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.
In the second edition [read #1 here] of the “No Pads special” brings us back to March 18th 2002 – also known as the day before the release of Simple Plan’s first album: No Pads, No Helmets… Just Balls. That day, Simple Plan played a show in Buckhannon, WV, in the United States and this concert has become very special as it is currently the first Simple Plan show, who’s setlist has been documented online [on setlist.fm].
By comparing it to some further Simple Plan shows in 2002, it seems like the band has kept the set pretty much the same for their first tours. It consisted of 16 songs in total (out of which 3 were a part of the encore) and 3 covers (one of them was a medley of 3 Blink-182 songs, so technically it was 5 covers).
What’s interesting is to see that it seems that SP surprisingly did not end their show with Perfect back then, but instead they finished their it with a very peculiar choice – Vacation. Check out the full setlist of the Simple Plan show on March 18th 2002 below:
2. The Worst Day Ever
3. Grow Up
4. American Jesus (cover – originally by Bad Religion)
5. I’m Just A Kid
6. Addicted
7. One Day
8. I’d Do Anything
9. God Must Hate Me
10. All The Small Things / First Date / Dammit (cover medley – originally by Blink-182)
11. My Alien
12. I Won’t Be There
13. When I’m With You
15. Happy Together (cover – originally by The Turtles)
16. Vacation
This evening, Simple Plan returned on stage in Germany – but this time around for the first time on this European tour – their performance was not part of the No Pads, No Helmets… Just Balls 15th anniversary tour, as it was a festival. And that meant all fans were eagerly awaiting what the setlist would look like instead!
