Recently, Jeffrevealed on his Instagram, that he is currently working on some special music project in his own home studio and last night, he decided to publish a video of him practicing some new techniques on his guitar.
Check out what Jeff had to say about his practice below:
I just got my home studio running again and it sounds great! Today, I got some alone time so I practiced some technical ideas I never got around to work on. I recorded a country-rock beat, tracked a bass line with David Desrosiers’ awesome bass, pulled out my killer new Fender stratocaster and went for it. I mostly tried not to make smelly guitar faces. Let me know if you’d like to hear more of my playing.
Just about a week ago, Simple Plan announced the first leg of their 15th anniversary No Pads, No Helmets… Just Balls tour in the United States, where Simple Plan are once again bringing not just one, but two opening bands – Set It Off and Seaway.
And it looks like our boys are in for some very good and fun touring buddies!
The guys from Set It Off, currently a four-piece pop-punk band from Florida, recently filmed a Q&A with questions submitted by their fans on Twitter. In one of the questions, answered by the band’s lead guitarist Dan Clermont, a fan asked the band about how they felt when they learned they would be touring with Simple Plan.
Check out Dan’s answer below:
Q: Were you shocked in any way to be invited to tour with [Simple Plan] or has shock just kind of moot at this point?
Dan Clermont (Set It Off): We were pretty… I wouldn’t say shocked, but it was like a surprising offer to come around. We’ve done Warped Tour with them a couple times in the past, but it’s only been like a few dates here and there, so we’ve never really had a lot of time to hang out and really get to know each other. So we were really excited that they wanted to take us out on tour. For their 15th anniversary tour. It’s pretty insane that we’re gonna be there to celebrate that with them. So we’re pretty pumped.
And we definitely can’t forget about the second opening band either – the pop-punkers Seaway from Canada – who were very witty in their reaction to the tour announcement, when they tweeted the following picture of the band members and in a reference to the title of Simple Plan’s debut album, they asked: “Yo Simple Plan, jis it cool if we bring our pads and helmets on tour?”
When in Argentina last December, Simple Plan did an interview with MTV Latin America, in which they discussed their latest release “Taking One For The Team” and its appeal to both the old-school fans as well as their newer ones. Besides their new record, the boys also talked about Argentina and what they love about this country.
Alternative Press released a new article, in which the magazine’s editors looked at the alternative music scene’s past music videos and tried to find the best ones that were set in high school. The final list that includes 15 bands’ music videos cannot be missing the good old classics, such as Nirvana’s ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’, Paramore’s ‘Misery Business’, My Chemical Romance’s ‘I’m Not Okay’… and of course: Simple Plan’s ‘I’m Just A Kid’, which will coincidentally also celebrate 15 years since its release this year!
However, ‘I’m Just A Kid’ also wasn’t the only music video by Simple Plan that was set in high school – in 2011 the band made a return to the high school grounds for prom, which was the main theme of the music video for ‘Can’t Keep My Hands Off You’.
Check out what Alternative Press had to say about Simple Plan’s first music video and remind yourselves of the younger versions of our SP boys in ‘I’m Just A Kid’ itself below:
“I’M JUST A KID” – SIMPLE PLAN (2002)
If there were ever a song that perfectly described the youthful sentiment of “Nobody understands me!” this would be it. Filled with Schadenfreude, the video features the members of the band getting injured while trying to win over the same girl, while the nerd gets the girl in the end.
FUN FACT: “I’m Just A Kid” has been featured in three different movies: Grind, The New Guy and Cheaper By The Dozen.
When Simple Plan visited Billboard’s studios in NYC this past August and did a performance of a couple songs – old and new, which were streamed live on Facebook, they had no idea that that livestream would in fact become one of the 10 most viewed livestreams Billboard has done in all of 2016!
Billboard has just released a recap video of the TOP 10 most viewed livestreams and Simple Plan reached number 10 with 264 000 views! Check out the full list of all the TOP most viewed livestreams on Billboard in 2016 as well as the recap video below:
#10 – Simple Plan
#9 – Young M.A
#8 – Needtobreathe
#7 – Dvicio
#6 – Wiz Khalifa
#5 – Scott Stapp
#4 – Jordan Smith
#3 – JoJo
#2 – Sabrina Carpenter
#1 – Lindsey Stirling
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