User talk:Sydney Sherwood

==== The Rape of The Lock ====
 * progressive (or art) rock band that was formed in the Ottawa Canada region by Jean-Pierre Ranger and Sylvain Dubois in 1977. The name of the band was inspired by the title of the poem written in 1712 by British poet Alexander Pope. The two musicians spent the late 70s writing and performing their own music on the local scene in the Ottawa area, in Ontario, Quebec and the maritime provinces of Canada. In June 1979, drummer-percussionist Wayne Palmer replaced their first drummer Martin Levesque.

The three spent the next three years touring Quebec and the Canadian maritime provinces, playing mostly original compositions to the college and university crowds. Even though they gained a respectable following, locally and provincially, they did not have the opportunity to comercially release a recording at the time and they eventually disbanded in 1983. In 1996, the band reunited and began writing new material as well as revisiting its progressive-rock past. They finally recorded their fist CD "The Rape of The Lock" in 1998 which due to lack of promotional funding had a mittigated success comercially.

As of this writing Ranger and Dubois are currently recording a second cd based on the epic poem "The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

Sydney Sherwood (talk) 01:45, 15 June 2010 (UTC)