Guitar Gods- help me figure out this intro

I am far from being a great player, but maybe I can help you out. That's a simple song, and that intro, is just slow playing some chords, all on the bottom 4 strings I think.
1st off, what key are you trying to play it in?

Yeah, the progression is basically Tuesday's Gone, with a couple of little changes.

that first little part, I just did it starting with a Dm shape, moved 2 frets higher( making it an Em) Pluck those bottom 3 strings real quick, then slid to the barred Bm/D at the 7th and 9th fret, down to the C and Am at the 5th and 7th, back to the D real quick and then to a E shape, moved 3 frets higher, to make it the G. That worked pretty well with a little distortion on it.

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I think you still should be using chords for that intro. It's just chords that are played differently than you are used to.
I suspect it's a different tuning also. There are so many ways to do everything, sometimes it can be hard to get an exact sound. That's why I never cared for learning many covers.
One thing you might do, whoever that particular guitar player is, check out some stuff about his playing on the interwebs, and see if you can pick up some hints, about how he goes about getting his sound, his technique, etc.