Years would go by before he had a chance to get his hands on one, only to find he couldn't play it. Today, Iommi is intimately linked with the Gibson SG, the symmetrical electric guitar also favored by AC/DC’s Angus Young. Afterward, he was told he would never play guitar again. That encouraged Iommi to play on, but try as he might, his injury prevented him from playing the guitar he'd dream of owning: a Gibson Les Paul. “I always wanted a Les Paul, but I couldn't play it because of my accident,” he confessed during a press event relaunching his signature Gibson humbuckers.