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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.BZ 2 00:00:07,841 --> 00:00:09,509 September 3, 2014, 3 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.BZ 4 00:00:09,609 --> 00:00:13,079 I'm going to do the pre-audition at the TV show The Voice. 5 00:00:13,179 --> 00:00:15,081 As a sign of respect and integrity for my fans, 6 00:00:15,181 --> 00:00:17,283 I'm going to make this little video. 7 00:00:17,817 --> 00:00:19,652 To tell you that if... 8 00:00:20,920 --> 00:00:24,424 I advance and it brings me to the TV show for the real auditions and the whole thing, 9 00:00:24,524 --> 00:00:29,162 and if 0, 1, 1, 2, 3 or 4 judges, coaches, whatever, turn their chair around, 10 00:00:29,262 --> 00:00:31,531 well I will stand up like a man like I always did, 11 00:00:31,631 --> 00:00:34,000 like you guys have done since the beginning, 12 00:00:35,668 --> 00:00:38,405 and I will not continue the adventure as a contestant. 13 00:00:38,505 --> 00:00:41,808 If they want me to be a coach and it's very lucrative 14 00:00:41,908 --> 00:00:43,977 and I can buy a helicopter, a boat, 15 00:00:44,077 --> 00:00:46,212 a rowboat, whatever... 16 00:00:46,312 --> 00:00:48,348 Well, I'll say the truth, then I'd do it. 17 00:00:48,448 --> 00:00:51,051 But as a contestant, I WILL NOT do it. 18 00:00:51,151 --> 00:00:53,253 One, it's not me. It's not you either... 19 00:00:53,353 --> 00:00:54,687 And I also don't sing well. 20 00:00:54,788 --> 00:00:56,589 And I even think that there's no booze on the show. 21 00:00:56,689 --> 00:00:59,759 I don't want to see anyone judging me because if I do the pre-audition, 22 00:00:59,859 --> 00:01:02,195 I may sing one of my tunes in front of 2 million people 23 00:01:02,295 --> 00:01:03,630 and that would be good for me. 24 00:01:03,730 --> 00:01:06,032 Thank you for being here everyone. I love you. 25 00:01:12,272 --> 00:01:16,509 "LES PRODUCTIONS SCENE FINALE" PRESENT 26 00:01:17,610 --> 00:01:21,648 IN COLLABORATION WITH "LES ENTREPRISES BOB BISSONNETTE" 27 00:01:23,850 --> 00:01:28,755 HIS FAMILY 28 00:01:29,823 --> 00:01:34,761 HIS CHUMS 29 00:01:35,829 --> 00:01:38,698 HIS TEAMMATES 30 00:01:38,798 --> 00:01:41,668 Bob Bissonnette is a superhero 31 00:01:41,768 --> 00:01:43,036 HIS BAND 32 00:01:43,136 --> 00:01:46,206 Rougher than Chuck Norris, rougher than Rambo 33 00:01:46,306 --> 00:01:48,274 Worshipped by millions of fans 34 00:01:48,374 --> 00:01:50,076 AND HIS MILLIONS OF FANS 35 00:01:50,176 --> 00:01:53,079 Even hotter than Spiderman 36 00:01:53,913 --> 00:01:57,884 A FILM BY BRUNO LACHANCE 37 00:01:58,551 --> 00:01:59,853 {\an8}(news reports - September 4, 2016) 38 00:01:59,953 --> 00:02:02,555 A helicopter accident killed two people and injured one 39 00:02:02,655 --> 00:02:04,290 near Campbellton, New Brunswick... 40 00:02:04,390 --> 00:02:06,659 ...The aircraft would have hit the electrical wires... 41 00:02:08,661 --> 00:02:11,397 ...ultimately ended up in the Restigouche River... 42 00:02:17,470 --> 00:02:20,507 ...through the help of good Samaritans. Michel Laplante was more fortunate... 43 00:02:20,607 --> 00:02:22,475 ...It creates a huge commotion in Quebec City, elsewhere too... 44 00:02:22,575 --> 00:02:24,377 The former hockey player Bob Bissonnette... 45 00:02:24,477 --> 00:02:26,613 Bob Bissonnette, singer and former hockey player... 46 00:02:26,713 --> 00:02:30,517 Roberto Bob Bissonnette was a colorful, endearing character... 47 00:02:30,617 --> 00:02:33,286 ...A media and sports fan's darling, a media and sports fan, 48 00:02:33,386 --> 00:02:34,954 an ex-hockey player who became a singer... 49 00:02:35,054 --> 00:02:37,223 ...Bob Bissonnette was a well known and beloved character... 50 00:02:37,323 --> 00:02:39,993 ...I think we can even talk about a phenomenon in Bob Bissonnette's case... 51 00:02:40,093 --> 00:02:41,694 ...an unbeatable unifying man... 52 00:02:41,794 --> 00:02:43,296 ...this guy is some kind of happiness dealer 53 00:02:43,396 --> 00:02:45,298 like there are very few of them in a community... 54 00:02:45,398 --> 00:02:47,834 ...Bob Bissonnette, is a Rockstar. 55 00:04:18,424 --> 00:04:19,926 Roberto was born in Venezuela 56 00:04:20,026 --> 00:04:24,697 because, as part of my work at the Quebec Minister of Internat 57 00:04:24,797 --> 00:04:28,568 the government sent me to Venezuela for a period of 3 years 58 00:04:28,668 --> 00:04:33,206 as a cooperation counsellor at the Quebec delegation in Caracas. 59 00:04:36,476 --> 00:04:40,213 {\an8}As part of our plans as a couple we wanted to have a third child, 60 00:04:40,313 --> 00:04:42,949 {\an8}after a difficult pregnancy, 61 00:04:43,049 --> 00:04:45,885 {\an8}Roberto, a beautiful 8.5 pound baby 62 00:04:45,985 --> 00:04:48,855 {\an8}was born on April 27, 1981. 63 00:04:51,858 --> 00:04:54,227 My parents made me during a trip to Venezuela. 64 00:04:54,327 --> 00:04:56,195 Instead of buying me a postcard, 65 00:04:56,296 --> 00:04:58,398 they called me Roberto so it lasted a lifetime. 66 00:05:03,736 --> 00:05:06,572 And then in 82, we came back and we settled here... 67 00:05:06,673 --> 00:05:11,811 It all started here for him, a year after he was born. 68 00:05:46,913 --> 00:05:52,251 In the fall, Gregoire used to go to Ste-Foy to register the children. 69 00:05:52,352 --> 00:05:54,654 You have all the fall activities... 70 00:05:54,754 --> 00:05:57,657 Gregoire was leaving to go there and at 3 and a half years old, 71 00:05:57,757 --> 00:06:00,326 Roberto had said: "Dad! Sign me up for fighting!" 72 00:06:07,233 --> 00:06:11,304 Then we said, "Well, maybe we'll wait a little bit for that... 73 00:06:11,404 --> 00:06:12,772 You're still small..." 74 00:06:12,872 --> 00:06:15,908 We were looking at each other, "fighting lessons...!" 75 00:06:16,008 --> 00:06:17,576 Some time passed... 76 00:06:17,577 --> 00:06:22,915 Well, the next year, he said, "Dad, I want you to sign me up for the violin!" 77 00:06:23,816 --> 00:06:26,853 "I look at Gregoire and said: "enroll him in the violin class." 78 00:06:26,953 --> 00:06:29,255 At home, we used to work on a session basis. 79 00:06:29,355 --> 00:06:33,326 When you signed up for something, you had to finish the session. 80 00:06:33,426 --> 00:06:37,196 You had no right to stop along the way, we didn't want quitters... 81 00:06:37,296 --> 00:06:38,197 Well, he played for nine years! 82 00:06:38,297 --> 00:06:43,469 Roberto's exam practice, April 1993 83 00:07:13,299 --> 00:07:15,668 {\an8}(recording of Roberto's grandmother) 84 00:07:15,768 --> 00:07:19,005 {\an8}My grandmother played the piano in a magnifi-cent way. 85 00:07:19,105 --> 00:07:20,840 {\an8}She played during silent films. 86 00:07:20,940 --> 00:07:22,775 {\an8}We were always doing some kind of performance. 87 00:07:22,875 --> 00:07:25,878 {\an8}At Christmas, I remember, when my brother played the violin, 88 00:07:25,978 --> 00:07:29,182 {\an8}I played the guitar and my sister played the piano and our cousins as well... 89 00:07:29,282 --> 00:07:33,186 {\an8}It often ended with my grandmother playing the piano. 90 00:07:33,286 --> 00:07:37,056 {\an8}Then everyone sang and played music to finish the evening. 91 00:07:37,156 --> 00:07:40,660 {\an8}There were beautiful and very pleasant moments. 92 00:07:40,760 --> 00:07:42,695 Family values were important. 93 00:07:42,795 --> 00:07:47,200 We also wanted the children to study, 94 00:07:47,300 --> 00:07:49,268 play a team sport, 95 00:07:49,368 --> 00:07:52,205 and learn a musical instrument. 96 00:07:53,172 --> 00:07:55,908 Discipline was very important in the family. 97 00:07:56,008 --> 00:07:58,711 My mother was a teacher. You had to work! 98 00:07:58,811 --> 00:08:00,546 He was a very well behaved student. 99 00:08:00,646 --> 00:08:03,382 He was a very focused student. 100 00:08:03,483 --> 00:08:08,254 He didn't talk much, but on the playground, he was a good player, a team player, 101 00:08:08,354 --> 00:08:13,192 He expressed himself more while playing. While in class, he was polite and quiet. 102 00:08:13,292 --> 00:08:14,760 He was even a little bit shy. 103 00:08:14,861 --> 00:08:17,930 When we were young, we used to come home from school at 3:00, or 3:30. 104 00:08:18,030 --> 00:08:20,500 My brother would drop his bag in the kitchen, so did I, 105 00:08:20,600 --> 00:08:21,934 and then we would take the goals out. 106 00:08:37,083 --> 00:08:40,419 {\an8}When Bob says we probably played 1000 hockey games on the street, 107 00:08:40,520 --> 00:08:41,954 {\an8}it's not a joke. 108 00:08:42,054 --> 00:08:44,624 {\an8}We would call and let the others know when we couldn't play! 109 00:08:52,431 --> 00:08:55,167 There was a considerable age difference sometimes even of 7 years. 110 00:08:55,268 --> 00:08:58,771 My brother may have been 7 and others could be 14 years old. 111 00:08:58,871 --> 00:09:03,910 We played in the street... Every game was like the Stanley Cup... 112 00:09:04,010 --> 00:09:06,112 Especially for him, he gave it all he had. 113 00:09:06,212 --> 00:09:07,980 Some people knew him in the Junior Major league, 114 00:09:08,080 --> 00:09:10,616 motormouthed and giving a hard time to the others. 115 00:09:10,716 --> 00:09:12,752 But it all started when he was seven years old! 116 00:09:29,035 --> 00:09:31,771 One of the characteristics of street hockey was the battles. 117 00:09:31,871 --> 00:09:33,739 Fights were legal for us. 118 00:09:33,839 --> 00:09:36,609 There was one rule, that you could never hit in the face. 119 00:09:36,709 --> 00:09:39,645 So we used to catch the other and punch in the ribs. 120 00:09:39,745 --> 00:09:43,549 And the first to say "Ayoye", was the one who would lose! 121 00:09:43,649 --> 00:09:45,718 At 9:00 in the evening I looked outside 122 00:09:45,818 --> 00:09:48,321 and could see the goals were still in the street. 123 00:09:48,421 --> 00:09:49,956 He had been there for eight hours. 124 00:09:50,056 --> 00:09:53,659 Cars would drive around the goals, and then go through... 125 00:09:53,759 --> 00:09:54,827 Let's just say... 126 00:09:54,927 --> 00:09:57,530 He lived for it. He lived for hockey. 127 00:10:00,633 --> 00:10:04,303 At school, all his sentences were about hockey. 128 00:10:04,403 --> 00:10:05,805 "Dale Hunter is my favorite player. " 129 00:10:05,905 --> 00:10:09,308 If it was 10 sentences, it was 10 sentences about hockey. 130 00:10:09,408 --> 00:10:13,279 When he had to talk about something in an oral presentation 131 00:10:13,379 --> 00:10:16,716 he would talk about a hockey player, talk about a particular game, 132 00:10:16,816 --> 00:10:18,084 talk about hockey. 133 00:10:18,184 --> 00:10:19,652 It was all hockey! 134 00:10:19,752 --> 00:10:22,822 But at some point, we were are asked "What are you going to do later?" 135 00:10:22,922 --> 00:10:25,658 And my brother had read the whole New Testament. 136 00:10:25,758 --> 00:10:29,595 He even said he wanted to become a priest. 137 00:10:29,695 --> 00:10:31,764 I think that for him, to be a priest, 138 00:10:31,864 --> 00:10:37,036 he liked the fact of being in front of an audience. 139 00:10:37,136 --> 00:10:38,504 That was the concept. 140 00:10:39,705 --> 00:10:44,210 In the end... he didn't become a priest... it didn't work out that way! 141 00:10:49,348 --> 00:10:54,587 In terms of values, we are believers, so we went to church on Sundays. 142 00:10:54,687 --> 00:10:56,889 And the children would come with us 143 00:10:56,989 --> 00:10:59,725 they didn't ask themselves any questions, they had to follow. 144 00:10:59,825 --> 00:11:02,495 Of course, when we were young we would sit in the front with my parents. 145 00:11:02,595 --> 00:11:05,097 And at one point we decided to sit in the back... 146 00:11:05,197 --> 00:11:08,401 Being disciplined, I stayed until the end. 147 00:11:08,501 --> 00:11:12,405 My brother and Yanick, one of his buddies, would leave. 148 00:11:12,505 --> 00:11:14,273 "We're going to move somewhere else." 149 00:11:14,373 --> 00:11:17,243 I was thinking, "We have the best place, why would you do that?" 150 00:11:18,511 --> 00:11:21,080 Well, I knew afterwards that they were going in the car... 151 00:11:21,180 --> 00:11:23,215 {\an8}I don't remember attending a full service! 152 00:11:23,315 --> 00:11:26,152 {\an8}For 3, 4 years, we were there every Sunday 153 00:11:26,252 --> 00:11:29,221 {\an8}and we were in his car and Bob would remake the world. 154 00:11:29,321 --> 00:11:32,958 I felt like I was discouraging him, but Bob, Pee Wee CC, said: 155 00:11:33,059 --> 00:11:34,660 "I'm going to play in the National Hockey League!" 156 00:11:34,760 --> 00:11:36,696 "I'll start by training." 157 00:11:36,796 --> 00:11:38,998 And he knew that one of my neighbors was a Mr. Canada. 158 00:11:39,098 --> 00:11:41,100 He went to see him and knocked on his door 159 00:11:41,934 --> 00:11:44,804 to find out what one should do to gain muscle mass... 160 00:11:44,904 --> 00:11:46,639 {\an8}I think Bob's greatest quality is that 161 00:11:46,739 --> 00:11:49,809 {\an8}he always found a way to achieve everything he wanted in his life. 162 00:11:49,909 --> 00:11:52,344 I introduced Job and Bob. 163 00:11:52,445 --> 00:11:58,084 Now I can brag about it because both of them are like brothers, it's incredible. 164 00:11:58,184 --> 00:12:00,219 If Bob was a vindictive guy, we wouldn't be friends. 165 00:12:00,319 --> 00:12:04,523 {\an8}I wasn't people's favorite, I was a... 166 00:12:04,623 --> 00:12:07,460 {\an8}I was a little unfriendly... 167 00:12:07,560 --> 00:12:10,463 And I could even say I intimidated Bob when we were in primary school. 168 00:12:10,563 --> 00:12:14,133 Thanks to Yan Fiset, they were playing hockey in the street. 169 00:12:14,233 --> 00:12:16,068 And then one day they realized that there was one person missing. 170 00:12:16,168 --> 00:12:20,072 Yan was my friend, and Bob's friend when we started high school... 171 00:12:20,172 --> 00:12:23,109 Well of course for Bob, the memories about Steve were not very cheerful. 172 00:12:23,209 --> 00:12:25,945 I started playing street hockey with them, I'll always remember it, 173 00:12:26,045 --> 00:12:27,780 I can even tell you in front of which house, 174 00:12:27,880 --> 00:12:30,783 he gave me a solid body check and I went into a car. 175 00:12:30,883 --> 00:12:34,787 And then I got up and looked at him and he said, "Okay, now we're even." 176 00:12:34,887 --> 00:12:37,556 From that day on, from that moment, we started playing street hockey. 177 00:12:37,656 --> 00:12:41,127 We would stay after the games and talk to each other in the snowbank, 178 00:12:41,227 --> 00:12:44,096 we got on well together very quickly. 179 00:12:44,730 --> 00:12:48,300 {\an8}The meeting of Roberto and Steve is, I think, 180 00:12:48,400 --> 00:12:51,837 {\an8}one of the most beautiful encounters on Earth. 181 00:12:52,805 --> 00:12:58,711 Roberto found his alter ego, the person who could bring him further. 182 00:12:58,811 --> 00:13:00,379 My brother had ideas. 183 00:13:00,479 --> 00:13:03,516 He also had brakes in life, I was the same... 184 00:13:03,616 --> 00:13:06,552 But Steve would say: "Hey good idea! I have a better idea!" 185 00:13:06,652 --> 00:13:07,853 "And no, no, no, I have a better one..." 186 00:13:07,953 --> 00:13:10,022 They would boost one another. 187 00:13:10,122 --> 00:13:11,957 We used to play hockey a lot in the street. 188 00:13:12,057 --> 00:13:15,694 We were 16-17 years old when we started playing roller hockey at Jouvence school. 189 00:13:15,795 --> 00:13:17,963 With two goals, there were no boards, 190 00:13:18,063 --> 00:13:19,632 if we missed our passes, we had to go and get it in the sand, 191 00:13:19,732 --> 00:13:21,834 if we missed our shot, we would go and get it in the woods. 192 00:13:21,934 --> 00:13:23,969 To surrender in life was not in Bob's vocabulary, 193 00:13:24,069 --> 00:13:25,571 he knew that he had to go to the City Council, 194 00:13:25,671 --> 00:13:26,672 on a particular day, in a specific place, 195 00:13:26,772 --> 00:13:27,706 and would make the requests. 196 00:13:27,807 --> 00:13:28,941 We were very, very young... 197 00:13:29,041 --> 00:13:33,078 He asked to have a rollerblade surface, 198 00:13:33,179 --> 00:13:35,681 because of course, no one ever took care of us. 199 00:13:35,781 --> 00:13:37,349 And the next year, what you have to understand 200 00:13:37,449 --> 00:13:39,685 is that we had our rollerblade surface about 500 feet away from there. 201 00:13:39,785 --> 00:13:42,288 And then we started our rollerblading league in Jouvence, 202 00:13:42,388 --> 00:13:45,057 on the surface which is still there at the Jean-Gauvin exit. 203 00:13:45,157 --> 00:13:47,226 And it's here today, it's because of Bob Bissonnette... 204 00:13:47,326 --> 00:13:49,028 He had it built. 205 00:13:50,262 --> 00:13:55,734 {\an8}One thing that struck me a lot was the 1997 Quebec Games. 206 00:13:55,835 --> 00:14:00,306 {\an8}And there were a lot of scouts who were watching this, who were present... 207 00:14:00,406 --> 00:14:02,608 {\an8}In the minutes that followed Roberto Bissonnette equalized, 208 00:14:02,708 --> 00:14:06,245 {\an8}much to the delight of the many supporters of the Quebec City area. 209 00:14:07,880 --> 00:14:11,584 His team added one goal in a empty net to win 4-2 over Centre du Québec. 210 00:14:11,684 --> 00:14:14,787 And win the Gold Medal in Division A. 211 00:14:14,887 --> 00:14:20,025 At the Midget AAA level, he could see that he was a little slower. 212 00:14:20,125 --> 00:14:26,866 So at that level, he was one of the only players who fought once during the year. 213 00:14:27,900 --> 00:14:31,704 Because there, he had set himself a mission: 214 00:14:31,804 --> 00:14:33,272 "I'm going to join the Major Junior League." 215 00:14:35,207 --> 00:14:38,911 When you pick up a player, you look at him and see what he can bring to the team. 216 00:14:40,045 --> 00:14:43,782 {\an8}We knew that Roberto is a player who played robust hockey. 217 00:14:43,883 --> 00:14:45,551 {\an8}When he arrived at the training camp, 218 00:14:45,651 --> 00:14:49,088 {\an8}you could see that he was a guy who was willing to defend his teammates, 219 00:14:49,188 --> 00:14:53,158 {\an8}to make his place in the Quebec Major Junior League. 220 00:14:53,259 --> 00:14:57,429 I didn't like that he was a fighter, but... they hired him for that. 221 00:14:57,529 --> 00:15:01,200 {\an8}The first training camp, he had to fight, I don't want to exaggerate, 222 00:15:01,300 --> 00:15:03,969 {\an8}it had to be three times a day for three weeks... 223 00:15:04,069 --> 00:15:06,005 {\an8}There must have been 40 fights. 224 00:15:06,105 --> 00:15:08,140 He was injured... the joints... 225 00:15:08,240 --> 00:15:10,376 he wanted to be part of the team so bad, he wanted it so much... 226 00:15:10,476 --> 00:15:13,345 I found it hard to see him fight and take hard knocks. 227 00:15:13,445 --> 00:15:15,114 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... 229 00:15:17,917 --> 00:15:19,785 A warrior like him, you can't miss out on that! 230 00:15:19,885 --> 00:15:21,287 So there, he gained respect. 231 00:15:21,387 --> 00:15:25,357 After that, he wanted to develop even more as a hockey player. 232 00:15:25,457 --> 00:15:30,029 But his personality and everything, with the way he behaved, 233 00:15:30,129 --> 00:15:32,665 made him a leader. 234 00:15:32,765 --> 00:15:34,166 {\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 00:15:38,737 --> 00:15:42,174 {\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 00:15:49,448 --> 00:15:52,785 {\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 00:15:56,989 --> 00:15:59,091 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 00:17:46,365 --> 00:17:48,734 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. 155307

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