Couple of years ago we had Eugene "Hideaway" Bridges play our town for New Years.... apparently the airline wouldn't let him bring his ES-335 as hand luggage (never quite established with him whether or not it was Freddie King's one or not) so he shows up at my shop to do a TV interview before the gig, opens his guitar case and pulls out a Monterey strat rip-off (for those not in Australia it a strat copy about the same price & specs as the Squier Bullet), basically stock except for SD cool rail pups in the neck & middle position.... the other music store in town used to tell anyone who'd listen how sh*te the Montereys we sell were, Eugene got three spots on local TV playing his, including one magic shot where you could read the Monterey badge off the headstock.
If I can get the video to attach, here's Eugene playing in the shop, cheep guitar thru a hotrod deluxe... the sound on the video isn't great (recorded on my phone) but in real life it was pretty darn good!
Edit: can't get the file to upload
