Thanks again! I had an idea about taking the second chord of every chorus's first half and making dropping it to F - tried it and it makes it substantially darker sounding. Might post that one up too.
This song has my fav lead tone of all of them. I was inspired by some older Kenny Wayne Shepherd tones, where he uses an octave pedal to get a really stinging bridge tone. It only works on certain octaves of the neck, but man it's profoundly fun. I crafted that as my base tone and used 1 OD and 2 Fuzzes + a Flange to create a unique voice. I'm obviously leaving out all of the compressors, EQs, reverbs, delays, etc..It's funny - now that I do this I get how people get bent on finding a certain tone from one piece of their gear. If the tone you love was done in a studio - ALL bets are off.