Bruce Springsteen and I split a pizza talking about Elvis Presley..
The night I got to split a pizza with Bruce Springsteen talking about Elvis, Bruce, and magic. And now the rest of the story…
Escape Artist Michael Griffin “Boss of Bondage” photographed after splitting a pizza with “The Boss” Bruce Springsteen
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Ok, I think Elvis would've dug Bruce. Bruce not only sings from his gut and heart, but he also paints really deep canvases with his words. Even if you can’t stand his voice, no one but no one can take away his incredible talent of writing, Man to get Elvis singing a Bruce song, WOW!!
I was in Hollywood shooting an escape from a straitjacket hanging upside down on the Hollywood sign. Yes, we snuck up there, rules? we don’t need no stinkin' rules. We got done and my photographer said let’s eat at George Santo Pietro's restaurant We got there and it was sparsely occupied a few tables, very private, and next to me and just behind me sat Bruce Springsteen eating with someone else ( I was told later it was a guitarist from Stones) I got nervous and my date said to go up and say hey. I waited for the guitarist to leave while others in the restaurant left. Here's my chance, should I? should I? oh shit...Hi, I’m Michael Griffin I’m in town shooting a show and I love Elvis music and yours. Holy crap Bruce said, “sit down”.
We were talking and ordered another pizza,,34 bucks for that pizza and stuff....my people just hung out at their table while Bruce and I were talking. We kept going on and on about Elvis and the feel of music in the gut and how when I was given a Bruce record (the River) I finally found that other guy who sings from the gut and writes it perfectly too. Bruce was incredibly nice, just a down-to-earth cool guy with no airs about him. In fact, he kept moving the conversation to me and what I do for a living www.MichaelGriffinEscapes.com I said I love it because I feel it from my feet on the floor to my gut and out to the audience when I’m getting out of stuff. He kept asking pointed questions about the escapes like I really can get out of a box in the river and handcuffs and all that? I wasn't sure why he kept asking and he said somewhere in there could be a song, it’s way cool metaphors. I thought nothing of it till 2007.
Dinner ended and I thoroughly enjoyed my expensive pizza with The Boss at Santo Pietro's...BACK STORY: George Santo Pietro married Vanna White and when we were done my guy was taking a pic of me and Bruce as we were trying to "out tough" each other. George said to Bruce, Bruce you are the Boss and always will be,, Michael (me) you're the Boss of Bondage. That is where I got that nickname LOL right there next to Bruce Springsteen so 2 Bosses talking about 1 King what a night.
Magic, the album by legendary Bruce Springsteen
Oh yeah, about 2007? it’s 2007 I’m in Starbucks they are playing a new Bruce Springsteen CD "Magic" his best in forever! and I froze stiff still when the song Magic played, I had them play it again and listened to the Boss singing put me in a box throw me in a river, I got shackles on my wrists..... yeah no way to prove he remembered our pizza and conversation about Elvis, but I'll be dipped if I wasn’t smiling softly and warmly inside listening to a hero of mine sing about something we talked about that night 2 Bosses came together about 1 KING.