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Members of Simple Plan reflect on Paramore’s debut album’s 10th anniversary

Tomorrow, on June 26th, it will be exactly 10 years since the release of Paramore’s debut album “All We Know Is Falling” (2005), the album that the – now Grammy winning – band kicked off their career with. To commemorate one of the most important albums of pop-punk history, Fuse.tv interviewed a number of artists, who shared their memories of this album and the beginnings of Paramore.

And as Simple Plan were a band who took Paramore as their opening band on one of their first tours, it was a given that they had to be featured in this article. Check out what the band members had to say about Paramore:

David: We were the first band to take them on tour!

Chuck: It was 2004. We had a call from Lyor Cohen, he was the president of Atlantic Records. He was like, “Hey, we have this young band that are coming up. Would you do us a favor and take them on tour? They’re called Paramore.” We had never really heard of them—they were just signed, never really toured before. They sent us some songs and we were like, “This sounds great, we’d love to take them out.” They were 16.

David: I remember the drummer coming up to me like, “Hey, do you want to tune my drums?” because I love drums a lot. He was so awesome. He was already killing it on the drums and he was 15. It was great. Once they had some people from MTV come to a show and the bass player asked me to use my wireless because they had cables but they wanted to do that spin that the bass player was doing off the guitar player’s back. I let him use my wireless so he could do the spin properly.

Chuck: That record came out a few months after that tour and I think our fans—all the Simple Plan fans are open-minded and love to hear new music and new bands. Right after that we took the Plain White T’s right before they had their big break so that was cool.

David: We break a lot of bands. Hayley was already such a great performer, even then.

Chuck: All of them. When they played, fans responded. They got their first fans off playing live. Just like us, when we played our first shows opening for Sugar Ray, they were in the same position. The label went to Sugar Ray and asked them a favor…then we opened up for the Bosstones because we could play live. If you can pull off the songs, kids will say “Who’s that band? What’s their record? I want buy that shirt.” That’s how it’s organically done.