Arthur Rimbaud Tribute - A Season In Hell

For the guitar effects I used my Korg AX100G ToneWorks pedal. When editing the video it seemed like some of the solo licks didn't actually fit too well with the background music. Nevertheless, I like how abrupt some of the melodies sound. Hope you dig it. Please rate and comment. -Jason Earls

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Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud (October 1854 November 1891) was a French poet, born in Charleville. As part of the decadent movement, his influence on modern literature, music and art has been enduring and pervasive. He produced his best known works while still in his late teens — Victor Hugo described him at the time as "an infant Shakespeare" — and gave up creative writing altogether before he reached 21. He remained a prolific letter-writer all his life. Rimbaud was a restless soul, travelling extensively on three continents before his premature death from cancer less than a month after his 37th birthday.

Rimbaud was encouraged by friend and office employee Charles Auguste Bretagne to write to Paul Verlaine, an eminent Symbolist poet, after letters to other poets failed to garner replies. Taking his advice, Rimbaud sent Verlaine two letters containing several of his poems, including the hypnotic, gradually shocking "Le Dormeur du Val" (The Sleeper of the Vale), in which certain facets of Nature are depicted and called upon to comfort an apparently sleeping soldier. Verlaine, who was intrigued by Rimbaud, sent a reply that stated, "Come, dear great soul. We await you; we desire you" along with a one-way ticket to Paris.

Rimbaud and Verlaine began a short and torrid affair. During their time together they led a wild, vagabond-like life spiced by absinthe and hashish. They scandalized the Parisian literary coterie on account of the outrageous behaviour of Rimbaud, the archetypical enfant terrible, who throughout this period continued to write strikingly visionary verse. Rimbaud's and Verlaine's stormy relationship took them to London in September 1872, Verlaine abandoning his wife and infant son (both of whom he had abused in his alcoholic rages). Rimbaud and Verlaine lived in considerable poverty, in Bloomsbury and in Camden Town, scraping a living from teaching and an allowance from Verlaine's mother. Rimbaud spent his days in the Reading Room of the British Museum where "heating, lighting, pens and ink were free."
-Wikipedia

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[feedkillchain]

Your playing ventures into interesting territory when you get away from blues licks and shredding. The harmonized background motif is hypnotic. Some of the melodic lines and sliding are very good as well. The minor pentatonic bends drag it down a little because the piece is so otherworldly and blues licks are "expected." I also think you could achieve more dramatic intensity with dynamics/attack rather than speed. I love when the intense bits abruptly cut off. It's jarring in a good way. I dig!

[zevi35711]

@feedkillchain thanks a lot for your helpful comments!

[COMMUNISTPHILOSOPHY]

Great vid. There's a new zealand band called the "Verlaines" they also mention Paul Paul Verlaine in one of their tracks. Paul Verlaine had some connection to Rimbald, eg. a friend

[zevi35711]

@COMMUNISTPHILOSOPHY a really good book i read last year on rimbaud is "Rimbaud: Double Life of a Rebel" by Edmund White. it's well-written and i learned a ton of new stuff about rimbaud and verlaine. i even wrote to edmund white afterward and he responded.

[COMMUNISTPHILOSOPHY]

got a book that Henry Miller wrote about him entitled "The Time of the Assassins"

[zevi35711]

@COMMUNISTPHILOSOPHY i've heard of it, but haven't read it. need to get that one. i love henry miller's tropic of cancer and black spring.

[feedkillchain]

@feedkillchain ALTHOUGH.... There are bits of the fast tapping that do work, usually when it sounds more "alien" and less "Van Halen." The long sustained notes are really cool, too. Your tones are weird, and that's a compliment.

[COMMUNISTPHILOSOPHY]

@VoodooPolitico that's a YT first, a reply that does not consist of abuse, insults, or even threats lol

[VoodooPolitico]

@COMMUNISTPHILOSOPHY More than a "friend", they were LOVERS. Verlaine even left his wife to be with Rimbaud.

[zaratthustra]

NOT BAD NS...TRY....