Yeah man, I'm not bashing on any guitarist who uses speed. Or saying that speed is needed, because it is absolutely accentual to any guitarist. Those you make an entire solo on speed, with very little melody, don't really get anything acrosst. I'm sorry but I'm tuned off man. I mean how much talent is in it, any idiot with a couple of years to waste can easily accomplish that kind of speed. All those solo's sound the same too, the same pentatonic lick played extremely fast, or whatever scale a particular artist uses. Does alot of thought really go into it. Take any scale, make a 3-4-5-> note pattern out of it. Play it as fast as you can, and randomly go through different modes of that scale. Or play really fast up or down a scale. Then they hit a note and bend the whammy bar or string. Then repeat the same thing again and again. When a guitarist uses tools for speed like this, I can't say much more. I like guys who add alot of melodic value to it, since the melody is the most paladiable to the ear. People can understand it and feel it more than a blazing fast riff. Fast licks in solos are great when needed, but when overused it's B.S. That guy john jaunese, nice melodic values but resorts too much to speedy licks. When thats all a guitarist has, thats only one dimension in talent. It's hard to say much more. To me, melody (feeling) is more powerful than speed.