Parrot Heads Enter

Fins up!

Might as well start punching your liver now.

Jimmy Buffet shows are so much fun to so many people! I've been to 2.

A friend put it this way: "It's like a Dead show with alcohol in place of acid."

an apt description...

Worth going to see at least one Jimmy Buffet show. 2 hours of smiles, tequila and shitty beer. 

I've been to countless Jimmy Buffett shows over many years and to me a Buffett show has always struck me mainly as a chance for normal people to re-live their frat/college life for a night. It's adults drinking too much and acting very silly.

It's more like a Dave Matthews Band show with booze than it is a Dead show with booze instead of acid.  It's a party, it's fun, it's all very shallow & the music is soft but harmless.

Make sure you have a designated driver and you'll likely have fun too, as long as you like to drink and be around people who are drinking. LOTS of drinking. CELEBRATING their drinking. REVELING in their drinking.

And whatever you do, don't try to climb a tent.

Might as well go, maybe you'll get a heady tropical-flavored "Scarlet";

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLoE7Sfrunw

Buffett would slay "Samba In The Rain".

Not a fan

All sound like one long boring song with drunks everywhere

^I've heard similar critiques regarding the GD.

Although I am not a "parrot head," Jimmy Buffett is one of my guilty pleasures.   He is actually a very good songwriter and storyteller and a consummate entertainer.   If you haven't heard anything but Margaritaville, I would suggest checking out "A1A" or his early live album "You Had to Be There."

I have only been to one Jimmy Buffett show and, frankly, it didn't live up to the hype as being some sort of drunken, coke fueled beach-party free for all.  There were plenty of Hawaiian shirts and garishly decorated straw hats, but over all, the largely middle aged crowd was well behaved but still having a lot of fun.

What you did get was a couple of hours of well crafted songs of tropical escapism, with some tasty covers and a couple humorous stories thrown in, backed by the Coral Reefer Band, made up of some the very best musicians Nashville has to offer.  His touring guitarist is Mac McAnally and his cover the Allmans "Little Martha" had my jaw glued to the floor.

Buffett's biggest influence is in Top 40 Country Music.  Every now and then, I will tune to the top 40 Country station on a long road trip and the spirit and sounds of Jimmy Buffett are alive and well in that genre.   Top 40 Country is very formulaic and one of the seven or eight standard song types is the "Jimmy Buffett style tropical escapism story," which celebrates the concept of running off from the 9 to 5 grind and getting drunk on a beach in Mexico or the Redneck Riviera.    

Aside from being the creator of the "Gulf & Western" style of music, Jimmy is also a successful entrepreneur, environmentalist, best selling writer, philanthropist, and even flies himself around in old flying boats (which nearly ended his career for good on a couple of occasions).

Everything ken & lance said. I haven’t been to “countless” shows, but the first one was fun enough I went back five or six times during my Vegas years. Schtick aside, jimmy writes and plays some great music, and the phans ive met were all pretty cool. MGM is to jimmy buffett as MSG or the spectrum are to the dead. Quite a party. Not a sausage fest. One Particular Harbor is probably my favorite album. If a jimmy-curious person could get a ticket for under $100, I think they would get their money’s worth. 

If if you are the guy who shows up in the right row, bringing the good weed, you won’t buy a drink all night.

I like Jimmy Buffet and saw him once at Merriwhether in the early ‘90’s and again all few years ago in Portland. The pomp was definitely  much more significant and the crowd much younger at Merriwhether. It was much closer to his prime and I specifically remember the tailgate scene and lots of decorated cars (like giant fins and blenders on the roofs) that looked like they were going show to show. It was a sunny day in summer at an outdoor venue and people were stoked and venue was sold out. The Portland show a couple years ago was more sparsely attended, it was toward end of tour and weather had already turned more fall like, crowd was older and not much of a tailgate scene. I read his  book “A pirate looks at Forty” back in the ‘90s and it was full of good short stories. 

Sailing to the Caribbean, jimmy might well be

pictures up in rolling stone for all the world to see

the rich keep getting richer, the poor they just stay poor

jimmy buffett doesn’t live in key west anymore

”Alright boys, sound like jimmy buffett now”!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=op0B4nNxG9Y

I saw him once. I went for the Little Feat open. I didn't have a bad time. 

Maybe do some acid just to be different . 

Have a blast.

Really cool clip. Shows that he is also a fan of Buffet's early stuff.

I was hugely into Buffet in his early yrs.  I saw him in a beer bar in Houston right after "Come Monday" came out. A highlight of this solo show was "God's Own Drunk".  Was the first time I heard that. In fact, I knew the Monday song but not who he was. At the time it was just something to do. Not sure if there was a cover charge. But I became a huge fan of his early albums. That was in 74. I bought all his albums and knew every song thru the "Son Of A Son Of A Sailor" Album in 78.  "Cheeseburger In Paradise" changed everything. I never bought another Buffet album.   What a garbage song from a great songwriter. At that point he took his shit in a different direction.

I saw him live in Laramie Wyoming and he had a broken leg.  A few yrs later I saw im in SoCal and he had another broken leg.  I saw him once more after that.   Now I am afraid I would not hear the songs I loved back then. Just mostly his more poppish shit.   But I was a huge fan for 4 or so yrs. Who knows might still be a good show.

The only thing he and dave mathews have in common is overly drunk fans. At least Buffet's are friendly drunks.

Mark, I just checked a recent setlist and 11 of the songs were from Son of a Sailor or earlier albums.  Where did you see him in Laramie and what were you doing in that godforsaken shit hole (I lived there for six years)?