regardless of the change in musical interests, why buy a gibson to play power cords? why buy a marshall tube?, a digitech gnx2?, hell u buy good enough equipment and it basically does it for you, I am no Zach Wylde, or Jimi Hendrix, I have been playing for a year, nuthin big, oh and if anyone has any tips tricks scales of key explanations I would be more than delighted to see them, but anyways, bands like rage were crawling with talent militance and education, I Idolize that band, and enjoy their work, but to top it off, the solo needs to be reborn, it is essential to all guitarists to have a little more showman-ship than gold chains and good looks.