The story behind this is awesome.
This was back when I believe Eddie Van Halen and maybe Steve also did a solo on one of the Michael Jackson songs- Beat it?
Anyway Lionel - who was matching anyone at the time at banging out hits - tells Steve he wants to use him for this song.
So Steve walks in the studio they play the track for him and he just fools around in his guitar trying to come up with stuff as the song is going on.
When it’s over Steve says, OK I’m ready. And Lionel says we’re all set.
Steve’s like what are you talking about let me try again I can do better than that and Lionel’s like no, that’s exactly what we want.
One time with no prep work and that’s a hell of a solo.