Too many "live" songs on RM?

FINSUPinIdaho · Post by **FINSUPinIdaho** » December 13, 2006 4:18 pm

I have seen the pina colada song listed under Buffett songs when I was looking for guitar chords-I guess any kind of drinking/tropical song must be a Buffett song

FINSUPinIdaho · Post by **FINSUPinIdaho** » December 13, 2006 4:20 pm

Didn't John Holmes sing the Penis Colada song?

Tiki Torches · Post by **Tiki Torches** » December 13, 2006 4:21 pm

FINSUPinIdaho wrote:I have seen the pina colada song listed under Buffett songs when I was looking for guitar chords-I guess any kind of drinking/tropical song must be a Buffett song

Nah, I'd say it's more a matter of the responsible parties not doing their homework beforehand.

JustDucky · Post by **JustDucky** » December 13, 2006 4:45 pm

Back in the days of Morpheus, Kazaa and Napster, putting in Jimmy Buffett did tend to bring up that damn Garth Brooks song. Why that would be was always a mystery to me until I started to notice that you could tinker with the inner details of what there was. I remember downloading some song thinking it was someone and it was actually someone else's band with their own song under a popular artist/band's song title!

To which I deleted so I guess their trick didn't work good enough.

LIPH · Post by **LIPH** » December 13, 2006 4:48 pm

FINSUPinIdaho wrote:Didn't John Holmes sing the Penis Colada song?

No, I think his song was Penis Colossus

RinglingRingling · Post by **RinglingRingling** » December 13, 2006 5:07 pm

JustDucky wrote:Back in the days of Morpheus, Kazaa and Napster, putting in Jimmy Buffett did tend to bring up that damn Garth Brooks song. Why that would be was always a mystery to me until I started to notice that you could tinker with the inner details of what there was. I remember downloading some song thinking it was someone and it was actually someone else's band with their own song under a popular artist/band's song title!

To which I deleted so I guess their trick didn't work good enough.

The I-95 song...

FINSUPinIdaho · Post by **FINSUPinIdaho** » December 13, 2006 5:33 pm

If you like penis colossus...

buffett81611 · Post by **buffett81611** » December 13, 2006 8:18 pm

On the whole teleprompter thing...I saw Don Henley live this summer and had seats above and to the side of the stage. (The catbird seats if you're a baseball fan) He didn't look at it much, but there was a 19" flat screen monitor with the words rolling right in front of his speakerstand. I was very surprised.

I guess the combination of being almost 60, drugs, and who knows what else has hurt the brain cells enough that it's needed...even if it's a backup. I'll see if I can get a camera photo of it at the Fishsticks show in Aspen next weekend.

Really love this board. I've read it for a while...just started posting. Thanks for all the insights and thoughts....

Dezdmona · Post by **Dezdmona** » December 13, 2006 8:24 pm

Who care's if he cheats on the words. *shrug*

Maybe he's too busy enjoying all the crazy coconuts in the crowd to focus on the words in the songs.

SchoolGirlHeart · Post by **SchoolGirlHeart** » December 13, 2006 9:19 pm

buffett81611 wrote:On the whole teleprompter thing...I saw Don Henley live this summer and had seats above and to the side of the stage. (The catbird seats if you're a baseball fan) He didn't look at it much, but there was a 19" flat screen monitor with the words rolling right in front of his speakerstand. I was very surprised.

I guess the combination of being almost 60, drugs, and who knows what else has hurt the brain cells enough that it's needed...even if it's a backup. I'll see if I can get a camera photo of it at the Fishsticks show in Aspen next weekend.

Really love this board. I've read it for a while...just started posting. Thanks for all the insights and thoughts....

be careful with the camera.... Mal/buffettbride posted that last year there was a true zero tolerance for cameras at the Aspen show....

Tiki Torches · Post by **Tiki Torches** » December 14, 2006 7:31 am

Dezdmona wrote:Who care's if he cheats on the words. *shrug*

I've got no problem with it except he said he'd give it up if he ever had to use a teleprompter. Plus, he's really screwed up some songs by totally forgetting how the song goes and the words, some of these flubs have even made it onto official releases when they should have stay on the cutting room floor.

Skibo · Post by **Skibo** » December 14, 2006 8:22 am

I have noticed a shift towards more Jimmy stuff. Why not it is his station. I have been wondering to myself though, could it have something to do with finances and royality payments? The regular programming disappeared when the advertising disappeared (other than feets at five). The bootlegs disappeared when RM went on Sirius. Could it be that now that the Pirate radio station has to behave like a business finances are effecting the programming?

TropicalTroubador · Post by **TropicalTroubador** » December 14, 2006 11:13 am

krusin1 wrote:
FFLooksAt40 wrote:I have to say that I enjoy Jimmy better live. I just like his total freedom of expression when he is live and changing the words to fit the mood. To me it is just amazing how quich whitted he is.
I'm with you. I love the well-rehearsed ad-libs.

Knowing that he switches up Volcano the most often when playing live, I (seriously) wonder how he gets the "customized" lines correct for each venue.

(Writes 'em on a post-it and tapes it to the guitar???)

Well, given that he plays mostly the same places every year...that's only a limited number of alternate lines to figure out, and he's done each of those quite a few times by now.

I cover Volcano in my shows, also customize that line, and after doing it a couple of dozen times, for some reason it becomes easier to ad lib it, even if I *haven't* pre-rehearsed it and worked it out. For Jimmy, who knows the song way better than I, it must become even easier.

Loren

TropicalTroubador · Post by **TropicalTroubador** » December 14, 2006 11:15 am

FINSUPinIdaho wrote:I have seen the pina colada song listed under Buffett songs when I was looking for guitar chords-I guess any kind of drinking/tropical song must be a Buffett song

There are also quite a few people who think that "American Dream" (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band) was also a Buffett song.

RinglingRingling · Post by **RinglingRingling** » December 14, 2006 11:16 am

SchoolGirlHeart wrote:
buffett81611 wrote:On the whole teleprompter thing...I saw Don Henley live this summer and had seats above and to the side of the stage. (The catbird seats if you're a baseball fan) He didn't look at it much, but there was a 19" flat screen monitor with the words rolling right in front of his speakerstand. I was very surprised.

I guess the combination of being almost 60, drugs, and who knows what else has hurt the brain cells enough that it's needed...even if it's a backup. I'll see if I can get a camera photo of it at the Fishsticks show in Aspen next weekend.

Really love this board. I've read it for a while...just started posting. Thanks for all the insights and thoughts....
be careful with the camera.... Mal/buffettbride posted that last year there was a true zero tolerance for cameras at the Aspen show....

evidently the old guy can't handle sudden bursts of light..

chippewa · Post by **chippewa** » December 14, 2006 11:20 am

RinglingRingling wrote:
SchoolGirlHeart wrote:
buffett81611 wrote:On the whole teleprompter thing...I saw Don Henley live this summer and had seats above and to the side of the stage. (The catbird seats if you're a baseball fan) He didn't look at it much, but there was a 19" flat screen monitor with the words rolling right in front of his speakerstand. I was very surprised.

I guess the combination of being almost 60, drugs, and who knows what else has hurt the brain cells enough that it's needed...even if it's a backup. I'll see if I can get a camera photo of it at the Fishsticks show in Aspen next weekend.

Really love this board. I've read it for a while...just started posting. Thanks for all the insights and thoughts....
be careful with the camera.... Mal/buffettbride posted that last year there was a true zero tolerance for cameras at the Aspen show....
evidently the old guy can't handle sudden bursts of light..

off topic, yet topical...

Kind of a Peter Boyle/Young Frankenstein thing?

RinglingRingling · Post by **RinglingRingling** » December 14, 2006 11:23 am

chippewa wrote:
RinglingRingling wrote:
SchoolGirlHeart wrote:
buffett81611 wrote:On the whole teleprompter thing...I saw Don Henley live this summer and had seats above and to the side of the stage. (The catbird seats if you're a baseball fan) He didn't look at it much, but there was a 19" flat screen monitor with the words rolling right in front of his speakerstand. I was very surprised.

I guess the combination of being almost 60, drugs, and who knows what else has hurt the brain cells enough that it's needed...even if it's a backup. I'll see if I can get a camera photo of it at the Fishsticks show in Aspen next weekend.

Really love this board. I've read it for a while...just started posting. Thanks for all the insights and thoughts....
be careful with the camera.... Mal/buffettbride posted that last year there was a true zero tolerance for cameras at the Aspen show....
evidently the old guy can't handle sudden bursts of light..
off topic, yet topical...

Kind of a Peter Boyle/Young Frankenstein thing?

probably... tho I only heard about one incident of a "thumb-lighting", in St. Bart's, back in 1982...

chippewa · Post by **chippewa** » December 14, 2006 11:27 am

RinglingRingling wrote:
chippewa wrote:
RinglingRingling wrote:
SchoolGirlHeart wrote:
buffett81611 wrote:On the whole teleprompter thing...I saw Don Henley live this summer and had seats above and to the side of the stage. (The catbird seats if you're a baseball fan) He didn't look at it much, but there was a 19" flat screen monitor with the words rolling right in front of his speakerstand. I was very surprised.

I guess the combination of being almost 60, drugs, and who knows what else has hurt the brain cells enough that it's needed...even if it's a backup. I'll see if I can get a camera photo of it at the Fishsticks show in Aspen next weekend.

Really love this board. I've read it for a while...just started posting. Thanks for all the insights and thoughts....
be careful with the camera.... Mal/buffettbride posted that last year there was a true zero tolerance for cameras at the Aspen show....
evidently the old guy can't handle sudden bursts of light..
off topic, yet topical...

Kind of a Peter Boyle/Young Frankenstein thing?
probably... tho I only heard about one incident of a "thumb-lighting", in St. Bart's, back in 1982...

So that's how the place burned down....

RinglingRingling · Post by **RinglingRingling** » December 14, 2006 11:30 am

chippewa wrote:
RinglingRingling wrote:
chippewa wrote:
RinglingRingling wrote:
SchoolGirlHeart wrote:
buffett81611 wrote:On the whole teleprompter thing...I saw Don Henley live this summer and had seats above and to the side of the stage. (The catbird seats if you're a baseball fan) He didn't look at it much, but there was a 19" flat screen monitor with the words rolling right in front of his speakerstand. I was very surprised.

I guess the combination of being almost 60, drugs, and who knows what else has hurt the brain cells enough that it's needed...even if it's a backup. I'll see if I can get a camera photo of it at the Fishsticks show in Aspen next weekend.

Really love this board. I've read it for a while...just started posting. Thanks for all the insights and thoughts....
be careful with the camera.... Mal/buffettbride posted that last year there was a true zero tolerance for cameras at the Aspen show....
evidently the old guy can't handle sudden bursts of light..
off topic, yet topical...

Kind of a Peter Boyle/Young Frankenstein thing?
probably... tho I only heard about one incident of a "thumb-lighting", in St. Bart's, back in 1982...
So that's how the place burned down....

"bad wiring", nah. "kitchen grease fire", nope... Just a stupid human trick trying to emulate Peter Boyle after a bottle of tequila and three straws..

Quiet and Shy · Post by **Quiet and Shy** » December 14, 2006 11:50 am

buffett81611 wrote:On the whole teleprompter thing...I saw Don Henley live this summer and had seats above and to the side of the stage. (The catbird seats if you're a baseball fan) He didn't look at it much, but there was a 19" flat screen monitor with the words rolling right in front of his speakerstand. I was very surprised.

I guess the combination of being almost 60, drugs, and who knows what else has hurt the brain cells enough that it's needed...even if it's a backup. I'll see if I can get a camera photo of it at the Fishsticks show in Aspen next weekend.

Really love this board. I've read it for a while...just started posting. Thanks for all the insights and thoughts....

Welcome to BN, 81611.

Enjoy Freddy's show and be sure to give us a report on the experience afterwards.

As far as JB and the teleprompter go, as long as it doesn't become a crutch to where it interferes with the quality of his performance, I have no problem with it. The number of senior moments have definately gone down since it was added to the stage.

JB may be a "shameless performer" but he's clearly a very proud guy who wants to put on a quality show. If it takes a bit more technology for that to happen, so be it.