Recommend that all the aforesaid 'feel' players read this:
World’s most useless soloing advice - Part 1 Gitbuddy’s Guitar Blog
Read carefully though (if you can be bothered). The key point is that there's nothing wrong with playing by feel AT ALL. The argument which lies at the centre is that telling others who want to learn how to solo by telling them to 'play by feel' is essentially useless.
