Cal's Jimmy Buffett AAR

[Caliga]

Ok, I started talking about this in TBR but realized that's not fair to the people who don't have TBR access so I'm going to finish it out here.

Princesca and I went to see Jimmy Buffett play at Riverbend Music Center in Cincinnati yesterday, and spent the entire day tailgating before the concert... so we left home at 6 am and didn't get back until around 9:30 am this morning.

I've seen a number of Buffett tribute bands before but until yesterday never saw the man himself in concert despite the fact that we're both Parrotheads.  So, that shit had to be corrected stat.

Let's start off with his set list from last night, before I forget fine details like that.

Ragtop Day
It's Five O'Clock Somewhere
Coconut Telegraph
Come Monday
Take Another Road
Son of a Son of a Sailor
Blue Guitar
Volcano
Working and Playing
Fins
Margaritaville

'intermission' (some dude played the steel drums for a while while everyone pissed and got more beer)

Island
Bank of Bad Habits
Brown Eyed Girl
Cheeseburger in Paradise
Havana Daydreaming
Why Don't We Get Drunk and Screw
The Great Filling Station Holdup
It's My Job
A Pirate Looks at Forty
Southern Cross
One Particular Harbor

Fake concert ending.  Next, the encore:

Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes
Gypsies in the Palace

After those two, Jimmy stayed on stage by himself and sang and played acoustic guitar of some song I totally did not recognize, and I know all of his music, so it must have been either a cover or some song he's never recorded for an album.

[Martinus]

Is he related to Warren Buffett?

[Caliga]

The most crowd-pleasing songs were, unsurprisingly, Margaritaville and Fins.  I would guess most of the times Margaritaville is tops but since Fins is about Cincinnati (though in a bad way  ) people around these parts absolutely love it... I used to work with a Parrothead who had Fins as her ringtone.

My favorite song of his (and favorite non-metal song of all time actually) is Southern Cross, even though it's technically a CSNY cover, and he doesn't always do that one in his sets, so I was thrilled that he did it last night.

The other songs that surprised me with the huge reaction it got was Coconut Telegraph, which I do like but isn't one of his canonical songs that he jokes that he has to do at every concert or else his fans would kill him.  I didn't realize it was also as popular as the canonical 8.

[Caliga]

Is he related to Warren Buffett?

No but they are both billionaires.   I guess it's a good surname to have in Amerikkka.

[Malthus]

Is he related to Warren Buffett?

No but they are both billionaires.   I guess it's a good surname to have in Amerikkka.

Anything that sounds like a "buffet" is gonna be popular. 

[Martinus]

We need a katmai joke now.

[The Brain]

I prefer a smorgasbord.

[Caliga]

Anything that sounds like a "buffet" is gonna be popular. 

Ha.   Whenever there's a food spread at a Buffett-associated event, it's called a Jimmy Buffet or a Buffett Buffet.

[Syt]

I prefer a smorgasbord.

You mean Smörgåstårta?

[The Larch]

Who the hell is this guy?

[Admiral Yi]

Who the hell is this guy?

Jimmy Buffet is the patron saint of American tourists in the Caribbean.

[The Brain]

I prefer a smorgasbord.

You mean Smörgåstårta?

No.

[Caliga]

Who the hell is this guy?

You know, as I was posting this thread one of the things I was wondering was if any of our Euro members even knew who he was.

Buffett strikes me as someone whose music wouldn't easily be 'understood' (in the figurative, not the literal sense) in Europe, even by people that speak perfect English.

[Syt]

For simplicity I will assume he's a racist angry Southerner.

[derspiess]

For simplicity I will assume he's a racist angry Southerner.

More like a lazy, easy-going, drunk Southerner who spends all his time lying about in Key West.  At least that's his persona.