RIP Jimmy Buffet :(
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RIP Jimmy Buffet :(
Just saw that. While I recently rapped a bit with Art and others here about how I dislike the lifestyle around his brand, the man was a legit sailor with real chops, an incredible businessman and he gave a lot of his self and wealth with a smile.
Calm seas and fair breezes, Jimmy. RIP.
Damn . His works meant a lot to my family.Quote:
Originally Posted by gravitylover
Remember vividly getting pulled out of middle school to see him play a show at a small airport. Remember the volcano tour from when I was 6. My mother snuck backstage—Jimmy then wished my sister a happy birthday. And then sent her a postcard thanking her for coming to his concert on her special day.
Had hoped to see him one last time at red rocks.
My grandfather was a sailor. My wife knows not to play this song around me but it’s appropriate for the day.
https://open.spotify.com/track/6wuQN...Q72dWYqQdLqesQ
“Changes in lattitude. Changes in attitude.” “I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” --JB.
RIP Oh Captain, my Captain....
My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still,
My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will,
The ship is anchor’d safe and sound, its voyage closed and done,
From fearful trip the victor ship comes in with object won;
Exult O shores, and ring O bells!
But I with mournful tread,
Walk the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead. --W.W.
I really liked his music in the early/mid 70s, but everything after Margaritaville just seemed too commercial to me. The whole “parrot head” concert scene did nothing for me.
Seemed like a cool guy with an interesting life story. It would have been fun to know him personally.
RIP to an influential guy, and very talented musician, who defined a lifestyle to an entire generation.
Good author too, I’ve read a number of his books.
All of you guys posting in the “Athleticism in your 40’s” thread should read Jimmy’s book “A Pirate Looks At Fifty” to glimpse your future. The book is a play on words from his excellent song “A Pirate Looks At Forty”.
Someone gave it too me on my 50th birthday as a present.
Life is just a tire swing
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Damn.
Jimmy Buffet Alpine Valley 2006.
Tired of the crew I had come to the show with, I was weaving my way solo closer to the stage when my future wife poked me from behind. The only thing I remember about the rest of that night is talking to her and then gazing into her big blue eyes in the parking lot right before she surprised me with a kiss.
We made it to a couple of more Buffet shows to actually listen to the music. Not exactly our thing, but it definitely changed the course of our lives.
Fins up!
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Gonna be a lot of dock stumbling at night and head cleaning in the morning… rightfully so.
Sail on
Thanks for all the toonz Jimmy. The sun is over the yard arm.
Holy crap! RiP Jimmy!
Learning the lyrics to Margaritaville kept me from swimming extra laps in the cold lake of the woods at summer camp as a ?ten? Year old. Later learning Jimmy's lyrics would teach me not so great habits ;)
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I really should've titled the thread Sail On Sailor. In the car yesterday I couldn't decide what I wanted to listen to so I put on the Buffet channel on SiriusXM and as we were getting out of the car that song was playing. Coincidence?
Oscar worthy performance 25s in this clip of Jurassic World at Margaritaville restaurant in the park
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGoU9C8-cRA
Went to one concert.
Fuck those parrot heads.
RIP. He touched a lot of people. Cool vibe. Except for the parrot heads at a concert.
What's wrong with the parrrotheads? View obstruction?Quote:
Originally Posted by Core Shot
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Used to sing “Pirate Looks at 40” to my daughter as a lullaby when she was little. She figured out at about 17 that the song was about a drug runner…
This one always spoke to me:
RIP Jimmy
Cheeseburgers and fries tonight for dinner
Never been to a show, so can't comment on the parrothead thing, but I do hold a special place for the vibe espoused in pretty much every song.
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Originally Posted by Harry
Hot Water has some great tunes and was a great take on the 80s
The brand was a smart opportunity to make some $ off like minded people who had it.
Always a great show and seemed a great guy
Nice Woodsy,
To add: Had to drive down to Big Sky this morning to deal with a minor disaster at a job site, well drillers ran amuck.
By random choice my XM was on the Margaritaville channel. They were playing lots of his more personal work. Beach House on the Moon, He Went to Paris or Something so Feminine About a Mandolin are really well written songs. The guy was a damn good artist who probably didn't get some level of respect for his work because of his party persona.
I have a hunch he didn't GAF.
RIP
Well this is an uncool change. Can't say I'm much of a fan of his music, but he was an interesting guy for sure. Famous for his leisure lifestyle, yet worked his ass off, and earned every bit of success he had.
As I mentioned in another thread, a friend - who's a huge fan - met him through sailing said he's as down to earth as a beach bum, yet obviously very focused and driven.
Guy loved boats. He had one under construction, a 56' power catamaran beingmade by famous sport fishing boat builder Merrit. He recently sold a 42 Freeman/Merritt he just finished a few years ago which was badass in its own right. Thread about the new one here: https://www.thehulltruth.com/boating...catamaran.html
I was never a huge fan of his music but it's hard not to like some of those songs, and he seemed like a good guy. RIP
The Jimmy channel has been playing random songs from his unreleased record recorded over the last year, one was as close to an autobiography as I've heard in a long time. I had a huge lump in my throat as he talked about a life winding down :(
Owned a cool flying boat as well.
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More than one flying boat! Also had a Grumman Goose & a Widgeon. Which are a little less famous than the Albatross. Somehow I didn’t know Bono was in that plane when they got shot at
think the memorial of his passing on his twitter account had him at the tiller of a sailboat (maybe a catboat?) that looked rather well made
im not sure what to think of every cashing in done in the last decade (a Tahoe Parrothead hotel?) but there was something there, met maybe a handful of people who had “so we ran into jimmy buffet in a bar in the Caribbean” story’s
One article I read said he had been diagnosed with skin cancer four years ago and it turned to lymphoma. RIP Jimmy. 76 seems too young.
We’ve been lucky to be in St Barths when he’s had 2 of his last “big” sailing yachts in the harbor and saw him around town being as gracious as he could be. Just wanted to talk boats with other people from everything I could tell. Smiling the whole time.Quote:
Originally Posted by ötzi
Yeah, I flipped on that station today too while I had a few hours behind the wheel. His new stuff is really poignantly directed at a life coming to an end. Definitely touching.Quote:
Originally Posted by gravitylover
76 is to young. On the same path, I need to get shit done, as I am running out of time.
^ It does make you think, doesn't it?
“Let the winds of time blow over my head, I’d rather die while I’m living than live while I’m dead”
—. Growing Older But not Up
He packed a lot of good life into 76 years.
Wife, kids and I just devoured a couple chezeburgers(and margs for the adults) at lunch listening to some Jimmy. She is passed out on a hammock and I’m thinking about the time in Castine I missed him by minutes RIP sailor. You may be gone but your legacy will live on.
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My Jimmy impersonation sailing around the Diego Garcia lagoon with buddies in 2010.
My folks live in Key West from January to April every year for the past decade. It has been their dream to see Jimmy there while they are there.
Finally happened last year. Jimmy was on the island, and there was a buzz about a "pre-concert" for locals only. My dad stood in line for 3 hours with other locals and scored tix for a show with less than 1,000 attendees. They then saw him a couple days later at the big venue.
Biggest score for my dad was being on the treadmill at the gym next to Mac McAnally and telling him what a great show it was.
RIP Jimmy.
*sings*
Come Monday It'll be all right,
Come Monday I'll be holding you tight.
I spent four lonely days in a brown L.A. haze
And I just want you back by my side.
:frown:
And there's that one particular harbour
Sheltered from the wind
Where the children play on the shore each day
And all are safe within
Most mysterious calling harbour
So far but yet so near
I can see the day when my hair's full gray
And I finally disappear
...some of it's magic, some of it's tragic
But I had a good life all the way
One of my neighbors was on the road w him for decades doing his tech (had just retired) and always had good things to say about the boss
Definitely a music icon that will be missed
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Originally Posted by Ted Striker
^ Those two quotes sum up my feelings about JB. And hey, if he made a fortune off of that parrot head thing, more power to him. It’s not like he was a dick.Quote:
Originally Posted by ötzi
One thing about him that really interested me was in the 70’s he was hanging out in Montana’s Paradise Valley with luminaries like Tom McGuane, Russell Chatham, and Jim Harrison. In fact he performed my favorite song of his in an all time favorite cult movie (gotta put this in that thread) Rancho Deluxe, which I highly recommend. The movie was written by McGuane about some ranch bums in Montana, and JB’s song nailed the 70’s Paradise Valley scene.
Anyway, without further ado, Livingston Saturday Night:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EtBFEiWjIs
I couldn’t find a clip from that movie.
^^^Nailed the vibe of early 80’s Sheridan WY as well.
Just learned - McGuane and Buffett were BILs
Fucking props for the song choice. My parents wanted to name me Livingston but succumbed to their parents pressure.Quote:
Originally Posted by Meadow Skipper
There’s a song by Jimmy—Incommunicado. It mentions Cedar Key Fl and Leadville Co. My mom called me from the former today cleaning up her place post hurricane. The later I go to this week for work. As she put it we have aligned vibes.
Certainly the toughest artist loss I’ve felt and expect to feel. He’s been the soundtrack to my life.
There are many really decent posts in this thread - Thank you...
I too liked his early music, but am not of the "parrothead" of FL Life -
Certainly a savvy businessman !
I was not aware he has been ill -
to me, he was one of those timeless people that I imagined would always be with us
( and I imagine through his music and his writing, maybe he always will )
sail on, JB...
sail away !
...peace. tj
trip around the sun
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=m-Muk1...N1biBidWZmZXR0