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conched wrote:

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.

Thanks for the compliment!

Bubbaphan wrote:

conched wrote:

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.

Thanks for the compliment!

Wow You are fantastic!! What a voice. Did you cut this on an album? I'd love to get it if you did.

1983, I had just passed my Stockbrokers test. Got a BIG raise. My Wife and I took a long overdue honeymoon. We were staying at some phriends in CA. Cold and snowy in Chgo. We landed in la, drove to thier apt. There was a note with beers and Daquri instructions. One part was to play this song on their turntable. It was Boatdrinks. we sat by the pool getting drunk listening to Jimmy. Later that year we used scalpers (sorry) to see Jimmy at Poplar Creek. I have turned many phriends on to Jimmy since then. ( Sounds like a pusher) This is the first year that I have NOT seen Jimmy in a long long time.

This would have to have been when I first noticed a song called "Cheeseburger in Paradise" on an album called Songs You Know By Heart. This was the late 80's and it ended up being a cassette for my tape player that I would listen to. I thought it was a pretty strange name for a song and that I absolutely wanted to hear this artist :LOL:

Of course initially I resisted Jimmy Buffett, because Margaritaville was never one of my favorite songs and that was the one he was most known for at the time.) (I didn't start liking Margaritaville until I had a chance to sing it myself at a Karaoke (it was my first ever Karaoke song, so there was more than one epiphany going on .

This is when I "discovered" Jimmy Buffett. The real epiphany came the first time I heard "One Particular Harbor" off the Boats album in the BBBB collection . It is still one of my favorite songs. Listening to my first live concert on Radio Margaritaville sealed my fate...

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!!

... my "epiphany" came during a southern Caribbean cruise in Dec. '98. 10 of us spent an afternoon sailing aboard Capt. Spencer's catamaran "Happy Hour" in St. Thomas. His CD player had Jimmy and Bob Marley in it and I fell in love with OPH and No Woman, No Cry. When we got home, I started picking up CD's of all the old Jimmy albums that I had and buying all the ones that I didn't have. Other than the "Live In ..." series and SYKBH, I'm only missing Rancho Deluxe<strike>, You Had to Be There</strike> and Don't Stop the Carnival (but I've read Herman Wouk's book 3 times!!). Love the music and the images it conjures up! Lines from Jimmy's songs always come to mind, like when we stepped onto the pool deck of a cruise ship and started singing "Boat Drinks" ... or spending a week in Cuba and constantly humming "Havana Daydreamin'" and "Cuban Crime of Passion". So many of his lyrics are so appropriate in so many circumstances! Corny? Maybe; but I love it!! Just wish he would make his way back up to Calgary again ... it's only been about 30 years! After all, Jerry Jeff was up this way in mid-Sept.!!