A powerful and carnivorous sound, with Verlaine’s hypnotic guitar exploring new paths, was unfortunately left unforeseen in the short history of the group and in the subsequent works of his solo career.
The memory of a few meetings with him remains: gentle and silent man, he was particularly illuminated when in 1996 he joined the Patti Smith tour, which, on the wave of the album "Gone Again" and in the company of the old band, including his two sons and Michael Stipe, reclaimed his place in Olympus of music.