Simple Plan

Simple Plan is a pop punk band from Montréal, Québec, Canada. Since forming they have never experienced personnel changes and they were Pierre Bouvier, Jeff Stinco, Sébastien Lefebvre, Chuck Comeau and David Desrosiers. Origin of name Simple Plan is not clear. When asked, the band often provide answers in the form of jokes, including one of them is because they formed the band as an "impromptu plan" to avoid working at fast food restaurants. But anyway, most likely, the name "Simple Plan" is taken from the title of the movie "A Simple Plan", or Piebald's song titled "Just a Simple Plan".

To date they have released four studio albums: No Pads, No Helmets ... Just Balls (2002), Still Not Getting Any ... (2004), Simple Plan (2008), and Get Your Heart On! (2011). In 1996, the band formed by Pierre Reset Bouvier, Chuck Comeau, Philippe Jolicoeur, and Adrian White. Reset toured Canada with MxPx, Ten Foot Pole, and Face to Face, although they were not very successful gaining popularity. Their debut album, No Worries, was released in 1999. Before long, Chuck Comeau left the band to enter college. Two years later he met with his friends in high school, Jeff Stinco and Sébastien Lefebvre, who at that time were in their respective bands, and they intend to merge to form his own band. Meanwhile, Reset released their second album, No Limits. One day, Comeau and Bouvier met again at the Sugar Ray concert and Bouvier left Reset to join Comeau. David Desrosiers replaced Bouvier ago in Reset, but he left the Reset jga six months later and joined the Bouvier. This makes Bouvier can concentrate on the vocal position, after it was doubled to fill the position as well as bass vocals.

In March 2002, Simple Plan released their first studio album, No Pads, No Helmets ... Just Balls which premises continued release of the single: "I'm Just a Kid", "I'd Do Anything", "Addicted", and "Perfect". Simple Plan recorded saying that they wanted the album is pure pop-punk. The album's title refers to a popular phrase from the sports of rugby, "No pads, no helmets, just balls."
The album was originally released in the United States with the contents of twelve songs, with the last song "Perfect". But the issue of bonuses and overseas editions later appeared in various versions with two additional songs on twelve original songs. For example, in the American edition contained a bonus track "Grow Up", and "My Christmas List", while the English edition contained the song "One By One" and "American Jesus" (live, a song by Bad Religion), including two bonus video clips "I'd Do Anything" and "I'm Just a Kid".

On this album also contained vocals from singers from two other pop-punk bands, as in "I'd Do Anything" are vocal Mark Hoppus of Blink-182, and in "You Do not Mean Anything" are vocal Joel Madden from Good Charlotte. In 2002, the year Simple Plan released the album, Simple Plan perform in more than 300 performances, topping the charts "Alternative New Artist", and appeared on the Japanese tour where tickets are sold out. In 2003, they appeared as one major band on the Vans Warped Tour. Also a penampilam recorded in a comedy film criticism, Punk Rock Holocaust, which killed four of them recounted. They also appear in the Warped Tour in 2004 and 2005. Also in 2003, they became the opening act for the tour of "Try To Shut Me Up" belongs to Avril Lavigne. In addition some of the tour, they also became the opening act for Green Day and Good Charlotte. The album sold one million copies until early 2003 but the album has sold 4 million copies worldwide, making it their most successful album commercially.

In October 2004, Simple Plan released their second album, entitled Still Not Getting Any ..., which will be followed by the singles "Welcome to My Life", "Shut Up!", "Untitled (How Could This Happen to Me?)" , and "Crazy". As mentioned previously, when writing the material album "No Pads, No Helmets ... Just Balls", the personnel wanted the album Simple Plan are pure pop-punk. But this time, in the process of writing the album "Still Not Getting Any ...", they say that they do not want to limit themselves to the punk genre, but rather allowing themselves to write "good music".

Based on the bonus DVD of "Still Not Getting Any ...", during the making of the album, the personnel Simple Plan could think of some fatherly name of this album, like "Get Rich or Die Trying" and "In The Zone". They chose the name "Still Not Getting Any ..." (meaning: Still Can not Get ... none) for several reasons. The reason most famous and best represent roughly is because they think that they do not get good ratings, Pierre Bouvier, adding that they just get a good assessment, that is from Alternative Press. Another reason is that this time they still do not get the respect that good. There are many more reasons expressed by them, because any word can really be placed on the ellipsis in the title. Chuck Comeau adds that the name of the album is "versatile".

After about one and a half years on tour "Still Not Getting Any ...", they end the tour in February 2006, to then take a short break before starting work on their third album. Pierre Bouvier via his official MySpace blog sites saying that he was heading for Miami on March 21, 2007 to work with a producer who was not yet known who, later known is Dave Fortman. Simple Plan entered the studio to begin pre-production in Los Angeles on June 29. On July 15 they returned to Montreal to record their songs at Studio Piccolo, the same studio where they recorded "Still Not Getting Any ...." When they finished recording the whole song, they kembai to Miami for mixing and mastering stage. Some finishing touches on the album performed in New York and their album officially completed on October 21, 2007, although later they returned to the studio to record ulangabeberapa lyrics in the song "Generation".

"When I'm Gone", the first single from the album Simple Plan was released on October 29, 2007. Simple Plan album diprodesri by Dave Fortman, known for his work with Avril Lavigne and Kelly Clarkson. On February 17, 2008, Simple Plan get their highest chart position in the UK, after two previous albums failed to enter the charts there. On 29 November 2007, Simple Plan, announced it would delay the release date of the previous album January 29, 2008 to February 12, 2008. They also released an album with the label "Japan version", with an additional two songs, which was released a week earlier, on February 6, 2008. This album is the album that most fail to reap success when compared with the rest of their albums.

After completing their international promotional tour, Simple Plan appears on several holiday events in December 2007. On July 1, 2008, they made a free concert in Quebec City, Plains of Abraham, attracting 150,000 spectators to the Canada Day event. After kemabali of central and eastern Asia in late July, they went back on tour across Canada in conjunction with Faber Drive and Cute is What We Aim For. Metro Station and The All-American Rejects is actually scheduled to take part in the tour, but canceled because of a matter. They returned in full their second European tour on 28 October to 29 November, with Estonia and Poland for the first time. Simple Plan has also appeared in Tel Aviv and Dubai in early December, where they performed at this concert with four personnel following the absence of bassist David Desrosiers due to family problems and was replaced temporarily by Sébastien Lefebvre to fill the bass position.
 

Simple Plan released their fourth album entitled Get Your Heart On! on June 21, 2011. The album was produced by Brian Howes. On this album they collaborated with such diverse songwriter Claude Kelly, Rivers Cuomo of Weezer, Matt Squire, Jim Irvin, Julian Emery, and David Hodges.