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This is just a little (more than semi-) true story about the pervasiveness of Margaritaville. I was on lunch break from jury duty at the courthouse in Van Nuys, CA (San Fernando Valley). I was walking around outside and heard some music. It turned out to be a kind of scruffy, long-haired guy with a ...

Here We Are, at this point, has not been played live. All of the MP3s available (see other BN threads) are of the same recording that is played along with a video at the shows.

What a cool resource. That had to be a LOT of work. Many thanks to you all. One error I noticed - the lyrics to Take It Back don't quite reach all the way to the end of the song.

from The Borowitz Report - borowitzreport.com - which is a daily humor page and has received (as the home page announces) the "First Ever National Press Club Award for Humor" : Elsewhere, one day after their latest album reached number one on the pop and country charts, President Bush name...

Some excellent scholarship on those lyrics can be found here - http://www.buffettnews.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=47765

I agree with you with the freedom of speech here in America,but thats where the agreeing ends.If she is going to exercise her right to freedom of speech she better be able to handle the repercussion of other people exercising there right against her. Instead she goes crying on TV. She wants to make...

This is such a great song and so totally JB. Kudos to jonesbeach10 and gingerbreadman on wrestling the lyrics to the ground. I have a couple of ideas to add. I agree with gman that it's "preacher's bus from hell" that "parks itself in front of your digs" as he had it from Dallas....

phjrsaunt said : No reality could ever live up to the Margaritaville in our minds. My wife one said that living in LA is not so different from life in a small town. (She grew up in central Illinois) Everybody has their OVERLAY that they superimpose on the map of LA. The overlay contains all the pla...

I have it on very good authority (those NSA wiretaps are finally paying off) that the original lyric was "chafing." And I like it because it's a real graphic down-to-earth image against the general love-fest that is this song. I have never personally worn one of them, but there has to be s...

There certainly is a marked difference between a live performance and an original (or studio) performance. Sometimes the audience energy really brings a song to life. And the seclusion of the studio offers different possibilities. One of my favorite JB songs is the odd Everlasting Moon (from the box...

Here We Are Here we are, Here we are, Here we are... Who would've thought this game, this flame would still be burning? Who would've thought that all those blenders'd still be churning? Not even we on bended knees could've ever blessed it. Not even I with my head in the sky would've ever guessed it,...

His drum part on Bob Dylan's "Lay Lady Lay" (from the Nashville Skyline album, perhaps) is one of the all-time coolest drum tracks. I once asked him about it and, basically, he said that it just fell together all by itself. So many great things do. (This from another Buffett drummer alumnu...

I had no difficulty in hearing the whole thing. BUT I may have an answer to the question "Why is this available?" I was awash in spyware after this session, so someone may be sponsoring it. It took me an hour to get rid of the stuff and WinTasks - a utility designed to help with this sort ...

I loved this from the LA Times story on this great artist's passing: "I feel the opposite of regret," he said then. "I was the hardest-living rocker on my block for a while. I was a malfunctioning rummy for a while and running away for a while. Then for 18 years I was a sober dad of s...

Wow, this is the closest I've gotten to SchoolGirlHeart - a screenname which I happen to love. I believe you are in the service "somewhere over the rainbow." Thank you for chiming in. Another thing that might drum up a little compassion for the songwriter is the fact that they are not maki...

I think this copyright issue goes back to a simple idea that many people have about artists. "They have so much fun doing what they're doing that they don't really care about being paid." Maybe it's a twist on the old Puritan work ethic thing, too. "If they want to be paid, let them g...

I definitely loved (and saved) that great picture, quietlymakingnoise. Thanks.

Harry was on the band when I came on board as drummer in 1980-81. His supportive attitude toward the "new kid" was tremendously helpful to me. You have only to listen to the early records to know what a talented musician he was, although they hardly reveal the breadth of his gift. His cont...

That last one was from me. Forgot to log in.

I'm not much judging an album and naming it a mineral....I will just say It sounds da*n nice in the boat.... That cracked me up. Thanks, aquaholic. Since it only takes 500k in sales for a multi-disc release to rate platinum, I think it will do that. Maybe even in one year. Goodness knows the world ...