Full footage of Pierre’s last show with Reset

Anthony has just sent us a link to his footage from November 20th, 1999, in which he managed to capture the full final concert of Pierre with his previous band Reset. But before we get to the video, here’s a little backstory:

As you know, before Simple Plan formed, two of its members – Pierre and Chuck – were a part of a number of different bands, most notably Reset [you can read more about Reset here, or in the book]. After touring together for a while and releasing one album (No Worries, 1997), a number of issues arised and eventually, Chuck was kick out of the band. A couple months later he was convinced by his old high school friend Jeff to form a new band with him, which eventually turned into Simple Plan. In the meantime, Pierre continued touring with Reset and the band has released a second record (No Limits, 1999).

However, things weren’t going exactly according to plan, and Pierre was starting to realize Reset wasn’t the right place for him, so it was a great thing that in February 1999, Pierre met Chuck at a Sugar Ray show in Montreal, which is where their reconciliation began. There, Chuck has realized that the perfect lead singer he had been looking for for so long for the then-starting Simple Plan, was his old friend Pierre and he introduced him to his new project and asked him to try out for the band. Pierre had to keep the visits to Chuck’s home, where the band had been rehearsing, a secret from his band members in Reset, as he still hadn’t told them he was thinking of leaving.

This is how Pierre recounted his final days with Reset in Simple Plan’s official biography (Simple Plan: The Official Story, 2012):

“We’d been doing shows for a long time and it had become less exciting. There’d been a few pretty intense fights and the friendships weren’t really working anymore. For me, money wasn’t a factor because we weren’t really making any. But since it wasn’t that pleasant, I thought it was useless to keep going. I was working night and day in order to keep playing in the band, but I wasn’t going to go through all that if I wasn’t having fun.”

Pierre’s last show with Reset took place on November 20th 1999 in Robertsonville, Quebec. At that point, Simple Plan already had a name and Chuck had already started sending out Simple Plan’s demos to various record labels in hopes to get signed, which means Pierre has already been very much involved with the newly formed Simple Plan. Now with all this information in your heads, go check out the full playlist of videos of Pierre’s final show in Reset – it may give you a whole different point of view on it. Once again, big thanks to Anthony for sharing his videos with us:

The playlist features 15 videos of all 15 songs that were on the setlist that night. This is what the setlist looked like: