Jimmy Buffett has lost his cell phone!

http://notrax.jp/common/imglib/artist/L/00000032.jpg

And now his life

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/jimmy-buffett-legendary-escape-margaritaville-singer-dies-songwriter-rcna103104

Gonna be even more “Margaritaville” than usual from steel drum buskers this weekend.

Blasting "Escape (The Pina Colada Song)" in his memory today.

i sincerely love this one, RIP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G008F_SoWjA

The great Russ Kunkel on drums.

Buffett has said in radio interviews about the song that he wrote it while traveling the islands

That tracks.

Lmao at Vinnie’s post

LMAO off at JiC’s post

I was able to snatch Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes off the public library shelves today, before the vultures got it. I want to give him a listen in the interest of fairness.

He really could turn a phrase, I'll give him that. And he seemed like a genuinely decent person.

https://i.imgur.com/4idPVgo.jpg

Rip

From the TS: Kokomo vs. Margaritaville thread, this is my favorite description of the song, courtesy Brimstead:

margaritaville is immensely affecting, it's like a nauseous drunk update of "sitting on the dock of the bay". A real American touchstone of art about American alcoholism and bad feelings

“Pencil Thin Moustache” being robbed in the posthumous tributes today.

Margaritaville is a genuinely great song

RIP to a dude who blazed his own path, the ICP of people who own more than one boat

More gold from that other thread:

Kokomo is the soundtrack to an evening of seducing a friend’s daughter while on vacation.

Margaritaville is the hellscape soundtrack of waking up the next morning and realizing what happened.

― Mazzy Tsar (PBKR), Saturday, April 27, 2019 10:58 AM (four years ago) bookmarkflaglink

My girlfriend and I were recruited by a friend of a friend in college to pour beer at a concert of his in Columbus one summer. It seemed like a perfectly fine way to earn a couple of bucks. But as soon as our bus arrived at the concert, it was clear that it was going to be a very bad day. Everybody around the stadium was already completely drunk, it poured the whole day and very soon the entire festival was a muddy mess that looked like Jello chocolate pudding.

His fans were the scum of the earth. We had mud thrown at our heads. People repeatedly said “Give me a fucking beer, bitch” to my girlfriend. It was humiliating. Nobody cared.

At one point, dozens of guys were lined up along a fence pissing on it. A guy with beer distribution came up to me and said I should wait until dark because “the ladies start squattin’.” It didn’t take until dark. Five minutes later women were openly peeing in fields.

There was such a rush to get to the doors we couldn’t get to our bus to leave for another hour and my girlfriend was almost trampled at the exits.

We made $55 for the whole day and weren’t given food for 14 hours.

Obviously this was part of some scam the promoters do to get a honey pot to recruit college kids because those jobs are awful. On the bus ride back, everyone was livid with said college girl honey pot for how terribly we were treated all day. She cried.

I still remember the moment when Jimmy Buffett finally came on stage with his shit eating grin. I was filled with rage. Obviously, he has little to nothing to do with any that stuff, but anyone who has so many (obviously not all) fans that are that shitty … it says something about them.

Also, while I agreed with his politics (he was a big Dem donor) he had a knack for playing at the parties of horrible people. At least twice he played for billionaires who ended up in jail for fraud and the like. One was the Tyco guy with the gold shower curtain rings.

Relatedly, I’m not sure Paul has said this much about Linda since she died:

https://x.com/paulmccartney/status/1698053869656236125?s=46&t=4DK5sD-8gsSKFExcsnEJqg

while … he was a big Dem donor … he had a knack for playing at the parties of horrible people

weird

Yeah, well, did Linda give him a left-handed guitar? Er, probably

I vaguely remembered that Buffett had covered a Bruce Cockburn song. In fact, he covered six of his songs over several albums. This is a more than respectable rendition:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q23t8DVE8gg "> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q23t8DVE8gg

That story about the Jamaican authorities shooting at his plane with Bono and Chris Blackwell inside is pretty well wild:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/02/arts/music/jimmy-buffett-bono-plane-jamaica-mistaica.html

“Some people said, ‘God, you could have sued them, you could have sued the government,’” Buffett said in The Spokesman-Review interview. “But I went, ‘No, it’s probably karma. We’re even now.’”

I still remember the moment when Jimmy Buffett finally came on stage with his shit eating grin. I was filled with rage.

Fear and Loathing in Margaritaville

I still remember the moment when Jimmy Buffett finally came on stage with his shit eating grin and gifted me a left-handed guitar.

Frank Zappa had an onstage shit-eating contest, Jimmy Buffett had to settle for a shit-grinning contest.

while … he was a big Dem donor … he had a knack for playing at the parties of horrible people

weird

― difficult listening hour, Sunday, 3 September 2023 09:10 (nine hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

just lolled very hard at this

I was very happy to have played on one of his latest songs called ‘My Gummy Just Kicked In’.

Never really listened hard to the lyrics of "Come Monday" before...it's set on Labor Day weekend!

Yeah, I was thinking about that.

I actually love "Come Monday," it's the only Jimmy Buffett song I like. I once put it on a mix cd that I made for a bookstore I worked in, and came back from my day off to find two of my coworkers in a disagreement about "Come Monday." One of them said it sounded like Jimmy Buffett, and the other was arguing that it couldn't possibly be Jimmy Buffett because it was good.

last night i made my way down to jones beach because by sheer coincidence a jimmy buffett cover band was scheduled. all the news was there.

https://www.fox5ny.com/video/1273776

RIP

It is kind of mind-boggling the business empire that seems to have stemmed from the song "Margaritaville".

What other pop songs outside of maybe something like "White Christmas" perhaps?

Lily Dale, that is precisely why I spent ~20 years thinking it was by Gordon Lightfoot or maybe Glenn Campbell. I didn't have a gig today but I went to a show where my friends were playing and almost everyone did a Buffett song.

Earlnash, not quite a business empire but Blueberry Hill is a decently successful restaurant in St. Louis, sometimes associated with Chuck Berry. It's not, however, the restaurant in which he installed video cameras in the women's restroom. That's a different restaurant.

^^Lady P. Goode, IIRC.

It is kind of mind-boggling the business empire that seems to have stemmed from the song "Margaritaville".

What other pop songs outside of maybe something like "White Christmas" perhaps?

Hagar's "Mas Tequila"? (though I think he started the empire before the song?)

"Rudoph the Red Nosed Raindeer" would probably be another tune that the money was huge and probably the marketing around it crazy lucrative.

They would give away "Margaritaville" branded houses once a year on Wheel of Fortune, let alone all the trips to the various resorts.

Never even knew about this song “Come Monday” until y’all posted about it yesterday and then this morning I finally heard it when I watched the video courtesy of Kareem’s Jukebox Playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKGw_hrlaOY.

I was at this last gig, apparently. https://www.eastbayri.com/stories/jimmy-buffett-surprises-parrotheads-in-portsmouth,113907?

Saw something on social media about some cast members of Gilligan’s Island being at one of his concerts and coming up on stage, then Jimmy Buffett inviting Dawn Wells out for a drink which she politely declined.

Dawn Buffet was not in the cards
Though it does sound like a Las Vegas hotel breakfast special

Saw this as a suggested post on FB:

RIP to music legend and Miami Heat fan Jimmy Buffett.

Here's Jimmy talking to SI about the time he was ejected from a Heat vs Knicks game: "It was a bad call. It still is a rotten call! John Starks clobbered Tim Hardaway. It was a close game. I just said you stupid, mother——, that is the worst call I ever heard. People yell all the time but he turned at me. Normally, referees do not make eye contact. So while he did not come over to me, he told the local security guard. By then the crowd was getting into it. Pat Riley was on the bench, asking ‘They are kicking you out of the game? Alonzo was like: Sit down. You stay there. I told the security guard. This is probably not a good idea. Then they came to me and said they would give the Heat a technical foul. So I said, okay, I’ll go."

You know I couldn’t really care less about Jimmy Buffett either way but man do I love me some “Cheeseburger in Paradise.”