A friend sent me a link to this new Springsteen song from his album coming out next week (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99173117&ps=bb3)
Had an incredible birthday this week. We were working in the studio when I glanced out the back window and saw my friend Charlie Faye, who is currently on crutches due to a sprained ankle, trying to navigate the dog poop (Mark, one of my producers, whose farmhouse the studio is in, has 4 dogs!), and my other friend David Holmes, who is not on crutches, but was carrying a blue pinata!
Suddenly there were six more people in the studio and a the pinata, which I discovered, after they rigged it up and handed me a blunt intrument, was filled with apples! (This might not be everyone’s ideal birthday gift, but I can’t eat candy, so I was pretty touched). Following that mayhem, we all rolled down to Flipnotics and played a crazy show where there were cell phone signals coming through the speakers and all sorts of technical tomfoolery. I wouldn’t have had it any other way. It ended with my band and producers singing happy birthday. I just feel so blessed. Below, me, and the decapitated pinata, which Scrappy (producer/guitar player) suggested I put on a post on my front lawn as a warning to all the other blue bears.
Once I'd wacked the crap out of it
