although the fist half is even better on ANIL but the second half is a bit too lite
Yes agree, The reason is because the first half of the song is made for clean tone (on studio version it was even acoustic guitar : ovation) and 2nd half is made for driven tone (studio version was the red schecter, I guess on Mesaboogie).
in 83 and 85-86 and on ANIL, Mark chose the clean tone for the entire song
in 96 he chose the drive tone for the whole song, and in 97 and 2000, he even chose to play wild theme (nylon CA gison guitar on studio) on a cranked LP !
since 2008, he returned to the strat atht suits more to the intro, but he lost the powerfull tone for the outro.
a solution would be to play it on a strat, and then switch on a tube stompbox pedal for the 2nd part