I was just curious. Thought your specific mention of 1:47 might have had something or other that triggered it.
Still interesting. I can get bored with long solos that are all shredding. As much as I love Yngwie, I can't listen to it over and over, like I can with Dream Theater. And this particular solo has a lot of melodic playing with much smaller amounts of shredding runs mixed in. John does like long solos! And, it's hard to pull that off time after time, and do it as well as he does, IMO. If I play a 60 second solo, you'd be yawning about 12 seconds in.