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Everything you need to know before playing ‘Sharp Dressed Man’

Gibbons is best known for his 1959 ‘Pearly Gates’ Gibson Les Paul paired with a 100-watt Marshall Super Lead amp, though he’s known to have switched to a 1951 Fender Esquire to record the slide solo. You’re best off using a humbucker-equipped solid-body guitar through a valve amp (or a digital emulation of the Marshall) with a little added fuzz-style distortion. Try using a modulation effect (chorus or flanger) to get closer to the sound of the phasey sound of the main riff.