>>127421684
None of his lyrics for No More Tears got used, per the man himself.

>>127421744
Nearly all of Varney's Shrapnel albums were produced by him and engineered by Steve Fontano. Add to that they were all pretty low-budget and recorded extremely quickly in the same studio (Prairie Sun in California), you get a bunch of albums that sound-wise are very similar.

The second Racer X album is worth listening to, they have a second guitarist on that one so while the songwriting is still very much that Priest-meets-Malmsteen sound, there's a lot more crazy harmony stuff. The reunion album from the late '90s, Technical Difficulties, is good too.