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@dooks
Yo. I once had an afternoon's lesson with a really well known 80s session bod and he played slide in standard tuning really nicely. The best tip i got off him was the importanace of muting *behind *the slide, as well as all the notes you're not playing in front of it. Cuts out all those atonal ghost notes and mess. I've never really got on with slide though to be honest.
I really hate the way that unless you're really good, most people fall into the hackneyed swampy blues 1-4-5 clichés that combination of open e and a slide seems to suggest. But some of my favourite guitar parts of all time are slide parts. When it's done well it's the most spine tinglingly amazing sounds there is. Good luck with it.