Peter Green

Peter Green's 1959 Gibson Les Paul is one of the most famous guitars in rock history — and the most mysterious. Somehow during a repair, the neck pickup was reinstalled with the magnet reversed and the coils out of phase, producing an out-of-phase tone so distinctive and unlike anything else that players have been attempting to replicate it for fifty years. Green founded Fleetwood Mac in 1967, wrote Black Magic Woman, Albatross, and Oh Well, and left the band at the height of their powers in 1970. His tone — achieved with a standard setup that shouldn't have worked — haunts every blues guitarist who has heard it.