No Pads special #6: Long-lost vlogs from SimplePlan.com now recovered! (part 1)

In 2017, Simple Plan are celebrating 15 years since the release of their debut album No Pads, No Helmets… Just Balls with a special 15th anniversary NPNHJB worldwide tour [check out all the dates in our Tour section!].

To get you even more excited about the return of the No Pads tour (starting again in August), SimplePlan.cz prepared an exclusive series of “No Pads special” articles, giving you little possibly never-seen-or-heard-before interesting flashbacks to the No Pads era.

Previous No Pads special editions:
[#1] | [#2] | [#3] | [#4 | [#5]

Another No Pads special by SimplePlan.cz is here and this time around it’s a very very special one! For the longest time, Simple Plan have prided themselves to be the original founders of vlogging, since their website SimplePlan.com has always been updated with short “vlogs” (although SP first “coined” the term in a Chuck & Seb vlog in 2006), documenting the band’s activites.

Unfortunately most of the videos were published before the era of YouTube began in 2005 and Simple Plan’s official website has changed a number of times since then, deleting its archives in the process. But – as you know, nothing you put on the Internet is ever truly gone, so SimplePlan.cz managed to recover some (not all, but at least some) of these very very old vlogs, which I’m sure some of you may have never even seen before – since some they date even back to 2001!

Some of this footage has been used in the DVD, but these include some extended scenes, which you may have not seen before. I have a lot more coming for you in the upcoming weeks, so let me know if you’re interested in seeing more.

Check out part 1 of some old-school SP.com vlogs, in which you’ll see a short message from the studio, where SP recorded their debut album in 2001, Seb and Pat in Times Square in NYC in January 2002, Seb & Pat & David being first to arrive to LA and exploring the local beach (and David partially filming), the “San Francisco prank” and some footage from Atlantic City (all from 2002). Here it is – and please excuse the quality: