I like Gary Moore. Especially his playing in Colosseum II.
Ah, there's even a recording... but why is the singer not on that gig... ah I remember, one of the wives, or was it of the producer, found him "too flamboyant" and nagged them to let him go or something

He was pretty good.
I don't much like the feedback for sustain trick, though. The kind of tone you could get with that seems to be limited. Seems like a gimmick for certain situations. Feel free to correct me if I'm off, I've only tried that at bedroom sound levels sitting in front of the amp with cranked pre-gain, and as the tone is, to a big extent, produced by your air coupled feedback circuit, it seems to add a certain tonal quality that's not otherwise present...
Not nearly as insane a shredder as Vai, though. (who doesn't have that big of a pedal board, IIRC).
Or UJR. Watch the 1977 "sails of charon" video, where he basically invented shredding, and doesn't even look at his guitar while doing so

(this integrated player ignores my timestamp:
forward to 01:07 past the babbling)
The "silly shaped axe" comment is just, eh, silly, though. If that was addressing Uli JR - watch the video in the OP. It's not just a shape, he can play notes in the upper violin range, Gary Moore could have only dreamt of.
If you see the above vid - apparently a strat will do just fine for him, if he playes notes in the regular range only

Good reminder to listen to some Gary Moore / Colosseum II again, though!