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Capturing The Magic
Capturing The Magic

eminiscing about their first UK tour, general,” he laughs. “We were super young, it - especially keeping the same band members.
RChuck tells us that the band - com- was quite interesting to see the craziness of it It’s something that obviously doesn’t seem to
pleted by Pierre Bouvier (vocals), David all. It was a fun tour!” be easy for a lot of people. So, the fact that we
Desrosiers (bass), Sébastien Lefebvre (guitar) The fact that Simple Plan are still together are able to accomplish that speaks volumes to
and Jeff Stinco (lead guitar) - have many great is something that Chuck had envisioned and the dynamic of the band, who we are as people
memories of it. “We’d never really toured that hoped for right from the beginning. “It might and how much we care for each other. I think
much in the UK, we might have played London sound funny, but since we started I was really that’s something to be proud of, and the fact
before, but never outside. Those guys [Bowling hoping that the band wouldn’t be like a two, the band keeps growing. Every band will go
For Soup] have always been massive here, so three year, four year kind of thing. We’ve al- through some ups and downs in their career,
it was cool being able to be a part of something ways hoped that we would have a long and what will be the difference-maker is how re-
so successful. Discovering the country, seeing successful career, that we would keep doing silient you are to the changes and how you’re
new places, playing really big rooms and really this for a while and that we would do it with the able to adapt. If you stick around and you go
big shows.” same people. That was sort of the goal, that through the moments that are a bit tougher,
Chuck smiles and points towards the room was the template, the road map,” he states. you usually end up being ahead; after you’re
next door where members of Bowling For Soup “I’m really proud that we got to do it, because I able to do that things start to go back up.”
are gathered, “Seeing how crazy this band look around at other bands of our era, and Chuck acknowledges that during their
gets was honestly just very foreign for us. We other bands in our style of music, or even any debut album cycle - ‘No Pads, No Helmets...
were in a different sort of approach to life in other artists, and it’s very difficult to pull that off Just Balls’ - when the band were in their early

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