Slide guitar help

I love old bluesy dobro style slide guitar music, but im having trouble finding sites with licks and excercises for playing slide guitar. I remembered seeing a kid that was about 10 in a little music shop playing a really old real dobro resonator and thinking how sad it was that i still couldn't play that kind of stuff. Also, i need to know what the best kind of slider is, my slider right now is a sawed off piece of PVC pipe... it doesn't matter though because i can't even play it. Any help is appreciated.

A glass or metal slide will afford you more sustain. Or even ceramic. I got a Big Heart slide for about $10 at musician's friend, it's too heavy for my guitars, but it sounds excellent on bass (for Morphine type stuff).
As for the technique...I use standard tuning, and started out by trying to learn my lead licks on slide. It takes a bit of practice, but sounds soooo cool.

If you want that raunchy blues sound with the slide, try an open E tuning. I think I have some slide tab around from my old guitar lesson days, so I'll dig it out if you want.

christoph, if you have slide guitar tab, i would like to have a look at it. i cant find any good slide tabs. thx.

Forget E and standard tuning. One's too hard on your guitar, and the other's too hard on you.

Go to http://www.bigroadblues.com and check out the free slide lessons (downloadable from mp3.com)

Try Open G, DGDGBD (6th to 1st) then you'll have a really cool and easy starting point for your introduction to slide.