Haha I don't know if anyone here can help me with this but I figure I might as well try...

I am a guitar player. Long story short, I need to play the freebird solo by lynyrd skynyrd and make it sound proper pretty fast. I know the first thing I need is a slide. My first question is, what slide would be best for this song? I think a chrome or maybe bronze would be best, but I am really not sure. Also, I think that the amp they use in the real song has an effect on their sound. I am pretty sure they used some kind of peavey stack. What I am wondering is, would getting some kind of effects processor that can simulate the peavey be good enough? A third question related to that second question, are there any effects that they use in the song outside of distortion? And what kind of distortion is it they use exactly? I am hoping there is an effects processor out there that can simulate the amp and effects they use all in one for me.

My current setup: Standard (Mexican) Fat Strat w/ Fender Frontman 25R (25 watts)

Thanks for your help.

Im pretty sure they used a delay with a really short depth, probably arround 100ms or so on the slide part. Other then a slight overdrive there were probably no other effects on any of the guitars. I would go for a glass slide, because Im personally more comfortable with them, but odds are they used a regular metal slide. They did use peavy combo amps, but I would go looking for an old peavy combo just to try and nail their tone. There are better amps that can get you close.