New band formed

In mid-1999, he met with high school friends and guitarists Jeff Stinco and Sébastien Lefebvre who were in separate bands of their own. Comeau, Stinco, and Lefebvre formed a new band together. Bouvier was going tired of being both a singer and a bassist; in late 1999, Bouvier and Comeau reacquainted at a Sugar Ray concert to join Comeau in the band. For some time, Bouvier switched between the new group and Reset, before ultimately leaving the latter. Bassist David Desrosiers briefly filled Bouvier’s position in Reset, which impressed Bouvier and Comeau. Desrosiers was interested in joining another band when he was asked to join the new outfit. He too left the band six months later to join the then-unnamed band. This allowed Bouvier, who had doubled as the band’s lead vocalist and bassist, to concentrate on singing, and Stinco, who had doubled as the band’s lead guitarist and backing vocalist, to concentrate on guitar.