I've only been playing for a couple months now... but picked up a Boss RE20 to make cool noise with.
I'm still very much a novice but I can make some Nick McCabe (Verve) sounding stuff lol.
Not sure if this should have been one of my first purchases but oh well.. it sounds cool :)
I Wish I'd picked up an axe 20 yrs ago, it's alot of fun.