What's the cheapest gigable guitar (let's say for a covers band) that you'd be happy with?

ICBM

SquireJapan said:

They key question here for me is what can you get that's a solid gigging guitar without modifications.

To be honest, the Squier 2-HB Strat would have been giggable with the stock pickups, but if I remember rightly I changed them because they weren't coil-splittable - and I wanted to fit PRS-style switching using a 5-way Superswitch.

I also recently considered buying a Westfield P-Bass copy I found for £75, selling my Rickenbacker 4001 and pocketing £1425... but I couldn't bring myself to, that Rick is just 'me' like no other bass. The Westfield would have done the same job really though.

Gassage

If pushed and financially on my knees, I'd take a team build custom shop strat instead of a Masterbuilt. It's times of austerity you know.

Cabicular

usedtobe;669641" said:

£70? :-O

Bought from this very forum

57Deluxe

Criteria would be:

Stays in Tune
Plays Well
Sounds Good

irrelevant to its price or brand/model...

littlethoughts

I've played a couple of gigs with a Squier affinity strat. Everyone complains about noisy pickups but to be honest I only ever noticed it between songs, which is what your volume control is for.

I've also played a hell of a lot of gigs with a squier standard P bass special. Both bought for <£100.

Clarky

I gigged a bog standard RG470 for a few years.. was great... about £400 ish new iirc

later though I did swap out the pups for a pair of PAF Pro's.. which made a significant difference

Sassafras

First gigs I ever played were with an Eko acoustic and a clip-on pickup.

IIRC we didn't receive too many complaints. 

SNAKEBITE

Cheapest guitar I gigged with was a Squier Bullet, £99 brand spanking new.

Plug it into a Marshall, get it a bit dirty and Bob's your mother's brother.

Wouldn't want to rely on it, the jack needs a bit of work, but for the God awful noise we were knocking out it didn't matter a monkeys.

I don't think you could go wrong with a Squire Affinity series guitar, and you could rely on that.