MacAlpine can also play Chopin (classical piano shredding) as well as anyone. It's ****in' sickening man! Try "edge of insanity". That said, MacAlpine can bore the crap outa me sometimes, depends on the song, they can't all be as great as his best tracks can they? How about EVOLUTION, that's just awesome.
Shawn Lane and Holdsworth are totally awesome but I'm yet to hear any that I'd regard as particularly emotional; any recomendations? Holdsworth by the way has some of the weirdest cleverest phrasing of anybody, his tone's unique (and excellent) and his legato's so good it makes me SICK.