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BadHabits introduced me to Jimmy Buffett about 1 1/2 years ago. I wasn't real thrilled about it at first mention. But he wanted to know if I would be interested in going to see him at Wrigley Field on Labor Day Weekend. I worked really hard, listening to Buffett 24/7. I was told that a Buffett show is a 40,000 person sing a long and I didn't want to be the one person that didn't know any of the songs. I told myself, however, that I wasn't a true parrothead until I went to my first show. So with all of that in mind, the day I became a true Parrothead, in my mind, was the Sunday show at Wrigley Field, 2005. It has changed my life and I will be ever so grateful for my honey bunny for introducing me to this way of life.

Early 80's The wife and I were in LA trying to keep warm. It's winter in Chgo, We were staying with phriends drinking by the pool. They put on a song called "Boatdrinks" That year we saw Jimmy at Poplar Creek. We were hooked. I have missed Jimmy 3 times since then. If I can afford to see Jimmy this year I will. My kids laugh at us 'cause we still do fins every now and then. Sing verses of Fruitcakes and soo forth. It helps us deal with the Chicago winters. Knowing that Jimmy will be on tour when the weather gets warm.

I knew after my second concert. (Memphis, 1995). That was my first concert of his in over seven years, and have been to 31 since then.

When I was junior in college. 1998. My roommate told he that he would go to a DMB concert with me if I would go to Buffett with him. I reluctantly agreed because at the time I was blind, but that night I saw! Went out and bought my first Buffett CD the morning (ok, ok, AFTERNOON) after the concert! Been hooked every since!

This is tougher to answer than it might appear.... Hmm.... True parrothead.... Depends.... To my (non-PH) friends and family, I'm a true nutcase.... I get on planes to go see concerts.... I meet up and share hotel rooms with people I met on the internet....

On the other hand, to hard-core parrotheads, I'm pretty tame.... I wear a flowered shirt and a few beads to a show, but that's about it. No parrot or shark hats, no grass skirts....

I've been a fan of the music since the early 80's, and I remember liking Margaritaville and Come Monday when they first got airplay, although I didn't know who JB was in the 70's. But due to Navy assignments and other circumstances, I didn't get to see a live show until 2001, when I went to Great Woods by myself and met Deb and Guy (from PA, and he a YANKEES fan... ), who introduced me to tailgating, danced and sang with me on the lawn, laughed at my saucer-eyed "OMG, THIS IS INCREDIBLE!" exclamations, and introduced me to being a 'parrothead'....

Still, a "True Parrothead".... I don't know.... I guess I'm a parrothead.... certainly to non-PHs I appear to be one....

Can you tell I hate labels??

SchoolGirlHeart wrote:This is tougher to answer than it might appear.... Hmm.... True parrothead.... Depends.... To my (non-PH) friends and family, I'm a true nutcase.... I get on planes to go see concerts.... I meet up and share hotel rooms with people I met on the internet....

On the other hand, to hard-core parrotheads, I'm pretty tame.... I wear a flowered shirt and a few beads to a show, but that's about it. No parrot or shark hats, no grass skirts....

I've been a fan of the music since the early 80's, and I remember liking Margaritaville and Come Monday when they first got airplay, although I didn't know who JB was in the 70's. But due to Navy assignments and other circumstances, I didn't get to see a live show until 2001, when I went to Great Woods by myself and met Deb and Guy (from PA, and he a YANKEES fan... ), who introduced me to tailgating, danced and sang with me on the lawn, laughed at my saucer-eyed "OMG, THIS IS INCREDIBLE!" exclamations, and introduced me to being a 'parrothead'....

Still, a "True Parrothead".... I don't know.... I guess I'm a parrothead.... certainly to non-PHs I appear to be one....

Can you tell I hate labels??

Jen

You are the Goddess of parrotheads I kept thinking about all the trouble you took to get to Aspen. Right before Christmas...when you could have spent Christmas stranded. That's dedication.

However, I knew your dedication even before that when I would find you on the board at some awful price per minute (and prolly some wee hour of the morning) sharing concerts with us from the other side of the world:D

I'm not sure when I qualified. I first began listening to
Buffeff music (beyond what was on the radio) in 2001 after a setback at my staid corporate job got me riled at my passive acceptance of corporate culture/life. I began to listen to Buffett tapes (some purchased from e-bay) in my office and wearing Aloha shirts to work every day. A contact with PHJIM on e-bay after I bought an item from him brought me here. I joined the board just before 9/11 and shared that horror and attended my first Jimmy concert (the delayed Thursday Chicago concert) that year. A very moving event.

However, I'm thinking it wasn't until I talked my husband into flying to Dallas from Michigan to attend Hoot Island that I really qualified

nutmeg wrote:You are the Goddess of parrotheads I kept thinking about all the trouble you took to get to Aspen. Right before Christmas...when you could have spent Christmas stranded. That's dedication.

That was an AWESOME adventure and an AWESOME show!!!

nutmeg wrote:However, I knew your dedication even before that when I would find you on the board at some awful price per minute (and prolly some wee hour of the morning) sharing concerts with us from the other side of the world

Fifty cents a minute at 3:00AM. It was GREAT!!!!

Interesting to read how people got their "epiphanies"
when it comes to being a Parrothead. Mine came in
three stages:

Stage 1: High school in NJ in the late 70s hearing Come
Monday and Cheeseburger played on WOR radio in NY
while getting ready for school and liking the songs.
Stage2: Early 80s in college getting introduced to the
"You Had To Be There" live albums and getting hooked.
Stage 3: My first trip to Key West in 1991 where all the
songs made sense and I went off the deep end in the
Buffett gene pool...

My father first played Cheesburger for me when i was young and it was stuck in my head for weeks. i listened to more and more of his livin and dying, CILCIA, and SOASOAS, until i got tired of it. THen one day i stumbled upon Meet ME in MArgaritaville, and fell in love with it. 10 months later i went to my first concert, had the time of my life, then joined this site. My friends all think I'm crazy.

The day I was conceived....

PIA wrote:The day I was conceived....

Can we get details?

CaptainP wrote:

PIA wrote:The day I was conceived....

Can we get details?

well my mom's birthday is Feb 4th and my birthday is Oct 3rd....that is all that i know....

so im assuming somewhere around Feb 4th 1986....

The question here is "what day" you truly became a parrothead.
I can tell you the exact day....
Although I was familiar with some of Buffett's songs back in the mid 1970s, it wasn't until my first trip to the Florida Keys that I was truly hooked.
The day? Sunday, July 19, 1987 -- that's the day my wife, Carolinagirl, and I arrived in Key Largo for the night on our way to a week in Key West for the Hemingway Days festival.
All along the way from our home in South Carolina, my wife had been playing cassettes of Buffett albums she had taped from a friend of hers. By the the time we arrived in the Keys during the late afternoon, just a couple of hours before a brilliant sunset, I was hooked on Buffett ... and the Keys!
Buffett became the soundtrack not only of that trip but of many more trips to the Keys (and to many other beaches, places and spaces during the past 20 years).
So, I owe my parrotheadism to my wife and to my first mind-expanding trip to the Keys nearly two full decades ago -- and I'm itching to go back this July for a 20-year celebration!!!

Well honestly probably two summers ago, and then last summer I decided to DL some of Jimmy's music, then I got so hooked, found out my uncle was a parrothead, when to the concert last year. Decided to buy every one of Jimmy's studio albums. I'm very much hooked on him and the beach layed back life.

Parrotthed wrote:The question here is "what day" you truly became a parrothead.
I can tell you the exact day....

April 27, 1995.

I've always considered myself a parrothead but I think this year I took my parrotheadness to a new level when 3 days before jones beach I decided to catch the red eye on Friday/Sat morning from Phoenix to Jones Beach - meet up with my birthday buddy (who I hadn't met in person yet) to get me to the show... hang out with a bunch of BN'ers (shout out to the section G singers!) - go home with another BN'er(who I met for the first time at Jones Beach) to crash on his sofa to have him get up and get me to the airport for my 7am flight on sunday morning....

I think I spent more time on a plane than I actually spent at the tailgate and the show...

and it was worth every moment.....

and I can not wait for the 2007 tour!

june 2, 2000
my first buffett concert. alpine valley. my sister and i were both virgins. went with some 'regulars'. we all had back row pavilion seats, and the 2 of them had brought dates who had lawn seats
so, my sister and i traded tickets with them. then, while tailgating (in the sleet for all of those who remember that cold concert!) 2 people came to us and said they had pavilion seats, but wanted lawn seats so they could party with the group. they said they had no clue what kind of seats they were. we traded. ended up 4th row!
as soon as jimmy walked out and i saw his smile, i was hooked!

Okay, I'm 20 so Jimmy Buffet has been making music since before I was born.

I'm new to the ParrotHead scene since I've only been listening to JB for about a year.

Now I'm gonna be honest and it might sound kind of cheesy, but the movie Hoot is what really introduced me to Jimmy Buffet. I have always been a Floriday boy and a big fan of Carl Hiaasen so of course I saw the movie opening night. When I heard JB's music I feel in love with it. His style was just right on par with my personality. Since then I've become quite a big Buffet fan.

I also recently heard he will be doing a charity concert in Tallahasse which is where I live. If I'm able to get tickets this will be my first Buffet concert. I am very excited.

I've been listening and attending concerts for many years, up til Aug. of 05 I was that drunk stupid guy spilling beer on you on the lawn Sorry about that

Aug. of 05 I took my keet to his first J.B. concert in Philly, the kindness and generosity that was shown to him in the parking lots that day really moved me. The enjoyment of dancing in the stands with him, listening to him sing along to every verse of Fins, C.B. and Volcano(he knows alot more now), the pleasure of being there with all of the energy in that stadium, well I guess words aren't just enough. In reality I guess my keet is a "real" parrothead He's been to 3 more concerts since then and looks forward to this season as much as I do.

I had heard his music before but I guess what led me " down the path.".....
When I went to college and started hanging around what would eventually be my fraternity(80's), there were SEVERAL big Buffett fans there and they played his music all the time (day and night). Also, there were 2 guys who played guitar and they would sit around a fire in the upper back yard and play mostly Buffett songs and there would be people sitting there with their coolers and singing and dancing along half the night. And then a bunch of us went to a show in Atlanta and it was AWESOME! Also the next year we took a road trip to Auburn University and he played a show in the basketball arena ( I think it was 1989 or 1990) That trip pushed me over the edge, I have not been the same since... I have seen JB play in several locations/venues. I love his music but to me it's not just the music, it's also the people...such wonderful friendly and phun people!! The PARROTHEADS!! I am glad to be one of them!