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BTT...

Why? Cuz I'm bringing my big brother to the Chicago show today, and I figure I might have mentioned him on BN, somewhere down the line.

Gregg has seen Jimmy at the Quiet Knight, and he used to go to concerts before the days of "parrot heads"... he never brought me because I was a teenager, and he didn't want to expose me to the adult behavior tailgating! He's in for a big surprise in the parking lot!

This is gonna be fun - I can't wait to share the whole experience with him!

Tiki Bar April 21, 2004 wrote:I don't know if it was the 1st, but my earliest memories are of my brother Gregg playing guitar / singing Come Monday on the couch back in the 70's - whenever he was home. He also played Banana Republics, Son of a Son of a Sailor, Pencil Thin Mustache, and CILCIA quite a bit too.

I don't recall when I 1st heard them by this Jimmy Buffett character, but I'm sure it was back then as well.

Sometime aroung 1979 I recall hearing Margaritaville on a.m. radio when I was 8 years old.

A.M. radio, my folks' '78 LeMans. It was hard to hear the radio about the permanently f'd up and VERY LOUD timing belt on that POS car! You could hear that car coming from 100 yards away.

And that's what I learned to drive on...By 1987 there was no working spedometer or heater.

Don't remember the first song I heard...long time ago.

First song I heard LIVE, on the other hand, was ONE PARTICULAR HARBOR.
It immediately became my favorite song, and still is, 15 years later.

I remember hearing Margaritaville on the radio. But then I also remember hearing It's A Crazy World on the radio about the same time. The names "Jimmy Buffett" and "Mac McAnally" didn't mean anything to me back then. I even saw JB in concert in 1979.

But the first song that really hit me, the one that totally hooked me on Buffett music, was Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes.

I don't remember hearing the first Buffett song (I have heard about Margaritaville, Cheeseburger in Paradise), the first one I remember hearing about is You'll Never Work in Dis Bidness Again -- live from the Feeding Frenzy album. A friend in college told me about this and told me that I had to listen to Buffett's new live album.

I have no clue

LIPH wrote:I have no clue

Yes, but what was your first Buffett song?

Tiki Bar wrote:BTT...

Why? Cuz I'm bringing my big brother to the Chicago show today, and I figure I might have mentioned him on BN, somewhere down the line.

Gregg has seen Jimmy at the Quiet Knight, and he used to go to concerts before the days of "parrot heads"... he never brought me because I was a teenager, and he didn't want to expose me to the adult behavior tailgating! He's in for a big surprise in the parking lot!

This is gonna be fun - I can't wait to share the whole experience with him!

Tiki Bar April 21, 2004 wrote:I don't know if it was the 1st, but my earliest memories are of my brother Gregg playing guitar / singing Come Monday on the couch back in the 70's - whenever he was home. He also played Banana Republics, Son of a Son of a Sailor, Pencil Thin Mustache, and CILCIA quite a bit too.

I don't recall when I 1st heard them by this Jimmy Buffett character, but I'm sure it was back then as well.

My big brother got me into this too, although not with such a novel entry.

My first "real" memory of Buffett was riding in a car w/ him and my SIL (I wasn't even old enough to drive ). I heard "Volcano" and was hooked for life. He took me to my first Buffett concert way back when at Kings Dominion. We didn't get to go to another show together till a couple years ago at Nissan (hot!!!). He came to the Hoot Island show with me-just another of the zillion reasons why that show is super special to me. We decided that if that was the last time we ever saw Buffett together, it would be okay b/c everything was just "that" perfect. Fortunately, we got to go to Raleigh together this year as well. We decided that it's MUCH better to come to Buffett shows w/ your sibling than with your spouse, but that's another story for another time

In short, this is all my big brother's fault!!

popcornjack wrote:

LIPH wrote:I have no clue

Yes, but what was your first Buffett song?

I just couldn't resist.

Summer ( of course ) of 1977. I was 27 and heard Havana Day Dreamin on the radio. I met my wife that summer. I had no idea who Jimmy was and never really started getting it until 1988. Oh well - I've made up for lost time.

my intro to Jimmy was a K-tel record my mother had bought....it had Margaritaville on it and I fell in love with the song and played that album over and over that summer....had to be around 1977....been a fan ever since
For those not old enough t remember....K-tel produced albums of (then) current hits you'd hear on the radio, similar to the NOW CDs you can buy nowadays.

I always thought it was Come Monday but as I became a bigger fan of JB, I realized it was Ellis Dee. I had no idea at the time it was Jimmy. I just recall that there was controversy over it so it probably didn't stay on any radio playlists for very long.

It was one of those songs that the powers-that-be at the time just had to listen to a little closer and they would have realized what it was really about. One of the more socially conscientious songs that Jimmy has written.

Margaritaville..pool side on a family vacation when I was 11. I was floating in the water and just remember being so at ease, and this live band was playing Margaritaville..the rest is history.

"It's My Job".....I was road tripping and a friend made a 'mix tape' for me. Loved that song so much when I got home from the road trip I bought "Coconut Telegraph"......never looked back.

Like many people, my Freshmen year of college. On a bus trip to St. Louis for a soccer game. Our goalie played the yellow album for us. I remember commenting how stupid the Cheeseburger song was, then being blown away by Come Monday. Also liked Pirate and Volcano (songs that years later I look forward to as a bathroom break!). Decided on a whim to drive to Chicago to see that Buffett guy. Counting tonight that was 22 concerts ago.

Had some copies of tapes for months before I broke down and listened to them. I think it was my freshman year of college, too.

One of the albums was Floridays...

Nobody Speaks To The Captain No More roped me in forever and ever.

Amen.

My first Jimmy song was likely something other than Margaritaville, but it was also likely in the days when I didn't know Jimmy's music that well, and I heard a song and said "boy I really like that song...wonder who sings it?"


(Unfortunately I'm drawing a blank on this one...)

The first songs we heard were Cheeseburger in Paradise and Pencil Thin Mustache. We were on holiday in Majorca in the 1980's and sat on the beach in Magaluf outside a Daquiri bar frequented by US Marines. We asked at the bar who was the singer and when told from that moment we became Jimmy fans. We asked a friend to buy the tape when he went over to the States and everytime he visited the USA he brought us back a different Jimmy Buffett cassette.

cheeseburger...i remember being young(6 ish?) and dancing round the house listening to it. my mom had got it for free from one of those CD order things. i remember her hating me listening to it saying "dont listen to that trash, youll end up a bum on a beach wasting your life like jimmy buffett". 15 years later ive made her a fan....

i also remember the first 20 or so times i heard fins i thought it was "fans to the left, fans to the right"....