Chuck Comeau
Chuck Comeau
Charles-André "Chuck" Comeauis an French-Canadian musician and drummer, best known for being the drummer for the French-Canadian pop-punk band Simple Plan. He also founded the apparel company Role Model Clothing along with his bandmate Pierre Bouvier and the band's best friend, Patrick Langolis. He is also former drummer for the punk rock band Reset from 1993 to 1999, which he quits to form Simple Plan with his Reset bandmate who also left Reset, Pierre Bouvier...
ProfessionDrummer
Date of Birth17 September 1979
CityMontreal, Canada
Rancid are real punk-rock dudes, you know, but they came out with the opposite attitude,
They came to watch us every night, and we became good friends. They'd come to our shows in San Francisco when they were home and we'd go to see them when they were in Montreal. We got along really well and I think it showed a lot of integrity on their part because they got to know us instead of going on what their fans think.
People thought I was crazy, but it turned out to be the best thing that could have happened, ... People here have a great work ethic, an innate loyalty that's different from other places with more of a transient population.
Truthfully, ... obviously good music and a good live show is important, and you have to make sure your fans like them. But most importantly having cool vibes and nice people because there's nothing worse than spending a month with a band that you don't connect with and you don't have fun with, and they take themselves too seriously and they have bodyguards, you know what I mean, they act like they're something they're not.
I think the big thing for Simple Plan is that we were able to keep the band members, the same five guys, the same lineup from the start. That's not easy. We grew up together. We're friends. We come from the same world. We've always had the same dreams and goals. I think we realized, as the years go by, how precious it is to have that, to build that, to see so many bands break up... it makes us realize how different we are to all that. We're really proud of that.
Sometimes you just have to sit down a lot and make sure everyone's cool. If someone has an issue, you make sure they don't keep it inside. That's been the model of the Simple Plan.
It's always been about the songs for us. It doesn't matter about all the image stuff. We're really about making songs that people can relate to, that we love, that they will love, that we will enjoy playing live.
Simple Plan`s trademark is pretty easy. By the time the song ends, you can sing it. It doesn't take 20 listens. It's hard to write those songs but we try our best.
We've always had a lot of different influences and we've always liked catchy music from the Beatles to Cheap Trick to Elvis Costello.
We grew up with all the Fat Wreck Records and all the Epitaph bands, that era. We mixed it up together. We were never purists of being just pop or just pop-punk. We always wanted to blend everything that we love.