Slide electrics can be any electrics, though clunky 1960s Japanese Strat-oids often have those snarly, edgy pickups (the sound, not the metal housing) that fit so well with blues playing. But Bonnie Raitt (sp?) uses a real Strat to good effect, and there are those who love the Les Paul for slide, too. About the only slide electrics I've not seen are Rickenbacker 12-strings, and it's probably only because they're rare that I haven't seen 'em.

For that matter, I don't get out to see much electric slide playing anyway, so perhaps everyone is using ES-335s and I wouldn't know. But I'd recommend getting a Teisco or Aria or Kent or another one of those makes from the 60s or 70s and going to town with your slide. And good luck.


Bob