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Caribbean Soul wrote:

RinglingRingling wrote:

LIPH wrote:

PIA wrote:

HTparrothead wrote:I know the exact date for me... Nov 28th 1983... i was born my parents are huge fans just got passed on

im going to have to go with this one......

OCTOBER 3rd 1986....couldve been earlier....i used to listen to buffett in the womb......

Damn, you people are young.

they probably don't creak and pop when they get out of bed, either.

And you know LIPH does this HOW????
(not that there's anything worng with that ...)

once you get past 35, the funny noises coming from the parts with joints seem to get louder.

Loved Jimmy's music since the 70's, but I got my epiphany several years ago at a New Year's Eve party in a barn, a friend hosted it and told everybody to come in tropical wear aka Buffett style. We danced all night to his music and I went NUTS for all things Buffett. I GOT IT !!

Hmm... visiting a friend in Gainesville, FL in the mid-90s, and she made plans for us to go to see a concert at the O-Rena in Orlando, then to Disneyworld the next day. Hooked! (on both Jimmy Buffett and all things Disney)

Learned several handy tips that weekend:

Don't get on the Teacups if you're hungover. Bad idea.

Go to the bathroom during Margaritaville. Shorther lines.

And along the way I have been having fun experiencing all of the different varieties of pre-concert amusements- 2 college aged girls running around the bars in Orlando, bus trip to a concert, bunch o' drunks in a van meeting up with a pickup truck BBQ tailgate, Wrooftoppin' at Wrigley. Looking forward to a whole different experience at MSG next month!

OttoCal

Let's see...my epiphany comes in three stages.
1st Stage was high school hearing Come Monday
and Cheeseburger on the radio regularly before
heading out in the morning and liking JB's sound.
2nd Stage was in college getting hooked on the
You Had To Be There album then wanting to hear
everything he had recorded.
3rd Stage was visiting Key West for the 1st time in 1991
and seeing firsthand the history of the songs. I'm a big
fan of singer/songwriter/storytellers and that sealed the deal
for me.
JB has been the background music to my life for nearly
30 years and I wouldn't have it any other way. The friends,
the music, the places I've visited and the books I've read
through JB's songlines have enriched my life.

I first heard PLAF 'bout thirty years ago...
went out and bought A1A (yes, on vinyl)
listened off and on for many a year till...

I was in the restroom at a movie theater and
the overhead (no pun intended) music was Jimmy playing "Southern Cross" on TT&S. ('99?) Had to have that! (on CD).
I wore that sucker out all summer in the backyard...Epiphany!
Then came the boxed set/concerts/decorated office/ and all that comes with enjoying the music.

Some pholks think I'm a little overboard with it all
Does that happen to you?

citcat wrote: I got my epiphany several years ago at a New Year's Eve party in a barn,

you know...there's not many happy endings to that kind of sentence.

MikeInNOLA wrote:I believe it was 1974, I jumped in a friends pick-up truck and he tossed me the 8-track of A White Sports Coat and a Pink Crustacean to stick in the tape player. I was instantly hooked and have been listening ever since.

This is also the same friend who turned me onto Jerry Jeff Walker, so unknown to him (we have lost touch over the past 20+ yrs) he had a great influence in my musical tastes!

Deja vu!! I first heard "A White Sport Coat" and "Living & Dying" at a university party in '75, but it was 3 friends who used to have weekly "Daiquiri Days" in the summer that really got me into Jimmy and Jerry Jeff. Kind of lost touch with Jimmy after "Somewhere Over China", but picked it up again listening to Radio Margaritaville at work before we headed to the Caribbean in Dec. '98. Heard OPH on a catamaran in St. Thomas and fell in love with the music again! Went to my first concert in LV last year and am going again 10/21. RM still plays on my desktop daily and I'm more hooked now than ever. Also started really listening to Jerry Jeff again a few years ago. The music takes me back to some great times in university and really helps get me through our wonderful Canadian winters!!

Back in 1970 something I worked for the California Division of Forestry, CDF, and that meant I polished fire trucks and washed miles of fire hose. Margaritaville was hot back then and I already wore a lot of Hawaiian shirts with Levis and cowboy boots. A real trend setter in the middle of Angel Flight pants, silk shirts and Disco crap When the move The Doctor came out a friend I worked with loaned me SYKBH and the rest is history.

Bubbaphan wrote:I first heard PLAF 'bout thirty years ago...
went out and bought A1A (yes, on vinyl)
listened off and on for many a year till...

I was in the restroom at a movie theater and
the overhead (no pun intended) music was Jimmy playing "Southern Cross" on TT&S. ('99?) Had to have that! (on CD).
I wore that sucker out all summer in the backyard...Epiphany!
Then came the boxed set/concerts/decorated office/ and all that comes with enjoying the music.

Some pholks think I'm a little overboard with it all
Does that happen to you?

I clicked on your link and you have some really good songs.

Of course I always go overboard with Buffett, so my favorite has to be Buffett Break.

Ephiphany 1994 at Tortuga Flats in Port Aransas...singer/songwriter type did some Buffett covers and one was A Pirate Looks at Forty. Click!!

Must have been that teachable moment.

CapnK wrote:

citcat wrote: I got my epiphany several years ago at a New Year's Eve party in a barn,

you know...there's not many happy endings to that kind of sentence.

you have to have the context... when she adds "in Tennessee", it all kinda falls into place..

RinglingRingling wrote:

CapnK wrote:

citcat wrote: I got my epiphany several years ago at a New Year's Eve party in a barn,

you know...there's not many happy endings to that kind of sentence.

you have to have the context... when she adds "in Tennessee", it all kinda falls into place..

I was trying to be good, but...now that you mentioned it...

CapnK wrote:

RinglingRingling wrote:

CapnK wrote:

citcat wrote: I got my epiphany several years ago at a New Year's Eve party in a barn,

you know...there's not many happy endings to that kind of sentence.

you have to have the context... when she adds "in Tennessee", it all kinda falls into place..

I was trying to be good, but...now that you mentioned it...

well, you know why the story of the Nativity couldn't ever take place in KY...

I'd better stop while I'm behind.

chuck wagon wrote:Went to my first concert in LV last year and am going again 10/21.

I'm adding you to the list over at:
http://www.buffettnews.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=48813

Bubbaphan wrote:Some pholks think I'm a little overboard with it all Does that happen to you?

Uh, yeah, about everyday!! I guess I'm one of those overboard kind of people. Just one more reason I wish I worked with other Parrotheads, they would at least get it, you know?!

Thanks ~Hippolyte~!

In for a penny, in for a pound, I guess!! There'll be my wife & I (we both went last year) and 6 virgins this year.

During the Tuesdays, Thursday and Saturdays concert at Jones Beach. I always loved Buffett music but it was meeting the phans in the parking lot that really turned me into a parrothead groupie! The Buffett experience for me has to be both the music and the phans.

RinglingRingling wrote:

CapnK wrote:

RinglingRingling wrote:

CapnK wrote:

citcat wrote: I got my epiphany several years ago at a New Year's Eve party in a barn,

you know...there's not many happy endings to that kind of sentence.

you have to have the context... when she adds "in Tennessee", it all kinda falls into place..

I was trying to be good, but...now that you mentioned it...

well, you know why the story of the Nativity couldn't ever take place in KY...

The barn was actually a HUGE building....IN KENTUCKY !! bwahahaha
And hey, there are a LOT of happy endings in a barn....wittle farm animals being born, etc. As a kid I loved to go to the neighbors barn and jump from the second story down into a big hay pile ....FUN !!!! as long as there were no farm TOOLS in that hay !!!
And at my husband's 21st birthday party in a barn, well, later on that night...welll, 9 months later I had a wittle girl !!!

So, see?

For me it was back in 1977. I was 10 years old and my dad had just divorced my mom and moved out. I was visiting him and he was listening to Buffett. I saw the album, Havana Daydreamin', sitting on the coffee table and asked my dad who the guy with the "cool jacket" was. He said, "The best friend I have right now."
Then he bought the CILCIA album and I remember him listening to that one over and over again. The following Christmas, my dad gave me SOASOAS and I still have it.
Fast forward to the BBB&B tour. My sister and I took dad to his first Buffett concert. We were on the grass at Shoreline. We drank, we laughed dad got high with some guys sitting near us. Greatest Buffett concert I've been to.

I remember back to 1995 when friends from work (I'm talking 17-25 year olds) were dying to get tickets to...Jimmy Buffett??? I thought he was some old, gimicky singer that my Dad listened to. Well I picked up SYKBH in a store and started looking at song titles. I was amused at Cheeseburger in Paradise-two things I love -cheeseburgers and paradise, so I bought the album. I immiediately loved Changes In Latittudes. That was my fave, along with SOASOAS and PLA40. I bought BHOTM for my Dad and he made me a copy of that. I listened to it during my first trip to New Orleans. I went there to visit a girl, and although she's long since left my life, the memories of the French Quarter intertwined with Pacing The Cage, I Don't Know, I Don't Care and Semi-True Stories are ones that I will always treasure. The next album I bought was T,TH,S and that really got me going. That was it. To this day, I prefer Buffett live to Buffett studio. My first concert was Great Woods 2000. I remember watching Tales from Margaritavision before my first show and seeing the GW parking lot and thinking, "man, I hope GW is really like that, and not just edited to make it look like a carnival atmosphere". Well the day arrived and my excitement was piqued. I had turned a friend onto Buffett a couple months before the show and he was now a big as fan as myself, so the two of us went to our first show. As we neared GW, we began to see the spectacle. Cars on the highway had fins on them. There were song lyrics painted on the sides of mini vans and on the windows of cars. Then we got to the parking lot. It was what I had hoped...no, it was better. People question which parking lots are the best, but I can't see how it could get better than this. It was f**** amazing. It was not an ampitheater. It was Mardi Gras in the middle of a beautiful MA forest setting. There were not New Orleans palm trees, but tall pines. In the middle of it was Nassau, Key West and New Orleans mixed. People were all dressed up in bright shirts, coconut bras, and grass skirts. Vehicles were dressed as pirate ships. Busses were the epicenter of huge, rolling parties. The smells of BBQ mixed with weed swirled around and we watched as ice luges and shot drinking races surrounded our parking spot. I was amongst my people. The tailgating was fantastic and then it was showtime. We had lawn seats, but we got right up front. The house music stopped and Hot, Hot, Hot was jacked. I was pumped! I couldn't wait to see Jimmy and the Reefers. They opened with Great Heart, a song that has become pretty high on my list becasue it was the first one I ever saw them play. The show was excellent. I sang along with every song. Alot of people give me a funny look when I tell them I'm a parrothead, but these people at this show were just like me. Everyone sang along to every song. It was great. Ever since then, I haven't missed a show. And I never will, if I can help it.

citcat wrote:

RinglingRingling wrote:

CapnK wrote:

RinglingRingling wrote:

CapnK wrote:

citcat wrote: I got my epiphany several years ago at a New Year's Eve party in a barn,

you know...there's not many happy endings to that kind of sentence.

you have to have the context... when she adds "in Tennessee", it all kinda falls into place..

I was trying to be good, but...now that you mentioned it...

well, you know why the story of the Nativity couldn't ever take place in KY...

The barn was actually a HUGE building....IN KENTUCKY !! bwahahaha
And hey, there are a LOT of happy endings in a barn....wittle farm animals being born, etc. As a kid I loved to go to the neighbors barn and jump from the second story down into a big hay pile ....FUN !!!! as long as there were no farm TOOLS in that hay !!!
And at my husband's 21st birthday party in a barn, well, later on that night...welll, 9 months later I had a wittle girl !!!

So, see?

hmmm, maybe barns in KY should come with a warning label??!!

I bet your little one hates that story.