David Senra

Scaring and thrilling all of us who came in contact with him.

Walter was not your everyday guy, but something vastly different.

He lived like he wanted.

Walter proved that you could stake a rebel's flag and make it stand, that you could be different, that you could be your own man.

That is exactly what Bruce Springsteen is going to do.

Another important thing that happens to him in his life.

Remember, I think he's like 17 years old when we're at in the story.

He meets Steve Van Zandt.

And so he says, so began one of the longest and greatest friendships of my life.

He met somebody that thought and believed and loved music like he did.

I'd finally met someone who'd felt about music the way I did, needed it the way I did, respected its power in a way that was a notch above the attitudes of the other musicians that so far I'd come in contact with.

Somebody I understood and I felt understood me.

With Steve and me from the very beginning, it was heart to heart and soul to soul.

It was all impassioned, endless arguments over the minutia of the groups that we loved.

The deep delving into the smallest details of guitar sounds, style, image, the beautiful obsession of sharing with someone who was as single-minded and crazy as you were.

A passion that you simply could not get enough of.

These were the things that you could not explain to outsiders.

So he skips his high school graduation because he's playing music.

He doesn't care about anything else but music.

He knows what he's going to do in his life.