Only one band out of the three opening bands that are currently on the U.S. tour with Simple Plan, have never officially toured them before (if we don’t count Warped Tour and a one-off show in NYC) – and that’s Patent Pending. Ironically, they are the one band out of those three, who actually made a song asking Simple Plan to take them on tour [remind yourselves of this video from 2011 here].
And it was precisely this song that Patent Pending’s lead singer Joe Ragosta discussed in a recent interview with Brad LaPlante alongside mentioning how excited he and his bandmates were to start touring with SP. Check out this interview, which was filmed on the day of the first show of this tour in Grand Rapids, MI below:
Interviewer: Are you guys excited?
Joe: Dude, we’re so excited!
Interviewer: I mean, Simple Plan’s a big deal.
Joe: In 2011, we were on Warped Tour with Simple Plan and we did this thing, where we wrote a song.. [Danny Vance interrupts the interview]… we put out a video called ‘An Open Letter To Simple Plan’. And it was a song that I wrote on a bus at Warped Tour. And we gave them a DVD of it and put it on the Internet. And it was a silly song for Simple Plan to take us on tour. And then they finally did 6 years later.
Interviewer: That’s amazing. You did it! You did it! It’s a full circe!
Joe: I’m very excited!
Joe: Dude, we’re so excited!
Interviewer: I mean, Simple Plan’s a big deal.
Joe: In 2011, we were on Warped Tour with Simple Plan and we did this thing, where we wrote a song.. [Danny Vance interrupts the interview]… we put out a video called ‘An Open Letter To Simple Plan’. And it was a song that I wrote on a bus at Warped Tour. And we gave them a DVD of it and put it on the Internet. And it was a silly song for Simple Plan to take us on tour. And then they finally did 6 years later.
Interviewer: That’s amazing. You did it! You did it! It’s a full circe!
Joe: I’m very excited!