Arguably one of Simple Plan’s most popular songs, known primarily from the self-titled animated TV series – ‘What’s New Scooby-Doo?’ has been around for 15 years now. However as the song’s never been released in its original for on any of Simple Plan’s albums, over these 15 years, the only version we’ve known is the slightly edited version, which is featured as the theme song for the TV series, which includes various added sounds.
Now finally, a high quality original version of this track has been posted on YouTube, which seems to feature none of the added sound effects and also the intro has audible drums in it, which weren’t featured in the theme song version.
Check out the HQ version here to see what the original song Simple Plan recorded for this series sounded like – and you can then compare it to the theme song version below:
Original HQ version of ‘What’s New Scooby-Doo?’:
Edited version of the song for the ‘What’s New Scooby-Doo?’ TV series:
Even though the vinyl has already been out in Europe in June, North America will officially start releasing Simple Plan’s first album on these special red vinyls on August 18th [check out where you can order them here].
And to support its release, Chuck and Jeff decided to film a little video introducing this limited edition vinyls. Check it out below:
Herby Moreau, a popular Canadian host and TV personality, accompanied Simple Plan last December on their tour in South America with a bunch of cameras. His goal was to document the band’s travels, interactions with local fans and of course also their concerts in a new season of his documentary TV series Vie de tournée.
The episode of Vie de tournée with Simple Plan will premiere next week, on August 24th on channel Vie, and the first trailer for it has just been revealed.
For the first time in their career, this past Saturday Simple Plan’s schedule finally led them to the city of Matane, QC – the hometown of the band’s bass player David Desrosiers. And even though David has been looking forward to this show for quite some time, due to his continuing struggles with depression, he wasn’t able to attend it (nor will he attend any of the upcoming U.S. and Canadian shows). For that reason, it was all the more important for Simple Plan to perform a fantastic show for the local crowd – to make David proud.
Earlier in the day, Chuck, Pierre, Jeff and Sebastien were invited to Matane’s city hall, where they all signed the city’s guestbook and also thanked the city officials for taking part in the Municipal Employment Plan, which is supported by the Union of the Quebec municipalities and the Simple Plan Foundation. It urges cities to create jobs for young people from youth centers, who would’ve otherwise had difficult times finding an employment.
Check out some of the pictures from SP’s visit to Matane’s city hall in the gallery:
A couple hours later, the four members of Simple Plan got on the stage at the Éole en musique festival in Matane, from where they could see the very diverse crowd that came to hear them play. Whether they were longtime fans from Montreal and its surrounding areas or over-40-year-olds in the back rows – thousands of people of all ages gathered to see Simple Plan play their bassplayer’s hometown. And the spiritual presence of David could be felt throughout the whole evening, as the musicians made quite a number of nods to their missing bass player.
Once again (just like in La Tuque), Pierre introduced Welcome To My Life with a very emotional speech regarding David, where he even noted that he was wearing a rose on his t-shirt that day to remind him of David (‘Desrosiers’ means “from the rose bush”). Below, you can watch Pierre’s speech on camera along with an English translation (big thanks to Janie for it):
“Of course.. we are sad that he can’t be here to share this moment with us tonight. If you follow us on social media, you know a bit of the history. If you don’t know it.. David is going through difficult times and it’s very important to him to reestablish himself and to be in a good health in long term, so he had to miss the show tonight. We’re thinking about him, I have my little rose here for “Desrosiers”. Tonight, because it’s his hometown, and because it’s our first time here, I want you to scream very loud for him. I want you to sing with me because we’re thinking about him. We love him so much and because he’s not here, we’ll make you a promise: we promise that we’ll come back to Matane again – with David. So, sing this next song with me. We dedicate it to David. It’s called Welcome To My Life.”
– Pierre Bouvier –
Check out some pictures from the show in Matane in our gallery:
Simple Plan kicked off their North American tour last night in La Tuque with a fantastic show at the Jeudis Centre-Ville festival for over 8000 people. The show was the first show in a while that the band performed together and therefore needed quite a long soundcheck to make sure everything sounded just the way it should. Some fans even got to witness the soundcheck, which was about an hour long.
As this show was not a part of the No Pads tour, Simple Plan performed what seems to be one of the variations of the Taking One For The Team tour setlists and even though it was a festival, Simple Plan had 1.5 hours at their disposal to prove themselves to the local crowd, so they opted for the longer setlist – however they did no play the party medley.
David’s absence was of course very visible – the empty microphone stand that was left on David’s usual spot was a dead giveaway that someone was missing tonight. Many fans even came to the show with banners saying “We love you, David”, supporting their favorite band’s bassplayer from afar. Interestingly enough, Chady Awad (who we’ve counted on to play David’s bass just like he did on the European tour) wasn’t present to take over David’s bass for this show, instead we’ve been told the band used a pre-recorded track to keep the show going with some bass tunes. Besides that, Simple Plan’s guitar tech Chris also apparently helped out with some bass sidestage during Grow Up.
Before Welcome To My Life, Pierre took the time to adress the absence of their friend David on stage and decided to dedicate this song to him. You can check out Simple Plan performing a part of Welcome To My Life in La Tuque on the video below:
And finally, check out some of the first pictures of Simple Plan back on stage – last night in La Tuque:
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