Okay, so maybe he is the Boss

This rocked my socks:




I'm not a huge Bruce Springsteen fan -- he's filed under "Songs I Like if I Hear Them But Would Not Buy/Pirate" -- but damn, he just got added to my Awesome People List.

Apparently, sometime in the late 80's, Springsteen came across a busker on the streets of Copenhagen and just pulled out a guitar and jumped in. That was probably the greatest day of that busker's life, and probably somewhere in the Top 20 for most of the people watching.

In this day and age, our music and culture seems to belong more and more to corporations and less to people. Copyright holders want to be paid if you hum their songs waiting in line at the DMV. I'm 90% sure the only reason buskers don't get Cease and Desist letters is that (a) they're too poor and (b) they're hard to get mailing addresses for. So it's really refreshing to see an artist like Bruce Springsteen who recognizes that it's not about album sales or world tours, it's about singing on the street to the ordinary people who love the music you make.