I know the following locations:
Down To Earth Front Cover – A river in Nashville
A1A Front Cover – A Beach In Miami
A1A Back Cover – Somewhere on the highway itself
Last Mango Front – A bar in New Orleans
Last Mango Back – Everglades?
Does anyone know anymore locations, such as what beach that is on the Coconut Telegraph front cover?
Album photo locations
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Re: Album photo locations
Was the Last Mango Front---from Galatoire's in New Orleans?Parrot Monkey wrote:I know the following locations:
Down To Earth Front Cover – A river in Nashville
A1A Front Cover – A Beach In Miami
A1A Back Cover – Somewhere on the highway itself
Last Mango Front – A bar in New Orleans
Last Mango Back – Everglades?
Does anyone know anymore locations, such as what beach that is on the Coconut Telegraph front cover?
Here's a story I read in the Coconut Telegraph about Floridays!
Belize: A Zoo Story by Sunshine Smith
Shooting an album cover with Jimmy Buffett is much more than a job, it’s an adventure. Actually, just being his friend is an adventure. There is an intensity to every aspect of Jimmy’s life---drinking, eating, singing, writing, even sleeping. Anything new is an adventure to him.
For instance, having a drink is an adventure when you climb a coconut tree and gather green coconuts, then machete the tops off for a refreshingly potent gin and coconut water. Very tasty after a long and dusty day of shooting ten rolls of film at the Belize Zoo for the cover of Floridays, Jimmy’s latest album to be released June 1st.
Why Belize---and perhaps more importantly, why the Belize Zoo? Well. . . it seems that Jimmy was in Belize several months earlier cruising down a river looking to hook a snook or two (they ARE fish, you know.)
Jungle foliage hung low over the river. Jimmy was fascinated by the monkey leaping through the trees and the iguanas hanging from the branches. This scenario prompted him to write about the monkeys and iguanas listening to a song “a most uncaptive audience he played to all night long. . .”
The imagery from the song got stuck in Jimmy’s brain---and when something gets caught in that man’s mind, no ration of rationalization can budge him from his intended course of action. Thus the Belize Zoo was the only possible location for the cover shoot.
When we arrived, zookeeper, Sharon Matola and her assistant, Tony, helped us assemble the stars of the zoo to model for Floridays.
Not long after, I found myself holding onto the tail of a five-foot snake named Thunder & Lightning, keeping him in position for photographer, Jim Shea during the photo session---and incidentally preventing him from devouring a colorful, inquisitive toucan!
After four and a half hours in position, the animals, Sparkle Plenty the spider monkey, Frank the iguana, Scarlet the macaw, Rainbow the toucan, Arthur the green parrot and Isabel, the nine-month-old jaguar who loves chewing on human ankles---got tired of being stars.
The toucan lost interest in being lured by bananas to change his position, the monkey was no longer interested in Jimmy’s song, the snake was losing patience with me for tugging his tail, and Frank the iguana was just plain bored.
Then---the mosquitos blew in. “They’re biting the bottoms of my feet!” came an anguished cry from Jimmy. I feverishly sprayed mosquito spray on the soles of Mr. Buffett’s feet, trying to prevent this distracting discomfort.
Now, if you’ve ever worked with photographers, you know that they don’t know when to quit. Just “one more shot” turns into one more roll and “one more minute” turns into thirty and finally the person being photographed starts losing his photographic charm.
Meanwhile, I had become distracted trying to remember the song about “the line broke, the monkey got choked, and they all went to heaven in a little row boat.” Snake Thunder & Lightning must have felt my distraction, for he took a lunge---at at the bird, as one might expect, but at the monkey sitting on Jimmy’s shoulder. That snake snapped at a little monkey foot that looked like a hand to me.
The monkey, not realizing which front the attack came from, spun around an slapped the toucan right off his branch. Then she turned and BIT Mr. Buffett on the hand with a sharp monkey bite.
With that the animals scattered, except for Frank, who was still bored. End of that photo shoot.
Yes, working for Jimmy is an adventure. I’m glad I signed on.
Belize: A Zoo Story by Sunshine Smith
Shooting an album cover with Jimmy Buffett is much more than a job, it’s an adventure. Actually, just being his friend is an adventure. There is an intensity to every aspect of Jimmy’s life---drinking, eating, singing, writing, even sleeping. Anything new is an adventure to him.
For instance, having a drink is an adventure when you climb a coconut tree and gather green coconuts, then machete the tops off for a refreshingly potent gin and coconut water. Very tasty after a long and dusty day of shooting ten rolls of film at the Belize Zoo for the cover of Floridays, Jimmy’s latest album to be released June 1st.
Why Belize---and perhaps more importantly, why the Belize Zoo? Well. . . it seems that Jimmy was in Belize several months earlier cruising down a river looking to hook a snook or two (they ARE fish, you know.)
Jungle foliage hung low over the river. Jimmy was fascinated by the monkey leaping through the trees and the iguanas hanging from the branches. This scenario prompted him to write about the monkeys and iguanas listening to a song “a most uncaptive audience he played to all night long. . .”
The imagery from the song got stuck in Jimmy’s brain---and when something gets caught in that man’s mind, no ration of rationalization can budge him from his intended course of action. Thus the Belize Zoo was the only possible location for the cover shoot.
When we arrived, zookeeper, Sharon Matola and her assistant, Tony, helped us assemble the stars of the zoo to model for Floridays.
Not long after, I found myself holding onto the tail of a five-foot snake named Thunder & Lightning, keeping him in position for photographer, Jim Shea during the photo session---and incidentally preventing him from devouring a colorful, inquisitive toucan!
After four and a half hours in position, the animals, Sparkle Plenty the spider monkey, Frank the iguana, Scarlet the macaw, Rainbow the toucan, Arthur the green parrot and Isabel, the nine-month-old jaguar who loves chewing on human ankles---got tired of being stars.
The toucan lost interest in being lured by bananas to change his position, the monkey was no longer interested in Jimmy’s song, the snake was losing patience with me for tugging his tail, and Frank the iguana was just plain bored.
Then---the mosquitos blew in. “They’re biting the bottoms of my feet!” came an anguished cry from Jimmy. I feverishly sprayed mosquito spray on the soles of Mr. Buffett’s feet, trying to prevent this distracting discomfort.
Now, if you’ve ever worked with photographers, you know that they don’t know when to quit. Just “one more shot” turns into one more roll and “one more minute” turns into thirty and finally the person being photographed starts losing his photographic charm.
Meanwhile, I had become distracted trying to remember the song about “the line broke, the monkey got choked, and they all went to heaven in a little row boat.” Snake Thunder & Lightning must have felt my distraction, for he took a lunge---at at the bird, as one might expect, but at the monkey sitting on Jimmy’s shoulder. That snake snapped at a little monkey foot that looked like a hand to me.
The monkey, not realizing which front the attack came from, spun around an slapped the toucan right off his branch. Then she turned and BIT Mr. Buffett on the hand with a sharp monkey bite.
With that the animals scattered, except for Frank, who was still bored. End of that photo shoot.
Yes, working for Jimmy is an adventure. I’m glad I signed on.