It took 34 years and Mr. Buffett's song, NOBODY SPEAKS TO THE CAPTAIN NO MORE to answer some questions I had from 1969 to 6 April 1970.
Some of the answers that I sought I did not like, others, well I just am not that sure of yet.
In any event just below the title of the song, three men are listed, their names are: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Allie Fox & Phil Clark. If I could ask some of you more experienced PH's who are these three individuals?
I just posted on the site about my son's buddie for years Wally going to Iraq and kept thinking about this song over and over this weekend as well as today.
Again, any assistance you can offer would be helpful.
Marquez is a Columbian author. I had to read 100 Years of Solitude my senior year of HS, it took forever to get into, but was good once I got it. Once I got to college and lived in the international dorm with a bunch of South Americans, I really got it and love the book now.
My ship she has a rudder, but I don’t know where to steer
Gabriel Garcia Marquez is an author from Colombia. I haven't read any of his books, I couldn't even name any of them, but I think he won a Nobel Prize 20 or 25 years ago. I don't know who the other 2 are.
"Over the years, Buffett has collected characters for his songs like a beachcomber lovingly gathering shells, but most Parrot Heads will tell you the hero of A Pirate Looks at 40 is their favorite. Eng fills us in on who the pirate is, Phil Clark, a Key West bartender who was forever sailing off to exotic ports, smuggling, picking up young women and getting powerfully drunk. Buffett was in awe of the modern-day swashbuckler. When Clark died in 1986, his remains were cremated and his ashes displayed on the Full Moon Saloon cash register. They were later scattered at sea, while a pirate flag was slowly waved from deck. "
By LINDA BARNARD -- Toronto Sun
'Til one night he did find her
in the arms of Shrimper Dan....
Allie Fox is the name of the character from Mosquito Coast. I believe Harrison Ford played him in the movie. I don't know if the story is a biographical film or not if it is strictly fiction. Someone may know more then I about it.
Captain Jack's Bar & Grill, Home to the Lost Manatee.
Allie Fox has worked as a solo musician for many years, playing in clubs and venues throughout Britain. Apart from her songwriting skills, she is an ace finger-picking guitarist and is currently collaborating with jazz/blues guitarist Neil Warden (Tam White/Celtic Groove Connection). Their instrumentals have been described as a mixture of the Mississippi Delta, Le Hot Club de Paris and Celtic rhythm.
Allie's other musical projects include folk-rock band Eclectic Shock with ex-Fish lead guitarist Frank Usher, and the successful live music venue The String Jam Club which she set up in 1997. In addition to her composing and performance work, Allie teaches guitar and runs voice workshops. She also runs fox & fox music international which promotes the music of her late brother, the classical composer Malcolm Fox
'Til one night he did find her
in the arms of Shrimper Dan....
Allie Fox has never been a man to do things by the book. An avid inventor, he is a troubled genuis given to intense moods and an incredible drive. Seemingly on a whim, he shifts his family to the jungles of Central America, telling his children that America "is gone". Determined to create a civilization better than the one he has abandoned, Fox's obsession and mania might pull his family through, or it might pull them apart.
'Til one night he did find her
in the arms of Shrimper Dan....
This I found interesting about García Márquez and explains why it was dedicated to him...
"In 1955, an event occurred which would place him back on the path of literature and eventually lead to his temporary exile from Colombia. That year, the Caldas, a small Colombian destroyer, was swamped in high seas on its return to Cartagena. Several sailors were swept overboard, and all died except one remarkable man, Luis Alejandro Velasco, who managed to survive for ten days at sea by clinging to a life raft. When he was eventually washed ashore, he quickly became a national hero. Used as propaganda by the government, Velasco did everything from make speeches to advertise watches and shoes. Finally he decided to tell the truth -- the Caldas was carrying illegal cargo, and they were swept overboard because of their negligence and incompetence! Visiting the offices of El Espectador, Velasco offered them his story, and after some hesitation, they accepted. Velasco told his tale to García Márquez, who acted as a ghostwriter and recast it into prose. The story was serialized over two full weeks as "The Truth About My Adventure by Luis Alejandro Velasco," and it created quite a sensation. Extremely unhappy, the Government tossed Velasco out of the Navy. Worried that Pinilla might persecute García Márquez directly, his editors sent him on assignment to Italy to cover the imminent death of Pope Pius XII. When the pontiff's untimely survival made this assignment pointless, García Márquez arranged to wander around Europe as a correspondent. After studying film awhile in Rome, he embarked on a tour of the communist bloc; and later that year his friends managed to get Leaf Storm finally published in Bogotá.
García Márquez travelled through Geneva, Rome, Poland and Hungary, finally settling in Paris where he found that he was out of a job -- the Pinilla government had shut down the presses of El Espectador. Settling in the Latin Quarter, he lived off credit, the kindness of his landlady, and money scraped up returning bottles for their deposits. There, influenced by the writings of Hemingway, he typed out eleven drafts of No One Writes to the Colonel and part of Este pueblo de mierda ("This Town of s***"), the book that would later become In Evil Hour. After finishing Colonel, he travelled to London and finally returned to his home continent -- not to Colombia, but to Venezuela, the favored destination of Colombian refugees. There he finished Este pueblo de mierda, his work which most directly addresses la violencia. Even though it was obvious that he was developing his own unique style, he was still unsatisfied. His early stories were unemotional and abstract. Leaf Storm was too indebted to Faulkner, and No One Writes to the Colonel and In Evil Hour were too far away from his imagined goal, the image he had been developing for years. He knew his ultimate work would take place in the mythical town of Macondo, but he had yet to find the right tone in which to tell his tale; he had yet to discover his true voice."
'Til one night he did find her
in the arms of Shrimper Dan....
i know phil clark.... he just so happens to be the webmaster of the stl parrothead club's website. i see him every wednesday. oh wait, probably a different phil
-"Someone yells and things just start erupting,
and in a flash all hell has broken loose"
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