A little down the line...
Fast forward seven years and my buddy is visiting another buddy at Staples Center, where he'd just finished installing the sound system. Springsteen and the E-street band were the inaugural concert and the room is pretty much empty, except for a dude who looked like a guitar tech on stage, noodling around with a guitar. So my buddy walks past the stage and on his way up to the crow's nest -
'Hey, Jim, how ya doin'?'
It's Bruce Springsteen, on stage, tuning his own guitar in an empty arena, and he remembers my buddy from seven years previous after a half day's acquaintance.
I got a lot of respect for that man."
