Equipment
Early in his career he played a Harmony Meteor, a cheap hollow-body guitar, but quickly started playing a Gibson Les Paul with The Bluesbreakers and Green's guitar was often referred to as his "magic guitar". In 2000 he told Guitar Player magazine: "I never had a magic one. Mine wasn't magic...It just barely worked.". In part, his unique tone derived from the neck pickup having been built with the magnet installed in reverse at the Gibson factory, resulting in an out of phase sound. On stage with Fleetwood Mac, he used an Orange amplifier without any effects.
In the early 1970s he sold his signature 1959 Gibson Les Paul Standard guitar to Northern Irish guitarist Gary Moore.
In the 1990s he played a 1960s Fender Stratocaster and his Gibson Howard Roberts Fusion, using Fender Blues DeVille and Vox AC30 amplifiers.
In 2000s he began to play his ebony coloured Gibson Les Paul guitar again. Green signed and sold this guitar, which had been customised to sound similar to his "Green Burst Les Paul", which is now owned by a UK guitar enthusiast.
In more recent years Green reverted to playing his Gibson Howard Roberts Fusion guitar.
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