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Artist Biography For Lasting Weep

Lasting Weep Was Formed In 1968 By Jerome Langlois Guitar Piano Clarinet Alain Bergeron Flute Mathieu Leger Percussions And Claude Chapleau Bass When They Were Just Teenagers. The Group's Name Was Derived From Paul Verlaine's Poem "Chanson D'Automne" "Les Sanglots Longs..." And Was In English As Was Still The Case With All Rock Groups From Quebec Offenbach Soap Opera WD Fisher The Medium... Until The End Of The Decade. Lasting Weep's Cover Repertoire Was Heavily Influenced By Blues-Rock Hendrix Ten Years After Etc. And Combined With Classical Music Training And A New Fascination For Progressive Rock Particularly Jethro Tull The Group Began Composing Its Own Music. In 1969 Having Earned Some Studio Time While Working As Session Musicians Mainly For Soundtracks Lasting Weep Professionally Recorded Three Lengthy Pieces Which Were Never Put On Vinyl As The Group Was Unable To Attract A Record Label.
The Band Played Many Shows In Cafés And Clubs And Was Even Invited To Back-Up King Crimson At College St-Laurent And Also Played At The Festival De Manseau In 1970. In 1971 Lasting Weep Began Writing A Rock Opera Entitled "L'Albatros" But In 1972 The Group Disbanded And Langlois And Bergeron Founded Maneige. Léger Then Joined The Quatuor De Jazz Libre Du Québec And Played With Michel Madore Followed By Conventum And Eventually L'Orchestre Sympathique In 1976 While Chapleau Went On To Produce.
In A Strange Twist Of Fate Just As He Was Leaving Maneige In Early 1976 Langlois Completed Writing "L'Albatros" And Convinced A Who's Who Of Progressive Rock Musicians To Join Him On Stage To Play His Rock Opera Live. In February 1976 At La Bibliothèque Nationale In Montreal Langlois Was Joined By His Former Bandmates From Both Maneige And Lasting Weep As Well As Raôul Duguay Members Of L'Orchestre Sympathique Conventum L'Engoulevent And Others To Perform A Series Of Live Performances Of His Epic "L'Albatros" Surely One Of The Most Important Events In Quebec's Progressive Music History. These Shows Were Professionally Recorded And Mixed But Never Released On Vinyl. Luckily The Master Tapes Were Recovered Along With The Masters Of The 1969 Studio Sessions And Some Other Material. And It Is So That ProgresSon Music Released The Band's First Commercial Releases In 2007 On Its ProgQuebec Label. From Www.Progquebec.Com

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