Editing Simple Plan (section)

===1999–2001: early years===
[[File:Shawsp.jpg|right|thumb|({{abbr|L|Left}}–{{abbr|R|Right}}) Bassist David Desrosiers, rhythm guitarist Sébastien Lefebvre, and lead vocalist Pierre Bouvier performing in Shawinigan-Sud, Quebec, June 2009]]

In 1993, lead vocalist [[Pierre Bouvier]] and drummer [[Chuck Comeau]] were in a band named [[Reset (Canadian band)|Reset]]. In 1998, Comeau left the group to go to college.<ref name="Reset Biography">{{cite web|author=SimplePlan.cz|url=http://www.simpleplan.cz/en/index.php/band/reset|title=Reset Biography|publisher=Simpleplan.cz|access-date=21 February 2011}}</ref> In mid 1999, he met with high school friends and guitarists Jeff Stinco and [[Sébastien Lefebvre]] who were in separate bands of their own. Comeau, Stinco, and Lefebvre formed a new band together, called Simple Plan.<ref name="Reset Biography"/> In late 1999, Bouvier and Comeau reacquainted at a [[Sugar Ray]] concert<ref name="Simple Plan Biography">{{cite web|url=http://www.starpulse.com/Music/Simple_Plan/Biography|title=Simple Plan Biography|publisher=Starpulse.com|access-date=21 February 2011|archive-date=30 May 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160530075437/http://www.starpulse.com/Music/Simple_Plan/Biography/|url-status=dead}}</ref> and Bouvier left Reset soon after to join Comeau in the band. Bassist and backing vocalist David Desrosiers replaced Bouvier in Reset, but he too left the band six months later to join Simple Plan.<ref name="Reset Biography"/><ref name="Simple Plan Biography"/> This allowed Bouvier, who had doubled as the band's lead vocalist and bassist, to concentrate on  singing, and Stinco, who had doubled as the band's lead guitarist and backing vocalist, to concentrate on guitar. In 2001 the band performed at Edgefest II in Toronto.<ref>{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20011122025430/http://chartattack.com/damn/2001/08/2711.cfm "LIVE: Edgefest II in Toronto"]}}. ''Chart Attack'', 27 August 2001. Review By Keith Carman</ref>

Originally, the band did not have the name. At first, they considered naming the band '''Touchdown 999'''; later Bouvier's friends chose the name '''Simple Plan''', derived from the [[A Simple Plan (film)|1998 film]] of the same name.<ref name="Rock Louder Interview with Simple Plan">{{cite web|url=http://www.rocklouder.co.uk/news/article/Interview-Simple-Plan.html|title=Rock Louder Interview with Simple Plan|publisher=Rocklouder.co.uk|access-date=21 February 2011}}</ref>