Post a true but little known fact about someone famous, living or dead -- Part 9

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9. During his early days performing as a guitarist, a friend told Bruce Springsteen that he had an old

Gibson guitar "that was gathering dust" and asked him if he wanted it.

Bruce took the guitar, which had no strings.
The neck was so long he was barely able to re-string it.
When he plugged it into his amp, the sound was absolutely awesome, and he began playing it at his gigs.
After one performance, a young kid, who knew guitars, came up to him and told him that it was great that he was playing a 6-string bass guitar like a regular electric guitar.

Until then, Springsteen had no idea that it was a 6-string bass guitar,