In Simple Plan’s early beginnings, the American punk rock band MXPX has become one of their main idols – musicians they aspired to be like, who’s music they loved and who they eventually became friends with – especially after touring together a number of times, for instance across the United States in early 2004.
Over the years we’ve witnessed plenty more interactions between these two bands, especially thanks to Mike Herrera, MXPX’s lead singer, who’s famously joined Simple Plan as a special guest on stage on the 2015 Alternative Press Music Awards, where he helped them out with their cover of the MXPX song ‘Responsibility’. Last year we also got to hear Sebastien appear on Mike Herrera’s own podcast, while on their U.S. tour, where they reminisced together about the good old times.
And being nostalgic definitely runs through the veins of not only Simple Plan but also of MXPX, who recently released a self-titled album (2018), which amongst others also features a song titled ‘The Way We Do’, in which Mike Herrera references a number of nostalgic experiences with other bands – and naming Simple Plan as one of them.
Check out the excerpt of the lyrics to ‘The Way We Do’ and the song on Spotify below:
If giving blood was asked of me, then blood I’ll bleed
If the earth opens up and somehow swallows me
Let me live on through the songs and stories
When Face To Face destroyed our van
Our freezing balls, crossed Canada with Simple Plan
Or stealing third, from Bad Religion’s dressing room
Some night that old bus felt like a tomb
