This morning, Jeff Stinco visited the show of his long-time friend and former merch guy/photographer/webmaster of Simple Plan Patrick Langlois, called Ménage à trois, which airs on V Tele. Jeff came on the show to talk about Simple Plan, his restaurant business, music and travelling. In the gallery, you can have a look at some screencaps of Jeff from this show:
Thanks to Honza, here’s a full video of the interview with Jeff:
And thanks to Elsa, who prepared a recap for us, you can now also check out what the interview was about:
– Jeff did not say too much about the new album. He won’t give us a date because we all know Chuck, he wants things to be perfect.
– He also said that there are a lot of influences but in the end there will always be the SP spirit.– The band has been together for 15 years and he said that it will always be a part of his life. At the beginning, they did not know how long the band would last so they were trying to have as much fun as they could.
– About his restaurants: apparently it was Chuck who initiated Jeff into gastronomy.
– He talked a bit about his restaurants, he mentioned his new restaurant “Mimi la Nuit”. But his favorite restaurant is Mangiafoco– On a scale of 1 to 10, Jeff said he’d mark his charm as 7,5 (he also thinks that he is the most handsome member of SP)
– He thinks the best SP song is “Perfect”.
– If he wanted to move, it would be to Los Angeles.
– If he wasn’t with SP, he’d like to be a guitarist in U2.– Patrick asked Jeff to complete the lyrics (of “Jet Lag” and “Your Love Is A Lie”) that he was saying and Jeff did not remember them at all
– Then, he played some flamenco and a little bit of Summer Paradise. By the way, he thinks that Summer Paradise is the easiest SP song to play on the guitar.– They also talked about his trips: with SP, he traveled to 52-53 countries
– His favorite destination is Australia because the landscapes are beautiful and people are really really nice.
– He told little stories about his trips but the funniest was in Tokyo: The band was bored so they decided to go out. They found a karaoke but they didn’t sing because they had a show so they ordered a beer. When Jeff went to the bathroom, he saw several people, singing. Naked. He decided to enter the room and one of the Japanese looked at him and said: “Simple Plan?”. He said yes and they made him sing with them. After a time, when the rest of the band didn’t see Jeff coming back, they decided to look for him, found him and eventually joined him. Jeff said that Pierre was singing on the table while a Japanese guy was trying to remove his belt.
– Jeff also mentioned Brazil, he said that their way of life was really cool.– He also told another funny story. He was partying with SP and Patrick in a city. Patrick stroke Jeff and they went out to talk. They ended up yelling at each other in French, which attracted a lot of people and… the cops. Which is how Jeff ended up being handcuffed to calm down. They released him about 5 minutes later thanks to an American guy that was with them. However he was very angry with Patrick for that.
