Simple Plan: "We Used To Pull Up To Shows In A Winnebago" (EXCLUSIVE)

Canadian pop-punk band Simple Plan took a brief hiatus from music, but they're back! 

Simple Plan's fourth album "Get Your Heart On" hits store shelves today and GlobalGrind caught up with Simple Plan's lead singer Pierre Bouvier to talk about his celebrity crushes, growing up in Canada, his favorite rappers, and of course their new album! 

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Check out the exclusive interview below!

GlobalGrind: The new album "Get Your Heart On" comes out June 21st. How do you feel?

Simple Plan: It is so exciting!

How amped are you?

I am so amped I can’t even contain myself.

What’s been the inspiration behind the new album?

The inspiration, if I can narrow it down to something, I would say it’s about having a good time. We wanted the record to be fun. We were thinking about playing new songs for the next year and a half, two years, so we wanted it to be upbeat and have something we would have a good time doing for the next year and a half.

How old were you when you first started making music?

Well, I started my first band with the drummer of Simple Plan right now. I think we were thirteen, fourteen. We recorded our first album in my parent’s basement. My brother had a little bit of recording knowledge and his friend did as well. We recorded out of my parent’s basement and we had a little tape. That was in 1993 that came out, so that was like 18 years ago. Crazy.

Do you guys have any funny stories about the times that you were thirteen in your mother’s house?

Yeah, we had some great times. We would play to these local shows and our parents would drive us to the shows. We’d pack up the drums in the cars and I remember the first little tour that we did was called Ramp Rage and we were playing with this punk band called Good Riddance and another band called Trigger Happy and my parents were nice enough to drive us to the four gigs in Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, and Quebec City. I come from a family of travelers and my dad always had a Winnebago and he’d pack up the Winnebago and we’d pull up to these guys that were in vans. And we would show up in our Winnebago with my parents and their dogs. It was pretty funny we were like fourteen year old kids and they were like, who the fuck is this band?

I really want a Winnebago so bad. It’d be pretty cool to just get one and drive across country.

It’s pretty awesome. I think that I definitely want to get one too. When I was younger I’ve seen more than 95% of Americans. I’ve seen more of America than they have. By the time I was thirteen, fourteen I’ve been to the Grand Canyon, Vegas, California, Florida, all the East Coast, down to Santa Fe, New Mexico and all that, it was crazy.