gtr solos on rawk rekkids

i was once fired from a band for "not playing more like the guy from radiohead." snotnoses. while i _intellectually_ get the "f/x as colors in a painter's palette" idea, i went to a different school -- the one that sez "put any collection of wood 'n' wires in my hands and it's gonna sound essentially the same 'cos it's me playing it" (which i learned from listening to players like buddy guy, jeff beck, hubert sumlin, an' like that). it's a generational thang: i grew up digging the kinda vocalic, blues-inflected solo playing (jimi hendrix was the water we were _all_ swimmming in) that was virtually outlawed on rawk rekkids around the time it became not such a good idea commercially-wise to sing real good. early '90s, say -- around the time the first pearl jam alb sounded like a pretty good idea until i realized the only reason i responded so favorably to it was that the cat on gtr (mike mccready?) would take, say, the imprinted-on-my-brain solos from the doors' "five to one," jimi's "hey joe," and alice cooper's "i'm 18" and kloodge them together into one of his own ("alive"). fuuuuuck. nothing new under the sun indeed, and i _hate_ seeing the strings while i'm being manipulated. then the whole 7-string-gtr-tuned-down-to-C-sharp development happened and i kinda lost interest in the whole thang for a coupla yrs. still, there are a small handful o' gtr solos that somehow made it onto '90s rekkids that continue to make me drive faster when i hear them while punching buttons on my car radio. to wit: 1) the one with all the insane stops 'n' starts that richard lloyd (ex-television) played on matthew sweet's "sick of myself" -- you know, the one that sounds like the world is coming off its axis in the same way the best jimmy page solos ("nobody's fault but mine," f'rinstance) did; 2) both of the ones whatever-the-fuck-his-name-was that played in the black crowes (another band that seemed like a good idea at first, in their case until i heard the yayhoos) did on their version of otis' "hard to handle" (at the beginning of the second one, you can almost hear the gtr _grunt_); and 3) the second one dave navarro (the last "new" gtrist i could relate to on any lvl) played on "been caught stealing" by jane's addiction. so there.