I remember having a go with Riviera Paradise years ago. After hours of improvising my own stuff over the recording due to just getting impatient with trying to work every note out perfectly I bought the tab just to compare, it's one of those I can still sit down with for hours.

Ironically the best thing I got from that one song wasn't the music but finding out how SRV did those weird high-pitched noises in the middle: by striking the open strings BEHIND the nut of a strat and using the tremolo to bend the resulting dischord down half a step - not sure how I never figured that out on my own as when I get bored I'll try anything on an instrument to get it to sound either different or horrible.