Maybe 7-8 years ago I was talked into playing in the pit band for a production of Grease and I basically learned that solo note-for-note.
So, the first act would end and during intermission they were playing 50s music over the p.a. and while the rest of the band would get a break, I would sit on my stool with my guitar and wait until "rock around the clock" started which was my cue to rip into the solo and do it note for note along with the record. EVERY DAMN TIME teenage girls in the audience screamed like mad when I did it.
The first time I did it it was a whim and I probably got it 85%. The music director for the play loved it and said "figure that out and we'll do that again the next night".
I went home, learned it note-for-note that night and then the remaining nights of the production it was my "schtick" so to speak. Every time I nailed it they would just go crazy.
I was like "why didn't I learn that riff back in high school?" (facepalm). They would have been "All upons" as Strongbad would say.
Cedrone was a monster but I heard he did not get to enjoy the fruits of the success of that solo - something about walking up a flight of stairs with his guitar case and amp and a mis-step caused him to fall down the stairs and died of the resulting injuries shortly after.
Really tragic.
