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I'm going to do the pre-audition
at the TV show The Voice.
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As a sign of respect
and integrity for my fans,
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I'm going to make
this little video.
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To tell you that if...
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I advance and it brings me to
the TV show for the real
auditions and the whole thing,
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and if 0, 1, 1, 2, 3 or 4
judges, coaches, whatever,
turn their chair around,
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well I will stand up like a man
like I always did,
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like you guys have done
since the beginning,
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and I will not continue
the adventure as a contestant.
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If they want me to be a coach
and it's very lucrative
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and I can buy a
helicopter, a boat,
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a rowboat, whatever...
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Well, I'll say the
truth, then I'd do it.
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But as a contestant,
I WILL NOT do it.
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One, it's not me.
It's not you either...
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And I also don't sing well.
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And I even think that
there's no booze on the show.
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I don't want to see
anyone judging me because
if I do the pre-audition,
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I may sing one of my tunes
in front of 2 million people
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and that would be good for me.
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Thank you for being here
everyone. I love you.
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"LES PRODUCTIONS SCENE FINALE"
PRESENT
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IN COLLABORATION WITH "LES
ENTREPRISES BOB BISSONNETTE"
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HIS FAMILY
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HIS CHUMS
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HIS TEAMMATES
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Bob Bissonnette is a superhero
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HIS BAND
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Rougher than Chuck Norris,
rougher than Rambo
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Worshipped by millions of fans
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AND HIS MILLIONS OF FANS
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Even hotter than Spiderman
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A FILM BY BRUNO LACHANCE
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{\an8}(news reports -
September 4, 2016)
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A helicopter accident killed
two people and injured one
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near Campbellton,
New Brunswick...
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...The aircraft would have hit
the electrical wires...
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...ultimately ended up
in the Restigouche River...
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...through the help of good
Samaritans. Michel Laplante
was more fortunate...
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...It creates a huge commotion
in Quebec City, elsewhere too...
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The former hockey player
Bob Bissonnette...
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Bob Bissonnette, singer and
former hockey player...
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Roberto Bob Bissonnette was a
colorful, endearing character...
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...A media and sports fan's
darling, a media and sports fan,
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an ex-hockey player
who became a singer...
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...Bob Bissonnette was a well
known and beloved character...
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...I think we can even
talk about a phenomenon in
Bob Bissonnette's case...
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...an unbeatable unifying man...
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...this guy is some
kind of happiness dealer
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like there are very few of them
in a community...
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...Bob Bissonnette,
is a Rockstar.
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Roberto was born in Venezuela
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because, as part of my work at
the Quebec Minister of Internat
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the government sent
me to Venezuela for
a period of 3 years
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as a cooperation
counsellor at the Quebec
delegation in Caracas.
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{\an8}As part of our plans as a couple
we wanted to have a third child,
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{\an8}after a difficult pregnancy,
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{\an8}Roberto, a beautiful
8.5 pound baby
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{\an8}was born on April 27, 1981.
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My parents made me
during a trip to Venezuela.
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Instead of buying me a postcard,
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they called me Roberto
so it lasted a lifetime.
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And then in 82, we came
back and we settled here...
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It all started here for him,
a year after he was born.
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In the fall, Gregoire
used to go to Ste-Foy to
register the children.
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You have all the
fall activities...
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Gregoire was leaving to go there
and at 3 and a half years old,
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Roberto had said:
"Dad! Sign me up for fighting!"
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Then we said, "Well, maybe we'll
wait a little bit for that...
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You're still small..."
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We were looking at each other,
"fighting lessons...!"
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Some time passed...
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Well, the next year, he
said, "Dad, I want you to
sign me up for the violin!"
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"I look at Gregoire
and said: "enroll him
in the violin class."
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At home, we used to work
on a session basis.
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When you signed up
for something, you had
to finish the session.
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You had no right to
stop along the way, we
didn't want quitters...
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Well, he played for nine years!
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Roberto's exam
practice, April 1993
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{\an8}(recording of
Roberto's grandmother)
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{\an8}My grandmother played the piano
in a magnifi-cent way.
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{\an8}She played during silent films.
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{\an8}We were always doing
some kind of performance.
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{\an8}At Christmas, I remember, when
my brother played the violin,
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{\an8}I played the guitar and
my sister played the piano
and our cousins as well...
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{\an8}It often ended with my
grandmother playing the piano.
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{\an8}Then everyone sang and played
music to finish the evening.
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{\an8}There were beautiful
and very pleasant moments.
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Family values were important.
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We also wanted the
children to study,
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play a team sport,
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and learn a musical instrument.
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Discipline was very important
in the family.
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My mother was a teacher.
You had to work!
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He was a very well
behaved student.
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He was a very focused student.
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He didn't talk much, but
on the playground, he was a
good player, a team player,
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He expressed himself more
while playing. While in class,
he was polite and quiet.
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He was even a little bit shy.
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When we were young, we
used to come home from
school at 3:00, or 3:30.
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My brother would drop his bag
in the kitchen, so did I,
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and then we would
take the goals out.
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{\an8}When Bob says we probably played
1000 hockey games on the street,
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{\an8}it's not a joke.
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{\an8}We would call and let the others
know when we couldn't play!
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There was a considerable
age difference sometimes
even of 7 years.
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My brother may have been 7 and
others could be 14 years old.
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We played in the street... Every
game was like the Stanley Cup...
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Especially for him,
he gave it all he had.
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Some people knew him
in the Junior Major league,
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motormouthed and giving a
hard time to the others.
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But it all started
when he was seven years old!
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One of the characteristics of
street hockey was the battles.
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Fights were legal for us.
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There was one rule, that you
could never hit in the face.
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So we used to catch the other
and punch in the ribs.
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And the first to say "Ayoye",
was the one who would lose!
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At 9:00 in the evening
I looked outside
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and could see the goals
were still in the street.
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He had been there
for eight hours.
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Cars would drive around the
goals, and then go through...
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Let's just say...
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He lived for it. He
lived for hockey.
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At school, all his sentences
were about hockey.
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"Dale Hunter is my
favorite player. "
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If it was 10 sentences, it was
10 sentences about hockey.
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When he had to talk
about something in
an oral presentation
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he would talk about
a hockey player, talk
about a particular game,
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talk about hockey.
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It was all hockey!
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But at some point, we
were are asked "What are
you going to do later?"
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And my brother had read
the whole New Testament.
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He even said he wanted
to become a priest.
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I think that for
him, to be a priest,
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he liked the fact of being
in front of an audience.
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That was the concept.
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In the end... he didn't
become a priest... it
didn't work out that way!
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In terms of values, we
are believers, so we went
to church on Sundays.
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And the children
would come with us
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they didn't ask themselves any
questions, they had to follow.
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Of course, when we were
young we would sit in the
front with my parents.
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And at one point
we decided to sit in the back...
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Being disciplined, I
stayed until the end.
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My brother and Yanick,
one of his buddies, would leave.
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"We're going to move
somewhere else."
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I was thinking, "We
have the best place,
why would you do that?"
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Well, I knew afterwards that
they were going in the car...
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{\an8}I don't remember
attending a full service!
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{\an8}For 3, 4 years, we
were there every Sunday
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{\an8}and we were in his car
and Bob would remake the world.
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I felt like I was discouraging
him, but Bob, Pee Wee CC, said:
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"I'm going to play
in the National Hockey League!"
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"I'll start by training."
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And he knew that one of my
neighbors was a Mr. Canada.
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He went to see him and
knocked on his door
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to find out what one should do
to gain muscle mass...
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{\an8}I think Bob's greatest
quality is that
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{\an8}he always found a way
to achieve everything
he wanted in his life.
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I introduced Job and Bob.
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Now I can brag about it
because both of them are like
brothers, it's incredible.
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If Bob was a vindictive guy,
we wouldn't be friends.
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{\an8}I wasn't people's favorite,
I was a...
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{\an8}I was a little unfriendly...
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And I could even say I
intimidated Bob when we
were in primary school.
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Thanks to Yan Fiset, they were
playing hockey in the street.
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And then one day they
realized that there
was one person missing.
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Yan was my friend, and
Bob's friend when we
started high school...
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Well of course for Bob,
the memories about Steve
were not very cheerful.
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I started playing
street hockey with them,
I'll always remember it,
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I can even tell you
in front of which house,
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he gave me a solid body check
and I went into a car.
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And then I got up and
looked at him and he said,
"Okay, now we're even."
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From that day on, from
that moment, we started
playing street hockey.
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We would stay after the
games and talk to each
other in the snowbank,
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we got on well
together very quickly.
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{\an8}The meeting of Roberto and Steve
is, I think,
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{\an8}one of the most beautiful
encounters on Earth.
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Roberto found his alter
ego, the person who
could bring him further.
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My brother had ideas.
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He also had brakes in life,
I was the same...
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But Steve would say: "Hey good
idea! I have a better idea!"
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"And no, no, no, I
have a better one..."
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They would boost one another.
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We used to play hockey a lot
in the street.
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We were 16-17 years old when
we started playing roller
hockey at Jouvence school.
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With two goals,
there were no boards,
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if we missed our passes, we had
to go and get it in the sand,
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if we missed our shot, we would
go and get it in the woods.
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To surrender in life
was not in Bob's vocabulary,
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he knew that he had to
go to the City Council,
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on a particular day,
in a specific place,
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and would make the requests.
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We were very, very young...
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He asked to have a
rollerblade surface,
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because of course,
no one ever took care of us.
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And the next year,
what you have to understand
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is that we had our
rollerblade surface about
500 feet away from there.
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And then we started
our rollerblading
league in Jouvence,
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on the surface which is still
there at the Jean-Gauvin exit.
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And it's here today, it's
because of Bob Bissonnette...
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He had it built.
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{\an8}One thing that struck me a lot
was the 1997 Quebec Games.
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{\an8}And there were a lot of
scouts who were watching
this, who were present...
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{\an8}In the minutes that followed
Roberto Bissonnette equalized,
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{\an8}much to the delight of
the many supporters of
the Quebec City area.
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His team added one goal
in a empty net to win 4-2
over Centre du Québec.
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And win the Gold
Medal in Division A.
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At the Midget AAA
level, he could see that
he was a little slower.
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So at that level, he was
one of the only players who
fought once during the year.
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Because there,
he had set himself a mission:
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"I'm going to join
the Major Junior League."
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When you pick up a player,
you look at him and see what
he can bring to the team.
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{\an8}We knew that Roberto is a player
who played robust hockey.
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{\an8}When he arrived at
the training camp,
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{\an8}you could see that he
was a guy who was willing
to defend his teammates,
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{\an8}to make his place in
the Quebec Major Junior League.
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I didn't like that
he was a fighter, but...
they hired him for that.
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{\an8}The first training camp,
he had to fight, I don't
want to exaggerate,
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{\an8}it had to be three times a day
for three weeks...
223
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{\an8}There must have been 40 fights.
224
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He was injured... the joints...
225
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he wanted to be part of the team
so bad, he wanted it so much...
226
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I found it hard to see him fight
and take hard knocks.
227
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But he would give them back
and then get up again.
228
00:15:15,214 --> 00:15:17,816
That's what Claude Julien
had seen in him...
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A warrior like him,
you can't miss out on that!
230
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So there, he gained respect.
231
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After that, he wanted to develop
even more as a hockey player.
232
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But his personality
and everything, with
the way he behaved,
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made him a leader.
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{\an8}Later the Olympics retaliate,
235
00:15:34,266 --> 00:15:36,902
{\an8}Jiri Fischer shoots
from the blue line,
236
00:15:37,002 --> 00:15:38,637
{\an8}Jonathan Pelletier
blocked two shots
237
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{\an8}before giving up on the
3rd return, a goal scored
by Roberto Bissonnette...
238
00:15:42,274 --> 00:15:46,512
{\an8}Bob, was not overskilled...
239
00:15:46,612 --> 00:15:49,348
{\an8}There was no difference between
the game he played in October
240
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{\an8}or the game played
during the playoffs in May.
241
00:15:52,885 --> 00:15:54,453
That was just the way
he played the game.
242
00:15:54,553 --> 00:15:56,889
Bob, you're one of
the most punished players
243
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in the history of junior hockey.
244
00:15:59,191 --> 00:16:01,160
Where does this
violence come from?
245
00:16:02,828 --> 00:16:04,563
Uh, I don't know.
246
00:16:04,663 --> 00:16:06,799
It's a resentment against
the fact that I didn't
have good skating skills
247
00:16:06,899 --> 00:16:08,500
and I had to vent it on others.
248
00:16:09,802 --> 00:16:11,503
He's a fighter...
249
00:16:11,603 --> 00:16:13,472
and when you play a team sport
250
00:16:13,572 --> 00:16:17,609
you want to have people
who go to war for their
buddies, for their partners,
251
00:16:17,710 --> 00:16:19,211
and it's his DNA.
252
00:16:33,826 --> 00:16:38,030
During his first
seasons he had 200, 300,
400 minutes of penalty.
253
00:16:38,130 --> 00:16:41,433
He was ready to go to war with
anyone, anywhere, anytime.
254
00:16:41,533 --> 00:16:44,069
Every team should
have a guy like that.
255
00:16:44,169 --> 00:16:48,374
He was fighting to defend
a teammate. He fought when
he thought it was time.
256
00:16:48,474 --> 00:16:51,710
He was fighting for
the team... He would have
blocked shots with his face.
257
00:16:51,810 --> 00:16:53,779
He did everything for the team.
258
00:16:53,879 --> 00:16:57,750
{\an8}He had a way to keep
the players relaxed,
259
00:16:57,850 --> 00:17:02,254
but when it was time
to play a hockey game,
he was very intense.
260
00:17:05,190 --> 00:17:08,027
{\an8}Claude Julien was coaching
me for the Olympics
for the first two years.
261
00:17:08,127 --> 00:17:13,832
And before the series, he had
known that I played guitar at
home, in my host family
262
00:17:13,932 --> 00:17:16,735
and he said to me:
"Biss bring your guitar".
263
00:17:16,835 --> 00:17:22,107
We were doing a team building in
a cottage in the Outaouais area.
264
00:17:22,207 --> 00:17:24,877
And then I pulled out my guitar.
We were all together.
265
00:17:24,977 --> 00:17:28,881
I played a couple of my
compositions at the time,
and that's when I started.
266
00:17:28,981 --> 00:17:33,719
Wait a little. Are
you telling me it was Claude
Julien who led you to singing?
267
00:17:33,819 --> 00:17:35,754
A little bit. A little bit...
268
00:17:36,955 --> 00:17:40,392
He could have shown me how to
play hockey, maybe it would
have paid a little more...
269
00:17:40,492 --> 00:17:41,794
But that was it!
270
00:17:41,894 --> 00:17:46,265
If I remember correctly,
the first season,
he scored 5-6 goals.
271
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The following year,
he gained more confidence.
272
00:17:48,834 --> 00:17:52,971
On his third season with the
Olympiques, that's when he
really started to emerge.
273
00:17:53,072 --> 00:17:57,843
He was winger on the
first trio with Bruno
Lemire and Ales Hemsky.
274
00:17:57,943 --> 00:18:01,380
Then he was Hemsky's
protector who had scored
like 100 points that season.
275
00:18:01,480 --> 00:18:06,318
He was selected by Edmonton
in the 1st round...
276
00:18:15,894 --> 00:18:17,696
{\an8}When Ales Hemsky
joined the team,
277
00:18:17,796 --> 00:18:24,203
{\an8}Bob went to buy
a French-Czech dictionary
so they could communicate.
278
00:18:24,303 --> 00:18:25,871
{\an8}Hemsky used to
call at our house,
279
00:18:25,971 --> 00:18:28,640
{\an8}and he would say:
"Hi. Me Ales. Roberto."
280
00:18:28,740 --> 00:18:30,843
{\an8}It's the only thing
they would say to each other...
281
00:18:30,943 --> 00:18:32,911
They would go down to the
basement and watch hockey games,
282
00:18:33,011 --> 00:18:34,480
they would talk,
they would talk about what?
283
00:18:34,580 --> 00:18:36,215
They didn't
understand each other!
284
00:18:36,315 --> 00:18:39,218
We felt that Hemsky, thanks
to this, was part of a team.
285
00:18:39,318 --> 00:18:43,455
It's not easy, you leave
your country, you come here,
you don't have any friends
286
00:18:43,555 --> 00:18:46,925
you think that when you
go into a hockey locker
room, you have 25 mates,
287
00:18:47,025 --> 00:18:48,227
but they aren't your friends!
288
00:18:48,327 --> 00:18:50,929
{\an8}He's a real one,
he's a guy who did things right.
289
00:18:51,029 --> 00:18:53,499
Bob would give his
goal to a player
290
00:18:53,599 --> 00:18:56,201
just because the guy was
going to sign a big contract,
291
00:18:56,301 --> 00:18:57,936
and that was a
significant number,
292
00:18:58,036 --> 00:19:00,005
whereas for him it would
have been something
like it's seventh...
293
00:19:00,105 --> 00:19:03,609
The two players looked at
each other and Bob said,
"Hey, that's your goal!"
294
00:19:03,709 --> 00:19:08,680
That's why people look at his
career with a lot of penalties,
295
00:19:08,780 --> 00:19:10,482
but that wasn't Roberto.
296
00:19:10,582 --> 00:19:13,051
He was a guy who
was on a mission.
297
00:19:13,152 --> 00:19:17,956
He wore the "C",
because he had all the assets.
298
00:19:18,056 --> 00:19:19,892
He's a guy the supporters loved.
299
00:19:19,992 --> 00:19:23,162
{\an8}He's a player his
teammates loved,
300
00:19:23,262 --> 00:19:27,332
{\an8}and he earned these things,
they weren't given to him.
301
00:19:27,432 --> 00:19:33,539
He did everything he had to do
to deserve this recognition.
302
00:19:33,639 --> 00:19:36,642
He was so proud of being captain
of the Hull Olympiques.
303
00:19:36,742 --> 00:19:38,577
It's one of the things
that he was most proud
of in his entire life.
304
00:19:38,677 --> 00:19:42,648
As a result, he became
the spokesman for the
Gatineau Olympiques.
305
00:19:42,748 --> 00:19:45,484
And it was wonderful because
the journalists loved Roberto.
306
00:19:45,584 --> 00:19:49,154
Because he had an answer,
it wasn't the same sport cliché
307
00:19:49,254 --> 00:19:51,423
"We just didn't get the bounces"
and so on...
308
00:19:51,523 --> 00:19:53,959
He was able to elaborate
on what had happened
and all these things.
309
00:19:54,059 --> 00:19:55,861
{\an8}When he was traded,
310
00:19:55,961 --> 00:19:59,898
{\an8}remains for me one of the
most memorable events in my
career as a hockey player.
311
00:19:59,998 --> 00:20:01,333
After a training session,
312
00:20:01,433 --> 00:20:04,670
we went to East Side Mario's
in Hull, it was our place.
313
00:20:04,770 --> 00:20:08,607
We would bring our bottle of
Jack and we would hide it!
314
00:20:08,707 --> 00:20:10,576
And we had all you
can drink Coke.
315
00:20:10,676 --> 00:20:13,679
And then during the evening we
would mix it with a bit of Jack!
316
00:20:13,779 --> 00:20:16,782
We would drink our coke
and then ask for another refill.
317
00:20:16,882 --> 00:20:19,017
And Benoit Groulx was the coach
when he was traded,
318
00:20:19,117 --> 00:20:20,352
it was in the afternoon,
319
00:20:20,452 --> 00:20:21,954
he called the pension,
he was not there.
320
00:20:22,054 --> 00:20:23,922
He called a second
place, not there...
321
00:20:24,022 --> 00:20:27,726
The third place where Benoît
Groulx calls: the chef
of the East Side Mario's!
322
00:20:27,826 --> 00:20:29,628
Right away!
323
00:20:29,728 --> 00:20:34,967
We were having a nice
beer after a practice, the
chef came out: "Bob..."
324
00:20:35,767 --> 00:20:38,103
He goes a little backwards,
he grabs the phone.
325
00:20:38,203 --> 00:20:42,574
"Boys, this is not good,
I think I have to go to the
arena, Ben wants to meet me."
326
00:20:43,508 --> 00:20:45,811
We knew it right away...
327
00:20:45,911 --> 00:20:47,846
We called the entire team,
328
00:20:47,946 --> 00:20:50,916
and in the evening we went
to the Bistro, it's a spot
where we used to go in Hull,
329
00:20:51,016 --> 00:20:55,654
and it ended with the
Bro Hymn song, one of
Bob's favorite songs.
330
00:20:55,754 --> 00:20:58,824
I remember we were on the
dance floor and we all had
him in our arms like that
331
00:20:58,924 --> 00:21:00,225
and we lifted him up.
332
00:21:02,327 --> 00:21:04,930
Then we went to a
teammate's house
333
00:21:05,030 --> 00:21:08,467
and we played With or Without
You the piano, another of his
favorite songs,
334
00:21:08,567 --> 00:21:10,502
and we sang all
the boys together.
335
00:21:10,602 --> 00:21:12,971
And then he left.
He was traded...
336
00:21:13,071 --> 00:21:18,277
The next morning I sat on the
bench with all my equipment
and cried like a baby.
337
00:21:18,377 --> 00:21:20,012
I was like that...
338
00:21:20,112 --> 00:21:22,114
For a good 10-15 minutes...
339
00:21:22,214 --> 00:21:24,850
I couldn't believe
they traded Roberto.
340
00:21:24,950 --> 00:21:28,020
Then we had a shit practice,
everyone was drunk.
341
00:21:28,120 --> 00:21:29,421
But the coach understood...
342
00:21:29,521 --> 00:21:32,357
It's normal, we were losing
the soul of the team.
343
00:21:33,759 --> 00:21:37,729
When he was traded,
at some point, every
time I talked to him
344
00:21:37,829 --> 00:21:40,832
I told him said: "Be
courageous Roberto"
345
00:21:40,932 --> 00:21:42,301
but when he was traded,
346
00:21:42,401 --> 00:21:45,304
I talked to him on the phone
and he was crying,
347
00:21:45,404 --> 00:21:47,773
I said: "Be courageous
Roberto..."
348
00:21:54,079 --> 00:21:56,114
There he replied:
349
00:21:56,214 --> 00:22:01,787
"Dad, do you think I didn't
have the courage to fight
as I fought for them?"
350
00:22:18,870 --> 00:22:23,075
{\an8}With Roberto it was
a very rocky start.
351
00:22:23,175 --> 00:22:25,610
{\an8}It was a game in Bathurst.
352
00:22:25,711 --> 00:22:29,047
{\an8}Between the Hull Olympiques
at the time and the Titan.
353
00:22:29,147 --> 00:22:32,084
I played with the Titan and
Roberto was with the Olympiques.
354
00:22:32,184 --> 00:22:34,353
But with the Olympiques
there was also Maxime Talbot.
355
00:22:34,453 --> 00:22:35,487
And as I passed behind Maxime,
356
00:22:35,587 --> 00:22:37,422
I kicked him in the back
of the leg with my stick.
357
00:22:37,522 --> 00:22:40,325
But at that time I didn't
know Roberto, but the
people who know Roberto,
358
00:22:40,425 --> 00:22:43,328
know that you don't touch
one of Roberto's teammates.
359
00:22:43,428 --> 00:22:46,898
Bob was staring at me...
And it was intimidating.
360
00:22:46,998 --> 00:22:48,900
And I remember,
I was skating towards my bench
361
00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:51,503
and I could see everybody
on my bench standing.
362
00:22:51,603 --> 00:22:53,939
They started screaming
and pointing behind me.
363
00:22:54,039 --> 00:22:56,775
I had just enough time to turn
around and see a black glove.
364
00:22:56,875 --> 00:23:01,179
I fell on the ice and
felt someone on top of me
feeding me good punches,
365
00:23:01,279 --> 00:23:02,981
and it was Roberto...
366
00:23:03,081 --> 00:23:06,651
Two weeks later, he was being
traded from Hull to Bathurst,
367
00:23:06,752 --> 00:23:08,553
and was sitting next
to me in the room.
368
00:23:08,653 --> 00:23:13,225
That's the first thing, he
sat down, looked at me and
said, "Kid, I'm sorry!"
369
00:23:14,426 --> 00:23:17,362
Roberto became the soul
of the team the second
he set foot in Bathurst.
370
00:23:17,462 --> 00:23:19,030
In the famous question:
371
00:23:19,131 --> 00:23:21,633
"If you have a moment that you
regret the most, what is it?"
372
00:23:21,733 --> 00:23:23,301
In two seconds, he said to me:
373
00:23:23,402 --> 00:23:25,170
"The time I cross-checked
the guy in game
3 in Victoriaville...
374
00:23:25,270 --> 00:23:27,539
{\an8}"If I didn't do that, I think
we were winning the playoff.
375
00:23:27,639 --> 00:23:29,541
{\an8}I think we were
making it through..."
376
00:23:30,242 --> 00:23:31,777
{\an8}He wasn't proud of that gesture.
377
00:23:31,877 --> 00:23:34,479
{\an8}Today, a gesture like
that would have been worth
a lot more than 5 games,
378
00:23:34,579 --> 00:23:36,214
{\an8}it would have been
something like 25
379
00:23:36,314 --> 00:23:38,049
{\an8}but at that point all
it did was to put an end
to his junior career,
380
00:23:38,150 --> 00:23:41,420
{\an8}because it was the final,
and Bob was 20 years old,
so it was over for him.
381
00:23:41,520 --> 00:23:46,691
{\an8}When we lost him for the
final, it was the hardest
punch we could get.
382
00:23:46,792 --> 00:23:48,527
{\an8}You're taking the
soul out of a team.
383
00:23:48,627 --> 00:23:51,463
{\an8}You can't quantify nor explain
384
00:23:51,563 --> 00:23:55,700
{\an8}that a person's presence
has a value in chemistry,
385
00:23:55,801 --> 00:23:58,637
{\an8}in cohesion, in everything
that will happen
in a hockey locker room.
386
00:23:58,737 --> 00:24:02,741
And these are values that
are very difficult to teach.
387
00:24:02,841 --> 00:24:04,910
You either have it or you don't
and even the person who has it,
388
00:24:05,010 --> 00:24:08,647
to try to understand why,
it's almost impossible.
389
00:24:08,747 --> 00:24:10,882
You say to a player like that:
"Just be yourself."
390
00:24:10,982 --> 00:24:14,352
If you listen to the song,
(I hang up my skates),
391
00:24:14,453 --> 00:24:20,725
you can feel that he
hangs them up but hangs
them up against his will.
392
00:24:20,826 --> 00:24:24,963
You know for me, this song...
it says it all.
393
00:24:25,063 --> 00:24:28,033
"I hang my skates, but that's
not what I wanted to do.
394
00:24:28,133 --> 00:24:29,901
I would have liked to continue."
395
00:24:33,138 --> 00:24:37,476
No public demonstration
as for "Émile Butch Bouchard."
396
00:24:37,576 --> 00:24:40,712
No welcoming committee
at the airport
397
00:24:40,812 --> 00:24:45,016
Absolutely nothing
to mark my departure
398
00:24:45,116 --> 00:24:48,720
I won't be inducted
into the Hall of Fame
399
00:24:48,820 --> 00:24:52,757
Alongside Mark Messier
and all my favorite players
400
00:24:52,858 --> 00:24:56,561
No silver stick, no lithography
401
00:24:56,661 --> 00:25:00,398
Not even a sculpture of me
402
00:25:00,499 --> 00:25:06,004
My last match, my
last lap on ice
403
00:25:07,339 --> 00:25:14,746
It's now the end,
I hang my skates
404
00:25:15,614 --> 00:25:21,920
The lights are off,
I made my last feint
405
00:25:23,255 --> 00:25:27,225
I won't play tomorrow
or the day after tomorrow
406
00:25:27,325 --> 00:25:30,462
I hang my skates
407
00:25:52,384 --> 00:25:55,487
All the times I've
played injured
408
00:25:55,587 --> 00:25:59,257
My ankle, my knee, my
shoulders are weary
409
00:25:59,357 --> 00:26:03,662
My knuckles starts to be swollen
410
00:26:03,762 --> 00:26:07,265
My bruised arms hand
on the torch to you
411
00:26:07,365 --> 00:26:11,636
I may not be Guy Lafleur,
but I've done hat tricks
412
00:26:11,736 --> 00:26:15,574
The end of my career
is being overlooked
413
00:26:15,674 --> 00:26:18,944
That's it, I'm stepping down
414
00:26:19,044 --> 00:26:24,916
My last match, my
last lap on ice
415
00:26:26,084 --> 00:26:33,091
It's now the end,
I hang my skates
416
00:26:34,125 --> 00:26:40,632
The lights are off,
I made my last feint
417
00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:45,637
I won't play tomorrow
or the day after tomorrow
418
00:26:45,737 --> 00:26:48,540
I hang my skates
419
00:26:48,640 --> 00:26:50,942
I Have you been through a
mourning process? Have you
had a grief to deal with?
420
00:26:51,042 --> 00:26:53,878
My biggest heartbreak at the
time, I had others after...
421
00:26:53,979 --> 00:26:56,448
But the biggest heartbreak I had
was Junior hockey.
422
00:26:56,548 --> 00:26:59,217
That's crazy. It's
your whole life...
423
00:26:59,317 --> 00:27:01,019
{\an8}It's been a very, very big loss,
424
00:27:01,119 --> 00:27:03,221
{\an8}in the sense of a big mourning,
that's it...
425
00:27:03,321 --> 00:27:07,158
4 seasons in the QMJHL
143 points 1260 penalty minutes
426
00:27:07,258 --> 00:27:12,297
10th most punished player
in the League's history
427
00:27:13,932 --> 00:27:17,802
{\an8}After being invited to the
Ottawa Senators' camp in the NHL
428
00:27:17,902 --> 00:27:22,107
{\an8}Roberto Bissonnette played
in several hockey leagues
429
00:27:22,207 --> 00:27:24,909
{\an8}Always with pride, courage,
determination and intensity.
430
00:27:25,010 --> 00:27:27,545
Why didn't you play in the NHL?
431
00:27:27,646 --> 00:27:29,381
Too slow...
432
00:27:29,481 --> 00:27:33,551
Really, too slow? And
yet Dave Morissette went
to the National League!
433
00:27:34,419 --> 00:27:37,722
What is remarkable
among the players of the
Major Junior League...
434
00:27:37,822 --> 00:27:43,528
To finish his college while
you're a student...
435
00:27:43,628 --> 00:27:45,397
He completed it.
436
00:27:45,497 --> 00:27:48,933
{\an8}Because Roberto, if he
arrived from Rouyn Noranda
at 4:00 in the morning
437
00:27:49,034 --> 00:27:51,736
{\an8}and had a class at the college
at 8:00 in the morning,
438
00:27:51,836 --> 00:27:53,838
{\an8}Roberto was at school
at 8:00 in the morning.
439
00:27:53,938 --> 00:27:56,007
I remember once, he was in Hull,
and he said:
440
00:27:56,107 --> 00:27:58,843
"Mom, I have a homework,
I really need to do it,
441
00:27:58,943 --> 00:28:02,947
we've been on the road...
442
00:28:03,048 --> 00:28:05,283
My homework, I haven't had time
to do it yet.
443
00:28:05,383 --> 00:28:08,620
But I've been thinking about it.
I have it all in my head...
444
00:28:08,720 --> 00:28:10,588
But right now, I'd have
to hand it over tomorrow.
445
00:28:10,689 --> 00:28:14,993
Go to your computer,
I'll dictate it to
you and you'll type."
446
00:28:15,093 --> 00:28:17,529
"Okay!" I wasn't saying
anything, I was typing...
447
00:28:17,629 --> 00:28:19,330
"Okay, well, it sounds good.
448
00:28:19,431 --> 00:28:24,102
You do the layout and
everything, and send it to me.
449
00:28:24,202 --> 00:28:27,539
I have to hand it in
tomorrow. So, you have to
send this by tomorrow!"
450
00:28:27,639 --> 00:28:32,177
That was Roberto...
It had to happen!
451
00:28:32,977 --> 00:28:35,747
My parents had studied
for a long time,
452
00:28:35,847 --> 00:28:43,054
so it was an intrinsic
value of the family.
453
00:28:43,154 --> 00:28:47,025
We never asked ourselves "do we
continue or not in college?"
454
00:28:47,125 --> 00:28:48,860
We just did it!
455
00:28:48,960 --> 00:28:50,962
And so the perception
that people had of Roberto,
456
00:28:51,062 --> 00:28:52,197
they must have been
saying at some point
457
00:28:52,297 --> 00:28:54,933
"he's a goon, he's this
and that, he's foolish..."
458
00:28:55,033 --> 00:28:58,937
No, Roberto is one of the
brightest guys\ I've ever met.
459
00:28:59,037 --> 00:29:02,407
There were often things
that seemed improvised,
460
00:29:02,507 --> 00:29:04,042
but everything was
well considered.
461
00:29:04,142 --> 00:29:06,544
Roberto was a guy
who was working with a plan.
462
00:29:06,644 --> 00:29:08,146
So he knew where he was going.
463
00:29:08,246 --> 00:29:11,549
It's one of my ways
of being in touch with him.
464
00:29:11,649 --> 00:29:14,052
When he would come here,
he would say to me:
465
00:29:14,152 --> 00:29:16,654
"I have this idea!"
"Oh, yeah?"
466
00:29:16,755 --> 00:29:18,256
I would sit down,
take out a sheet of paper,
467
00:29:18,356 --> 00:29:20,558
and then I'd say,
"What are the costs?"
468
00:29:20,658 --> 00:29:22,293
I made him work.
469
00:29:22,393 --> 00:29:27,165
I felt like I was stimulating
him, to make it happen.
470
00:29:48,286 --> 00:29:50,455
So he first did his bachelor's
degree in marketing...
471
00:29:50,555 --> 00:29:53,024
A leitmotiv in the family was:
472
00:29:53,124 --> 00:29:54,292
"First you do your
bachelor degree,
473
00:29:54,392 --> 00:29:55,894
and then you can do
whatever you want in life."
474
00:29:55,994 --> 00:30:00,665
He was a guy who attracted
attention, but not a guy
to dance on the tables.
475
00:30:00,765 --> 00:30:04,469
I'd even say that
he was a pretty discreet guy.
476
00:30:20,418 --> 00:30:24,722
Bob would go to
class prepared. He wasn't
sloppy. He was organized.
477
00:30:25,156 --> 00:30:27,192
And then, with some perspective,
478
00:30:27,292 --> 00:30:30,962
I realize that he was
always organizing himself,
politely, ingeniously,
479
00:30:31,062 --> 00:30:33,064
to give tasks and
roles to others.
480
00:30:33,164 --> 00:30:35,200
The work was done and done well.
481
00:30:40,705 --> 00:30:43,208
He's the guy who taught me
how to apply myself in college.
482
00:30:43,308 --> 00:30:45,777
I was much more interested in
partying than he was in college.
483
00:30:45,877 --> 00:30:47,979
That's the moment
where I discovered that
he was very cultured.
484
00:30:48,079 --> 00:30:49,280
We had fun listening
to the radio.
485
00:30:49,380 --> 00:30:51,082
He was one of Jeff
Fillion's fans back then...
486
00:30:51,182 --> 00:30:53,218
And then he said, "Why don't we
have our own radio show?
487
00:30:53,318 --> 00:30:55,920
We have something to say, we
talk all the time. Let's do it.
488
00:30:56,020 --> 00:30:57,856
"Yeah right, we're gonna
have a radio show..."
489
00:30:57,956 --> 00:31:01,559
A week later, we had an
interview at CHYZ-FM...
490
00:31:01,659 --> 00:31:05,029
Meeting the guy, he saw that
everything was structured in
Bob's document:
491
00:31:05,129 --> 00:31:07,498
He had a theme for the show,
an interview strategy...
492
00:31:07,599 --> 00:31:10,401
He knew what he wanted to
talk about with the guests.
So you're like: "OK."
493
00:31:10,501 --> 00:31:14,739
Welcome everyone to the
French connection, on this
Monday, March 28th 2005...
494
00:31:14,839 --> 00:31:17,141
A broadcast that
will be very spectacular...
495
00:31:17,242 --> 00:31:19,043
After that, he did a master's
degree in marketing.
496
00:31:19,143 --> 00:31:21,713
He didn't complete
his master's degree, he only
needed to complete his thesis.
497
00:31:21,813 --> 00:31:27,218
He was supposed to do his
thesis on the influence of
music in professional sports.
498
00:31:27,318 --> 00:31:29,854
In the meantime I think
he became a rock star,
something like that...
499
00:31:29,954 --> 00:31:31,322
It kind of got in the
way of his thesis!
500
00:31:33,258 --> 00:31:37,862
{\an8}We started our first
band, I don't know...
in our early teens.
501
00:31:37,962 --> 00:31:39,831
{\an8}We were outside in
front of our house.
502
00:31:39,931 --> 00:31:43,401
{\an8}And then we decided:
"Well, let's make a music band!"
503
00:31:43,501 --> 00:31:44,702
"What do you want to do?"
504
00:31:44,802 --> 00:31:47,906
Pat: "Well, I'm going to play
guitar." Then Bob: "Me too."
505
00:31:48,006 --> 00:31:49,641
"Well, I'm going
to do the drum..."
506
00:31:49,741 --> 00:31:54,112
We all bought an
instrument. We were quite
bad at the beginning...
507
00:31:54,212 --> 00:31:56,547
But Pat, we must say that he had
played the guitar as a kid,
508
00:31:56,648 --> 00:32:00,018
Bob and Pat's parents were
well-disciplined about music.
509
00:32:00,118 --> 00:32:03,121
{\an8}I remember Pat was more of a
showman than Bob, really...
510
00:32:04,255 --> 00:32:08,259
He was very willing,
but he wasn't the best!
511
00:32:15,133 --> 00:32:17,535
I started playing the guitar
when I was about 16 years old.
512
00:32:17,635 --> 00:32:20,204
And I immediately started
composing my tunes.
513
00:32:20,305 --> 00:32:23,508
Not all of them were
good, but I was starting
to write my own music.
514
00:32:23,608 --> 00:32:28,947
And then, one thing leading
to another I had more.
515
00:32:29,047 --> 00:32:31,549
I noticed at that time that...
516
00:32:31,649 --> 00:32:36,754
it's not necessarily talent that
gets people excited about you...
517
00:32:37,588 --> 00:32:43,528
He would arrive and, people
would be looking at him...
518
00:32:43,628 --> 00:32:45,163
"Wow, what's going on?"
519
00:32:45,263 --> 00:32:51,936
Euh, I wrote a song. For a city
I love very much... Cap-Rouge.
520
00:32:52,737 --> 00:32:55,039
We had just met a group
of people from Cap Rouge.
521
00:32:55,139 --> 00:32:58,543
He really wanted to
make the crowd react,
522
00:32:58,643 --> 00:33:02,947
because almost everyone in the
audience came from Cap-Rouge...
523
00:33:03,047 --> 00:33:06,050
So, he got there with his hit:
(It's a hole)
524
00:33:14,125 --> 00:33:16,995
The crowd there...
525
00:33:17,095 --> 00:33:19,731
it's the same principle
as (They are all crazy),
526
00:33:19,831 --> 00:33:22,667
the people who
shouted the chorus...
527
00:33:22,767 --> 00:33:26,004
The chorus was "It's
a hooooooole"...
528
00:33:26,104 --> 00:33:29,974
The crowd was shouting:
"It's a hole..."
529
00:33:30,074 --> 00:33:32,043
But they were talking
about themselves!
530
00:33:32,143 --> 00:33:35,046
I couldn't believe it,
was he really singing that?
531
00:33:40,118 --> 00:33:42,687
The song (They are all
crazy) for instance, is
a very sympathetic song
532
00:33:42,787 --> 00:33:45,456
I was told: "if you sing that,
they'll throw tomatoes at you."
533
00:33:45,556 --> 00:33:48,359
And in the end it's the
favorite song of many
women and young ladies,
534
00:33:48,459 --> 00:33:51,562
and they have fun with it
they don't take it seriously.
535
00:33:51,662 --> 00:33:52,964
That's very friendly.
536
00:34:06,044 --> 00:34:09,180
He often asked his mother
to correct his texts
537
00:34:09,280 --> 00:34:11,315
because Lisette was
very good in french.
538
00:34:11,416 --> 00:34:13,851
She was correcting his texts,
and Lisette said to him:
539
00:34:13,951 --> 00:34:15,453
"You're not going to sing this!"
540
00:34:15,553 --> 00:34:20,124
He said, "Mom, I'm asking
you to correct the lyrics,
not to sing the song!"
541
00:34:21,426 --> 00:34:27,298
Well, let's just say there
may have been some things
I didn't always agree with.
542
00:34:27,398 --> 00:34:30,668
But in his songs, I liked a
lot of them for example...
543
00:34:30,768 --> 00:34:32,370
A few others I liked less.
544
00:34:48,653 --> 00:34:50,988
And at some point,
I went to Dan Dionne's place.
545
00:34:51,089 --> 00:34:53,825
We were like 20 people there,
and the guys were doing a show.
546
00:34:53,925 --> 00:34:55,025
I thought of my
father's garage...
547
00:34:55,026 --> 00:34:57,261
"Why wouldn't we do that?
Have a show in the garage?"
548
00:34:57,361 --> 00:35:01,666
Then, at the end of the 90s,
the Jobstock began.
549
00:35:01,766 --> 00:35:06,704
Which really represents
the birth of Bob Bissonnette.
550
00:35:06,804 --> 00:35:11,109
kay I have some bad news
to tell you, tonight's
show has been cancelled...
551
00:35:12,143 --> 00:35:14,545
I invite you to go
home, it's over!
552
00:35:20,218 --> 00:35:21,619
{\an8}We were there, a group of
old friends from Jouvence,
553
00:35:21,719 --> 00:35:23,121
{\an8}playing around a fire
at Jobidon's place.
554
00:35:23,221 --> 00:35:26,057
It was like, "We're
doing Wayne's World 2! "
555
00:35:26,157 --> 00:35:30,428
In the background there is a
band playing. Bob sings. Bob's
brother plays the guitar.
556
00:35:30,528 --> 00:35:34,532
Eric Verret, Steve Jobidon's
brother-in-law, plays bass.
557
00:35:34,632 --> 00:35:37,735
And Dan Dionne, the guy
who invests everyone's
on the planet money,
558
00:35:37,835 --> 00:35:39,570
plays drum...
559
00:35:39,670 --> 00:35:41,873
And then everyone crowds
in front of the band,
we sing, we're into it.
560
00:35:41,973 --> 00:35:43,975
It takes place in
Ti-Gilles' garage...
561
00:35:44,075 --> 00:35:46,310
And the next day, there are
as many beer corks as there
are stones in the entrance.
562
00:35:46,410 --> 00:35:47,545
it's completely crazy!
563
00:35:51,182 --> 00:35:54,085
One year, the Molson van
had come the next morning
564
00:35:54,185 --> 00:35:55,686
to pick up the empty bottles
from the courtyard.
565
00:35:55,786 --> 00:35:58,823
On the first Jobstocks,
Bob always had a new thing:
566
00:35:58,923 --> 00:36:01,826
a t-shirt too tight for him,
stopping at his belly,
567
00:36:01,926 --> 00:36:03,193
with something written on it.
568
00:36:03,194 --> 00:36:07,532
People wanted to see a show and
my brother would give a show.
569
00:36:09,300 --> 00:36:12,703
There were small decorative
banners from a beer company
aside the stage.
570
00:36:12,803 --> 00:36:15,106
And at one point I realized
that he stuck his lyrics on
the back of the banners...
571
00:36:15,206 --> 00:36:20,611
It was amazing, it has
always been like that, he
didn't know the lyrics...
572
00:36:21,846 --> 00:36:23,314
And it was no big deal!
573
00:36:36,427 --> 00:36:39,030
{\an8}We started to play
his future successes there.
574
00:36:39,130 --> 00:36:43,134
{\an8}We performed his first
hit "EA Sports", which was
in English at the time.
575
00:36:43,234 --> 00:36:46,003
Then we played "Hockey dans rue"
and "Centre Molson",
576
00:36:46,103 --> 00:36:47,505
which became "Toune de bière".
577
00:36:57,848 --> 00:37:00,751
We played Bro Hymn
from Pennywise. We also
did some Offspring.
578
00:37:00,851 --> 00:37:02,587
I was crazy about punk. Bob too.
579
00:37:02,687 --> 00:37:05,556
But he was more
into Millencolin, Pennywise.
580
00:37:05,656 --> 00:37:09,493
We used to listen to
punk: Offspring, NOFX,
Pennywise... A lot.
581
00:37:09,594 --> 00:37:11,629
My brother was mad
about this group.
582
00:37:11,729 --> 00:37:13,864
And from the french
speaking side,
583
00:37:13,965 --> 00:37:16,167
what was a little different from
the others was Mononc' Serge.
584
00:37:16,267 --> 00:37:19,570
{\an8}He already told me that my
song "Expos go back home"
585
00:37:19,670 --> 00:37:23,307
{\an8}motivated him to write
songs about sport...
586
00:37:23,407 --> 00:37:24,976
I found it a little surprising
587
00:37:25,076 --> 00:37:30,481
because "Expos go back home"
is actually an anti-sport song!
588
00:37:30,581 --> 00:37:33,017
He probably saw the potential
of this kind of songs,
589
00:37:33,117 --> 00:37:39,090
it may have opened a
breach in his mind to
make the songs he did.
590
00:37:39,190 --> 00:37:40,958
I always think of
a campfire concept.
591
00:37:41,058 --> 00:37:42,360
That's usually how I start them.
592
00:37:42,460 --> 00:37:45,029
The first time I play a song
is often in front of my friends
593
00:37:45,129 --> 00:37:48,132
they give me their feedback
and when there is a good
feedback, I keep playing it,
594
00:37:48,232 --> 00:37:49,467
and if I don't get a
good response, I stop.
595
00:37:49,567 --> 00:37:51,235
He would write something.
596
00:37:51,335 --> 00:37:53,437
{\an8}We would say say: "What
you're doing is not
bad, it's really good
597
00:37:53,537 --> 00:37:59,176
{\an8}you're not just a singer
like any other who's going
to sing Paul Piché's tunes!"
598
00:37:59,277 --> 00:38:00,778
When did you decide
to become a singer?
599
00:38:00,878 --> 00:38:03,047
I've been a songwriter
for a long time
600
00:38:03,147 --> 00:38:05,616
the project really
started at the Stanley Cup
party for Max Talbot...
601
00:38:05,716 --> 00:38:08,552
In the afternoon, I asked:
"Bob, do you want to sing?"
602
00:38:08,653 --> 00:38:10,755
{\an8}During the parade,
after the parade...
603
00:38:10,855 --> 00:38:13,257
{\an8}There were about 10,000 people
in St-Bruno-de-Montarville.
604
00:38:13,357 --> 00:38:15,493
And then he composed
"Max le guerrier".
605
00:38:51,395 --> 00:38:54,131
Ladies and gentlemen,
Roberto Bissonnette!
606
00:38:54,231 --> 00:38:58,669
In the evening I had my
Stanley Cup party on an
island it was incredible,
607
00:38:58,769 --> 00:39:00,338
there was a stage on the water.
608
00:39:00,438 --> 00:39:05,076
We had Les B.B.,
Dubmatique, Vilain Pingouins...
609
00:39:05,176 --> 00:39:07,311
"Okay Bob if you
want to sing a tune!"
610
00:39:07,411 --> 00:39:09,046
He sang Chris Chelios.
611
00:39:36,707 --> 00:39:39,977
Someone recorded it with his
iPhone, 1st generation...
612
00:39:40,077 --> 00:39:45,249
Put it on YouTube, and
we made 5000 clicks in
2 days with my tune...
613
00:39:45,349 --> 00:39:47,885
I said to myself,
"I don't have 5,000 friends."
614
00:39:47,985 --> 00:39:50,588
So there are people who
really liked the tune and
it has been shared a lot
615
00:39:50,688 --> 00:39:56,394
so that's when I realized
that maybe it was
worth it to get into it.
616
00:40:04,502 --> 00:40:07,238
I don't even know how the
idea of funding came up...
617
00:40:07,338 --> 00:40:10,074
"Let's go, go ahead. No stress!"
618
00:40:10,174 --> 00:40:11,408
There he did some calculations
619
00:40:11,409 --> 00:40:14,345
"It takes me X CDs, I'll give
it back to you in X months..."
620
00:40:14,445 --> 00:40:18,048
I never had any subsidies,
I just went for it.
Max lent me some money.
621
00:40:18,149 --> 00:40:21,051
Another friend of
mine, Alexandre Giroux,
also lent me some.
622
00:40:21,152 --> 00:40:26,490
But I never had
any donations or grants, I
always paid back my people.
623
00:40:26,590 --> 00:40:28,259
When he gave me
back the money...
624
00:40:28,359 --> 00:40:30,528
At first, he told me it
would take a year, I think he
paid me back in six months.
625
00:40:30,628 --> 00:40:32,463
He had already sold enough CDs.
626
00:40:32,563 --> 00:40:35,499
He sent me a
handwritten letter...
627
00:40:35,599 --> 00:40:38,736
no one does that anymore,
writing handwritten letters...
628
00:40:38,836 --> 00:40:42,339
Bob, he was like that,
because he cared about it and...
629
00:40:42,440 --> 00:40:46,043
That's it... Um...
630
00:40:49,213 --> 00:40:52,516
Sport and music are two
passions that provide
powerful sensations.
631
00:40:52,616 --> 00:40:54,652
And well after experiencing
the adrenaline of hockey,
632
00:40:54,752 --> 00:40:58,355
former Gatineau Olympiques' team
Roberto Bissonnette
633
00:40:58,456 --> 00:41:00,758
launched a massive attack
in the music scene!
634
00:41:00,858 --> 00:41:04,695
I became an instant fan of the
"Recrue de l'Année" album.
635
00:41:04,795 --> 00:41:08,899
Because singing the
Chris Chelios tune at
a Stanley Cup party,
636
00:41:08,999 --> 00:41:10,935
it is almost folkloric.
637
00:41:11,035 --> 00:41:13,471
But to put it on an album
and wrap it around,
638
00:41:13,571 --> 00:41:18,742
to put a lot of meat
around the bone, and make
it sound good like that.
639
00:41:19,677 --> 00:41:21,278
I thought the challenge
was successfully met!
640
00:41:21,378 --> 00:41:25,316
I'm proud to have had
the opportunity to work
with a guy like him,
641
00:41:25,416 --> 00:41:28,419
he was coming in
a little bit from nowhere...
642
00:41:28,519 --> 00:41:32,456
And then to be able to bring him
where we went,
643
00:41:32,556 --> 00:41:34,091
I find it very satisfying.
644
00:41:56,113 --> 00:42:00,084
This guy, I understood right
away that he spoke one language:
645
00:42:00,184 --> 00:42:01,485
the language of hockey.
646
00:42:01,585 --> 00:42:05,089
It is a language
that instantly becomes universal
647
00:42:05,189 --> 00:42:08,092
for everyone who is directly or
indirectly involved in hockey.
648
00:42:14,131 --> 00:42:18,636
I thought, by sending
a few albums to the
Montreal radio stations,
649
00:42:18,736 --> 00:42:22,006
that it could start playing on
all the big networks...
650
00:42:22,106 --> 00:42:24,942
But in the end
it really doesn't work this way.
651
00:42:25,042 --> 00:42:27,511
I realized that it's
a very closed circuit.
652
00:42:32,917 --> 00:42:36,186
One day Bob Bissonnette
calls me to ask for some advice,
653
00:42:36,287 --> 00:42:39,590
but he has no band, nothing,
all he has is an album...
654
00:42:39,690 --> 00:42:41,959
{\an8}So I said: "Listen,
one thing is for sure,
655
00:42:42,059 --> 00:42:45,296
{\an8}don't start running after
record companies...
656
00:42:45,396 --> 00:42:47,932
they just don't give a shit
about you in the end...
657
00:42:48,032 --> 00:42:50,501
Do everything you
can do by yourself
658
00:42:50,601 --> 00:42:54,538
then delegate when you start to
feel you can't handle anymore."
659
00:42:54,638 --> 00:42:56,106
There are people who
have joined over time.
660
00:42:56,206 --> 00:42:57,474
I recorded with a Montreal band,
661
00:42:57,575 --> 00:42:59,944
they didn't follow
when I started doing my shows.
662
00:43:00,044 --> 00:43:03,647
Fred, whom I call Cam
Neely in my shows,
663
00:43:03,747 --> 00:43:07,017
Fred is practically
with me from the first show.
664
00:43:07,117 --> 00:43:08,819
He was interesting
and he was funny so:
665
00:43:08,919 --> 00:43:13,023
{\an8}"Well, look... man, you look
cool. Yes, I'll play with you!"
666
00:43:13,123 --> 00:43:15,492
{\an8}He says, "Don't you want to
listen to my record first?"
667
00:43:15,593 --> 00:43:16,827
I'm leaving with his record,
668
00:43:16,927 --> 00:43:19,964
I'm coming home,
I'm completely flabbergasted.
669
00:43:20,064 --> 00:43:22,666
"What the hell is
that? It's so fun."
670
00:43:22,766 --> 00:43:24,902
I go home, I do my business,
I'm a little nervous,
671
00:43:25,002 --> 00:43:27,371
he sends me a list of tunes,
I study, I do my stuff...
672
00:43:27,471 --> 00:43:30,574
He shows up with a 24-pack of
Coors Light, and his guitar...
673
00:43:30,674 --> 00:43:32,176
He said, "Well, I'm
here to practice!"
674
00:43:32,276 --> 00:43:34,578
"Come on, a 24 pack of beer!
There are 2 of us..."
675
00:43:34,678 --> 00:43:37,915
"Well, yes, no problem,
we'll look for some more
if we don't have enough!"
676
00:43:49,226 --> 00:43:51,095
The first year was tough.
677
00:43:51,195 --> 00:43:57,001
We did a lot of things, like
going up to play in Mauricie...
678
00:43:57,101 --> 00:43:59,269
"Yes, yes, we'll pass the hat
around, it'll be cool..."
679
00:43:59,370 --> 00:44:02,673
And then come out of there, with
12 dollars... for the two of us.
680
00:44:03,807 --> 00:44:05,075
The first year was pretty rough.
681
00:44:05,175 --> 00:44:10,147
We would play wherever we could.
Strange shows. Funky places...
682
00:44:21,325 --> 00:44:24,061
At the beginning, he really
split the province in two.
683
00:44:24,161 --> 00:44:25,329
And we had two teams.
684
00:44:25,429 --> 00:44:28,298
I used to play with Fred.
And Todd used to play with Will.
685
00:44:28,399 --> 00:44:31,669
We, folks from Montreal
inherited the shows that
were a little further west.
686
00:44:31,769 --> 00:44:33,137
Because we were the ones
who went up to Abitibi,
687
00:44:33,237 --> 00:44:38,742
we were the one who used to,
I will use the language he used,
688
00:44:38,842 --> 00:44:42,346
develop and explore
these regions.
689
00:44:43,180 --> 00:44:46,817
In one day, between the 2 of us,
we did 6 shows, 6 mini shows.
690
00:44:46,917 --> 00:44:48,919
And then we were going to
play in a garage league,
691
00:44:49,019 --> 00:44:50,854
the guys were partying
after the game,
692
00:44:50,954 --> 00:44:53,023
Bob was coming so people
would have a drink.
693
00:44:53,123 --> 00:44:55,859
We were going to play elsewhere,
in a car dealer...
694
00:45:07,471 --> 00:45:08,906
The plan was mostly
that at first,
695
00:45:09,006 --> 00:45:11,208
we would perform shows
like we were cabaret singers.
696
00:45:11,308 --> 00:45:13,644
That way we're versatile enough,
we could work everywhere.
697
00:45:13,744 --> 00:45:15,245
We are able to fit
in any situation.
698
00:45:15,345 --> 00:45:19,249
It didn't have to be a stage...
We played everywhere!
699
00:45:21,351 --> 00:45:22,852
A year and a half later,
700
00:45:22,853 --> 00:45:27,491
I find out a that he already
has gigs on Thursdays,
Fridays, Saturdays...
701
00:45:27,591 --> 00:45:29,960
52 weeks a year,
it's jam packed...
702
00:45:30,060 --> 00:45:32,930
I hear about this
Bob Bissonnette's madness!
703
00:45:33,030 --> 00:45:34,732
So I call him back and I say:
704
00:45:34,832 --> 00:45:37,234
"Okay, now I'm going to
invite you to dinner
705
00:45:37,334 --> 00:45:41,705
and you're going to
explain to me what you did
that I didn't understand!"
706
00:45:41,805 --> 00:45:45,109
How are you, man?
Damn, you're hard to get!
707
00:45:46,844 --> 00:45:49,646
Here, give me that... Welcome!
708
00:45:49,747 --> 00:45:51,014
Who is Bob Bissonnette?
709
00:45:51,115 --> 00:45:52,015
That's him!
710
00:45:52,116 --> 00:45:54,985
In music, you don't know
the speed it can go.
711
00:45:55,085 --> 00:45:58,322
At the moment I receive a lot
of calls and emails regularly.
712
00:45:58,422 --> 00:46:00,557
And now I'm booked here and
there in the next few weeks.
713
00:46:00,657 --> 00:46:02,860
It's going faster
than I thought.
714
00:46:02,960 --> 00:46:09,366
{\an8}If people knew the work that
went into it to get there,
they would not believe it.
715
00:46:10,601 --> 00:46:12,469
My name is Bob Bissonnette,
716
00:46:12,569 --> 00:46:14,605
I'm going to sing two little
songs for you this morning,
do you feel like it?
717
00:46:14,705 --> 00:46:15,806
Yeah...
718
00:46:15,906 --> 00:46:18,275
It was tough, but it
was so rewarding...
719
00:46:18,375 --> 00:46:22,913
To conquer 10 fans...
720
00:46:23,013 --> 00:46:27,651
At night we played
for 50 people, and
we had 10 new fans...
721
00:46:27,751 --> 00:46:30,888
And then we sold 15
t-shirts and 12 CDs.
722
00:46:30,988 --> 00:46:35,592
Okay... But the next time
we'll go back, it's not 50
persons there, it's 250!
723
00:46:35,692 --> 00:46:39,897
I didn't understand
why it was so popular.
724
00:46:39,997 --> 00:46:41,165
Not that it wasn't good,
725
00:46:41,265 --> 00:46:44,701
but the speed and how constant
it was in the regions.
726
00:46:44,802 --> 00:46:46,069
The social networks
helped a lot.
727
00:46:46,170 --> 00:46:48,605
He was one of the first
who really used Facebook.
728
00:46:48,705 --> 00:46:49,773
He played hockey everywhere
729
00:46:49,873 --> 00:46:52,209
so there was always
a group of hockey players
730
00:46:52,309 --> 00:46:54,978
who came because he
played there because he
had fought with one...
731
00:46:55,078 --> 00:46:56,947
So, for my last song...
732
00:46:57,981 --> 00:47:00,918
No, not yet, gorgée!
733
00:47:01,752 --> 00:47:03,654
Bob, he's a punk.
734
00:47:03,754 --> 00:47:06,824
You know, he's a real punk,
in the pure sense of the word.
735
00:47:06,924 --> 00:47:08,859
A guy who does
whatever he wants.
736
00:47:08,959 --> 00:47:11,428
A guy who doesn't respect
established conventions.
737
00:47:11,528 --> 00:47:13,831
Who decided he could do whatever
he wanted, whenever he wanted...
738
00:47:13,931 --> 00:47:15,499
And, bloody hell, it works!
739
00:47:15,599 --> 00:47:18,368
At first some
people told me: "It's too
specific, it won't work."
740
00:47:18,468 --> 00:47:21,438
Well, I'm still going to
try, and finally I realized
that everyone loves hockey
741
00:47:21,538 --> 00:47:24,341
and, in the end, I'm reaching
a lot of people, so it's fun.
742
00:47:24,441 --> 00:47:27,177
{\an8}If you make good songs,
you reach out to an
audience in the right way
743
00:47:27,277 --> 00:47:32,716
{\an8}you'll never need the industry,
the bureaucracy.
744
00:47:32,816 --> 00:47:36,220
You're just going to write a
good song, people are going
to want to hear it so much
745
00:47:36,320 --> 00:47:38,088
that they're going
to carry it for you.
746
00:47:38,188 --> 00:47:41,959
They're going to find it. Bob
Bissonnette is proof of that!
747
00:47:42,059 --> 00:47:43,827
I can barely explain
why it's going so fast.
748
00:47:43,927 --> 00:47:47,898
I can understand why
people like it, but I don't
take myself more seriously.
749
00:47:47,998 --> 00:47:49,233
I still remain the same...
750
00:47:49,333 --> 00:47:51,301
I don't pretend to
be a great musician,
751
00:47:51,401 --> 00:47:54,638
I surround myself with
really good musicians, which
makes me look more pro.
752
00:47:54,738 --> 00:47:59,009
And I have nice and friend
lyrics, and people seem to...
753
00:47:59,109 --> 00:48:00,644
anyway, there are people
who seem to like it,
754
00:48:00,744 --> 00:48:03,413
so as long as the people
want it, I'm going
to play. It's just that.
755
00:48:03,513 --> 00:48:05,449
I don't know anyone
who hasn't said to a friend:
756
00:48:05,549 --> 00:48:09,453
"Do you know Bob Bissonnette?
I like it, listen to it."
757
00:48:09,553 --> 00:48:15,058
I'm not saying that
Bob has reinvented
the way music is done.
758
00:48:15,158 --> 00:48:18,662
But he certainly brought another
type of clientele to the shows.
759
00:48:18,762 --> 00:48:23,100
He built a clientele that didn't
exist in the music world.
760
00:48:23,200 --> 00:48:25,235
He attracted people
who weren't going out for music
761
00:48:25,335 --> 00:48:28,505
so, for a guy who studied
marketing, hats off to him!
762
00:48:28,605 --> 00:48:30,007
It was really very impressive.
763
00:48:30,107 --> 00:48:32,109
The guy is good.
He is entertaining.
764
00:48:32,209 --> 00:48:35,012
Now the girls are
getting on because the
boys are going there.
765
00:48:35,112 --> 00:48:36,413
"Well, I'm going to
go check it out..."
766
00:48:36,513 --> 00:48:38,148
At first it's curiosity...
767
00:48:38,248 --> 00:48:39,383
When you go to see him
for the fifth time,
768
00:48:39,483 --> 00:48:41,051
it's no longer curiosity,
it's because you like it!
769
00:48:42,352 --> 00:48:44,421
When we went to see him the
first shows, we were so proud...
770
00:48:44,521 --> 00:48:46,223
It was like...
771
00:48:46,323 --> 00:48:49,493
{\an8}"My God Bob!" I was there,
I was out of control.
772
00:48:49,593 --> 00:48:53,630
{\an8}For real, he's my buddy,
everyone says: "he's my
buddy we all know Bob",
773
00:48:53,730 --> 00:48:54,998
{\an8}but he's really my buddy,
774
00:48:55,098 --> 00:48:57,234
{\an8}we text each other every day,
we talk every day...
775
00:48:57,334 --> 00:49:00,504
He's the one who makes you all
sing, laugh... I know him!
776
00:49:02,439 --> 00:49:04,875
I offer you either
Mexico from Kaen...
777
00:49:15,018 --> 00:49:17,321
Or Chris Chelios!
778
00:49:20,891 --> 00:49:25,195
The first time, it really
struck me. I went to a show
and there was a lineup...
779
00:49:25,295 --> 00:49:27,631
I turned around, looked around.
780
00:49:27,731 --> 00:49:29,433
They were no longer
the people of the Jobstock,
781
00:49:29,533 --> 00:49:31,134
they were no longer
our childhood friends.
782
00:49:31,234 --> 00:49:32,836
They were all people
I didn't know.
783
00:49:32,936 --> 00:49:35,339
I enter in the venue, it's full.
784
00:49:35,439 --> 00:49:38,208
Hats, caps, young people
with their phones.
785
00:49:38,308 --> 00:49:40,544
It was an incredible party!
786
00:49:40,644 --> 00:49:42,913
I said to him:
"Surround yourself with friends
787
00:49:43,013 --> 00:49:45,449
who will sell you
as if you were Elvis the King!
788
00:49:45,549 --> 00:49:48,719
{\an8}People who believe in
you and with whom you
will ae happy to work.
789
00:49:48,819 --> 00:49:50,954
People that you care about.
790
00:49:51,054 --> 00:49:52,856
Jouvence quarter is
a world in itself.
791
00:49:52,956 --> 00:49:57,894
And it's fun because Bob
has been able to surround
himself with his people.
792
00:49:57,995 --> 00:50:01,865
{\an8}Bob was someone who cared
about people, really...
793
00:50:01,965 --> 00:50:04,267
{\an8}He was able to see
the best in you.
794
00:50:04,368 --> 00:50:07,637
{\an8}Not just to see it,
but to make you see it too.
795
00:50:07,738 --> 00:50:11,942
{\an8}And he was a great salesman,
so he could make you believe it.
796
00:50:12,042 --> 00:50:17,614
{\an8}He calls me... and then he
makes some kind of half-hour
intro on the phone.
797
00:50:17,714 --> 00:50:20,150
"Well, I would like you
to help me if you could,
798
00:50:20,250 --> 00:50:22,419
come with me on my adventure...
799
00:50:22,519 --> 00:50:24,721
Even if it's only
to answer emails."
800
00:50:24,821 --> 00:50:26,423
Well, I said, "Do you know what?
801
00:50:26,523 --> 00:50:29,626
I'd certainly like
that, but I don't even
know what an email is!"
802
00:50:29,726 --> 00:50:32,996
I didn't know anything
about these things, I was
a full time mom at home,
803
00:50:33,096 --> 00:50:36,033
I wasn't working,
and I didn't need a computer
804
00:50:36,133 --> 00:50:38,101
and I didn't know
what an email was!
805
00:50:38,201 --> 00:50:41,571
{\an8}So he said, "That's not a
problem. I'll teach you that."
806
00:50:41,671 --> 00:50:43,874
{\an8}He bought me a computer,
he bought me a cell phone,
807
00:50:43,974 --> 00:50:45,275
{\an8}he gave me his car...
808
00:50:45,375 --> 00:50:46,476
{\an8}And then he said,
"Come on, let's go!
809
00:50:46,576 --> 00:50:48,678
Maybe in the end, you
weren't that good.
810
00:50:48,779 --> 00:50:52,749
But he made you think
you were excellent and
you wanted to be...
811
00:50:52,849 --> 00:50:55,052
{\an8}He came to me and said:
"Rick, I need a real roady!"
812
00:50:55,152 --> 00:50:57,187
{\an8}"What's a roady,
I've never done that in my life,
813
00:50:57,287 --> 00:50:59,423
{\an8}I'm a claims adjuster,
I have no idea what a roady is!"
814
00:50:59,523 --> 00:51:01,691
{\an8}He says, "Look, I want
you to follow me...
815
00:51:01,792 --> 00:51:06,163
{\an8}We'll explain how it
works, I need people I
can trust around me."
816
00:51:06,263 --> 00:51:07,664
{\an8}The first time I met Bob
817
00:51:07,764 --> 00:51:10,267
{\an8}was not long after the
release of the "Recrue
de l'année" album,
818
00:51:10,367 --> 00:51:12,369
{\an8}through a mutual friend
who put us in touch
819
00:51:12,469 --> 00:51:16,640
{\an8}to talk about the music industry
in general...
820
00:51:16,740 --> 00:51:18,442
And at the end of the dinner
821
00:51:18,542 --> 00:51:23,880
Bob asked me if I knew
someone who could shoot
his first videoclip...
822
00:51:23,980 --> 00:51:27,484
So I said: "Well... I'll
buy the equipment, and
I'll do it to for you!"
823
00:51:37,594 --> 00:51:38,595
Sing loudly!
824
00:51:38,695 --> 00:51:39,830
What?
825
00:51:39,930 --> 00:51:42,099
Push it! Sing it for real!
826
00:52:10,694 --> 00:52:13,897
2 days after the video
was released, we had
30,000 views on Youtube,
827
00:52:13,997 --> 00:52:17,567
we quickly reached 100,000 views
we were completely amazed...
828
00:52:17,667 --> 00:52:19,336
And it never stopped!
829
00:52:37,053 --> 00:52:41,191
And from that moment on,
the base for all videoclips
remained the same:
830
00:52:41,291 --> 00:52:44,594
Bob always wanted us
to see known people.
831
00:52:45,562 --> 00:52:47,797
It was also really important
to involve your buddies,
832
00:52:47,898 --> 00:52:51,234
I don't think there's
a clip where you don't
see Bob's buddies.
833
00:52:51,334 --> 00:52:53,670
{\an8}He was proud of his gang,
he was proud of his friends,
834
00:52:53,770 --> 00:52:57,374
{\an8}and at the same time
they were his most loyal
fans from the start.
835
00:52:57,474 --> 00:52:59,242
And it often involved dancing...
836
00:52:59,342 --> 00:53:01,645
He thought dancing
was very funny.
837
00:53:31,541 --> 00:53:34,377
Bob, do you realize how much
success you have on the web
838
00:53:34,477 --> 00:53:36,413
or are you too busy
counting your cash?
839
00:53:37,714 --> 00:53:39,649
{\an8}On the web I must admit
that it doesn't pay very much
840
00:53:39,749 --> 00:53:42,485
{\an8}but it's starting
to go quite well in shows,
841
00:53:42,586 --> 00:53:45,188
{\an8}especially in the various
regions, where they
are very enthusiastic.
842
00:53:45,288 --> 00:53:47,624
{\an8}When we were
launching a videoclip.
843
00:53:47,724 --> 00:53:51,962
{\an8}or making our schedule,
we could spend 10 hours
sending private messages.
844
00:53:52,062 --> 00:53:54,264
He could have hired firms
to do that
845
00:53:54,364 --> 00:53:56,399
but he knew what he wanted
and how to do it
846
00:53:56,499 --> 00:53:58,134
and which words
he wanted to use.
847
00:53:58,235 --> 00:54:01,471
When you call for him the
first time, you better
know what you're saying,
848
00:54:01,571 --> 00:54:04,007
because he's next
door and he's hot...
849
00:54:04,107 --> 00:54:08,078
You really gain self-confidence
when you work for Bob.
850
00:54:08,178 --> 00:54:09,412
{\an8}My brother brought the ideas.
851
00:54:09,512 --> 00:54:12,148
{\an8}And he needed people
to put it into action...
852
00:54:12,249 --> 00:54:13,183
{\an8}The real concrete thing.
853
00:54:13,283 --> 00:54:14,884
All kinds of ideas,
854
00:54:14,985 --> 00:54:18,922
which start on a corner
of the table, beside
a beer, on a napkin...
855
00:54:19,022 --> 00:54:21,191
{\an8}And which became events,
856
00:54:21,291 --> 00:54:24,194
{\an8}and basically
what happened during the
event became secondary...
857
00:54:24,294 --> 00:54:25,762
{\an8}They were experiences,
858
00:54:25,862 --> 00:54:28,164
{\an8}and everything was done
to rally the people,
859
00:54:28,265 --> 00:54:30,867
{\an8}bring them together,
and have fun...
860
00:54:30,967 --> 00:54:35,138
{\an8}I thought he was really mad
for wanting to rent the Imperial
861
00:54:35,238 --> 00:54:36,906
{\an8}to do a show for his birthday.
862
00:54:37,007 --> 00:54:39,776
I thought to myself: "It's going
to be a failure, a solid one!"
863
00:54:39,876 --> 00:54:42,545
"The Ultimate Fight of
Festive Songs" is Bob.
864
00:54:42,646 --> 00:54:47,217
It's Bob Marketing,
who creates events!
865
00:54:49,052 --> 00:54:52,389
I've already done shows
at the Imperial as a technician.
866
00:54:52,489 --> 00:54:54,391
I've played Imperial
before too, often...
867
00:54:54,491 --> 00:55:00,363
{\an8}It was the first time I saw it,
full below and full above.
868
00:55:02,065 --> 00:55:03,233
We are ready.
869
00:55:03,333 --> 00:55:06,236
- Shall we go?
- Oh yeah! Rock on!
870
00:55:06,336 --> 00:55:09,773
You arrive on the stage,
you make your first chord...
871
00:55:09,873 --> 00:55:11,808
And you feel like
you're part of the Beatles!
872
00:55:11,908 --> 00:55:15,612
Because people are screaming so
much, you can't hear yourself.
873
00:55:21,217 --> 00:55:24,020
Bob, Bob, Bob!
874
00:55:47,977 --> 00:55:52,649
We felt that the project
was taking off, that
it was accelerating...
875
00:55:52,749 --> 00:55:57,220
And at the Imperial
we started to believe in it.
876
00:55:57,320 --> 00:56:00,957
We were like, "Yeah, now
we're on to something".
877
00:56:01,624 --> 00:56:03,960
And then after that,
well, it never slowed down.
878
00:56:28,551 --> 00:56:31,087
Filling the Imperial,
879
00:56:31,187 --> 00:56:34,657
when you are not famous,
where there are 1000 people...
880
00:56:36,059 --> 00:56:38,795
and in addition you
beat the beer record,
881
00:56:39,329 --> 00:56:42,031
it's quite incredible!
882
00:58:09,986 --> 00:58:11,888
Gorgée!!!!
883
00:58:14,090 --> 00:58:16,860
Bob, yes, I helped a little to
make him more widely known...
884
00:58:16,960 --> 00:58:19,963
but if he hadn't been
good... I wouldn't have
been able to do so!
885
00:58:20,063 --> 00:58:23,132
{\an8}Bob had a particular talent
on the guitar...
886
00:58:24,133 --> 00:58:26,069
{\an8}his melodies were incredible!
887
00:58:26,169 --> 00:58:30,340
He's not the greatest singer,
but he was quite a lyricist.
888
00:58:30,440 --> 00:58:32,008
We would make fun
of him all the time:
889
00:58:32,108 --> 00:58:34,077
"You know Bob, for a guy
who doesn't have talent,
you're really good!"
890
00:58:34,177 --> 00:58:38,047
I don't pretend to be a
great author or whatever
891
00:58:38,147 --> 00:58:40,216
but I do my stuff
892
00:58:40,316 --> 00:58:43,119
and I know there are
people who find themselves
in my words, and I like it.
893
00:58:43,219 --> 00:58:47,790
I know I'm a rock star, but
I haven't composed all the
best songs in the world...
894
00:58:47,891 --> 00:58:50,059
So I play covers
from time to time!
895
00:58:50,159 --> 00:58:51,961
He always surrounded himself
with musicians
896
00:58:52,061 --> 00:58:55,532
who were superior to him
musically speaking.
897
00:58:55,632 --> 00:58:58,902
It is true that his band
was more talented than him,
898
00:58:59,002 --> 00:59:00,803
but he was the
soul of the band...
899
00:59:00,904 --> 00:59:02,939
He was the writer,
it was his ideas...
900
00:59:11,381 --> 00:59:15,952
You know, wherever Bob went,
he was able to create an event.
901
00:59:16,052 --> 00:59:18,855
You weren't going to
see Bob Bissonnette in show,
902
00:59:18,955 --> 00:59:21,324
you were going to experience
the Bob Bissonnette event.
903
00:59:21,424 --> 00:59:22,659
What's the hardest thing?
904
00:59:22,759 --> 00:59:25,395
Composing music, varying music,
905
00:59:25,495 --> 00:59:27,397
what is the most
difficult thing for you?
906
00:59:27,497 --> 00:59:29,666
Uh... it's the end of my shows!
907
00:59:30,934 --> 00:59:33,269
I remember at first it was...
908
00:59:33,369 --> 00:59:35,538
All the chansonniers used
to say, "cheers", "salute",
"lift your glass"...
909
00:59:35,638 --> 00:59:37,106
For him it was "gorgée"!
910
00:59:37,206 --> 00:59:38,942
Gorgée!
911
00:59:43,246 --> 00:59:44,781
It's now part of folklore!
912
00:59:44,881 --> 00:59:47,817
You know what I mean,
that expression is
associated with him!
913
00:59:47,917 --> 00:59:49,586
He has made this
expression his own.
914
00:59:49,686 --> 00:59:52,055
We watched Bob drink
his beers pretty fast.
915
00:59:52,155 --> 00:59:56,759
And I like to drink and
it impresses me when
someone can drink fast.
916
00:59:56,859 --> 00:59:58,895
And then Michel my
manager says to me...
917
00:59:58,995 --> 01:00:03,099
You know Bob he had drank
like 38 beers in 27 minutes,
918
01:00:03,199 --> 01:00:04,434
and then Michel said:
919
01:00:04,534 --> 01:00:06,936
"Yeah, but it's a thing, half
the beer falls on the floor."
920
01:00:07,036 --> 01:00:10,440
And I said: "Yeah, but half
of 38 is still 19, damn it!
921
01:00:10,540 --> 01:00:13,209
He just drank 19
beers in 22 minutes!"
922
01:00:13,309 --> 01:00:17,847
{\an8}His famous saying
"gorgée"... This saying made
the bar owners very happy.
923
01:00:17,947 --> 01:00:19,882
Gorgée!
924
01:00:21,517 --> 01:00:26,422
The bar owner who hired Bob
knew he was going to make
his month in one night!
925
01:00:26,522 --> 01:00:31,160
Goooooorgée!
926
01:00:31,928 --> 01:00:35,431
I directed a festival
in Cowansville.
927
01:00:35,531 --> 01:00:41,137
Bob Bissonnette arrives
with Eric Lapointe, my
buddies never believed this!
928
01:00:41,237 --> 01:00:43,072
"Fuck, who's that?
929
01:00:44,007 --> 01:00:47,043
We're running out of beer!
There is no more beer!"
930
01:00:47,143 --> 01:00:51,047
It was 20 minutes to
9:00, we're three quarters
into Bob's setlist.
931
01:00:51,147 --> 01:00:54,784
In the 25 year history
of the festival,
932
01:00:54,884 --> 01:00:58,054
we never sold as much beer
as we did that night!
933
01:01:00,490 --> 01:01:06,095
He had this fundamental attitude
that he was with the people...
934
01:01:06,195 --> 01:01:11,768
He was on the stage but
he was with them, and he
was partying with them.
935
01:01:11,868 --> 01:01:16,005
I had never experienced a show
where people were so involved.
936
01:01:16,739 --> 01:01:19,442
It was important for Bob
to always have lighting
937
01:01:19,542 --> 01:01:20,943
that allowed us to
see people well,
938
01:01:21,044 --> 01:01:23,613
to see the crowd well
and to interact with them.
939
01:01:28,885 --> 01:01:32,288
Seeing crowds who
were really involved
940
01:01:32,388 --> 01:01:36,325
and who knew the lyrics so well,
and who really came for Bob
941
01:01:36,426 --> 01:01:40,463
not just for the songs
but also to see what
was going on on stage,
942
01:01:40,563 --> 01:01:44,834
and being part of the show, it
was really a great experience.
943
01:01:45,835 --> 01:01:47,136
It's incredible the
kilometers we travel
944
01:01:47,236 --> 01:01:49,238
as a joke we say that
we're like truckers
945
01:01:49,338 --> 01:01:50,907
who play a little bit of music
during the weekends,
946
01:01:51,007 --> 01:01:52,742
it's a lot of time in the van,
947
01:01:52,842 --> 01:01:55,611
it's a life that's different,
that has a lot of action,
948
01:01:55,712 --> 01:01:56,946
but a life that I love...
949
01:01:57,046 --> 01:02:00,917
Bob's life was incredible,
it was extremely intense...
950
01:02:01,017 --> 01:02:02,251
Not many people know about this,
951
01:02:02,351 --> 01:02:05,121
but Bob was with the same person
for like 15 years.
952
01:02:05,221 --> 01:02:06,889
They even got married...
953
01:02:06,989 --> 01:02:10,727
But it's clear that with
the rhythm of life Bob had,
the tours and all that...
954
01:02:10,827 --> 01:02:14,030
At one point their
paths drifted apart.
955
01:02:14,130 --> 01:02:16,499
It is a way of life
very difficult to follow
956
01:02:16,599 --> 01:02:19,902
and I think that recently
Marie-Pierre proved to be
a perfect fit in all this
957
01:02:20,002 --> 01:02:23,973
because she understood,
she also had the same lifestyle.
958
01:02:24,073 --> 01:02:25,641
I loved it.
959
01:02:25,742 --> 01:02:27,844
{\an8}I loved the life we had.
960
01:02:27,944 --> 01:02:30,012
{\an8}We truly had a beautiful life.
961
01:02:40,056 --> 01:02:41,591
Seeing myself in
that guy's eyes,
962
01:02:41,691 --> 01:02:44,327
seeing that that guy
loved me made me...
963
01:02:47,330 --> 01:02:48,865
...feel great.
964
01:02:51,467 --> 01:02:54,370
We had found each other in life.
965
01:02:54,470 --> 01:02:56,839
We had found each
other because...
966
01:02:58,141 --> 01:03:01,210
he was leading a crazy life,
he was living a particular life
967
01:03:01,310 --> 01:03:03,212
and I loved being a
part of that life...
968
01:03:03,312 --> 01:03:06,849
And that's what's special
about this human being,
969
01:03:06,949 --> 01:03:09,752
he believed that you can
create the life you want...
970
01:03:09,852 --> 01:03:11,587
Do what you love to do...
971
01:03:11,687 --> 01:03:13,055
If what you like is travelling.
972
01:03:13,156 --> 01:03:14,323
It's going to meet
the people you love.
973
01:03:14,423 --> 01:03:16,159
It's travelling to see
the people you love...
974
01:03:16,259 --> 01:03:21,130
We made roadtrips that
for most people would be
975
01:03:21,230 --> 01:03:23,332
the roadtrip of a lifetime,
or the trip of their life.
976
01:03:23,432 --> 01:03:24,901
And we did it every year.
977
01:03:25,001 --> 01:03:28,905
We went to Los
Angeles, Philadelphia,
Boston, Pittsburgh,
978
01:03:29,005 --> 01:03:30,706
Buffalo, Toronto, name it...
979
01:03:30,807 --> 01:03:32,074
He came to New York,
980
01:03:32,175 --> 01:03:35,578
and I challenged him
to get on the big screen...
981
01:03:35,678 --> 01:03:37,113
He certainly succeeded,
982
01:03:37,213 --> 01:03:39,048
he appeared on the screen,
I think 4 times...
983
01:03:39,148 --> 01:03:44,287
He had written:
"Bruno I'm pregnant" in
English on his sweater!
984
01:03:49,926 --> 01:03:52,895
Bob! Fucking hell!
985
01:03:54,397 --> 01:03:56,599
Hey, we don't see each
other anymore, we don't
see each other anymore.
986
01:03:56,699 --> 01:03:58,367
Fucking hell, what
are you doing here?
987
01:03:58,467 --> 01:04:00,303
They're crazy!
988
01:04:00,403 --> 01:04:04,507
Carl Bastien, Yoda. Stephane
Gaudreau, Stephane Gaudreau...
989
01:04:04,607 --> 01:04:07,276
war machine, war machine!
990
01:04:08,477 --> 01:04:10,513
When we started working
on "Les barbes de séries"...
991
01:04:10,613 --> 01:04:12,348
They're crazy!
992
01:04:12,448 --> 01:04:16,152
We started working on
"La machine à scorer",
and it really was...
993
01:04:16,252 --> 01:04:18,821
everything found
its place instantly.
994
01:04:22,658 --> 01:04:25,995
And then we leave with
the same... You know,
you're going 1, 2, 3, 4
995
01:05:06,836 --> 01:05:08,471
That's the first song we did,
996
01:05:08,571 --> 01:05:12,341
that we recorded together
for the second album.
997
01:05:12,441 --> 01:05:16,579
And it set the tone for what's
going to happen next...
998
01:05:16,679 --> 01:05:18,814
We finished doing that and...
999
01:05:18,915 --> 01:05:23,019
Everyone was dancing
for the rest of the
evening in the studio
1000
01:05:23,119 --> 01:05:24,987
and we started the party...
1001
01:05:25,087 --> 01:05:29,125
we were already celebrating
the album with the first song!
1002
01:05:38,434 --> 01:05:40,903
I met Bob in the
studio "Les barbes"...
1003
01:05:41,003 --> 01:05:43,105
and one night I was
drunk and I said:
1004
01:05:43,205 --> 01:05:47,243
"Hey, I've been hearing
Chantal Machabée played
quite badly for 3 days now,
1005
01:05:47,343 --> 01:05:50,046
even if I'm drunk,
I'll play it!"
1006
01:05:50,146 --> 01:05:52,715
There Bob was like:
"You can't do that! "
1007
01:05:52,815 --> 01:05:54,350
"I'll do it for
you, you'll see!"
1008
01:05:54,450 --> 01:05:56,085
And then I played
the song twice,
1009
01:05:56,185 --> 01:05:59,288
and that's Chantal Machabée,
that's the drum track!
1010
01:06:06,062 --> 01:06:07,797
He's a machine, he's
machine! Come on!
1011
01:06:07,897 --> 01:06:10,599
OK! Well, that's good!
1012
01:06:14,203 --> 01:06:17,673
Bob, thank you so much,
I love the song!
1013
01:06:17,773 --> 01:06:20,776
I give you a big kiss because
it's really quite an honor.
1014
01:06:20,876 --> 01:06:23,846
Well, listen, we'll meet
you in a few moments with
the news from the Canadian,
1015
01:06:23,946 --> 01:06:28,084
for now Bob, are you
ready? The song Chantal
Machabée at "Le 5 à 7!"
1016
01:06:31,487 --> 01:06:34,090
I couldn't believe it!
You know, this one is my tune.
1017
01:06:34,190 --> 01:06:35,992
{\an8}I have always said that it was
the most beautiful honour
1018
01:06:36,092 --> 01:06:37,860
{\an8}I have ever received
in my career.
1019
01:06:37,960 --> 01:06:41,197
{\an8}There's a song named
after me, it's going to
remain, it's immortal...
1020
01:06:41,297 --> 01:06:43,366
{\an8}There's nothing more
flattering than that.
1021
01:06:43,466 --> 01:06:47,069
It's very funny, it's
very Bob Bissonnette,
it's very his style.
1022
01:06:47,169 --> 01:06:49,538
The music is amazing!
1023
01:07:03,886 --> 01:07:07,623
Sometimes I walk in the
Bell Centre and I hear
people singing it to me.
1024
01:07:08,791 --> 01:07:12,595
To say how much that
song had an impact, but
I find it extraordinary!
1025
01:07:13,629 --> 01:07:17,900
The pure term of the successful
underground artist is Bob...
1026
01:07:18,000 --> 01:07:20,036
The number of t-shirt
crates in the van
1027
01:07:20,136 --> 01:07:22,038
was more important
than the number of drums,
1028
01:07:22,138 --> 01:07:24,173
and today I understand that.
1029
01:07:24,273 --> 01:07:25,841
At the time I didn't
understand it,
1030
01:07:25,941 --> 01:07:28,511
I was always questioning
that decision and...
1031
01:07:28,611 --> 01:07:30,479
I wanted to bring one
more tom and he said:
1032
01:07:30,579 --> 01:07:32,948
"Shut up, that's not
what pays your salary".
1033
01:07:33,049 --> 01:07:34,984
Go on, T-shirts, let's go!"
1034
01:07:35,084 --> 01:07:36,585
I was like, "Wow!"
1035
01:07:37,720 --> 01:07:40,456
A guy like Bob, who has an
audience who likes t-shirts...
1036
01:07:40,556 --> 01:07:43,959
and he has logos, and
he has a face, a visual
identity, a theme,
1037
01:07:44,060 --> 01:07:46,462
that really has a
graphic identity...
1038
01:07:46,562 --> 01:07:49,565
{\an8}He can really make a lot of
money with the merchandise
1039
01:07:49,665 --> 01:07:53,102
{\an8}and this is extremely
important for an artist,
it's complementary.
1040
01:07:53,202 --> 01:07:54,770
{\an8}It had to look professional.
1041
01:07:54,870 --> 01:07:56,672
{\an8}Even if we're a little
bit bric-a-brac,
1042
01:07:56,772 --> 01:07:59,542
{\an8}even if we're breaking pitchers
on our heads,
1043
01:07:59,642 --> 01:08:02,211
{\an8}the image has to be pro,
it has to look professional.
1044
01:08:02,311 --> 01:08:03,979
{\an8}We didn't have any subsidies
to make the videoclips,
1045
01:08:04,080 --> 01:08:05,448
{\an8}there were no big budgets...
1046
01:08:05,548 --> 01:08:08,918
{\an8}but it was always important
to have an impeccable image.
1047
01:08:09,018 --> 01:08:13,956
Bob did not hesitate to rent
a church, to have a gymnasium
entirely lettered...
1048
01:08:14,056 --> 01:08:15,591
to have costumes
specially made...
1049
01:08:15,691 --> 01:08:18,060
It was always very important to
have his logo clearly visible.
1050
01:08:18,160 --> 01:08:21,163
Everything had to be
perfectly coordinated.
1051
01:08:21,263 --> 01:08:22,798
{\an8}He was a professional,
1052
01:08:22,898 --> 01:08:25,968
{\an8}I heard that he could be rough
with the people he worked with,
1053
01:08:26,068 --> 01:08:31,207
{\an8}because it was his projects
and he invested time, money
and a lot of energy into it...
1054
01:08:31,307 --> 01:08:33,976
He was very inspired
by the tough guys...
1055
01:08:34,076 --> 01:08:36,178
I've always called him
my mini Steve Jobs.
1056
01:08:36,278 --> 01:08:40,349
You know, in the movie you
discover who he is... But
Bob, he was very intense.
1057
01:08:40,449 --> 01:08:43,986
{\an8}There's a dark side to Bob
there, it's that... it's that...
1058
01:08:44,086 --> 01:08:49,258
{\an8}he thought so much,
he thought so much, he
had so much going on...
1059
01:08:49,358 --> 01:08:52,428
{\an8}that... sometimes he thought
he was going crazy...
1060
01:08:53,395 --> 01:08:57,166
{\an8}Sometimes when he was
feeling blue, it was like
it was boiling in his head.
1061
01:08:57,266 --> 01:09:00,035
{\an8}And then he had to come out
with something...
1062
01:09:00,136 --> 01:09:04,206
{\an8}So he called me, I said
to him, "My God, are you
okay?" He said, "Yeah."
1063
01:09:04,306 --> 01:09:06,509
He said, "Now call the
Olympic Stadium..."
1064
01:09:07,610 --> 01:09:09,078
I say to him,
"And what am I supposed to say?"
1065
01:09:09,178 --> 01:09:11,680
He says, "Call the
Olympic Stadium, I want to
know how much it costs..."
1066
01:09:11,780 --> 01:09:14,817
and he gives me
a list of questions to ask...
1067
01:09:14,917 --> 01:09:17,019
he says: "I want to play there!"
1068
01:09:17,119 --> 01:09:19,722
Hey, I said to him,
"Don't you think you're
exaggerating a little?"
1069
01:09:19,822 --> 01:09:22,525
"No!" he was determined...
1070
01:09:22,625 --> 01:09:25,194
So you don't insist when
he's like this, you don't
try to change his mind...
1071
01:09:25,294 --> 01:09:29,498
"Yes, perfect, I'll
call, get the information
and come back to you."
1072
01:09:29,598 --> 01:09:31,834
So I called the
Olympic Stadium...
1073
01:09:31,934 --> 01:09:35,504
I looked like a real freak
because I had no idea what
I had to say to them...
1074
01:09:35,604 --> 01:09:37,740
But I made him happy,
I called, I took the information
1075
01:09:37,840 --> 01:09:41,310
and gave him the paper with
the information "There you go!"
1076
01:09:41,410 --> 01:09:43,479
Even if it's Friday at 5:00 pm,
1077
01:09:43,579 --> 01:09:47,283
or when I've finally started
my 2nd job on the weekend...
1078
01:09:47,383 --> 01:09:50,786
If he needed something, it was
here. Not tomorrow. Right now.
1079
01:09:50,886 --> 01:09:53,255
I worked with him and told him I
would never work with him again!
1080
01:09:55,758 --> 01:09:58,527
I already wept all the way
up the Henry IV hill...
1081
01:09:58,627 --> 01:10:01,096
He's a very demanding person...
1082
01:10:01,197 --> 01:10:03,532
And when Bob is upset,
1083
01:10:03,632 --> 01:10:07,636
no one can support the tension,
except Steve Jobidon...
1084
01:10:07,736 --> 01:10:10,773
Because listen, the
tension becomes...
1085
01:10:11,540 --> 01:10:12,908
It becomes overwhelmingly heavy.
1086
01:10:13,008 --> 01:10:14,443
We'll do it again
dudes, it's fine...
1087
01:10:14,543 --> 01:10:17,546
Play the fucking
guitar in the solo!
1088
01:10:19,615 --> 01:10:22,918
I can't hear you... I can't
hear you, play the guitar.
1089
01:10:25,020 --> 01:10:27,056
In everything he did...
1090
01:10:27,156 --> 01:10:29,258
He wanted to achieve
the ultimate goal
1091
01:10:29,358 --> 01:10:31,493
so if he had to loose
his nerves to get there,
1092
01:10:31,594 --> 01:10:33,495
he did it and it
was okay for him.
1093
01:10:33,596 --> 01:10:36,632
We used to say,
"You need something else...
1094
01:10:36,732 --> 01:10:40,069
To put your ideas elsewhere
than just on your project.
1095
01:10:40,169 --> 01:10:41,737
Otherwise you'll go crazy"
1096
01:10:41,837 --> 01:10:44,139
He was so committed to things
and he did things so intensely
1097
01:10:44,240 --> 01:10:48,777
that, rightly, you can't
be moderate, something
intense is a tornado...
1098
01:10:49,411 --> 01:10:52,081
So La Broche à Foin
was a safety valve for him.
1099
01:10:52,181 --> 01:10:55,484
It was his ideas, in
something completely new where
everything had yet to be done,
1100
01:10:55,584 --> 01:10:58,220
where his creative
side could really exist
1101
01:10:58,320 --> 01:11:01,223
because if he said something,
I would do it...
1102
01:11:01,323 --> 01:11:05,661
January 2014 we went
to San Diego, we went to a
bar called the Shout House,
1103
01:11:05,761 --> 01:11:08,264
where Adam was
playing that night,
1104
01:11:08,364 --> 01:11:10,332
he was the artistic director
of the Shout...
1105
01:11:29,351 --> 01:11:31,453
We met Adam in January 2014...
1106
01:11:31,553 --> 01:11:32,921
and in my barn there was nothing
1107
01:11:33,022 --> 01:11:34,623
there was no floor, there was
no stage, there was no bar,
1108
01:11:34,723 --> 01:11:36,225
there was no light,
there was nothing...
1109
01:11:36,325 --> 01:11:39,361
But he already had a
logo made, you know he had
already had the logo made!
1110
01:11:50,306 --> 01:11:51,774
Let's go!
1111
01:11:54,977 --> 01:11:56,412
Louder!
1112
01:12:12,895 --> 01:12:14,496
He used to ask me,
"What makes you happy?
1113
01:12:14,596 --> 01:12:16,932
{\an8}Name five things
that make you happy."
1114
01:12:17,032 --> 01:12:18,801
{\an8}Who has ever asked you
that kind of question?
1115
01:12:20,436 --> 01:12:24,640
He knew very well
what made him happy...
1116
01:12:24,740 --> 01:12:27,209
Having friends
around... doing BBQs...
1117
01:12:27,309 --> 01:12:29,378
sitting in a ball stadium...
1118
01:12:29,478 --> 01:12:33,148
going to Steve's on Sundays...
it was sacred!
1119
01:12:33,248 --> 01:12:37,286
When he was fine, he would sit
down and laugh "ah, ah, ah",
1120
01:12:37,386 --> 01:12:40,956
he would laugh,
he would make a laughing sound.
1121
01:12:41,056 --> 01:12:43,792
For no reason... He was happy...
1122
01:12:43,892 --> 01:12:47,029
It filled him with happiness,
simple things like that.
1123
01:12:48,163 --> 01:12:51,367
I don't miss Bob the
musician, I don't miss
the guy on the stage...
1124
01:12:51,467 --> 01:12:53,202
I miss my best friend,
I miss my buddy...
1125
01:12:53,302 --> 01:12:55,704
I miss my Sundays
here on the patio
1126
01:12:55,804 --> 01:12:57,906
having a drink and talking
about everything and anything...
1127
01:12:58,006 --> 01:13:00,576
His friends, he is able
to put them in boxes
1128
01:13:00,676 --> 01:13:02,678
where they are the best
in the world in something.
1129
01:13:02,778 --> 01:13:07,149
The word "best in the
world" comes back for
the people around him.
1130
01:13:07,783 --> 01:13:08,817
{\an8}When you are near
Bob Bissonnette,
1131
01:13:08,917 --> 01:13:10,886
{\an8}when you spend a day with him,
life is beautiful.
1132
01:13:10,986 --> 01:13:15,124
{\an8}He's a guy who's
always going to have an
extraordinary positivism.
1133
01:13:15,224 --> 01:13:18,293
Bob had this saying, that he
used to say all the time:
1134
01:13:18,394 --> 01:13:20,229
"Today is the most beautiful day
of my life"
1135
01:13:20,329 --> 01:13:24,233
whether you're at a party
in the evening, or very
tired the next morning...
1136
01:13:24,333 --> 01:13:25,434
he had this premise to say
1137
01:13:25,534 --> 01:13:26,969
"Today is the most beautiful day
of my life."
1138
01:13:27,069 --> 01:13:28,370
Hi Fred!
1139
01:13:32,307 --> 01:13:33,809
Have a nice day my Fred!
1140
01:13:35,978 --> 01:13:40,249
{\an8}Bob is the first person
I've seen, from guy to guy
saying he loved someone...
1141
01:13:40,349 --> 01:13:41,784
{\an8}This guy froze me to death,
1142
01:13:41,884 --> 01:13:43,886
{\an8}when he hung up the
phone with me, he would
say to me: "Love you".
1143
01:13:43,986 --> 01:13:46,121
{\an8}A guy who says love you it had
never happened to me before
1144
01:13:46,221 --> 01:13:50,125
{\an8}so the first 4-5 times "eh, eh,
eh, eh" I wasn't able to answer.
1145
01:13:50,759 --> 01:13:52,528
I wasn't able to tell him...
1146
01:13:52,628 --> 01:13:56,632
Just at one point "love
you too damn it what do
you want me to tell you!"
1147
01:13:58,033 --> 01:14:00,169
{\an8}You know every 2-3 days
we used to write to each other
1148
01:14:00,269 --> 01:14:01,804
{\an8}I love you, I love
you, I love you...
1149
01:14:01,904 --> 01:14:04,006
{\an8}I think what's missing
most to everyone who
was very close to Bob
1150
01:14:04,106 --> 01:14:06,508
{\an8}is the words he had
for us, it was so good.
1151
01:14:06,608 --> 01:14:09,678
When he was part of something
with someone...
1152
01:14:09,778 --> 01:14:11,046
there was no limit to happiness.
1153
01:14:11,146 --> 01:14:14,650
So it was like
"it's the best day of my life,
1154
01:14:14,750 --> 01:14:17,119
we enjoy it and we
live it as it is."
1155
01:14:41,009 --> 01:14:44,847
Otherwise it was a call
every week or so, always
for a $100 million idea.
1156
01:14:44,947 --> 01:14:47,950
He was this close to a
billion-dollar idea and
changing the world...
1157
01:14:48,050 --> 01:14:50,152
It was always like that,
since junior league...
1158
01:14:50,252 --> 01:14:57,059
{\an8}He must have done
only half a thousandth
of all of his ideas...
1159
01:14:57,159 --> 01:14:58,594
{\an8}but it's still huge!
1160
01:14:58,694 --> 01:15:01,964
He had unrealistic projects
that he was trying to achieve,
1161
01:15:02,064 --> 01:15:03,866
and that didn't
work all the time.
1162
01:15:03,966 --> 01:15:09,571
But his faith in his
project, and his enthusiasm
for the project...
1163
01:15:09,671 --> 01:15:11,940
Makes you think, "Why wouldn't I
have the same enthusiasm?
1164
01:15:12,040 --> 01:15:14,409
And why wouldn't I
be willing to go for it...
1165
01:15:14,510 --> 01:15:19,147
And at the very worst, I'll go
to 72% of my project, to 81%,
1166
01:15:19,248 --> 01:15:20,983
but I'll have tried
and I'll have fun doing it."
1167
01:15:21,083 --> 01:15:23,018
He would say, even
about a small project:
1168
01:15:23,118 --> 01:15:24,219
"It's going to be the best
project in the world!"
1169
01:15:24,319 --> 01:15:25,754
And as soon as he was talking
with you about a project,
1170
01:15:25,854 --> 01:15:29,057
I didn't feel like
it was smoke and mirrors,
1171
01:15:29,157 --> 01:15:30,325
it was possible, you know.
1172
01:15:30,425 --> 01:15:31,960
It was possible...
1173
01:15:32,060 --> 01:15:35,964
I've never met anyone
like that... who's not
afraid of anything.
1174
01:15:37,799 --> 01:15:39,735
For whom fear does not exist...
1175
01:15:40,469 --> 01:15:41,937
It was beautiful to see!
1176
01:15:42,738 --> 01:15:45,274
He was never afraid
to do something crazy!
1177
01:15:45,374 --> 01:15:48,510
What he did at the Palais
Montcalm with the violins...
1178
01:15:48,610 --> 01:15:50,779
You have to be a little nuts!
1179
01:16:07,963 --> 01:16:10,566
When I turned 33,
I rented the Palais Montcalm...
1180
01:16:10,666 --> 01:16:13,201
Uh, that was good!
1181
01:16:13,302 --> 01:16:16,538
The whole lower section
was full, we were
close to 500 people.
1182
01:16:16,638 --> 01:16:18,140
And I was the producer,
1183
01:16:18,240 --> 01:16:21,810
I lost a lot of money,
but I don't regret it.
1184
01:17:00,782 --> 01:17:03,518
The Palais Montcalm
had cost us a fortune.
1185
01:17:03,619 --> 01:17:05,220
He wanted to play there
at the Palais Montcalm
1186
01:17:05,320 --> 01:17:06,555
and wanted to be elegant.
1187
01:17:06,655 --> 01:17:08,857
That's what he wanted,
and he succeeded!
1188
01:17:16,732 --> 01:17:22,070
Bob who dressed up in fancy
clothes, he had his suit
made for the occasion...
1189
01:17:22,170 --> 01:17:27,476
We really organized this
so that it would be beautiful,
1190
01:17:27,576 --> 01:17:29,778
we were proud of this show.
1191
01:17:48,230 --> 01:17:49,631
Are you currently working
on the third album?
1192
01:17:49,731 --> 01:17:51,533
Yes, indeed!
1193
01:17:51,633 --> 01:17:52,901
Do you have many things
already written? What
style are you going for?
1194
01:17:53,001 --> 01:17:54,536
Uh.... It's gonna be wilder!
1195
01:17:54,636 --> 01:17:58,340
Wilder ok... Is your album only
for 18 years old and over?
1196
01:17:58,440 --> 01:18:00,542
Yeah... I...
1197
01:18:01,309 --> 01:18:03,945
My life in the last period, you
know, hockey was a lot at first,
1198
01:18:04,046 --> 01:18:05,113
I'm touring a lot everywhere...
1199
01:18:05,213 --> 01:18:06,348
You're going on
the "lover" side ?
1200
01:18:06,448 --> 01:18:08,016
No, not really "lover"!
1201
01:18:08,750 --> 01:18:09,951
So the chords are these.
1202
01:18:10,052 --> 01:18:11,386
Go ahead, sing me your song!
1203
01:18:13,221 --> 01:18:14,289
Yes sir !
1204
01:18:23,498 --> 01:18:25,834
By the third album...
1205
01:18:25,934 --> 01:18:32,774
I could see that he was a
little more aware of how it
worked, what he wanted...
1206
01:18:32,874 --> 01:18:36,111
He had even more
requests than before.
1207
01:18:49,424 --> 01:18:52,194
When we worked on the third
album we were in the studio,
1208
01:18:52,294 --> 01:18:55,731
and Bob would say to me,
"I'd like you to play like..."
1209
01:18:55,831 --> 01:18:57,733
and then he would
sing it to me...
1210
01:18:57,833 --> 01:19:00,035
"Oh, like that?"
"Yes, like that perfect!"
1211
01:19:00,135 --> 01:19:02,537
We worked like that,
and it worked really well.
1212
01:19:02,637 --> 01:19:04,740
But I think you know
you didn't do, uh...
1213
01:19:04,840 --> 01:19:06,241
Go ahead, I'm listening to you.
1214
01:19:07,976 --> 01:19:10,979
In the second part, you
didn't make your little
notes, you understand?
1215
01:19:11,079 --> 01:19:12,948
Seems to me you're smoother...
1216
01:19:14,382 --> 01:19:15,616
That's all!
1217
01:19:15,617 --> 01:19:19,988
He was very progressive, though,
for his way of doing things.
1218
01:19:20,088 --> 01:19:23,625
When you look at
his first album, versus
where he was on the third
1219
01:19:23,725 --> 01:19:26,361
for the people who know music
it was very, very different.
1220
01:19:26,461 --> 01:19:29,397
It's like the first one we
switched to a kind of rock-punk,
1221
01:19:29,498 --> 01:19:31,299
after that to something else,
1222
01:19:31,399 --> 01:19:32,801
to go to Rockstar...
1223
01:19:32,901 --> 01:19:37,005
And it was only a small
stairway, in which he
had started to climb.
1224
01:19:38,273 --> 01:19:41,009
Well the answer is good so far,
with the third album
1225
01:19:41,109 --> 01:19:45,347
we were second
best French-speaking
seller the first week,
1226
01:19:45,447 --> 01:19:46,748
and fifth the second week.
1227
01:19:46,848 --> 01:19:49,618
He was like that
in everyday life...
1228
01:19:49,718 --> 01:19:51,520
In his music career,
and even in hockey...
1229
01:19:51,620 --> 01:19:54,990
This personality trait
of competing, of always
pushing his limits,
1230
01:19:55,090 --> 01:19:56,491
it wasn't just on the ice...
1231
01:19:56,591 --> 01:19:59,027
It was as much in
a hockey pool...
1232
01:20:00,061 --> 01:20:02,564
We played a ball game,
even if Bob wasn't able to run,
1233
01:20:02,664 --> 01:20:05,333
he wanted to find a
way to win anyway.
1234
01:20:05,433 --> 01:20:09,304
We used to say: "Oh God, he
runs so bad, ahh, he runs
so bad!" It was awful...
1235
01:20:09,838 --> 01:20:11,640
So he wasn't a
track and field guy,
1236
01:20:11,740 --> 01:20:14,843
and baseball, I don't even
know if he knew on which
side he was throwing either.
1237
01:20:14,943 --> 01:20:16,411
I'm a baseball maniac,
1238
01:20:16,511 --> 01:20:19,214
I'm rotten at baseball,
I won't lie to you, I'm
not a good player...
1239
01:20:19,314 --> 01:20:21,583
What I want to announce
this morning...
1240
01:20:21,683 --> 01:20:26,121
{\an8}Is a project that has been
on my mind for a few years...
1241
01:20:26,221 --> 01:20:27,989
Bob Bissonnette new shareholder
of Capitales de Québec
1242
01:20:28,089 --> 01:20:30,759
...Mr. Bissonnette
for those who were not aware
1243
01:20:30,859 --> 01:20:34,596
has started working
in Les Capitales at the
beginning of his career.
1244
01:20:34,696 --> 01:20:35,831
It's natural for me,
1245
01:20:35,931 --> 01:20:37,399
I've been involved with
the club for a long time
1246
01:20:37,499 --> 01:20:39,167
when I was younger,
I graduated from university,
1247
01:20:39,267 --> 01:20:41,570
I started working, my
first job was there.
1248
01:20:41,670 --> 01:20:43,338
It's natural for me
I'm really happy!
1249
01:20:48,243 --> 01:20:50,712
{\an8}A rock star, you go to see
a rock star and you do...
1250
01:20:51,213 --> 01:20:53,515
{\an8}he's your idol and you go home.
1251
01:20:53,615 --> 01:20:58,019
{\an8}With Bob people looked
at him and there were some
who saw him as their idol,
1252
01:20:58,119 --> 01:21:00,288
{\an8}and there were some
who saw him as their friend,
1253
01:21:00,388 --> 01:21:01,957
{\an8}and most of them
considered him to be both.
1254
01:21:02,057 --> 01:21:05,093
{\an8}Everyone says that,
when you met him,
1255
01:21:05,193 --> 01:21:08,363
{\an8}you had the impression that you
had known him for 28 years...
1256
01:21:08,463 --> 01:21:11,766
{\an8}He gave everyone a
chance, I thought it was
admirable of him too.
1257
01:21:11,867 --> 01:21:13,235
{\an8}Someone would come and
talk to him and he was,
1258
01:21:13,335 --> 01:21:14,569
{\an8}"Alright, let's get
to know each other."
1259
01:21:14,669 --> 01:21:15,904
{\an8}He had no preconception.
1260
01:21:16,004 --> 01:21:18,406
I always considered myself
close to my fans,
1261
01:21:18,506 --> 01:21:21,676
and then I looked at him
and said to myself, "I'm
just a piece of shit!"
1262
01:21:22,477 --> 01:21:26,982
Because he took the time,
and he treated everyone equally.
1263
01:21:27,082 --> 01:21:28,583
His fans saw him as a friend,
1264
01:21:28,683 --> 01:21:30,151
and he sometimes wondered
if this was not the reason
1265
01:21:30,252 --> 01:21:32,387
why people didn't
take him seriously.
1266
01:21:32,487 --> 01:21:34,956
Even if he was always
the "good guy",
1267
01:21:35,056 --> 01:21:37,525
he wanted to be taken seriously
in his approach,
1268
01:21:37,626 --> 01:21:40,395
I won't say in his artistic
approach he never used this term
1269
01:21:40,495 --> 01:21:45,901
but, in "Gee, I move crowds...
I deserve your big stage...
1270
01:21:46,001 --> 01:21:47,502
and I would be able
to "fill it up".
1271
01:21:47,602 --> 01:21:50,071
He just wanted the opportunity
to enter in the big leagues!
1272
01:21:50,171 --> 01:21:51,840
One of the biggest
disappointments Bob had
1273
01:21:51,940 --> 01:21:54,809
was to never get a call
from the famous Festival
d'été de Québec...
1274
01:21:54,910 --> 01:21:58,546
It is true that the
Festival d'été is something
he would have loved to do
1275
01:21:58,647 --> 01:22:01,316
and he didn't understand
why he didn't belong there...
1276
01:22:01,416 --> 01:22:03,184
There is a scene for
100,000 spectators,
1277
01:22:03,285 --> 01:22:05,487
that's not what he was
asking to start with and...
1278
01:22:05,587 --> 01:22:08,790
He says: "If one day they
invite me to play on the stage
for 3-4-5000 the people...
1279
01:22:08,890 --> 01:22:11,126
It's going to be so jam
packed, and I'll give the
show of a lifetime..."
1280
01:22:11,226 --> 01:22:14,129
We highlight local talents,
we highlight all that...
1281
01:22:14,229 --> 01:22:15,964
and we don't ask Bob Bissonnette
1282
01:22:16,064 --> 01:22:19,801
that everyone we know
we could have done it a
few consecutive nights,
1283
01:22:19,901 --> 01:22:21,436
it would have been
full every night...
1284
01:22:21,536 --> 01:22:24,506
I have to tell you, he
talked about it a lot
and it bothered him.
1285
01:22:24,606 --> 01:22:26,174
It bothered him for a long time.
1286
01:22:26,274 --> 01:22:28,643
{\an8}When you're not
part of the gang...
1287
01:22:29,377 --> 01:22:31,379
{\an8}And your business
doesn't work...
1288
01:22:31,479 --> 01:22:34,649
{\an8}No one is gonna piss you off.
No one's gonna bother you.
1289
01:22:34,749 --> 01:22:36,785
{\an8}No one's going to
try to get you down.
1290
01:22:36,885 --> 01:22:39,487
{\an8}When you're not in the gang and
your business is working well...
1291
01:22:39,587 --> 01:22:41,256
{\an8}that's when the game starts!
1292
01:22:41,356 --> 01:22:44,559
He never had the success
he should have had,
1293
01:22:44,659 --> 01:22:49,464
for me Bob Bissonnette
should have been a
megastar on the radio.
1294
01:22:49,564 --> 01:22:53,034
And... only a few
stations supported him.
1295
01:22:53,134 --> 01:22:56,104
There was like...
there was an injustice on Bob...
1296
01:22:56,204 --> 01:22:57,872
You know that
bothers! It bothers!
1297
01:22:57,973 --> 01:22:59,407
It bothers the industry
1298
01:22:59,507 --> 01:23:03,511
to see that Bob Bissonnette
is in control of his career.
1299
01:23:03,611 --> 01:23:06,948
I rarely appear on the
radio, I haven't been on
TV often in my life...
1300
01:23:07,048 --> 01:23:08,883
This is really my way
of keeping in touch
1301
01:23:08,984 --> 01:23:10,318
and communicating
with those who love my stuff,
1302
01:23:10,418 --> 01:23:14,055
it's social networks,
it's Twitter, it's
Facebook, it's Instagram.
1303
01:23:14,155 --> 01:23:15,991
And my videos, I released
a new one in the morning,
1304
01:23:16,091 --> 01:23:18,093
but these Youtube
videos, these things...
1305
01:23:18,193 --> 01:23:20,996
it's my way of keeping
in touch with my people.
1306
01:23:21,096 --> 01:23:24,532
Hey, I prefer to be nice,
nice with the real people...
1307
01:23:24,632 --> 01:23:26,768
To be snubbed by the click...
1308
01:23:26,868 --> 01:23:28,503
but to have my
business doing well!
1309
01:23:28,603 --> 01:23:30,438
{\an8}It didn't matter
what was happening elsewhere,
1310
01:23:30,538 --> 01:23:34,075
{\an8}as he says in his tune:
"we don't give a fuck,
it's full in our shows."
1311
01:23:34,576 --> 01:23:35,844
It's true!
1312
01:23:35,944 --> 01:23:38,513
There are people you see on TV,
that you hear on the radio,
1313
01:23:38,613 --> 01:23:39,880
but their shows don't rock!
1314
01:23:39,881 --> 01:23:43,218
We do shows, it's the party,
it smells like beer, and sweat.
1315
01:23:43,318 --> 01:23:46,321
It screams loudly and it's fun
and the people are into it.
1316
01:23:52,027 --> 01:23:57,098
Ste-Germaine de Boulé
in Abitibi, it is
8-9 in the evening...
1317
01:23:57,198 --> 01:23:59,534
There are 2-3,000 people
in the parking area...
1318
01:23:59,634 --> 01:24:01,970
{\an8}Lots of people
with Bob Bissonnette
t-shirts everywhere...
1319
01:24:02,070 --> 01:24:03,805
{\an8}They are tailgating...
1320
01:24:03,905 --> 01:24:07,308
There are bonfires, people are
drinking, they are singing...
1321
01:24:07,409 --> 01:24:09,444
I said: "What the hell
is going on here?"
1322
01:24:09,544 --> 01:24:13,181
Jonathan Painchaud who
plays for the elderly
inside, 1000 people...
1323
01:24:13,281 --> 01:24:14,649
All of a sudden, poof,
they end up,
1324
01:24:14,749 --> 01:24:18,553
we arrive, super fast
"changeovers", the
machine is oiled...
1325
01:24:19,421 --> 01:24:22,724
3000 people enter in the arena,
we start to play,
1326
01:24:22,824 --> 01:24:26,661
the girls pull out their bras
during the first tune...
1327
01:24:26,761 --> 01:24:29,631
We are making record
sales of merchandising,
I ran out of stock...
1328
01:24:29,731 --> 01:24:34,536
Listen it was going
crazy, 3000 people, Bob
surfed on the second tune.
1329
01:24:35,003 --> 01:24:38,306
You know like... A phenomenon!
1330
01:24:38,406 --> 01:24:41,009
It was magical, in
Abitibi sincerely...
1331
01:24:41,109 --> 01:24:44,412
First time I went there in
my life and... Big night!
1332
01:24:51,953 --> 01:24:56,324
Beauce, Abitibi,
Bellechasse, Gaspésie,
1333
01:24:56,424 --> 01:24:59,861
Lac-St-Jean,
anywhere, name it...
1334
01:24:59,961 --> 01:25:02,130
Gatineau, Hull.
1335
01:25:02,230 --> 01:25:06,134
We were the kings of the
white tents... We made
them all in Quebec...
1336
01:25:06,234 --> 01:25:08,736
it became a standard
1337
01:25:08,837 --> 01:25:12,474
"Bob Bissonnette will
fill your place, you
will sell too many beers
1338
01:25:12,574 --> 01:25:15,677
and the crowd is too happy
and it becomes an event..."
1339
01:25:20,081 --> 01:25:23,351
He never saw himself as a star.
1340
01:25:23,451 --> 01:25:27,789
The success he had, at
no time did he say: "Yes, I
did achieve something" no...
1341
01:25:27,889 --> 01:25:30,525
It was all the time: "Shit,
I will succeed in breaking
through in Montreal,
1342
01:25:30,625 --> 01:25:32,060
Gee, I will succeed
elsewhere..."
1343
01:25:32,160 --> 01:25:35,196
Montreal takes longer,
I think, because...
1344
01:25:35,296 --> 01:25:38,166
If you're not in the right gang,
it still works with gangs...
1345
01:25:38,266 --> 01:25:42,070
while Bob, he managed
to do it by himself.
1346
01:25:42,170 --> 01:25:43,872
Let's say I turn it around,
1347
01:25:43,972 --> 01:25:45,540
there are so many people
who are just popular on
the island of Montréal
1348
01:25:45,640 --> 01:25:48,109
and who are not
popular elsewhere...
1349
01:25:49,811 --> 01:25:52,180
Maybe it's the same principle.
1350
01:26:04,592 --> 01:26:08,663
Montreal, he had never
given up, he was looking
for ways to do it,
1351
01:26:08,763 --> 01:26:10,431
He used to say all the time:
1352
01:26:10,532 --> 01:26:12,333
"Why don't I talk
at "Tout le monde en parle"
1353
01:26:12,433 --> 01:26:14,402
Why isn't it me
at "Tout le monde en parle"?
1354
01:26:14,502 --> 01:26:18,540
I'll show them how it works...
they'll remember me, I promise."
1355
01:26:32,921 --> 01:26:35,723
He has often talked to
Guy A. Lepage at "Tout
le monde en parle",
1356
01:26:35,823 --> 01:26:37,659
in his van or in his shower.
1357
01:26:37,759 --> 01:26:42,096
There is a window here next
to the yard where we park...
1358
01:26:42,197 --> 01:26:43,631
and sometimes
I would see him coming
1359
01:26:43,731 --> 01:26:47,936
and then I'd expect him
to enter in the next
few minutes, seconds...
1360
01:26:48,036 --> 01:26:49,604
And he doesn't come
in, and I look:
1361
01:26:49,704 --> 01:26:51,472
"Let's see what he's
doing?" He's in his
car and he's talking...
1362
01:26:51,573 --> 01:26:53,341
He's talking, he's
talking... He's making
gestures and he's talking.
1363
01:26:53,441 --> 01:26:56,010
And I know he's talking
to Guy A. Lepage...
1364
01:26:56,110 --> 01:27:00,715
He's talking to someone
he's going to convince of
the entirety of who he is.
1365
01:27:00,815 --> 01:27:02,951
And there's one of his t-shirts
that I really liked,
1366
01:27:03,051 --> 01:27:04,219
because he always
had black t-shirts,
1367
01:27:04,319 --> 01:27:05,553
so when he didn't
have a black t-shirt,
1368
01:27:05,653 --> 01:27:08,756
I said, "You're good-looking in
it, it looks good on you..."
1369
01:27:08,856 --> 01:27:10,391
"No, this one is to go
to Tout le monde en parle."
1370
01:27:10,491 --> 01:27:11,926
"Is this your favorite?"
1371
01:27:12,026 --> 01:27:13,294
"Okay, fine, I'll put it on to
go to Tout le monde en parle."
1372
01:27:13,394 --> 01:27:15,530
That was the t-shirt
to go to Tout le monde en parle.
1373
01:27:16,064 --> 01:27:17,565
{\an8}Bob tells me:
1374
01:27:17,665 --> 01:27:19,767
{\an8}"Well, now we're going to
do the pre-audition of La Voix,
1375
01:27:19,867 --> 01:27:21,469
{\an8}don't tell anyone about it...
1376
01:27:21,569 --> 01:27:24,405
{\an8}It's going to be the
only way I can be sure
that Stephane Laporte,
1377
01:27:24,505 --> 01:27:26,040
{\an8}who is a hockey maniac,
1378
01:27:26,140 --> 01:27:28,076
{\an8}will have my 3
albums in his hands.
1379
01:27:28,176 --> 01:27:33,615
You never know, if we go on TV,
it's going to be good for us."
1380
01:27:33,715 --> 01:27:35,717
We're going to do the
brief presentation.
1381
01:27:35,817 --> 01:27:37,685
Bob Bissonnette, rockstar.
1382
01:27:37,785 --> 01:27:39,187
Your age and where
you come from too.
1383
01:27:39,287 --> 01:27:40,755
33, I'm from Québec.
1384
01:27:40,855 --> 01:27:41,788
What are you going to sing?
1385
01:27:41,789 --> 01:27:43,358
L'Université a tune
from my third album.
1386
01:27:43,458 --> 01:27:44,425
We're listening to you.
1387
01:27:44,525 --> 01:27:46,628
1 minute 42 seconds later
1388
01:28:12,053 --> 01:28:13,554
- Hey, thanks a lot!
- Thanks!
1389
01:28:13,655 --> 01:28:17,392
Thank you Bob, have a good
day, good continuity...
1390
01:28:19,661 --> 01:28:21,195
Bye...
1391
01:28:21,296 --> 01:28:25,300
It's weird to see how
Bob couldn't make himself
known to Montreal...
1392
01:28:25,400 --> 01:28:26,901
and when he arrived
in Switzerland,
1393
01:28:27,001 --> 01:28:29,337
people were already fans
before Bob arrived there!
1394
01:28:29,437 --> 01:28:31,306
{\an8}Right now, he's here!
1395
01:28:31,406 --> 01:28:33,941
{\an8}Of course, it's Bob Bissonnette,
good evening.
1396
01:28:34,042 --> 01:28:35,276
{\an8}- Hi!
- How are you?
1397
01:28:35,376 --> 01:28:37,945
{\an8}- Top shape!
- Rockstar in Québec!
1398
01:28:38,046 --> 01:28:39,714
{\an8}Yes, I'm a rockstar.
1399
01:28:41,115 --> 01:28:43,451
Knowing that there are
many Quebeckers playing
hockey in Switzerland,
1400
01:28:43,551 --> 01:28:46,387
well, there was already
a network established there...
1401
01:28:46,487 --> 01:28:48,323
and we have a friend
Vanessa who is there,
1402
01:28:48,423 --> 01:28:53,394
and she really gave us a hand
too to try to develop this
thing in all hockey clubs,
1403
01:28:53,494 --> 01:28:55,530
and at one point
it finally expanded
1404
01:28:55,630 --> 01:28:59,334
and we managed to get to
Switzerland, to do some show,
1405
01:28:59,434 --> 01:29:00,702
and there are people out there
and it is the party
1406
01:29:00,802 --> 01:29:03,938
as if we were in
Beauce, the same thing.
1407
01:29:04,038 --> 01:29:08,476
The first shows he was really
surprised to see that so many
people knew his songs.
1408
01:29:08,576 --> 01:29:11,979
With internet, Facebook,
his videoclips...
1409
01:29:12,080 --> 01:29:15,383
it's true that people followed
him, we learned the lyrics,
1410
01:29:15,483 --> 01:29:18,286
we sold CDs so they
had time to learn.
1411
01:29:18,386 --> 01:29:22,023
And he was very surprised
by that, and he really
loved those moments.
1412
01:29:22,123 --> 01:29:23,958
We live in a region, a region...
1413
01:29:24,058 --> 01:29:28,229
we have a strong festive
spirit and the way he
did his shows there...
1414
01:29:28,329 --> 01:29:31,366
people don't necessarily
understand all the
words, it's obvious...
1415
01:29:31,466 --> 01:29:35,536
But it's okay, the energy
Bob was giving out was crazy,
1416
01:29:35,636 --> 01:29:39,941
it created a great atmosphere
and it was fantastic.
1417
01:29:40,041 --> 01:29:41,542
We were in Switzerland...
1418
01:29:41,642 --> 01:29:45,380
and almost all the
girls in the audience
1419
01:29:45,480 --> 01:29:48,583
had Bob's merch underwear...
1420
01:29:48,683 --> 01:29:51,219
and it impressed me, I was like:
1421
01:29:51,319 --> 01:29:54,389
"Fucking hell,
he's really big in Switzerland!"
1422
01:29:54,489 --> 01:29:56,557
There were... people
was going crazy!
1423
01:29:56,657 --> 01:29:58,993
We don't hear Bob Bissonnette
singing anymore,
1424
01:29:59,093 --> 01:30:03,297
we don't hear Bob Bissonnette
singing anymore!
1425
01:30:03,398 --> 01:30:05,666
In Switzerland I think
he realized it...
1426
01:30:05,767 --> 01:30:07,668
It was a whirlwind,
it was going so fast!
1427
01:30:07,769 --> 01:30:12,306
But I remember the
venue in St-Imier, where
there are 600 people...
1428
01:30:12,407 --> 01:30:14,742
he didn't need to sing...
1429
01:30:14,842 --> 01:30:16,477
It's special...
1430
01:30:16,577 --> 01:30:17,645
It's beautiful...
1431
01:30:17,745 --> 01:30:22,049
Bob Bissonnette!
Bob Bissonnette!
1432
01:30:22,150 --> 01:30:23,885
Ok that's enough!
1433
01:30:23,985 --> 01:30:27,422
Getting a room of 600
people to vibrate 6000
km from your place...
1434
01:30:28,489 --> 01:30:30,358
And not just vibrate
in the sense that you
have to win them over,
1435
01:30:30,458 --> 01:30:32,126
they are won in advance!
1436
01:30:32,226 --> 01:30:34,862
I asked Bob, I saw that
he had once done a kid
show in Quebec City,
1437
01:30:34,962 --> 01:30:37,398
and I asked him if it was
possible to do one here...
1438
01:30:37,498 --> 01:30:38,566
He said, "Of course!"
1439
01:30:38,666 --> 01:30:40,802
He got there, he
played 2 chords...
1440
01:30:40,902 --> 01:30:42,637
And when he started
the first song,
1441
01:30:42,737 --> 01:30:44,939
all the kids sang the song
with him, it was crazy!
1442
01:31:01,456 --> 01:31:04,559
He stopped for a while
in his song because...
1443
01:31:04,659 --> 01:31:08,763
to see all those children on
the other side of the world
singing his tunes by heart!
1444
01:31:08,863 --> 01:31:11,599
Some a little phonetically,
but everyone was singing,
1445
01:31:11,699 --> 01:31:14,368
everyone was screaming in
this room, it was crazy.
1446
01:31:14,469 --> 01:31:19,006
Bob was really
won over... It moved him a
lot, it touched him a lot!
1447
01:31:19,106 --> 01:31:23,878
It's also an honor for
me to go play not just
for partying drunk guys
1448
01:31:23,978 --> 01:31:26,013
but to see that it
reaches and connects
1449
01:31:26,113 --> 01:31:27,782
with the families
of the partying drunk guys.
1450
01:31:27,882 --> 01:31:32,019
To see the number of children
who know his songs...
1451
01:31:32,119 --> 01:31:33,588
It's amazing!
1452
01:31:41,329 --> 01:31:45,733
That's special... That's what I
experienced too, to do a show...
1453
01:31:45,833 --> 01:31:48,069
To see girls showing
their boobs...
1454
01:31:48,169 --> 01:31:51,138
And 12 hours later, there are
children singing the words
1455
01:31:51,239 --> 01:31:56,544
with Bob censoring his
lyrics because you can't say
them in front of children
1456
01:31:56,644 --> 01:32:00,548
but all children sing
the original lyrics!
1457
01:32:21,736 --> 01:32:24,505
I need a beer to relax, gorgée!
1458
01:32:30,077 --> 01:32:33,314
If you want to play in the
National League, don't take that
1459
01:32:33,414 --> 01:32:37,485
otherwise you'll end up on
a stage in front of a lot
of kids when you're 31!
1460
01:32:37,852 --> 01:32:38,786
Gorgée!
1461
01:32:38,886 --> 01:32:40,788
I love beer.
1462
01:32:40,888 --> 01:32:43,591
I'm not an alcoholic,
but I'm a "partyholic"
1463
01:32:43,691 --> 01:32:46,727
so I have a lot of opportunities
to have fun with people.
1464
01:32:46,827 --> 01:32:49,030
Having a beer on the stage
is natural for me,
1465
01:32:49,130 --> 01:32:51,933
I was doing it around campfires
when I started singing
1466
01:32:52,033 --> 01:32:54,602
I kind of continued
a little, what I was doing
a little around campfires.
1467
01:32:54,702 --> 01:32:56,337
Fans want to see Bob...
1468
01:32:56,437 --> 01:33:02,510
Pouring a beer on his head,
making 3-4 savoury jokes...
1469
01:33:02,610 --> 01:33:04,745
And then take the microphone
and give all he's got
1470
01:33:04,845 --> 01:33:07,181
with the neck vein coming out
when he sings.
1471
01:33:07,281 --> 01:33:10,217
Because he's in it,
because he's completely in it.
1472
01:33:10,318 --> 01:33:14,589
Obviously, alcohol was a
concern for us, the family...
1473
01:33:14,689 --> 01:33:17,224
Doing 3-4 shows a
week sometimes...
1474
01:33:17,325 --> 01:33:18,993
Drinking so much...
1475
01:33:19,093 --> 01:33:21,762
We thought: "Gee, is
there any other way?"
1476
01:33:23,230 --> 01:33:25,333
That was his basic concept.
1477
01:33:25,433 --> 01:33:30,237
It was hockey,
beer, women, fun...
1478
01:33:30,338 --> 01:33:32,173
It was festive...
1479
01:33:32,273 --> 01:33:36,243
And it matched with who he was,
he never faked this.
1480
01:33:36,344 --> 01:33:37,511
But...
1481
01:33:38,546 --> 01:33:42,650
Still, he was very aware that
people came to see that too.
1482
01:33:42,750 --> 01:33:45,987
That's stupid, but he still
had a pressure that...
1483
01:33:46,087 --> 01:33:48,823
wherever he was going it had to
be the party of the century!
1484
01:33:48,923 --> 01:33:50,791
When you do 4 shows a week...
1485
01:33:50,891 --> 01:33:54,662
to be the strongest
and most capable...
1486
01:33:54,762 --> 01:33:56,230
Well, there you
burned the guy...
1487
01:33:56,330 --> 01:34:00,534
No matter if you jog 4 times a
week, eat well, not eat bread...
1488
01:34:00,635 --> 01:34:03,004
But at some point
it's not a life...
1489
01:34:03,104 --> 01:34:06,173
It was part of the show
too. It's the positive
and negative side.
1490
01:34:06,273 --> 01:34:08,242
But to play for people
who are always drinking,
1491
01:34:08,342 --> 01:34:13,014
well sometimes it has more
negative effects than just
wanting to put on a music show.
1492
01:34:13,447 --> 01:34:17,051
Beer cans on the
stage, please stop!
1493
01:34:23,958 --> 01:34:26,627
We do it as a team, okay?
We win as a team we lose...
1494
01:34:26,727 --> 01:34:28,796
No, but it's because
you throw a can,
1495
01:34:28,896 --> 01:34:32,033
I get it on my face, or one of
my musicians, you understand...
1496
01:34:32,133 --> 01:34:34,268
He was someone who was
already flamboyant,
1497
01:34:34,368 --> 01:34:36,671
I mean, he didn't try to hide it
when he wasn't feeling it.
1498
01:34:36,771 --> 01:34:39,373
That summer, he was
hard to deal with.
1499
01:34:39,473 --> 01:34:41,242
Bob was planning his next album,
1500
01:34:41,342 --> 01:34:43,044
and I think he was planning
to make a transition,
1501
01:34:43,144 --> 01:34:45,846
but I don't know
what he was planning.
1502
01:34:45,946 --> 01:34:47,248
He wasn't telling us
very much about it.
1503
01:34:47,348 --> 01:34:49,050
I think he realized
that there was something
1504
01:34:49,150 --> 01:34:51,285
that perhaps
couldn't continue...
1505
01:34:51,385 --> 01:34:53,688
That we probably
couldn't continue with
the rhythm we had...
1506
01:34:53,788 --> 01:34:58,826
Well, over time it was
getting exhausting...
1507
01:34:58,926 --> 01:35:03,130
Bob it's funny because you're
still doing what you used
to do, you still fight...
1508
01:35:03,230 --> 01:35:06,667
You fight,
it's an industry that's
difficult, so you fight...
1509
01:35:06,767 --> 01:35:08,402
I think your hockey helped you.
1510
01:35:08,502 --> 01:35:11,439
What you experienced in junior
hockey is helping you today.
1511
01:35:11,539 --> 01:35:14,208
I would believe it. I would
believe that. Kind of like...
1512
01:35:14,308 --> 01:35:17,244
My band, we're a little
hockey club, so it's cool...
1513
01:35:28,756 --> 01:35:31,592
He managed to fill-up everything
that could be filled
1514
01:35:31,692 --> 01:35:35,463
in terms of festivals,
popular events...
1515
01:35:35,563 --> 01:35:39,633
{\an8}And then he said: "I am
getting older. I'm now
35 years old, and...
1516
01:35:39,734 --> 01:35:45,673
{\an8}I mean I can't break two
cans on my head when I'm
52, it won't work anymore!"
1517
01:35:45,773 --> 01:35:49,276
He needed security too,
with the passage of years.
1518
01:35:49,376 --> 01:35:53,581
I know that... we took a
trip to Maine in August
2016, and we had...
1519
01:35:53,681 --> 01:35:55,182
He had made some big decisions.
1520
01:35:55,282 --> 01:35:57,818
{\an8}And he was very concerned
about his career, his future,
1521
01:35:57,918 --> 01:35:58,986
{\an8}the people around him,
1522
01:35:59,086 --> 01:36:01,055
{\an8}who he wanted to keep,
who he wanted to change,
1523
01:36:01,155 --> 01:36:03,824
{\an8}he wanted to progress, he was
very concerned about that.
1524
01:36:03,924 --> 01:36:06,393
I know he wanted to do
a breakthrough in Montreal.
1525
01:36:06,494 --> 01:36:08,062
He had a plan for Montreal.
1526
01:36:08,162 --> 01:36:11,932
He knew that Montreal would
be big, he had it in mind...
1527
01:36:12,032 --> 01:36:15,669
Right before his death he was
supposed to do the Club Soda,
1528
01:36:15,770 --> 01:36:18,339
and I have a feeling
that it would have
started at that moment.
1529
01:36:18,439 --> 01:36:21,609
He told me sometime in 2016:
1530
01:36:21,709 --> 01:36:23,244
"I did everything I
wanted to do in life,
1531
01:36:23,344 --> 01:36:26,113
the only thing I
haven't done yet is...
I didn't have children.
1532
01:36:26,213 --> 01:36:27,815
The only thing I
haven't done yet..."
1533
01:36:29,049 --> 01:36:31,752
He loved his brother's
and sister's children,
1534
01:36:31,852 --> 01:36:33,220
he loved Steve's children...
1535
01:36:33,320 --> 01:36:35,756
He was very close to
Steve's children...
1536
01:36:48,569 --> 01:36:50,704
He would have been a...
1537
01:36:50,805 --> 01:36:55,242
a great person to be
a father, really...
1538
01:36:55,342 --> 01:36:59,413
But... probably the
first year I would have
taken care of everything!
1539
01:37:00,080 --> 01:37:02,316
But then after that,
I would see him with the kid...
1540
01:37:05,586 --> 01:37:07,888
he would have been exceptional!
1541
01:37:10,090 --> 01:37:13,360
The day before he left,
we all got together...
1542
01:37:13,460 --> 01:37:14,562
You can't write that.
1543
01:37:14,662 --> 01:37:16,030
It's as if he had
had the opportunity
1544
01:37:16,130 --> 01:37:18,632
to have a good time with
everyone or almost everyone
1545
01:37:18,732 --> 01:37:22,436
less than 48 hours before
his departure, and we had
an extraordinary evening...
1546
01:37:22,536 --> 01:37:25,539
He was hanging on the beam at
La Broche à Foin and he had fun
1547
01:37:25,639 --> 01:37:27,842
and we poured beer
on each other...
1548
01:37:27,942 --> 01:37:30,611
It ended the way
it always has been:
1549
01:37:30,711 --> 01:37:35,282
it was intense, happy, joyful,
and in a group atmosphere.
1550
01:37:35,382 --> 01:37:38,752
{\an8}That night, he hugged me
several times and said to me:
1551
01:37:38,853 --> 01:37:42,389
{\an8}"Gee we're so
well tonight. Aren't we
well tonight ? We are!"
1552
01:37:42,489 --> 01:37:45,426
{\an8}He told me that several times
in the evening.
1553
01:37:45,526 --> 01:37:47,027
{\an8}Giving me a kiss
on the forehead.
1554
01:37:47,127 --> 01:37:48,829
{\an8}He calls me on the
Saturday morning...
1555
01:37:48,929 --> 01:37:50,731
{\an8}He only calls me to say:
1556
01:37:50,831 --> 01:37:54,535
{\an8}"Steve, do you realize how
great it was yesterday,
it was hot, it was..."
1557
01:37:55,269 --> 01:37:58,906
There I said... a little
hangover but you're right...
1558
01:37:59,006 --> 01:38:01,342
He said: "Steve no,
it was completely crazy!"
1559
01:38:01,442 --> 01:38:05,813
That Friday night, my cousin
Mimi works at La Broche à Foin,
1560
01:38:05,913 --> 01:38:08,549
she bought a laser...
1561
01:38:09,750 --> 01:38:12,820
And when the girls
closed the kitchens,
1562
01:38:12,920 --> 01:38:15,522
they put on music,
finishing the dishes...
1563
01:38:15,623 --> 01:38:20,761
They put on music, very loudly
and they put on their laser,
1564
01:38:20,861 --> 01:38:24,198
like a kind of laser projector
on the ceiling.
1565
01:38:24,298 --> 01:38:26,834
She bought it that weekend
and she wanted to show it to me.
1566
01:38:26,934 --> 01:38:29,336
So she was closing the kitchen,
we're in the barn,
1567
01:38:29,436 --> 01:38:31,705
I'm behind the bar,
the party's going well...
1568
01:38:31,805 --> 01:38:35,042
my boyfriend is there with
his friends, everyone,
the whole gang is there...
1569
01:38:35,142 --> 01:38:38,913
We go into the house,
and she puts our tune...
1570
01:38:39,013 --> 01:38:41,849
The song we love,
that we really love...
1571
01:38:41,949 --> 01:38:45,552
And we start dancing,
with lasers on that song...
1572
01:38:45,653 --> 01:38:48,923
And she takes a picture
that I didn't see
for a long time, but...
1573
01:38:49,023 --> 01:38:54,895
And we dance, and we look
at each other, we love each
other, we laugh, we laugh...
1574
01:38:54,995 --> 01:38:59,700
We make sounds of laughter,
and we go back dancing
with everyone and...
1575
01:38:59,800 --> 01:39:03,103
And I have this
picture in life that...
1576
01:39:04,905 --> 01:39:07,141
That... You know
we could have...
1577
01:39:08,142 --> 01:39:10,411
We were so happy, it's great...
1578
01:39:36,103 --> 01:39:37,871
Still, it's special...
1579
01:39:37,972 --> 01:39:41,642
He's with a bunch
of friends on Thursday, he's
with another gang on Friday,
1580
01:39:41,742 --> 01:39:43,477
we all get the
chance to see him.
1581
01:39:43,577 --> 01:39:47,648
He's with his friends
from Caraquet on Saturday
and he loves that place...
1582
01:39:47,748 --> 01:39:52,086
And that day it's
beautiful and when we're
in the boat in the morning
1583
01:39:52,186 --> 01:39:55,222
all his favorite songs
are playing one after the other!
1584
01:39:56,557 --> 01:39:58,392
And every time
he's like: "Oh, come on,
that's my favorite tune!
1585
01:39:58,492 --> 01:39:59,893
Oh, come on, that's the
best song in the world!"
1586
01:39:59,994 --> 01:40:01,929
So we're having fun
and it's just peaceful.
1587
01:40:02,029 --> 01:40:04,231
You know, not that Bob
wasn't well, but...
1588
01:40:04,331 --> 01:40:06,834
He was always a little
worried about...
1589
01:40:06,934 --> 01:40:08,635
"Yeah, I don't know..."
1590
01:40:08,736 --> 01:40:12,573
And I'm not an artist,
but I imagine that having
to make another album...
1591
01:40:12,673 --> 01:40:16,610
and then having to challenge
the opinion of people who say:
1592
01:40:16,710 --> 01:40:18,679
"Bob, it's gonna be
a temporary thing for him.
1593
01:40:18,779 --> 01:40:20,848
Will it work for two years?"
1594
01:40:20,948 --> 01:40:22,316
And then he has done
3 years, 4 years,
1595
01:40:22,416 --> 01:40:23,884
and he had found new
ideas and all that,
1596
01:40:23,984 --> 01:40:26,120
but I'm sure it's exhausting
to be like that
1597
01:40:26,220 --> 01:40:30,090
to have to be creative
and to reach expectations and...
1598
01:40:30,190 --> 01:40:31,592
not that weekend.
1599
01:40:31,692 --> 01:40:35,696
That weekend, he was just
fine with everything.
1600
01:40:35,796 --> 01:40:37,564
It was serene.
1601
01:40:37,664 --> 01:40:40,667
It was a privilege
to spend the last moments w
1602
01:40:40,768 --> 01:40:43,804
Someone who was so happy...
1603
01:40:43,904 --> 01:40:46,540
He was serene, we
had so much fun...
1604
01:40:46,640 --> 01:40:49,176
The morning of the
accident he played a song
about mothers-in-law,
1605
01:40:49,276 --> 01:40:51,578
and another one about
the sugar shack.
1606
01:40:52,279 --> 01:40:55,149
These two will always remain a
little special for me because...
1607
01:40:55,249 --> 01:40:58,485
And I loved it, and the
atmosphere was incredible,
it was a beautiful day...
1608
01:40:58,585 --> 01:41:01,121
and without knowing what would
happen in the next hours...
1609
01:41:01,221 --> 01:41:02,689
So that's a little special...
1610
01:41:02,790 --> 01:41:06,527
There was one, on the terrace he
did with my daughter that was...
1611
01:41:06,627 --> 01:41:10,197
That was extraordinary,
they both went
away, they practiced...
1612
01:41:10,297 --> 01:41:12,399
We didn't disturb
them, we just heard...
1613
01:41:12,499 --> 01:41:15,469
A guitar and a little voice
in the back of the terrace...
1614
01:41:15,569 --> 01:41:17,004
They practiced and...
1615
01:41:17,104 --> 01:41:20,574
And we were in the
offices and we worked
all day and there he...
1616
01:41:20,674 --> 01:41:23,410
He came to me and said:
"Are you ready to hear it?"
1617
01:41:23,510 --> 01:41:25,079
"Of course, we're
ready to hear it!"
1618
01:41:25,179 --> 01:41:28,615
And then we all gathered
around Alie-Anne and Bob...
1619
01:41:28,715 --> 01:41:30,784
And... they sang this song.
1620
01:41:30,884 --> 01:41:33,520
Hockey is my whole life
1621
01:41:33,620 --> 01:41:36,323
I've been thinking about that
since I'm a child
1622
01:41:36,423 --> 01:41:39,093
But now I have something new
that I'm all thrilled about
1623
01:41:39,193 --> 01:41:41,695
I have a sweet little
crush since last week
1624
01:41:41,795 --> 01:41:46,800
I met her outside, close
to the Centre Henri-Leonard
1625
01:41:46,900 --> 01:41:49,503
I finally found my man
1626
01:41:49,603 --> 01:41:52,739
The team captain
became my boyfriend
1627
01:41:52,840 --> 01:41:58,178
After a game the best player
of the team sweet-talked me
1628
01:41:58,278 --> 01:42:00,714
I knew right away he
was the man of my life
1629
01:42:00,814 --> 01:42:03,851
After that famous
game against Rimouski
1630
01:42:03,951 --> 01:42:09,756
I found the rare gem, I'm dating
the best player in the north
1631
01:42:09,857 --> 01:42:12,392
The king of the ice
1632
01:42:15,395 --> 01:42:18,165
The queen of the place
1633
01:42:21,435 --> 01:42:24,505
The best player in the league,
I'm the one who got him
1634
01:42:24,605 --> 01:42:28,242
I love the little
one in section 3
1635
01:42:30,210 --> 01:42:32,579
A great season
1636
01:42:32,679 --> 01:42:35,849
Oh an incredible love
1637
01:42:35,949 --> 01:42:37,951
We're going in finals
1638
01:42:38,051 --> 01:42:41,355
Bring me the Memorial Cup
1639
01:42:41,455 --> 01:42:44,158
I'm gonna do everything, baby
1640
01:42:44,258 --> 01:42:46,994
I know you're going to win
1641
01:42:47,094 --> 01:42:49,296
And as a matter of
fact, we're champions
1642
01:42:49,396 --> 01:42:52,833
I jump around her neck
when I get off the plane
1643
01:42:52,933 --> 01:42:55,602
The king of the ice
1644
01:42:58,705 --> 01:43:01,241
The queen of the place
1645
01:43:04,211 --> 01:43:07,047
I'm back from Kelona
1646
01:43:07,147 --> 01:43:09,716
I can't wait to
jump in your arms
1647
01:43:09,816 --> 01:43:12,252
The king of the ice
1648
01:43:15,722 --> 01:43:18,292
The queen of the place
1649
01:43:21,361 --> 01:43:24,431
The best player in
the league, I'm the...
1650
01:43:24,531 --> 01:43:29,136
I love the little
one in section 3
1651
01:43:30,304 --> 01:43:32,873
This is the moment
we've been waiting for so long
1652
01:43:32,973 --> 01:43:35,642
My dream since I was little
1653
01:43:35,742 --> 01:43:38,512
Got drafted by Chicago
1654
01:43:38,612 --> 01:43:42,049
He's gonna have to
leave Baie Comeau
1655
01:43:42,149 --> 01:43:45,752
A beautiful story, but a sad one
1656
01:43:45,852 --> 01:43:49,256
Because it's more
than just a goodbye
1657
01:43:49,356 --> 01:43:53,327
The two lovers,
straight in the eyes
1658
01:43:53,427 --> 01:43:55,295
Must say goodbye to each other
1659
01:43:55,395 --> 01:43:57,664
I leave the place
1660
01:44:01,068 --> 01:44:03,670
{\an8}Another ice ring
1661
01:44:06,773 --> 01:44:12,879
{\an8}There I'll tie my
skates, I'll think of you
1662
01:44:12,980 --> 01:44:15,749
{\an8}I leave the ice ring
1663
01:44:18,719 --> 01:44:20,854
Another ice ring
1664
01:44:24,558 --> 01:44:26,260
{\an8}You're the one who got my heart
1665
01:44:26,360 --> 01:44:31,098
{\an8}In memory of Roberto
Bissonnette's qualities of
generosity and dynamism,
1666
01:44:31,198 --> 01:44:36,570
{\an8}the Bob Bissonnette Foundation
was created in 2018 to help
young artists and athletes
1667
01:44:36,670 --> 01:44:40,207
{\an8}to develop their
favorite activities
1668
01:44:40,307 --> 01:44:44,444
{\an8}despite certain difficulties
they may encounter.
1669
01:44:56,623 --> 01:45:01,561
{\an8}My buddy Bruno... Is making
some kind of documentary film!
1670
01:45:01,662 --> 01:45:03,330
Bob Bissonnette:
ROCKSTAR, All the Way.
1671
01:45:03,430 --> 01:45:07,467
I'm a rock star because of you
guys, I love you, yes sir!
1672
01:45:14,675 --> 01:45:19,613
Tonight, I think is the best day
of my life, yeah!
1673
01:45:23,350 --> 01:45:25,819
I think it is important
to remember that...
1674
01:45:25,919 --> 01:45:30,057
He was a good person,
he loved the world...
1675
01:45:30,157 --> 01:45:31,958
He loved people...
1676
01:45:32,059 --> 01:45:33,727
Uh...
1677
01:45:37,197 --> 01:45:40,500
He was a fighter,
he worked hard.
1678
01:45:40,600 --> 01:45:43,870
Some only seek money and others
are only looking for fame...
1679
01:45:43,970 --> 01:45:46,707
While he just wanted to be happy
with the people.
1680
01:45:46,807 --> 01:45:50,577
And that... Let's say that
if we've succeeded in that...
1681
01:45:50,677 --> 01:45:52,579
We're very happy with that.
1682
01:47:46,326 --> 01:47:50,697
After his death, it
didn't bother me at all
to listen to his music...
1683
01:47:50,797 --> 01:47:52,332
Nowadays...
1684
01:47:52,432 --> 01:47:54,568
It sometimes bothers me...
1685
01:47:55,969 --> 01:47:57,804
I can't explain it
but some songs bother me...
1686
01:47:57,904 --> 01:48:01,875
There are things that
remind me of memories...
1687
01:48:06,313 --> 01:48:07,981
It's special.
1688
01:49:07,741 --> 01:49:09,709
I played with Elvis...
1689
01:49:12,212 --> 01:49:14,581
Yeah... I like it...
1690
01:49:16,182 --> 01:49:20,420
If one day I can bring my
children to have as much...
1691
01:49:20,520 --> 01:49:24,991
As much will as
Bob had, no matter in
which aspect of life...
1692
01:49:25,091 --> 01:49:28,862
To have the will and to find the
ways to reach what you want...
1693
01:49:28,962 --> 01:49:31,398
If you want something, do like
him, and I swear to you...
1694
01:49:31,498 --> 01:49:33,800
If you think a third
of what he could think,
1695
01:49:33,900 --> 01:49:35,235
you will have it for sure.
1696
01:49:35,335 --> 01:49:36,469
That's what we must remember.
1697
01:49:36,570 --> 01:49:38,238
He's still alive...
1698
01:49:39,706 --> 01:49:40,941
With the passage of time,
1699
01:49:41,041 --> 01:49:44,311
he still lives in people,
his music remains,
1700
01:49:44,411 --> 01:49:47,814
people still talk about him,
1701
01:49:47,914 --> 01:49:51,284
he has deeply touched
a lot of people,
1702
01:49:51,384 --> 01:49:54,588
and the transformations he has
brought in those people...
1703
01:49:54,688 --> 01:49:58,091
I lived a lot
through my brother...
1704
01:50:01,094 --> 01:50:06,166
I followed a track in
my life where I did what
was expected from me.
1705
01:50:06,266 --> 01:50:10,236
My brother showed me what
we didn't necessarily
expect from people...
1706
01:50:10,337 --> 01:50:12,072
He had his own trail...
1707
01:50:13,273 --> 01:50:15,875
I really do believe
that he was someone...
1708
01:50:17,444 --> 01:50:18,979
different.
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