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Original line-up of Reset reunites at Amnesia Rockfest

The visitors of last night’s first day of the Amnesia Rockfest festival in Montebello, QC were lucky to witness not only great performances of bands like Blink-182 or Weezer but also an extremely rare and special reunion of the original members of the band Reset. Reset was a band that started off in the early 90s with some of Simple Plan’s current members – Pierre Bouvier and Chuck Comeau, who were joined by their high school friend Phil Jolicoeur, and later on also by JS Bolieau. After one released record and after many disagreements with Pierre, Chuck left the band. It didn’t take very long until Pierre was fed up with the band too and left it as well and was replaced with David Desrosiers, who later on deserted to the newly formed Simple Plan.

While Reset still continues playing to this day (of course with a whole different line-up – but with Phil being the only original member left), the original members decided for the most unique reunion as for the first time it was not only Chuck and Pierre, but also David, who’s never played Reset songs live with his Simple Plan bandmates and with Phil by his side.

In the gallery you can already have a look at some of the first pictures from the Reset reunion that already appeared online – both from the concert and backstage. As you can see it was not only the Reset members who appeared at show, but some of their old friends from the Reset times came to cheer them on – such as Fred Jerome and Patrick Langlois.

PHOTO: Former members of Reset practice for upcoming reunion

In two days, the former members of Reset will be reuniting for a unique show at Amnesia Rockfest, and that means it will be the first time ever David, Chuck, Pierre and Phil will play the Reset songs together in this line-up! To make sure they are ready to rock their old hits, these four guys got together today to practice and Simple Plan’s sound engineer Frank Joly was there to help with the sound and also to document it via Instagram. Check out the first picture from the Reset practice below, in which you can spot (from left to right) David, Pierre, Phil and Chuck:

Chuck practices with Rian Dawson’s (All Time Low) drumkit

In order to get ready for the upcoming Reset reunion that is happening this coming Friday at Amnesia Rockfest, Chuck decided to practice the songs he wrote as a teenager for Reset. But since his drums weren’t available where he was, he asked his friend Rian Dawson, the drummer for All Time Low, to borrow his drumkit for the practice.

In his latest Instagram post in which he captured himself with Rian’s drumkit, he also included a little note for Rian:

Thank you Rian Dawson, for letting me borrow your drumkit to get a little practice in for the Rockfest Reset reunion show next week. You’re a great friend! Sorry but I think I got a little wet and sweaty in your drum room! Hope you don’t mind! I’ll clean everything up. Love. Chuck.

Schedule for Reset’s performance at Amnesia Rockfest revealed

The organizers of Amnesia Rockfest, one of Canada’s biggest rock festivals, have finally released the official schedule for this year’s line-up which includes acts such as Blink 182, Alkaline Trio, Mötley Crüe, Billy Talent, The Used, Weezer, New Found Glory and many more bands – including the reunion of certain bands – most notably Reset, a.k.a. the band that some of the members of Simple Plan started their musical career.

Chuck, Pierre and David from Simple Plan will be joined by Phil Jolicoeur and the reunited Reset will start their performance at 9:15pm at the Budweiser Stage next Friday, June 20th.

Check out the schedule for Friday’s line-up below (the full schedule for all the days of the festival can be found here):

David to perform alongside Chuck and Pierre at Reset’s reunion

Simple Plan have recently confirmed on their Facebook and Twitter that at the upcoming Reset’s original line-up reunion at Amnesia Rockfest in June, the already confirmed members of Simple Plan who used to be in Reset – Chuck and Pierre – will also welcome on stage at this reunion another one of their bandmates – David Desrosiers.

This is very big news as this will probably be the first time that Chuck, Pierre and David will play Reset songs together, as if you recall the history of this band that preceeded Simple Plan, David replaced Pierre after Pierre left Reset (at the time when Chuck had already not been in the band for months), so these three musicians have never played these songs live together in this formation.

The other confirmed Reset member who is confirmed to perform with them is Phil Jolicoeur (guitar/vocals).

Update: It has been confirmed that Jean Sebastien “JS” Bolieu, the only other original member of Reset, won’t be present at this reunion and David will be playing bass for Reset.