RIP Jimmy
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Jimmy Buffett was never my favorite, but damned if "Margaritaville" doesn't sound great aboard a boat in the tropics on a sunny day, EVERY time. Looking back, I have a lot of respect for his unique style of country-Caribbean. I don't think anyone ever sounded quite like him, and I regret never having seen him live with a tall, cool drink in my hand.
'Waste away' in peace, Jimmy!
'Waste away' in peace, Jimmy!
In same boat as you….But I actually lose the salt shaker from time to time in the kitchen. Evidently I have not learn the art of setting it back down in the same place every time. Maybe due to being to wasted away….
Had dealings with him regarding his concerts in Vancouver, B.C. years ago.
They say its not proper to speak ill of the dead.
Did like his music.
They say its not proper to speak ill of the dead.
Did like his music.
RIP Jimmy. I've loved his music (most of it anyway) since the first time I heard it. Never get tired of Margaritaville. Mrs. Salmo has Serius Margaritaville as here default radio station in her car. I read he was first diagnosed with skin cancer 4 years ago, and it developed into lymphoma. Fvck cancer.
Listened to him a bunch in the 70's, smokin' reefer w/ the Coral Reefer Band on the stereo just seemed like the thing to do. Tastes change, and sort of got away from his music before Margaritaville and that whole thing exploded, but enjoyed it for a while before that.
White Sport Coat and a Pink Crustacean...
RIP
White Sport Coat and a Pink Crustacean...
RIP
They say Jerry Jeff Walker took him to Key West in 1971, from Nashville, to busk on the street. In 1973 he was living and writing in Tom McGuane’s barn in Livingstone, and they made a tarpon fishing movie with Richard Brautigan and Jim Harrison later that year. Rancho Deluxe (…Ebert: I don't know how this movie went so disastrously wrong, but it did…”) is still the only movie I’ve ever known to feature fly tying, and The Dude ventilates a Caddy with a Sharps.
Every cowboy has a dream of having his own Rancho Deluxe. The only thing that’s different is how they go about getting it.- RD trailer
Tarpon movie
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Every cowboy has a dream of having his own Rancho Deluxe. The only thing that’s different is how they go about getting it.- RD trailer
Tarpon movie
That Time Tom McGuane, Jim Harrison & Jimmy Buffet Made a Film About Tarpon - American Museum Of Fly Fishing
That time Tom McGuane, Richard Brautigan, and Jim Harrison were in a movie about tarpon with an original soundtrack by Jimmy Buffett.
www.amff.org
Thanks for mentioning this. I read that they took the old Tarpon feature and cut it into this 34 minute short. I hope they release it widely eventually, as I’d like to see it!They say Jerry Jeff Walker took him to Key West in 1971, from Nashville, to busk on the street. In 1973 he was living and writing in Tom McGuane’s barn in Livingstone, and they made a tarpon fishing movie with Richard Brautigan and Jim Harrison later that year. Rancho Deluxe (…Ebert: I don't know how this movie went so disastrously wrong, but it did…”) is still the only movie I’ve ever known to feature fly tying, and The Dude ventilates a Caddy with a Sharps.
Every cowboy has a dream of having his own Rancho Deluxe. The only thing that’s different is how they go about getting it.- RD trailer
Tarpon movie
View attachment 80632That Time Tom McGuane, Jim Harrison & Jimmy Buffet Made a Film About Tarpon - American Museum Of Fly Fishing
That time Tom McGuane, Richard Brautigan, and Jim Harrison were in a movie about tarpon with an original soundtrack by Jimmy Buffett.
From a comment in the NY Times about his passing. Says a good deal about his reach.
"Last night, in Milwaukee at the Brewers - Phillies game, between innings the song "Margaritaville" was played. The crowd spontaneously sang along, and it seemed like the game officials let it continue longer than the usually well-timed interludes that baseball now demands. They played nearly the whole song, and those who could, continued to sing it to its conclusion after the PA stopped. It was a fun moment. RIP Jimmy Buffet."
As a longtime resident of the Roaring Fork Valley and later the Lower Keys we thought he was ours. Guess he really was a part of much more than that.
"Last night, in Milwaukee at the Brewers - Phillies game, between innings the song "Margaritaville" was played. The crowd spontaneously sang along, and it seemed like the game officials let it continue longer than the usually well-timed interludes that baseball now demands. They played nearly the whole song, and those who could, continued to sing it to its conclusion after the PA stopped. It was a fun moment. RIP Jimmy Buffet."
As a longtime resident of the Roaring Fork Valley and later the Lower Keys we thought he was ours. Guess he really was a part of much more than that.
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It’s funny because when I was growing it was all the parent’s playing Jimmy and the kids whining and wanting Nirvana and Alice In Chains and yesterday in memorial I put on some Jimmy and I was thinking, “This isn’t so bad.” I getting old. RIP!
Jimmy was also an avid flyfisher and surfer who owned float planes he'd pilot himself, would load up with supplies and some friends and fly throughout the Carribean to ride waves and bend rods...here's a pic of his 'Hemisphere Dancer' nosed up on the beach for just that
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