front row seat try in 2 minutes, may need help with answer.

tincupchalice · Post by **tincupchalice** » March 14, 2003 9:12 am

my local radio is giving away 2 front rowers, the question may be hard, so im gonna post it if i dont know it and may need help...

tincupchalice · Post by **tincupchalice** » March 14, 2003 9:14 am

commercial, i would take the day off work if successful and a round of tequila for everyone

tincupchalice · Post by **tincupchalice** » March 14, 2003 9:19 am

what is the saying saved jimmy before he crashed in long island

phjrsaunt · Post by **phjrsaunt** » March 14, 2003 9:19 am

Okay, so what's the question?

tincupchalice · Post by **tincupchalice** » March 14, 2003 9:20 am

what is the last thing jimmy remembered before crashing in long island, supposedly one of his favorite sayings/..

phjrsaunt · Post by **phjrsaunt** » March 14, 2003 9:20 am

tincupchalice wrote:what is the saying saved jimmy before he crashed in long island

No clue. Sorry.

2fla · Post by **2fla** » March 14, 2003 9:20 am

it was something about bubbles always float up...follow the bubbles.

2fla · Post by **2fla** » March 14, 2003 9:21 am

he learned that in his survival training here at the naval base in Norfolk (if that helps)

tincupchalice · Post by **tincupchalice** » March 14, 2003 9:22 am

2FLA you were right!!!!! ut i couldnt get through, thanks so much!!!!!

2fla · Post by **2fla** » March 14, 2003 9:23 am

Rats!

tincupchalice · Post by **tincupchalice** » March 14, 2003 9:24 am

oh well, it got my heart racing in the morning, thanks for everyones help...

at elast they did ask an obscure question, instead of some lunatic getting 'margaritaville" right and winning them, im happy for the guy who won, sounded so happy, good for him

phjrsaunt · Post by **phjrsaunt** » March 14, 2003 9:26 am

Go TeamBuffettNews!!!!!!!!

ZeroDuval · Post by **ZeroDuval** » March 14, 2003 9:28 am

phjrsaunt wrote:Go TeamBuffettNews!!!!!!!!

WSS

BottleofRum · Post by **BottleofRum** » March 14, 2003 9:49 am

Jimmy Buffett didn't crash on long island he crashed just off Nantucket Island. He said he was disoriented and didn’t know which way was up but he remembered his training he did in Virginia look for the bubbles because they always go up. He said that saved his life. Call the station and tell them it was not Long Island!!!!!!!!!

BottleofRum · Post by **BottleofRum** » March 14, 2003 9:58 am

>>>>>>A BOTTLE OF RUM EXCLUSIVE<<<<<<<<
OK not really! But transcripts of an interview with Larry King June 24, 1998
http://www.cnn.com/books/dialogue/9806/jimmy.buffett/

About 1/4 way down he talks about the plane crash:

Jimmy Buffett isn't wastin' away in Margaritaville, or anywhere else
Web posted on: Wednesday, June 24, 1998 5:51:57 PM EDT

(CNN) -- Singer and chief Parrothead Jimmy Buffett visited Larry King on June 20 to talk about his new autobiography.

LARRY KING: Right now, one of the great entertainers, one of my favorite people; who wrote one of the all-time great songs ever written: "Margaritaville"; Jimmy Buffett, who is now the author of "A Pirate Looks at Fifty".

I would gather the pirate is you?

JIMMY BUFFETT, AUTHOR OF "A PIRATE LOOKS AT FIFTY": The pirate is me, Larry.

KING: What prompted this autobiography?

BUFFETT: Deadline.

KING: Still funny, Buffett.

BUFFETT: Actually, when I did turn 50 -- now, almost two years ago -- I wanted to do something to mark that occasion, so we were looking at what kind of a trip to take; and it boiled down, after exploring the options from everything around the world to around the Caribbean, I took my seaplane and did a trip around South America.

KING: Flying it yourself?

BUFFETT: I fly by myself. I have pilots who go with me, but I fly part of the time. It kind of became the central theme of something to hinge, all these stories. It's been a pretty interesting 50 years.

KING: You hinge it with the travel...

BUFFETT: ... Yeah, I just kind of hinge the stories on the little airplane trip around South America.

KING: You crashed in a plane?

BUFFETT: I crashed once.

KING: Where, Nantucket?

BUFFETT: Nantucket.

KING: Why do you fly again? I wouldn't.

BUFFETT: It's interesting, because after the accident -- it happened so fast -- one of the pieces in there is a -- is a story about the crash, because at the time it's happening, fortunately, I had gone up in an F-14, on a carrier; before that, I had gone to naval survival school in Norfolk, Virginia, where they make you go as a civilian before you go on an aircraft, particularly on a carrier.

And I remember -- that training basically saved my life. I remember bubbles up; because in a crash you get disoriented, and bubbles do go up.

KING: Follow the bubbles.

BUFFETT: Follow the bubbles.

KING: Were you injured?

BUFFETT: No, I was kind of cut and scratched.

KING: You were alone in the plane?

BUFFETT: I was alone in the plane. There was a -- striped bass in the back, which was...

(LAUGHTER)

KING: How panicky was it?

BUFFETT: At the time? The thing that I kept saying to myself: if I don't panic, I can get out of here -- because of that Navy training. This week I spent in Norfolk, Virginia, which was probably a year before the crash...

KING: It helped a lot?

BUFFETT: ... Yeah, they try to drown you, basically. And if you can survive that -- you know, I kept my wits about me enough to be able to...

KING: How about the next time you flew?

BUFFETT: I got in about four days later. I just wanted to make sure I could go do it, and, then, I did. I think I -- I know I'm a better pilot for it, and I'm glad I lived through it.

KING: How would Jimmy Buffett describe to an unknown from a planet what kind of artist he is? Are you country? Are you rock? Are you folk?

BUFFETT: I would probably consider myself a sponge.

I try to act...

KING: All of the above.

BUFFETT: ... I can -- I pick up, just -- if I'm an artist, I'm an artist of the ear, because I kind of listen to things; and travel is the other thing that I love to do; and if you can travel and keep your ears open, there are always stories out there.

KING: Do you like writing as much as singing?

BUFFETT: I like it in a way -- my old friend and collaborator, Herman Wouk -- when we were working on "Don't Stop the Carnival" -- told me the greatest piece of advice for writing that I ever got, which was: write a page a day. And, when you think of it, it sounds kind of simple, 30 days, it's 30 pages, so, that little piece gave me -- it was an incredible piece of advice, because whether it's a book, whether it's a song, or whether it's just writing a letter to someone, if you keep your chops up, it's like anything else.

KING: If ever there an unlikely combination, it's you and the Caribbean and the orthodox Jew, and the great author Herman Wouk, who's currently in Israel -- getting together on "Don't Stop the Carnival" -- which is going to be a Broadway musical. Right. You've been promising me.

BUFFETT: I've been promising you this, Larry -- where -- the carnival has not stopped -- we're tacking and we're looking for a different course to sail. Herman gets back from Israel, I think, next week.

KING: Are you going to write all the music?

BUFFETT: The music is done, and we did an album of the music, which we put out -- which we'll tour with this summer. And we're looking, basically right now, I'll tell you, at a concept show based around the music more the narration -- and then hopefully take it on the road -- we kind of got to circumnavigate, and hopefully that'll take us back into Broadway. But as far as a frontal attack, un-huh.

KING: But it's not dead-dead?

BUFFETT: It's not. The carnival is not stopped.

KING: Jimmy Buffett has written a memoir, I guess we'd call it, right?

BUFFETT: It's a memoir.

KING: "A Pirate Looks at Fifty." Why this affinity for Cuba?

BUFFETT: In my world, it goes back to my family. My grandfather was a sailing ship captain, and in my heritage from on my grandfather's side, he spent a lot of time in Cuba, as a sailor ship captain.

My father spent his first birthday, which is a great story that went through our family -- when all the captains raised flags in the harbor -- so I've had this for a long time in my family history; and then moving to Key West, Florida, in the early '70's, where Key West was basically more attached to Havana than Miami.

And all the incredible history, back and forth; and I went to Cuba, actually during the time of the Grenada invasion. I was in Havana -- I was sailing over -- I was working on a documentary of Hemingway, and jokingly, I said: well, I hope I'm not in Cuba when there's an international incident. And so, there we were.

KING: Was there any trouble?

BUFFETT: They detained us for a small bit of time at the airport, but then we went back; and that was almost 15 years ago.

KING: You also had refugees show up at your place.

BUFFETT: I did. I was with my dad -- we were getting ready to go fishing in front of my house in Key West -- these people appeared; and I thought they were just lobstering in the canal; and I didn't speak much Spanish, then. But finally I figured out that they had come not from Islamorada; they had come from Havana.

And I went back last year as a reporter for "Rolling Stone" and covered the pope's visit.

KING: Did they get to stay, those refugees?

BUFFETT: Yeah, I gave them a tape when they hit the shore. I knew that once they got to Miami, all they'd get was Julio; so I wanted to give them a Jimmy Buffett tape.

KING: Is "Margaritaville" the song that they're going to play 100 years from now, or "Come Monday?" But -- I would bet "Margaritaville."

BUFFETT: "Margaritaville" -- it's just -- I feel very lucky, you know, that I came along. I wrote it in about 10 minutes after a trip to Austin, Texas, and coming back to Key West. And I was lucky enough...

KING: Where were you, on a plane?

BUFFETT: I was driving back down to the Florida Keys, and it was like the huge weekend that there had been a huge influx of tourism -- this was like 1975 -- and the roads were just packed and crowded, and I kind of had this vision of things to come.

KING: So how does an idea form? What came first; did "Margaritaville"? Did that come first? "Wasting away again"?

BUFFETT: "Margaritaville" came first from this margarita at this great bar in Austin, Texas, so I was thinking of that as I was on the road on U.S. 1 -- driving to Key West on this crowded tourist day; and I got home and wrote it down. And I was lucky to get my thumb on the pulse of something that has, fortunately, stayed around.

KING: And remains a classic.

BUFFETT: Yes.

KING: Do you think musically all the time? Might you leave this studio, and think of a tune in the elevator?

BUFFETT: I think of, like, titles and one-liners. If you write a chorus to a song, if you can get a hook line, that's always the thing that I go for first; so that when I got into writing books and things like that, I don't know how to do anything to pace a show, or pace an album -- when I write my books, I like to put titles in of all he chapters.

KING: Is it still a kick to go on the stage?

BUFFETT: It's still the biggest kick. You know, I was watching the other night, and I saw a replay of the Sinatra special with Walter Cronkite that Don Hewitt did -- and he was 50 in 65 -- and I'm 52 in '98 -- I mean, I'm not comparing myself vocally to Frank Sinatra -- but, as a performer, it was magic to see that now that he has passed away, he did 30 years past where I am now; so it charged me up to go on the road this summer.

KING: Do you feel like a pirate?

BUFFETT: Sure.

KING: I mean, it's an interesting title. You feel like -- you're a swashbuckler, huh, Buffett?

BUFFETT: Well, I think so, Larry. I mean, as I said in the book, my heroes weren't presidents, initially, they were pirates. Jean Lafitte ... I was more interested than in Thomas Jefferson.

KING: Were these pirates good guys? Were they like Robin Hood's of the sea, or were they really scavengers?

BUFFETT: Well, I hate to tell you...

KING: Break it to me.

BUFFETT: Some of them were good, some of them were bad. Sort of like politicians.

KING: What about Lafitte?

BUFFETT: Lafitte was a good guy -- saved New Orleans.

KING: Where is home?

BUFFETT: Home is half the year in Florida and half the year in Long Island.

KING: Not a bad life.

BUFFETT: No, you know; winter's in the right place; summer's in the right place.

KING: When do you tour again?

BUFFETT: I go out next week. We'll be out all summer again.

KING: Jimmy, you're the best.

BUFFETT: Thanks, Larry.[/img]

Tiki Bar · Post by **Tiki Bar** » March 14, 2003 10:11 am

"Bubbles up" was the winning answer... short and sweet.

Good idea tcc, to come here for help. As I was listening to the contest in my car, I thought to myself, "just about everyone on BN probably knows the answer." I didn't, but I decided it's about time a read "a pirate looks at 50."

The winner sounded thrilled - 1st time in the front row. Is it anyone we know? I forget what his name was.

barefootpirate · Post by **barefootpirate** » March 14, 2003 10:34 am

That's a cool excerpt from the Larry King show, BOR. Thanks. Reading that was a good way to start a friday.

PHINS ^

mason · Post by **mason** » March 15, 2003 12:57 am

.......team .....buffett....news......now there is a t shirt waiting to be made.....and worn......make mine....large ....please........

"listen to the stories i could tell"

just another gypsie in the palace