy" by Simple Plan] 1420 00:59:52,423 --> 00:59:53,674 [crowd cheering] 1421 00:59:53,674 --> 00:59:55,009 [in English] Told you we were huge! 1422 00:59:55,009 --> 00:59:56,135 [fans screaming] 1423 00:59:56,135 --> 00:59:57,970 They're kind of the only band 1424 00:59:57,970 --> 01:00:00,264 from Montreal who are doing what they did. 1425 01:00:00,264 --> 01:00:03,434 Simple Plan had to leave Montreal to tour 1426 01:00:03,434 --> 01:00:05,728 around the world to break big. 1427 01:00:06,770 --> 01:00:09,398 [Jeff] Man, we were doing so well. 1428 01:00:09,398 --> 01:00:11,775 "Welcome To My Life" was huge. 1429 01:00:11,775 --> 01:00:14,820 It was on TV all the time, on the radio. 1430 01:00:14,820 --> 01:00:17,031 And we were playing pretty spectacular crowds. 1431 01:00:17,031 --> 01:00:18,699 [in French] Make some noise! 1432 01:00:18,699 --> 01:00:21,160 [Chuck, in English] We went to South Africa, we went to Brazil 1433 01:00:21,160 --> 01:00:22,411 for the first time. 1434 01:00:22,411 --> 01:00:23,704 - One more stamp in the passport. 1435 01:00:23,704 --> 01:00:24,705 [Chuck] Went back to Southeast Asia. 1436 01:00:24,705 --> 01:00:26,415 We toured nonstop. 1437 01:00:26,415 --> 01:00:28,000 ["Shut Up" by Simple Plan] 1438 01:00:48,771 --> 01:00:50,189 [music stops] 1439 01:00:50,189 --> 01:00:51,857 [crowd singing in unison] 1440 01:00:51,857 --> 01:00:53,359 [music resumes] 1441 01:01:10,751 --> 01:01:13,712 [crowd chanting] Simple Plan! Simple Plan! Simple Plan! 1442 01:01:13,712 --> 01:01:15,422 [crowd screaming] 1443 01:01:17,883 --> 01:01:19,301 I love this! 1444 01:01:19,301 --> 01:01:21,053 [Jeff] Honestly, I lost my mind 1445 01:01:21,053 --> 01:01:22,971 when we started being successful. 1446 01:01:24,264 --> 01:01:26,266 I mean, 1447 01:01:26,266 --> 01:01:30,187 the rock world has always sort of... 1448 01:01:34,191 --> 01:01:38,529 valued, you know, crazy backstage stories. 1449 01:01:38,529 --> 01:01:40,030 [laughter] 1450 01:01:40,030 --> 01:01:41,865 It is quite irresponsible 1451 01:01:41,865 --> 01:01:45,160 from record labels not to have a support system 1452 01:01:45,160 --> 01:01:46,286 for their artists. 1453 01:01:46,286 --> 01:01:48,831 - Not gonna remember anything about it. 1454 01:01:48,831 --> 01:01:50,124 That's the way it goes. 1455 01:01:50,124 --> 01:01:51,834 [Pierre] The mix of being sort of immature, 1456 01:01:51,834 --> 01:01:54,837 being naive and young, 1457 01:01:54,837 --> 01:01:56,880 I didn't really realize what it is we were doing, 1458 01:01:56,880 --> 01:01:59,049 I was just kind of like going where I was told, 1459 01:01:59,049 --> 01:02:01,260 this was fun, these people are great, 1460 01:02:01,260 --> 01:02:02,928 there's fans outside. 1461 01:02:02,928 --> 01:02:05,556 I wasn't processing all that stuff a whole lot. 1462 01:02:05,556 --> 01:02:08,058 [Joel] There's something really magical about the size 1463 01:02:08,058 --> 01:02:09,476 of the pop star. 1464 01:02:09,476 --> 01:02:11,603 About the fantasy of the life they get to live. 1465 01:02:11,603 --> 01:02:14,106 And when you've gone into that, which certainly Simple Plan 1466 01:02:14,106 --> 01:02:15,357 have this pop success, 1467 01:02:15,357 --> 01:02:16,859 of course they're gonna come out of that 1468 01:02:16,859 --> 01:02:18,068 with some scars, 1469 01:02:18,068 --> 01:02:20,112 and they're gonna have to make sense of it. 1470 01:02:20,112 --> 01:02:22,990 And that can be a lifelong endeavor, 'cause the pop thing 1471 01:02:22,990 --> 01:02:24,241 can fuck you up. 1472 01:02:24,241 --> 01:02:26,076 It can leave you really desolate. 1473 01:02:27,077 --> 01:02:27,911 [man] Boss. 1474 01:02:28,620 --> 01:02:30,539 What time is the lobby call? 1475 01:02:30,539 --> 01:02:31,748 [woman] 6:15. 1476 01:02:31,957 --> 01:02:35,377 [in French] I'm fucking fed up, man. I need a break. 1477 01:02:35,919 --> 01:02:37,796 [Joel, in English] Do I wanna be as big as Elvis? 1478 01:02:37,796 --> 01:02:41,341 Well, if I have to die the way he did, I don't. 1479 01:02:41,341 --> 01:02:44,303 [piano music] 1480 01:02:44,303 --> 01:02:46,263 [Pierre] It's kind of a departure for us, 1481 01:02:46,263 --> 01:02:47,848 at the same time, it's still Simple Plan, 1482 01:02:47,848 --> 01:02:49,683 but it definitely is a new beginning. 1483 01:02:49,683 --> 01:02:52,019 [Jeff] The third record for me was just a disaster. 1484 01:02:52,019 --> 01:02:53,479 I don't know, like, I love the music, 1485 01:02:53,479 --> 01:02:56,899 I think it's great. But that moment in time 1486 01:02:56,899 --> 01:02:59,109 was really not a great time for me. 1487 01:02:59,818 --> 01:03:02,696 I was on the verge of getting separated. 1488 01:03:02,696 --> 01:03:05,949 When we were making that record, 1489 01:03:05,949 --> 01:03:07,576 I didn't really feel close to the guys, 1490 01:03:07,576 --> 01:03:09,411 I was living my own stuff. 1491 01:03:09,411 --> 01:03:11,163 [Chuck] Yeah, that was a bit of a tough time. 1492 01:03:11,163 --> 01:03:13,499 In the band's lives, there was a lot going on. 1493 01:03:15,501 --> 01:03:17,836 I was really in love with someone and it didn't work out, 1494 01:03:17,836 --> 01:03:19,338 and it really broke my heart. 1495 01:03:19,338 --> 01:03:21,840 [Pierre] We were coming off two very successful records, 1496 01:03:21,840 --> 01:03:23,509 and at this point, we didn't really know 1497 01:03:23,509 --> 01:03:25,594 exactly which way to go or what to do. 1498 01:03:25,594 --> 01:03:27,596 It's a darker record in a lot of ways. 1499 01:03:27,596 --> 01:03:29,890 My brother was going through cancer at the time, 1500 01:03:29,890 --> 01:03:32,142 and that was really hard. 1501 01:03:34,186 --> 01:03:36,688 - What was happening is that our style of music 1502 01:03:36,688 --> 01:03:38,232 was not on the radio anymore. 1503 01:03:38,232 --> 01:03:39,775 [hip-hop music] 1504 01:03:39,775 --> 01:03:41,068 People were into Justin Timberlake 1505 01:03:41,068 --> 01:03:43,862 and awesome R&B artists, not guitars. 1506 01:03:43,862 --> 01:03:45,656 Is this a shift we're taking musically? 1507 01:03:45,656 --> 01:03:47,783 Like, are we a band that suddenly tries 1508 01:03:47,783 --> 01:03:49,201 different things and incorporates that 1509 01:03:49,201 --> 01:03:51,620 into the music? Or, do we stick to our guns 1510 01:03:51,620 --> 01:03:53,580 and go all out on guitars? 1511 01:03:53,580 --> 01:03:55,832 [in French] The label spent so much on this album! 1512 01:03:55,832 --> 01:03:57,584 It must have cost them millions! 1513 01:03:57,793 --> 01:03:59,044 [Pierre, speaking English] Don't be a fucking asshole. 1514 01:03:59,044 --> 01:04:00,629 [Jeff] Fuck you! I'm not an asshole, you're-- 1515 01:04:00,629 --> 01:04:02,881 [Pierre] You're so intense, it's just one chord! 1516 01:04:02,881 --> 01:04:04,383 - Thought Chuck had something to say. 1517 01:04:04,383 --> 01:04:06,051 - I'm not talking anymore. - [Pierre] Awesome. 1518 01:04:06,051 --> 01:04:07,469 [Chuck] It's your update. 1519 01:04:07,469 --> 01:04:08,512 [Pierre] Good news! 1520 01:04:08,512 --> 01:04:09,972 [guitar riff] 1521 01:04:09,972 --> 01:04:11,598 [Chuck] We thought it was gonna be the biggest thing 1522 01:04:11,598 --> 01:04:13,600 in the world. That didn't really happen. 1523 01:04:13,600 --> 01:04:15,727 [Jeff] You could see the attendance at the shows 1524 01:04:15,727 --> 01:04:17,521 was definitely going down. 1525 01:04:17,521 --> 01:04:19,022 Wow, we're still a band. 1526 01:04:19,022 --> 01:04:20,941 People still sort of care, it's good. 1527 01:04:20,941 --> 01:04:22,359 Single's going to the fucking toilet, 1528 01:04:22,359 --> 01:04:23,944 the radio situation is horrible 1529 01:04:23,944 --> 01:04:26,113 and it's hard to keep up. I'm pretty depressed. 1530 01:04:26,113 --> 01:04:30,617 [Jeff] When you're actually living your real, first big low, 1531 01:04:30,617 --> 01:04:32,828 holy shit, it's traumatic. 1532 01:04:32,828 --> 01:04:35,706 [Chuck] And when you start playing like five, six, seven 1533 01:04:35,706 --> 01:04:38,750 thousand people, that becomes your normal real quick. 1534 01:04:39,835 --> 01:04:43,171 If one night is not like that, you're like, "What's going on?" 1535 01:04:43,171 --> 01:04:46,466 [Sébastien] We were very tired. We decided to pause. 1536 01:04:46,466 --> 01:04:48,468 - I did not know if we could survive that one, 1537 01:04:48,468 --> 01:04:50,053 I wasn't sure. 1538 01:04:51,722 --> 01:04:54,433 [Pierre] As a singer, you have to be on top of your game. 1539 01:04:54,433 --> 01:04:56,810 And everything falls on you, in the sense that 1540 01:04:56,810 --> 01:04:59,479 if I can't perform, no one's coming. 1541 01:05:00,731 --> 01:05:03,859 I get really worried about not being able to... 1542 01:05:03,859 --> 01:05:05,360 be okay for the show. 1543 01:05:05,360 --> 01:05:07,279 I used to wake up in the mornings and I'd be like... 1544 01:05:07,279 --> 01:05:09,031 [clears throat] Oh my God. Oh my God. 1545 01:05:09,031 --> 01:05:11,033 My voice. And it's been a struggle for me, 1546 01:05:11,033 --> 01:05:12,951 because singing doesn't come naturally, 1547 01:05:12,951 --> 01:05:15,621 I wasn't born singing. I could never win American Idol, 1548 01:05:15,621 --> 01:05:17,164 I could never do that kind of stuff. 1549 01:05:17,164 --> 01:05:20,167 But I know that I'm good at what I do, but when I sing, 1550 01:05:20,167 --> 01:05:22,919 it's taxing on me. It's not comfortable. 1551 01:05:25,380 --> 01:05:28,550 I deal with anxiety, and maybe 12 years ago, 1552 01:05:28,550 --> 01:05:30,719 I had my first full-blown panic attack. 1553 01:05:30,719 --> 01:05:32,804 Didn't know what the hell was going on. 1554 01:05:33,847 --> 01:05:36,183 Sometimes like, when I'm on tour 1555 01:05:36,183 --> 01:05:38,393 I'll be pacing in my hotel room, and like after 20 minutes 1556 01:05:38,393 --> 01:05:39,728 of that, I have to remind myself, like, 1557 01:05:39,728 --> 01:05:42,898 "Bro. Put on some music and take some breaths." 1558 01:05:42,898 --> 01:05:45,817 And stop thinking about all this stuff I keep thinking. 1559 01:05:45,817 --> 01:05:49,154 And also the pressure of, people are coming to hear me 1560 01:05:49,154 --> 01:05:50,906 sing these songs, but how's my voice, 1561 01:05:50,906 --> 01:05:53,116 how's this, how's this? Like, I'm not helping myself. 1562 01:05:53,116 --> 01:05:54,785 I need to just relax. 1563 01:05:54,785 --> 01:05:56,161 [piano melody] 1564 01:06:08,423 --> 01:06:13,011 ["Astronaut" by Simple Plan] 1565 01:06:18,433 --> 01:06:20,686 [crowd singing along] 1566 01:06:46,294 --> 01:06:48,130 [Pierre] When you're going through struggles, 1567 01:06:48,130 --> 01:06:50,132 feeling like nobody understands what you're going through, 1568 01:06:50,132 --> 01:06:52,676 and you're going through something so unique, 1569 01:06:52,676 --> 01:06:55,887 that nobody gets you, that's really hard. 1570 01:06:55,887 --> 01:06:58,557 And now I know, okay, I can handle the anxiety, 1571 01:06:58,557 --> 01:07:03,311 and if I prioritize my health in my downtime, 1572 01:07:03,311 --> 01:07:05,605 it's better for us in the long run. 1573 01:07:05,605 --> 01:07:07,232 It's a balancing act, and it's something that 1574 01:07:07,232 --> 01:07:08,567 I've learned over the years, you know. 1575 01:07:08,567 --> 01:07:09,818 To, when to put my foot down. 1576 01:07:09,818 --> 01:07:11,319 You know, because I know that, 1577 01:07:11,319 --> 01:07:12,904 you know, for this documentary, 1578 01:07:12,904 --> 01:07:14,114 you've probably realized that Chuck 1579 01:07:14,114 --> 01:07:16,199 is the driving force behind 1580 01:07:16,199 --> 01:07:18,869 so much of what we need to do. 1581 01:07:18,869 --> 01:07:21,872 And, Chuck doesn't have the same pressures that I have. 1582 01:07:21,872 --> 01:07:25,459 And it's counterintuitive for me to be like, 1583 01:07:25,459 --> 01:07:27,294 "I need this time for myself." 1584 01:07:28,211 --> 01:07:29,838 What? Oh, picture. 1585 01:07:30,922 --> 01:07:33,175 Always more content. 1586 01:07:33,175 --> 01:07:35,677 ["The End" by Simple Plan] 1587 01:07:44,644 --> 01:07:47,189 Okay, what is going on here? Will Smith with another 1588 01:07:47,189 --> 01:07:48,732 "I'm Just A Kid" video challenge? 1589 01:07:48,732 --> 01:07:51,318 It's his fifth one, and this time, 1590 01:07:51,318 --> 01:07:53,361 with the Williams sisters? 1591 01:07:53,361 --> 01:07:55,697 Am I dreaming? Is this real life? 1592 01:07:55,697 --> 01:07:57,574 The "I'm Just A Kid" challenge is the greatest gift 1593 01:07:57,574 --> 01:08:00,577 that we could have ever received from social media. 1594 01:08:00,577 --> 01:08:04,790 - It's sort of like having a number one hit single, 1595 01:08:04,790 --> 01:08:07,501 after 25 years of being in a band. 1596 01:08:07,501 --> 01:08:10,420 - Alright, well I guess we're making TikToks now. 1597 01:08:10,420 --> 01:08:12,923 Oh my God! 1598 01:08:12,923 --> 01:08:14,216 [woman] Okay! 1599 01:08:15,425 --> 01:08:17,177 - What it takes to be an artist today, 1600 01:08:17,177 --> 01:08:19,888 you have to be an artist, a singer, an actor, 1601 01:08:19,888 --> 01:08:22,390 an athlete, and a model! 1602 01:08:22,390 --> 01:08:23,558 [laughter] 1603 01:08:23,558 --> 01:08:25,143 Sing a song about your dad! 1604 01:08:25,143 --> 01:08:26,478 ♪ Welcome to... ♪♪ 1605 01:08:28,647 --> 01:08:33,068 Because he's seeing the success of the social media, 1606 01:08:33,068 --> 01:08:35,987 it's pushing him to be like, "I'm fucking right, 1607 01:08:35,987 --> 01:08:37,364 let's do more, let's do more." 1608 01:08:37,364 --> 01:08:38,740 I'm okay with doing all this stuff, 1609 01:08:38,740 --> 01:08:40,116 you just have to explain to Chuck 1610 01:08:40,116 --> 01:08:41,409 that when you add things, 1611 01:08:41,409 --> 01:08:43,161 at some point you have to subtract other things. 1612 01:08:43,161 --> 01:08:44,830 [director] Walk and stop. 1613 01:08:44,830 --> 01:08:46,414 Okay, three, two, one. 1614 01:08:46,414 --> 01:08:48,542 We're in Brazil, of course we eat Biscoito. 1615 01:08:48,542 --> 01:08:50,335 Bolacha, dude? 1616 01:08:50,335 --> 01:08:54,464 [Jeff] They just still have certain parts of their dynamic 1617 01:08:54,464 --> 01:08:56,675 that they're bringing back from their teenage years. 1618 01:08:56,675 --> 01:08:58,510 - I don't have to do anything. I'm fine with it. 1619 01:08:58,510 --> 01:08:59,970 Tell me what you want me to say. 1620 01:08:59,970 --> 01:09:01,847 - We don't need pre-show with all this, we're that good. 1621 01:09:01,847 --> 01:09:03,056 - We had a pre-show argument! 1622 01:09:03,056 --> 01:09:04,266 [Jeff] They had a band, 1623 01:09:04,266 --> 01:09:05,892 Pierre threw Chuck out of the band, 1624 01:09:05,892 --> 01:09:07,644 that's some hurt right there. 1625 01:09:07,644 --> 01:09:09,271 And I'm not sure it's resolved 1626 01:09:09,271 --> 01:09:11,106 really after all these years. 1627 01:09:11,106 --> 01:09:12,649 It's always been that way. 1628 01:09:12,649 --> 01:09:14,943 ["What If" by Simple Plan] 1629 01:09:17,821 --> 01:09:19,406 [in French] Seriously, man. 1630 01:09:22,075 --> 01:09:24,160 [in English] You know what? Maybe I'm wrong. Fine. 1631 01:09:24,160 --> 01:09:25,495 You just can't fucking let it go. 1632 01:09:26,621 --> 01:09:27,998 [crowd cheering] 1633 01:09:29,291 --> 01:09:31,376 They're always together. 1634 01:09:32,294 --> 01:09:34,963 [Jeff] It really is like a brotherly relationship 1635 01:09:34,963 --> 01:09:36,298 between those two. 1636 01:09:38,008 --> 01:09:40,260 [indistinct chatter] 1637 01:09:44,681 --> 01:09:46,892 - Chuck usually plays a lot better when he's pissed off. 1638 01:09:48,643 --> 01:09:50,312 [Chuck] Pierre's my best friend in the whole world, 1639 01:09:50,312 --> 01:09:53,565 and he's the only guy I played music with for my whole life. 1640 01:09:53,565 --> 01:09:55,567 I cherish that relationship a lot. 1641 01:09:55,567 --> 01:09:58,778 It's hard to be in a band with people you know 1642 01:09:58,778 --> 01:10:00,780 from your high school, because the dynamic 1643 01:10:00,780 --> 01:10:03,617 of teenage years sort of stays. 1644 01:10:04,242 --> 01:10:07,412 - My relationship with Chuck has been very difficult 1645 01:10:07,412 --> 01:10:10,498 on me, but it's also been the reason 1646 01:10:10,498 --> 01:10:13,168 why I have accomplished so much in my life. 1647 01:10:13,168 --> 01:10:15,086 Yeah sure, we get into some fights here and there, 1648 01:10:15,086 --> 01:10:17,672 but at the end of the day, we're family. 1649 01:10:17,672 --> 01:10:19,090 [laughter] 1650 01:10:19,090 --> 01:10:21,009 [Chuck] I don't care about this thing! 1651 01:10:21,009 --> 01:10:22,677 [Pierre] Easy now, easy now. 1652 01:10:22,677 --> 01:10:24,638 [Patrick] Forever, they will love each other, 1653 01:10:24,638 --> 01:10:26,222 but also they can also hate each other. 1654 01:10:26,222 --> 01:10:29,351 Might be the recipe for their success, right? 1655 01:10:29,976 --> 01:10:31,728 [Chuck] The coolest things I ever did in my life, 1656 01:10:31,728 --> 01:10:33,021 I did with Pierre. 1657 01:10:34,022 --> 01:10:36,983 [Pierre] That tug of war is what created Simple Plan, 1658 01:10:36,983 --> 01:10:38,944 and I don't wanna kick you out of the band, 1659 01:10:38,944 --> 01:10:40,612 you don't want to kick me out of the band, 1660 01:10:40,612 --> 01:10:42,072 we know this is forever. 1661 01:10:47,452 --> 01:10:50,288 Chuck, thank you for being my best friend. 1662 01:10:50,288 --> 01:10:52,165 Thank you for being my business partner. 1663 01:10:53,333 --> 01:10:55,335 Thank you for being my brother, I love you. 1664 01:10:55,543 --> 01:10:56,711 [in French] I love you. 1665 01:10:58,296 --> 01:10:59,798 [in English] I love you so much! 1666 01:11:01,800 --> 01:11:03,343 - I don't know if you know this, but... 1667 01:11:03,343 --> 01:11:05,011 we actually ran for school president, 1668 01:11:05,011 --> 01:11:08,556 me and him. And uh, we won. 1669 01:11:08,556 --> 01:11:11,851 Uh, I was the vice-president, he was the president. 1670 01:11:12,686 --> 01:11:15,188 'Cause I knew he was the, 1671 01:11:15,188 --> 01:11:17,440 he was the guy, right? 1672 01:11:17,440 --> 01:11:20,610 Maybe he has things that I wish I had that I don't. 1673 01:11:22,195 --> 01:11:23,613 You know? 1674 01:11:25,281 --> 01:11:27,951 But I saw it. 1675 01:11:27,951 --> 01:11:30,912 I saw it when I was like 14 years old. 1676 01:11:32,580 --> 01:11:34,082 [soft piano music] 1677 01:11:34,082 --> 01:11:36,835 ♪ I knew it was you ♪♪ 1678 01:11:36,835 --> 01:11:38,878 - [Pierre] Are you on a mission? - [Chuck] I'm on a mission 1679 01:11:38,878 --> 01:11:40,588 to kick your ass. [mocking] 1680 01:11:40,588 --> 01:11:41,840 - Whole thing. - The whole thing? 1681 01:11:41,840 --> 01:11:42,966 Go, go, go, go, go! 1682 01:11:42,966 --> 01:11:44,259 [both] Come on in. 1683 01:11:44,259 --> 01:11:45,427 [soft piano music] 1684 01:11:45,427 --> 01:11:46,594 [Pierre] It's not the end. 1685 01:11:46,594 --> 01:11:48,430 ♪ Miss me when I'm gone ♪♪ 1686 01:11:48,430 --> 01:11:49,639 [Chuck] After the third record, 1687 01:11:49,639 --> 01:11:51,558 we had a band meeting, and we said like, 1688 01:11:51,558 --> 01:11:53,226 "Hey, we gotta make this fun again." 1689 01:11:53,226 --> 01:11:55,311 Otherwise, like I can't do a tour like we just did. 1690 01:11:55,311 --> 01:11:58,356 We gotta get back to having fun on the road, 1691 01:11:58,356 --> 01:11:59,774 having fun as a band. 1692 01:11:59,774 --> 01:12:02,277 [crowd cheering] 1693 01:12:02,277 --> 01:12:04,571 ["Jet Lag" by Simple Plan] 1694 01:12:07,657 --> 01:12:09,117 [crowd screaming] 1695 01:12:12,037 --> 01:12:15,040 [both] And I'm feeling like an astronaut! 1696 01:12:15,040 --> 01:12:16,916 - Hello. - Oh shit, it's Pierre Bouvier! 1697 01:12:16,916 --> 01:12:18,626 - Oh my God, let's take a picture. 1698 01:12:18,626 --> 01:12:19,961 - This is gonna be such a good concert, 1699 01:12:19,961 --> 01:12:21,212 - Can I, are they gonna see this? 1700 01:12:21,212 --> 01:12:22,797 - [cameraman] Probably! - Oh my God, yes! 1701 01:12:22,797 --> 01:12:24,257 So ringside, Summer Paradise, 1702 01:12:24,257 --> 01:12:25,467 such an underrated song. 1703 01:12:25,467 --> 01:12:28,178 ["Summer Paradise" by Simple Plan] 1704 01:12:35,060 --> 01:12:37,479 [Chuck] The label was like, "Well, maybe we don't, 1705 01:12:37,479 --> 01:12:39,355 we're gonna drop these guys, they don't have hits 1706 01:12:39,355 --> 01:12:41,232 like they used to." And then all of a sudden, boom. 1707 01:12:41,232 --> 01:12:43,860 We're 10, 11 years into our career and all of a sudden, 1708 01:12:43,860 --> 01:12:47,864 we have a hot song again. It kind of saved our career 1709 01:12:47,864 --> 01:12:49,115 to have that song. 1710 01:12:49,115 --> 01:12:50,450 [director] So Sean Paul saved your life? 1711 01:12:50,450 --> 01:12:52,285 - Sean Paul saved my life. [laughter] 1712 01:12:52,786 --> 01:12:55,580 - Simple Plan, Sean Paul. Right now, sunset on the beach! 1713 01:12:55,580 --> 01:12:57,749 - Sean Paul and Simple Plan! - Hold on, Pierre! 1714 01:12:57,749 --> 01:12:59,334 Mad ting. Good, man! 1715 01:12:59,334 --> 01:13:01,836 [Pierre] So what song are we tracking today? 1716 01:13:01,836 --> 01:13:04,422 - Today is a very special song, it's called, 1717 01:13:04,422 --> 01:13:06,341 "This Song Saved My Life". 1718 01:13:06,341 --> 01:13:08,843 - We had this idea of reaching out to our fans and say, 1719 01:13:08,843 --> 01:13:10,595 "Hey, tell us how you feel about the band 1720 01:13:10,595 --> 01:13:12,764 and what these songs mean to you." And it was like, 1721 01:13:12,764 --> 01:13:15,058 brrr! All these cool ideas 1722 01:13:15,058 --> 01:13:16,601 and concepts for lyrics came up. 1723 01:13:16,601 --> 01:13:19,604 It was a song that was written with the help of our fans. 1724 01:13:19,604 --> 01:13:23,066 ["This Song Saved My Life" by Simple Plan] 1725 01:13:36,037 --> 01:13:38,498 [crowd singing along] 1726 01:14:20,915 --> 01:14:23,459 [crowd cheering] 1727 01:14:23,459 --> 01:14:25,670 [Pierre] It's almost like a celebration of... 1728 01:14:25,670 --> 01:14:27,547 you understand me. 1729 01:14:27,547 --> 01:14:29,591 And when you can find a band, or an artist, 1730 01:14:29,591 --> 01:14:31,384 or something that makes you feel like, 1731 01:14:31,384 --> 01:14:33,720 "Oh my God, I'm not alone in this?" 1732 01:14:33,720 --> 01:14:35,346 That's magic. 1733 01:14:39,058 --> 01:14:40,977 [Jacoby Shaddix] In a world full of judgment, 1734 01:14:40,977 --> 01:14:43,479 what better thing to give somebody, right? 1735 01:14:43,479 --> 01:14:46,191 Through music, a place to feel part of. 1736 01:14:46,191 --> 01:14:47,734 That's good shit right there, for real. 1737 01:14:47,734 --> 01:14:48,943 [all] Simple Plan! 1738 01:14:48,943 --> 01:14:50,612 [Jeff] What year was it? It was 2005. 1739 01:14:50,612 --> 01:14:51,946 - 2005. [Jacoby] The first time I met 1740 01:14:51,946 --> 01:14:54,240 the boys in Simple Plan, I was in Germany, 1741 01:14:54,240 --> 01:14:56,242 out on festival season. 1742 01:14:56,242 --> 01:14:57,535 [yodeling] 1743 01:14:57,535 --> 01:14:59,120 [Pierre] What do you think of Simple Plan? 1744 01:14:59,120 --> 01:15:01,664 [Jacoby] Okay, all I gotta say is Ditka versus Simple Plan, 1745 01:15:01,664 --> 01:15:03,666 most definitely Simple Plan! 1746 01:15:03,666 --> 01:15:06,169 - Ohhh! - That's what I gotta say! 1747 01:15:06,169 --> 01:15:08,796 There's an authenticity that comes out of Simple Plan. 1748 01:15:08,796 --> 01:15:10,381 - You okay? - Yes! 1749 01:15:10,381 --> 01:15:12,926 [Jacoby] It's beautiful what they've done with their music 1750 01:15:12,926 --> 01:15:14,928 and being able to be inclusive, right? 1751 01:15:14,928 --> 01:15:16,638 And it's like, that's special. 1752 01:15:16,638 --> 01:15:17,972 Hi! 1753 01:15:18,598 --> 01:15:19,891 - Good to see you, buddy. Thank you. 1754 01:15:19,891 --> 01:15:22,560 [indistinct chatter] 1755 01:15:22,560 --> 01:15:26,189 [André, French] We had a PO box for Simple Plan's fan mail. 1756 01:15:26,189 --> 01:15:27,857 The post office would call me: "Mr. Comeau, 1757 01:15:27,857 --> 01:15:30,109 there's a lot of mail." 1758 01:15:30,109 --> 01:15:32,153 There were literally bags of letters. 1759 01:15:32,779 --> 01:15:34,989 That's when I realized 1760 01:15:34,989 --> 01:15:38,034 how much of an impact they were having on kids around the world. 1761 01:15:38,034 --> 01:15:39,327 [in English] "Your music comforted me 1762 01:15:39,327 --> 01:15:40,453 in the moments I needed..." 1763 01:15:40,453 --> 01:15:42,038 - I feel like listening to Simple Plan 1764 01:15:42,038 --> 01:15:45,416 has shaped me as a person so much. 1765 01:15:45,416 --> 01:15:47,210 I like keeping my feelings to myself. 1766 01:15:47,210 --> 01:15:50,129 By listening to the songs that talked about how I felt, 1767 01:15:50,129 --> 01:15:51,297 I felt heard. 1768 01:15:52,715 --> 01:15:55,551 - "This Song Saved My Life" just pieced together for me 1769 01:15:55,551 --> 01:15:58,263 everything that I've always felt about this band, 1770 01:15:58,263 --> 01:15:59,889 and everything that they mean to me 1771 01:15:59,889 --> 01:16:01,724 and they've done for me. 1772 01:16:01,724 --> 01:16:03,685 I don't think I would have gotten through that if it wasn't 1773 01:16:03,685 --> 01:16:05,061 for these guys. 1774 01:16:05,061 --> 01:16:06,980 - Life gets tough, you know what I'm saying? 1775 01:16:06,980 --> 01:16:09,357 It's like... I even, one of their songs, 1776 01:16:09,357 --> 01:16:13,278 "Nobody knows when I'm alone in the world", 1777 01:16:13,278 --> 01:16:15,446 you know what I'm saying? It's like, that feeling 1778 01:16:15,446 --> 01:16:17,740 of loneliness and like, putting yourself in this song, 1779 01:16:17,740 --> 01:16:21,202 and all of a sudden you feel part of. 1780 01:16:21,202 --> 01:16:22,829 You know what I mean? 1781 01:16:22,829 --> 01:16:27,917 - They're a cornerstone for a lot of people's growing up. 1782 01:16:27,917 --> 01:16:31,421 And Simple Plan helped propel 1783 01:16:31,421 --> 01:16:34,424 a generation of people 1784 01:16:34,424 --> 01:16:36,509 that might have felt misunderstood. 1785 01:16:36,509 --> 01:16:40,013 - I connected with feelings that I've felt before, 1786 01:16:40,013 --> 01:16:42,390 and I was a kid. I just wanted to hug them 1787 01:16:42,390 --> 01:16:44,559 and tell them, like, "You molded me. 1788 01:16:44,559 --> 01:16:46,519 You helped me through a lot." 1789 01:16:46,519 --> 01:16:48,604 - I've struggled with a lot of mental health issues, 1790 01:16:48,604 --> 01:16:51,399 so it's really meant a lot. 1791 01:16:51,399 --> 01:16:54,444 - You just kind of know that there's someone always with you. 1792 01:16:54,444 --> 01:16:56,237 - By hearing their songs, it just reminds me 1793 01:16:56,237 --> 01:16:58,448 that there's something for someone out there 1794 01:16:58,448 --> 01:17:01,242 to remind you that life is worth living. 1795 01:17:01,242 --> 01:17:04,287 - They have been with me since, all through my self-harm. 1796 01:17:04,287 --> 01:17:06,789 Oh yeah, I'll never forget like, the feeling 1797 01:17:06,789 --> 01:17:08,666 when I first found them. 1798 01:17:08,666 --> 01:17:11,419 I never thought I'd even be alive to see them. 1799 01:17:14,839 --> 01:17:16,716 [in French] As I read their mail, 1800 01:17:16,716 --> 01:17:18,468 there were quite a few letters 1801 01:17:18,468 --> 01:17:20,470 sad letters. 1802 01:17:20,470 --> 01:17:24,515 It led to the idea of setting up the Simple Plan Foundation. 1803 01:17:24,515 --> 01:17:29,312 That’s another thing Simple Plan has allowed me to embrace: 1804 01:17:29,312 --> 01:17:30,813 philanthropy. 1805 01:17:31,606 --> 01:17:33,191 [applause] 1806 01:17:33,191 --> 01:17:34,776 [host, in English] Ladies and gentlemen, the 2012 recipients 1807 01:17:34,776 --> 01:17:36,611 of the Alan Waters Humanitarian Award, 1808 01:17:36,611 --> 01:17:39,197 please welcome Simple Plan! 1809 01:17:39,197 --> 01:17:40,865 - We have a lot of thank-yous to say, 1810 01:17:40,865 --> 01:17:42,116 but I wanna say first off, 1811 01:17:42,116 --> 01:17:43,451 thank you to Chuck's parents. 1812 01:17:43,451 --> 01:17:45,328 [in French] We couldn't do this without you. 1813 01:17:45,661 --> 01:17:47,747 [in English] We had no idea how rewarding 1814 01:17:47,747 --> 01:17:49,707 and gratifying getting involved 1815 01:17:49,707 --> 01:17:51,000 and giving back would be. 1816 01:17:51,000 --> 01:17:52,126 Our foundation has become 1817 01:17:52,126 --> 01:17:54,587 an integral part of who we are as a band, 1818 01:17:54,587 --> 01:17:56,047 and as people, 1819 01:17:56,047 --> 01:17:57,507 and we're determined to keep it that way. 1820 01:17:57,507 --> 01:18:00,635 Aww, you got all the red ink on me! 1821 01:18:00,635 --> 01:18:03,346 [Chuck] It's pretty amazing how lucky we've been. 1822 01:18:03,346 --> 01:18:06,099 We were the kids in the crowd, and somehow, 1823 01:18:06,099 --> 01:18:07,266 we got on stage. 1824 01:18:07,266 --> 01:18:08,684 How you guys doing, you alright? 1825 01:18:08,684 --> 01:18:10,436 - [crowd] Yeah! - [Chuck] Want me to do it? 1826 01:18:10,436 --> 01:18:11,729 Yeah, 'cause I'm shaking! 1827 01:18:13,189 --> 01:18:16,067 [Chuck] I don't think we ever lost the connection, 1828 01:18:16,067 --> 01:18:18,111 or we ever forgot 1829 01:18:18,111 --> 01:18:20,696 what it's like to be a fan of a band. 1830 01:18:20,696 --> 01:18:22,073 Thanks for sharing that, appreciate it. 1831 01:18:22,073 --> 01:18:23,449 - Thank you. - Stay strong, huh? 1832 01:18:23,449 --> 01:18:24,867 - Thank you! - Okay, you got this. 1833 01:18:24,867 --> 01:18:26,953 It's her dream to meet you. 1834 01:18:26,953 --> 01:18:28,413 - [sobbing] - How you doing, you good? 1835 01:18:28,413 --> 01:18:29,831 Yeah! 1836 01:18:31,499 --> 01:18:33,000 What's going on? 1837 01:18:33,000 --> 01:18:34,377 - She's pregnant! - Don't cry, 1838 01:18:34,377 --> 01:18:36,129 I'm gonna start crying too! 1839 01:18:36,129 --> 01:18:37,755 What's that old deal about 1840 01:18:37,755 --> 01:18:39,424 being a rock star and not being able 1841 01:18:39,424 --> 01:18:41,217 to talk to people who come to see your shows? 1842 01:18:41,217 --> 01:18:43,261 I think it's just like very artificial, 1843 01:18:43,261 --> 01:18:45,221 and we don't buy into that. 1844 01:18:45,221 --> 01:18:47,098 [Chuck] To me, to go out and spend an hour, 1845 01:18:47,098 --> 01:18:48,474 an hour or two every show, 1846 01:18:48,474 --> 01:18:50,059 and sign and talk and get to know 1847 01:18:50,059 --> 01:18:51,060 who likes your band, 1848 01:18:51,060 --> 01:18:52,353 that's probably my favourite part 1849 01:18:52,353 --> 01:18:54,397 - of playing shows. - How are you? 1850 01:18:54,397 --> 01:18:56,732 - I feel like that's why they're so relatable 1851 01:18:56,732 --> 01:18:58,234 to so many different people, 1852 01:18:58,234 --> 01:19:00,611 is that they remind them of themselves. 1853 01:19:00,611 --> 01:19:03,114 I genuinely believe that these are the people 1854 01:19:03,114 --> 01:19:04,824 that they are, and they love what they're doing, 1855 01:19:04,824 --> 01:19:06,909 and they love their fans. 1856 01:19:06,909 --> 01:19:08,244 [screaming] 1857 01:19:08,244 --> 01:19:09,954 - Thank you, thank you very much! 1858 01:19:09,954 --> 01:19:11,706 - No way! I get to pick one? - Yeah! 1859 01:19:11,706 --> 01:19:13,458 - Nice, sweet! - Thank you so much! 1860 01:19:13,458 --> 01:19:15,001 - Thanks for coming out. Enjoy the show, alright? 1861 01:19:15,001 --> 01:19:16,043 - You're a fucking legend, man! 1862 01:19:17,086 --> 01:19:19,130 [Chuck] Take your time. Aww! 1863 01:19:19,130 --> 01:19:20,131 [indistinct chatter] 1864 01:19:20,131 --> 01:19:22,049 I'm going to cry! 1865 01:19:22,049 --> 01:19:23,217 [Jeff] You good? 1866 01:19:23,217 --> 01:19:24,302 [harmonica playing] 1867 01:19:24,302 --> 01:19:25,928 [Chuck] There. You alright, buddy? 1868 01:19:26,971 --> 01:19:28,055 Hey, we're in LA. 1869 01:19:28,055 --> 01:19:29,223 ♪ Hey, we're in LA ♪ 1870 01:19:29,223 --> 01:19:30,641 We're making our fifth record. 1871 01:19:30,641 --> 01:19:32,268 - ♪ We're making our fifth record ♪ 1872 01:19:32,268 --> 01:19:33,519 And it's going really awesome. 1873 01:19:33,519 --> 01:19:34,645 ♪ It's going pretty good ♪♪ 1874 01:19:34,645 --> 01:19:35,813 [all] Ooh! 1875 01:19:35,813 --> 01:19:37,440 - [bongo drum] - It was sort of a throwback 1876 01:19:37,440 --> 01:19:38,733 to the very first album. 1877 01:19:39,358 --> 01:19:41,319 We're all just living at Chuck's house, 1878 01:19:41,319 --> 01:19:42,570 going to the studio every day. 1879 01:19:42,570 --> 01:19:43,905 I remember, specifically 1880 01:19:43,905 --> 01:19:44,906 writing the song "Boom". 1881 01:19:44,906 --> 01:19:46,240 It's one of my favorite songs. 1882 01:19:46,240 --> 01:19:48,826 ["Boom" by Simple Plan] 1883 01:19:54,499 --> 01:19:57,168 That song relates to my relationship with my wife, 1884 01:19:57,168 --> 01:20:00,713 and how I feel like after all this time, 1885 01:20:00,713 --> 01:20:02,381 still crazy about you. 1886 01:20:02,381 --> 01:20:04,300 ["Boom" by Simple Plan continues] 1887 01:20:09,931 --> 01:20:11,974 My kid loved the song too. Boom-boom-boom! 1888 01:20:11,974 --> 01:20:14,101 [crowd cheering] 1889 01:20:14,101 --> 01:20:16,020 We made it! 1890 01:20:16,020 --> 01:20:17,522 We're in LA, people. 1891 01:20:17,522 --> 01:20:19,232 - I was here last week! - [Sébastien] What's up, daddy? 1892 01:20:19,232 --> 01:20:20,691 - [Chuck] I'm the car. - Doot, doot, doot, doot. 1893 01:20:20,691 --> 01:20:21,859 - Good, good, good, good, good. 1894 01:20:21,859 --> 01:20:23,110 [in French] Will you come to the studio? 1895 01:20:23,110 --> 01:20:23,945 Yeah! 1896 01:20:23,945 --> 01:20:26,364 [pop punk music] 1897 01:20:29,367 --> 01:20:31,118 [Pierre, in English] Funny enough, I was a dishwasher 1898 01:20:31,118 --> 01:20:32,370 before I was in a band. 1899 01:20:32,370 --> 01:20:34,163 Harder than it looks! 1900 01:20:34,163 --> 01:20:36,624 [singing "The Antidote" by Simple Plan] 1901 01:20:37,750 --> 01:20:41,254 - We were tired, we were sick of being embarrassed 1902 01:20:41,254 --> 01:20:43,047 of sounding like Simple Plan, 1903 01:20:43,047 --> 01:20:45,800 or thinking that was a problem. And we just said, 1904 01:20:45,800 --> 01:20:47,552 "Fuck it, we're gonna embrace it." 1905 01:20:47,552 --> 01:20:50,429 And we're gonna make the most quintessential 1906 01:20:50,429 --> 01:20:51,806 Simple Plan record. 1907 01:20:51,806 --> 01:20:54,016 [Pierre] On this record, I think it was time for me 1908 01:20:54,016 --> 01:20:55,893 to step into that role, 1909 01:20:55,893 --> 01:20:58,521 in a place of confidence, where in the past, 1910 01:20:58,521 --> 01:21:00,523 I had always done it, but I felt like 1911 01:21:00,523 --> 01:21:02,567 I even myself just brushed it off. 1912 01:21:02,567 --> 01:21:05,820 Now, I've come to a place in my ability to be like, 1913 01:21:05,820 --> 01:21:07,655 "No, I'm producing this record." 1914 01:21:08,739 --> 01:21:11,826 [Sébastien] Let's do this on our own. 1915 01:21:11,826 --> 01:21:14,453 I think it's my favorite album that we've ever made. 1916 01:21:14,453 --> 01:21:17,373 [Jeff] And we had no idea what was coming up. 1917 01:21:22,295 --> 01:21:26,674 - Uh, one day in July, 2020, I got a call from Chuck. 1918 01:21:26,674 --> 01:21:29,010 And he says, "You and I need to talk about something, 1919 01:21:29,010 --> 01:21:31,137 we need to pay attention to something." 1920 01:21:31,137 --> 01:21:34,432 Something's going down, and it involves David. 1921 01:21:34,432 --> 01:21:37,560 SIMPLE PLAN'S BASSIST 1922 01:21:37,560 --> 01:21:40,771 QUITS THE BAND AMID ALLEGATIONS 1923 01:21:40,771 --> 01:21:45,109 - I mean, so many different emotions 1924 01:21:45,109 --> 01:21:46,277 went through my head. 1925 01:21:46,277 --> 01:21:48,070 [crowd screaming] 1926 01:21:51,240 --> 01:21:52,575 I was devastated. 1927 01:21:55,536 --> 01:21:58,331 It was really hard to accept. 1928 01:22:01,208 --> 01:22:05,838 It was like the biggest crisis that we've ever encountered. 1929 01:22:07,381 --> 01:22:09,467 - We had to make a decision at the time, 1930 01:22:09,467 --> 01:22:11,510 for him to step back from the band. 1931 01:22:12,595 --> 01:22:14,722 [Sébastien] I kind of understood rationally 1932 01:22:14,722 --> 01:22:16,599 what needed to happen, 1933 01:22:16,599 --> 01:22:18,768 and that made me very, very sad. 1934 01:22:19,644 --> 01:22:21,312 [Jeff] I had been touring 1935 01:22:21,312 --> 01:22:23,814 for the better part of my adult life with David. 1936 01:22:23,814 --> 01:22:28,235 You don't let go of 20 plus years of touring 1937 01:22:28,235 --> 01:22:30,029 without a lot of hurt. 1938 01:22:30,780 --> 01:22:32,531 [David, in French] Do you think it's safe? 1939 01:22:32,531 --> 01:22:34,116 [Pierre] Do it. 1940 01:22:34,116 --> 01:22:35,368 - Careful, Charles, I don't want to fall. 1941 01:22:35,368 --> 01:22:36,494 Go. 1942 01:22:36,994 --> 01:22:38,663 [Sébastien, in English] It was kind of like a trauma 1943 01:22:38,663 --> 01:22:39,789 for everybody, 1944 01:22:39,789 --> 01:22:41,540 and I think it was kind of like a shock. 1945 01:22:41,540 --> 01:22:43,918 And it made us want to be 1946 01:22:43,918 --> 01:22:45,586 the best version of ourselves, 1947 01:22:45,586 --> 01:22:48,381 and make sure that our shows 1948 01:22:48,381 --> 01:22:51,634 and everything that surrounds this band is a safe space. 1949 01:22:56,138 --> 01:22:58,933 [ambient music] 1950 01:23:18,244 --> 01:23:20,037 [birds chirping] 1951 01:23:22,998 --> 01:23:24,667 [clucking] 1952 01:23:37,012 --> 01:23:38,848 [children playing] 1953 01:23:41,308 --> 01:23:42,727 It's quite beautiful. 1954 01:23:52,111 --> 01:23:56,031 [Sébastien] We were always very serious about what the band was, 1955 01:23:56,031 --> 01:24:00,661 and what the band had to do, but not so much personally, 1956 01:24:00,661 --> 01:24:02,455 or as people. 1957 01:24:03,914 --> 01:24:06,625 [in French] I'll miss you a lot. 1958 01:24:19,930 --> 01:24:22,141 [Pierre, in English] It is very pretty, isn't it? 1959 01:24:22,141 --> 01:24:24,435 It's fun when people put a lot of resources 1960 01:24:24,435 --> 01:24:26,353 into creating something very magical. 1961 01:24:26,353 --> 01:24:28,063 When we first started the band, 1962 01:24:28,063 --> 01:24:29,482 we were married to each other, 1963 01:24:29,482 --> 01:24:31,817 in some weird way, and to the career. 1964 01:24:31,817 --> 01:24:34,111 And as we all developed lives on the outside, 1965 01:24:34,111 --> 01:24:36,322 when you have large responsibilities like children, 1966 01:24:36,322 --> 01:24:38,324 children are everything, and now I don't want to go 1967 01:24:38,324 --> 01:24:40,701 on tour as much 'cause I don't wanna be gone too much. 1968 01:24:40,701 --> 01:24:42,661 [indistinct chatter] 1969 01:24:44,121 --> 01:24:47,333 [in French] I always saw myself as someone who’s on tour. 1970 01:24:47,750 --> 01:24:50,419 I was in a band, on the road and sometimes I’d go home. 1971 01:24:51,086 --> 01:24:53,714 Now, I'm a husband and a father. 1972 01:24:53,714 --> 01:24:56,759 I love being at home. And sometimes, I go on tour. 1973 01:24:57,510 --> 01:25:00,304 Do you like being on tour? You like the pace? 1974 01:25:00,304 --> 01:25:02,515 - Yeah, you like it! - I love it! 1975 01:25:02,515 --> 01:25:04,350 I'm so happy you're here. 1976 01:25:04,350 --> 01:25:07,603 Being together makes it so much better. 1977 01:25:07,603 --> 01:25:09,897 Instead of video calls, you're here. 1978 01:25:09,897 --> 01:25:12,566 It changes everything. 1979 01:25:13,442 --> 01:25:15,986 [in English] Being a dad has inspired me to be 1980 01:25:15,986 --> 01:25:18,614 a better member of the band Simple Plan, 1981 01:25:18,614 --> 01:25:21,367 to be a harder working man, 1982 01:25:21,367 --> 01:25:23,702 and to just be better as a human, you know? 1983 01:25:29,708 --> 01:25:31,001 Appreciate it. 1984 01:25:31,001 --> 01:25:32,920 We went to being this little 1985 01:25:32,920 --> 01:25:34,421 band in the basement 1986 01:25:34,421 --> 01:25:36,465 to people getting to know us. 1987 01:25:36,465 --> 01:25:39,635 I was a really, really shy guy before, 1988 01:25:39,635 --> 01:25:41,679 now I'm just really shy. 1989 01:25:41,679 --> 01:25:42,972 You know? 1990 01:25:44,640 --> 01:25:48,727 I kind of always approached it, the band is famous. 1991 01:25:48,727 --> 01:25:50,646 I'm very incognito. 1992 01:25:50,646 --> 01:25:52,857 It still happens to this day that I'll be at a coffee shop 1993 01:25:52,857 --> 01:25:54,775 with Pierre, and people recognize him, 1994 01:25:54,775 --> 01:25:56,527 and I'm the one taking the picture! 1995 01:25:56,527 --> 01:25:58,487 It's like, they don't see it and that's okay, 1996 01:25:58,487 --> 01:25:59,947 like, it makes me laugh. 1997 01:25:59,947 --> 01:26:01,991 [soft piano music] 1998 01:26:01,991 --> 01:26:04,869 [Jeff] Chuck gave me a stat, he told me that we've played 1999 01:26:04,869 --> 01:26:07,496 234 shows over the last two years. 2000 01:26:09,665 --> 01:26:11,667 That's insane. 2001 01:26:11,667 --> 01:26:14,962 That's just crazy, like how do you manage personal lives? 2002 01:26:14,962 --> 01:26:17,798 We didn't, like, it was just impossible, it's very hard. 2003 01:26:17,798 --> 01:26:20,467 But family life, personal life, 2004 01:26:20,467 --> 01:26:23,971 being in a band, like, what a weird life that is. 2005 01:26:25,264 --> 01:26:28,517 We'd play those super crazy shows, 2006 01:26:28,517 --> 01:26:31,770 and we come back home, and we're stay-at-home dads. 2007 01:26:33,731 --> 01:26:35,524 [beeping] 2008 01:26:35,524 --> 01:26:37,151 [sighs] 2009 01:26:39,570 --> 01:26:42,698 - [in French] Hello! - Hi London, how's it going? 2010 01:26:43,240 --> 01:26:44,867 - Good. - Look. 2011 01:26:46,577 --> 01:26:47,995 Cute, right? 2012 01:26:47,995 --> 01:26:49,830 They're all photos of you. 2013 01:26:49,830 --> 01:26:51,248 [Chuck, in English] I think it's important for him, 2014 01:26:51,248 --> 01:26:52,666 you know, it's like, 2015 01:26:52,666 --> 01:26:54,209 "Hey, I'm thinking about you. Even if I'm not there, 2016 01:26:54,209 --> 01:26:55,085 you're always on my mind." 2017 01:26:55,085 --> 01:26:56,253 I love you. 2018 01:26:56,253 --> 01:26:58,464 And I call my dad and my mom every night. 2019 01:26:58,672 --> 01:27:00,049 [in French] I just got to the hotel, 2020 01:27:00,049 --> 01:27:01,550 just wanted to say good night. 2021 01:27:01,550 --> 01:27:04,011 [in English] When Simple Plan was starting up, 2022 01:27:04,011 --> 01:27:06,555 Chuck was definitely leaving something 2023 01:27:06,555 --> 01:27:09,183 a little more significant behind than I was, 2024 01:27:09,183 --> 01:27:12,186 because he was going to law school, so I think Chuck 2025 01:27:12,186 --> 01:27:14,605 was tapping into the fact that like, my parents 2026 01:27:14,605 --> 01:27:16,607 don't understand me, they don't understand 2027 01:27:16,607 --> 01:27:17,858 what I want to do. 2028 01:27:17,858 --> 01:27:21,028 [in French] The dream was so big 2029 01:27:21,028 --> 01:27:24,698 that it eclipsed everything else in his life. 2030 01:27:24,865 --> 01:27:27,242 [Chuck, in English] I wanna drop out, I wanna be in a rock band. 2031 01:27:27,826 --> 01:27:32,039 I get it. Like, in his world, it wasn't possible. 2032 01:27:32,039 --> 01:27:36,335 I think he didn't want me to fuck up my life. 2033 01:27:37,503 --> 01:27:39,421 [André, in French] Charles would come upstairs 2034 01:27:39,421 --> 01:27:40,673 to do his homework, 2035 01:27:40,673 --> 01:27:42,049 and he'd say: "I'm dropping out of school." 2036 01:27:42,716 --> 01:27:44,468 "No, Charles, you're not." 2037 01:27:44,468 --> 01:27:46,845 He explained that music couldn’t wait, it had to happen now. 2038 01:27:47,805 --> 01:27:50,975 I remember Sébastien wanting to study engineering. 2039 01:27:50,975 --> 01:27:53,644 Jeff was at the Classical Music Conservatory. 2040 01:27:53,644 --> 01:27:57,189 At home, I was the one encouraging them. 2041 01:27:57,189 --> 01:28:00,734 I felt slightly guilty towards the other parents. 2042 01:28:01,235 --> 01:28:02,444 He makes beautiful songs. 2043 01:28:04,196 --> 01:28:07,324 And the lyrics, they hit home... 2044 01:28:08,701 --> 01:28:11,078 not only for me, but for a lot of other people as well. 2045 01:28:12,871 --> 01:28:14,123 That's it. 2046 01:28:14,123 --> 01:28:15,541 [Pierre, in English] My dad is the biggest 2047 01:28:15,541 --> 01:28:16,959 Simple Plan fan ever. 2048 01:28:16,959 --> 01:28:18,252 My mom had to finally stop him 2049 01:28:18,252 --> 01:28:20,504 from laminating every single article 2050 01:28:20,504 --> 01:28:21,714 or things he would find. 2051 01:28:21,714 --> 01:28:23,298 There was a literal shrine of me 2052 01:28:23,298 --> 01:28:26,010 going up the hallway and the stairs. 2053 01:28:26,010 --> 01:28:28,387 [Jeff] I think about my dad during "Perfect", 2054 01:28:28,387 --> 01:28:31,807 and I wish he would have seen this whole thing unfold. 2055 01:28:31,807 --> 01:28:35,269 I kind of have a feeling that he's kind of there somewhere. 2056 01:28:36,645 --> 01:28:39,106 [in French] We have to nurture our kid's dreams 2057 01:28:39,106 --> 01:28:41,400 to see where those dreams will lead us. 2058 01:28:42,109 --> 01:28:43,902 [Chuck, in English] I definitely put 2059 01:28:43,902 --> 01:28:45,404 my parent's through the wringer. 2060 01:28:47,698 --> 01:28:51,243 It led to like, one of the most important songs we ever wrote. 2061 01:28:51,243 --> 01:28:53,662 [crowd cheering] 2062 01:28:53,662 --> 01:28:55,414 [acoustic guitar riff] 2063 01:28:55,414 --> 01:28:58,876 ["Perfect" by Simple Plan] 2064 01:29:20,355 --> 01:29:22,483 [crowd singing in unison] 2065 01:29:46,548 --> 01:29:49,468 [all singing along] 2066 01:30:16,620 --> 01:30:19,915 [Pierre] Everybody make some noise! 2067 01:30:21,875 --> 01:30:24,753 ["Perfect" by Simple Plan continues] 2068 01:30:58,912 --> 01:31:01,081 ["Perfect" by Simple Plan continues] 2069 01:31:12,134 --> 01:31:14,052 [song ends] 2070 01:31:14,052 --> 01:31:16,763 This is our first practice for the song called "Perfect", 2071 01:31:16,763 --> 01:31:19,016 and just as you can see, it's not perfect yet. 2072 01:31:19,016 --> 01:31:21,101 This is my basement, 2073 01:31:21,101 --> 01:31:23,854 we've been practicing here for 10 years, 2074 01:31:23,854 --> 01:31:25,814 and this band, probably three years. 2075 01:31:25,814 --> 01:31:27,524 And my parents hate it! [laughing] 2076 01:31:27,524 --> 01:31:29,359 - We gotta keep on working, so get out of here! 2077 01:31:29,359 --> 01:31:31,069 [Patrick] That's good for the end. 2078 01:31:31,069 --> 01:31:32,487 Let's keep on touring, though. 2079 01:31:32,487 --> 01:31:33,780 [tense string music] 2080 01:31:33,780 --> 01:31:36,200 [indistinct chatter] 2081 01:31:39,077 --> 01:31:40,787 [crowd cheering] 2082 01:31:46,001 --> 01:31:48,921 [crowd chanting] Simple Plan! Simple Plan! 2083 01:31:48,921 --> 01:31:54,635 Simple Plan! Simple Plan! 2084 01:31:54,635 --> 01:31:57,137 [guitar feedback] 2085 01:31:57,137 --> 01:32:00,098 [Pierre] We are so grateful to be here, 2086 01:32:00,098 --> 01:32:02,434 because there was a time 2087 01:32:02,434 --> 01:32:04,311 when we didn't know how to fit in. 2088 01:32:04,311 --> 01:32:06,521 And we found a home in this music, 2089 01:32:06,521 --> 01:32:08,565 in this music scene here. 2090 01:32:08,565 --> 01:32:10,943 [crowd cheering] 2091 01:32:10,943 --> 01:32:13,362 And I don't know, I don't know where you are from, 2092 01:32:13,362 --> 01:32:16,823 how long you had to travel to get here today, 2093 01:32:16,823 --> 01:32:20,202 but I can tell you one thing right here, right now. 2094 01:32:20,202 --> 01:32:22,287 All of you guys, all of us, 2095 01:32:22,287 --> 01:32:25,082 this is where we belong! 2096 01:32:25,082 --> 01:32:27,376 [crowd cheering] 2097 01:32:27,376 --> 01:32:29,378 So put your hands up! 2098 01:32:29,378 --> 01:32:31,964 ["Where I Belong" by Simple Plan] 2099 01:33:44,953 --> 01:33:48,332 ["Nothing Changes" by Simple Plan]