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Originally Posted by ScatMan
I always bring a backup. If you have pup/switch/pot problems in the middle of a set with only one guitar, obviously you're in trouble..
..but even a broken string mid-set without a backup can be a real buzz kill for you as the player or the audience if your playing goes south, or G-d forbid, you stop to change a string.
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I'll never forget going to see my buddy play a gig: soundcheck was fine, but the trouble started when he went to plug in his $3000 Gibson custom shop p-90 equipped Les Paul RI. The screw that attached the neck pickup to the body became detached sometime between the soundcheck and showtime and the pickup came loose and was lodged against the strings. No easy fix, the wood of the body had to be worked on. He had no choice but to use the back up Les Paul. He was extremely frustrated because the Les Paul wasn't his and it had heavy gauge strings that he wasn't used to. Plus the settings on the amp were all wrong for humbuckers.
Lesson learned: bring a back up, and one that you are comfortable with.
As for MM's question about playing with just an Esquire, it depends on the music you play and how comfortable you are with it.