Sorrowful Saturday @ the MSC

[Bicycle Bill]

Come on in, order up, and sit down and share your best "you had to be there" Buffett experience with us.
Per the management, we will not be charging for drinks today.   Jimmy would have wanted it that way.

-"BB"-

[RAGTOPMAN]

I can't even remember the last time I was here. It's is with great sadness that I come here tonight. Working the overnight while on a break I read of Jimmy's passing. I wanted to stop by here a day to all my old friends I share your pain and sadness. Sail on Jimmy It's been a lovely cruise.

[springparrot]

I still can't believe it. Yes, it is all over Facebook, internet and on CNN but maybe I don't want to believe it.

[springparrot]

RM is doing a Buffett Buffet....they just played
Lovely Cruise

[johnson2113]

My first concert, my most concerts. Every album...

[Saltx3]

We are shocked and so saddened.

We have met so many wonderful people because of Jimmy and his music!

[bodypainter]

Sigh......

[CaptainP]

Morning, Bill. Gonna need something heavy to drink this morning for sure. Hit me with a bottle of rum.

Years...DECADES of neverending summer vacation are over. Finally got to take my daughter to see the man play last summer. A daughter who's middle name was selected in a poll of my friends on BuffettNews.

So many of my closest friends, I would never have met without first hearing the music of Jimmy Buffett. He brought us all together. Over the decades, I have been to 3 weddings of people who met via Jimmy Buffett. Not just that I met them on BN, but people who met at concerts. People like DrunkPirate66, PopcornJack, the late great WinoYouKnow, and others, I consider some of the best friends in my life.

My final concert count will be 40. My final memory count is too high to calculate.

I love you all. Sail on, Jimmy.

[lime rickie]

Soundtrack of my adult life. Beyond sad.

Will play my own little Labor Day Weekend show.

Sail on, Jimmy.

[captainalex]

Sail on Jimmy. 2nd star to the right and straight on till morning.

[Dr.Corona]

Morning gang.
Losing the true King of Somewhere Hot this weekend is a bitter pill to swallow. The Soundtrack of the Summer was forever altered by Jimmy & the CRB. So glad I jumped aboard his boat & was able to enjoy the ride numerous times.
RIP

[CaptainP]

Somewhat fitting that it's the end of summer vacation. Heaven will have one Hell of a Labor Day Weekend Show.

[springparrot]

Somewhat fitting that it's the end of summer vacation. Heaven will have one Hell of a Labor Day Weekend Show.

Think of the band....I know Jerry Jeff was first to meet him...

[SMLCHNG]

Too many stories.

I have a husband because of his music.

I just can't.

[Touch O Parrotdise]

HUGS to all my friends I met here because of Jimmy, Also to his Family.. Sail on Jimmy

[bocanuts]

Good morning y’all, what a sad sad day. I posted this in music group I run on Facebook:

“He's somewhere on the ocean now
A place he outta be
With one hand on the starboard rail
He's wavin' back at me”

While Blue Mountain and Ryan Adams were the two pivotal artists that hooked me into the altcountry/Americana genre, Jimmy Buffett was the catalyst.

Sometime around 1994 or 1995 the worst person I was ever involved in a relationship with mentioned Jimmy. I don’t recall the details but whatever she said peaked my interest and a few days later I found a copy of Songs You Know By Heart in a pawnshop.

If you’re ever heard “He Went to Paris”, then, well, maybe you get this. That one song awoke in me a wanderlust for the ocean and the water that’s been going strong ever since.

But even more so, Jimmy’s music lead me to a rather kick ass group of people online in the form of the Church of Buffett, Orthodox. COBO, was a lot like this group. Close knit and, overall, pretty damn picky about music. We all realized Jimmy put out some great albums in the 70s and, to be frank, some pretty terrible s*** thereafter (with many exceptions though).

We even had our own convoluted creed:

Jimmy Buffett is revered as chief poet, insofar as he has best espoused a philosophy of cheerful hedonism.

The albums of Buffett constitute the Church’s holy writ, with the following exceptions:

a. A1A, White Sport Coat and a Pink Crustacean, Havana Daydreamin’, and Livin’ and Dyin’ in 3/4 Time constitute the “spiritual core” of our holy canon.

b. Changes In Latitudes, Changes In Attitudes is the most troubling part of scripture; some advocates believe it belongs in (a), while I believe that, since it contains the apostasy of “Margaritaville,” it does not belong with those other enlightened works.

c. No albums that come after Changes In Latitudes, Changes In Attitudes are as good as any album that came before Changes In Latitudes, Changes In Attitudes. This does not mean that JB has made no good music since Changes In Latitudes, Changes In Attitudes; it merely means that these later albums are not infused throughout with the blissful karma that blessed the earlier ones.

The actions of the real-time Jimmy are also problematical; we hold out for his eventual redemption, but if he continues his slide towards commercialism, we still have the works mentioned in (2a) as the solid rock of our faith. We are also grateful for the 1 or 2 cuts per new album that are worthy of the “core” works. Also, many of us have seen JB in the old, pre-neo-Jazz-caribbean-steel- drum-cum-backup-singers-Beach-Boy-lookalike days; memories of these ancient concerts (as well as bootlegs!) keep us going as well. 3a. Many CoB,O brethren view Todd Snider as the rightful heir to the title of Chief Poet, Cheerful Hedonism division.

We were wrong about Todd Snider though…

But while on the COBO forum I started hearing about all these other artists, DBT, Gram Parsons, Whiskeytown and others. And well, you can guess what happened next.

Jimmy was my lynchpin for pretty much all of this. The catalyst, the precursor.

Without him, there would be no us. No Sad Bastards bitching and moaning about Fudge Rounds, no baring our souls and trauma, and no QOTDs.

Sail on Jimmy.

Sail on.

[CaptainP]

I have a husband because of his music.

Hugs to you Penny & E. I was thinking this morning, I personally attended 3 weddings of BuffettNews people. I wasn't at yours, but obviously, there were more than 3 couples that got together thanks to JB and his influence.

[melon59]

I have no words.

[SchoolGirlHeart]

I was (kind of) ready for the big tour to end, but I wasn’t ready for this.

[johnson2113]

I was doing okay until I heard Kirsten.