I agree, but the big problem is people tend to BS and say solos are all over the place and improper and this or that if they're 1. fast 2. technical 3. not absolutely and completely normal . They're simply biased to one point of view and one angle of creative expression. Dream Theater or whoever else they bash when it comes to this are not guilty in the slightest, now if you were to put a Slayer solo in a song like say, Free Bird or Sweet Home Alabama or something, THAT would be messed up and not match the mood of the song in the first place. Most people don't even actually *listen* to music, they just *hear* it and can't tell what the mood of a song is in the first place, they just get all overcritical of things. I also hate how now whenever something is fast or technical theres always this group of people whining about it, saying it has no emotion or whatnot. Listen to some good old thrash/technical metal like WatchTower and see if those riffs don't get you up and about and tell me it's not emotional. There's a very very small number of guitarists that would say "Oh, that solo, I was just screwing around, wanking." if you asked. They know how to put a chaotic, aggressive, or frantic feeling in their music! Some people are simply narrow emotionally, there's more in the spectrum then grieving, sorrowful, weeping sounding stuff like a lot of "slow" music tends to encompass.
