You are right that you have to refresh this stuff or you lose it. Your post prompted me to do some more reading and I learned more detail about this topic, so thanks for that :).

Yeah, still gigging, playing, and learning. I've been playing my PRS CE24 mostly...great sounding and comfortable guitar to play.

Glad to hear you are still enjoying playing and getting into new stuff. Surfing with the Alien...that would be awesome to learn. Some pretty wicked stuff in there!!

Lately I've been spicing up my playing with switching between major and minor pents for a solo. We also added Evil Ways to our setlist, so I'm experimenting with some Santata licks and Dorian mode. Doing that will open up my playing in general I think.

I'll hit you up on messanger sometime soon!