Jimmy uses a teleprompter

JustDucky · Post by **JustDucky** » February 12, 2007 11:49 pm

I swore back in 1983 that if any of Jimmy's fans ever got mad at or held it against him that he would use a teleprompter in the future that I would stop hanging around parrotheads and the such. No more talking or conversing with them - nothing.

I've stopped hanging around with them. Now I just need to stop conversing with them.

LIPH · Post by **LIPH** » February 12, 2007 11:53 pm

gingerbreadman wrote:
Tiki Torches wrote:
LIPH wrote:So Jimmy said he'd never use a teleprompter and now he does.
No. Apparently he's been using a teleprompter since 1995 and has said he'd retire before he'd ever use one. Rather than lying about it why not go ahead and be honest about using one? I have no problem with him using one, it's the dishonesty that's so unbecoming. And if it's true that he has been using one, what's with all the flubbed lines?
Yeah, so again, who really cares?

Has anyone ever posted what Jimmy actually saw on the teleprompter? Could it could be nothing? Now THAT may just explain the flubbed lines!

TPFKAJ

vagabonded · Post by **vagabonded** » February 12, 2007 11:54 pm

Who cares? He's been doin this forever... He has done over 500 different songs (Check the song database...) and he keeps bringin back songs he hasn't done in a while. I can hardly remember what I ate for breakfast this morning let alone a song I wrote over 30 years ago and havent sung in 10. If he does use the teleprompter I'm pretty positive he doesn't use it for Margaritaville or Fins... probably for less common stuff. And if it ensures a solid and fun show then again... who cares?

JustDucky · Post by **JustDucky** » February 12, 2007 11:57 pm

I bet when Jimmy records a new song, cover or original, he...oh my gawd...he - really?

NO! OH NO!

HE READS OFF A SHEET OF PAPER!

Tiki Torches · Post by **Tiki Torches** » February 13, 2007 10:36 am

Folks seem to be missing the point. I don't have a problem with him using a teleprompter. Covering it up when he's made such a big deal about not using one over the years, that I have a problem with. He would have been better off never to have mentioned it all rather than lie about it.

cecoleman · Post by **cecoleman** » February 13, 2007 10:38 am

Someone said he's been using one for the past few years...I wonder if he had it from the Vegas show that the LIVE: FROM LAS VEGAS cd was recorded from. I always crack up at how he butchers "HOTEL ROOM"...he repeats the second verse twice at that show. I'm sure everyone who heard that cd noticed that.

LIPH · Post by **LIPH** » February 13, 2007 10:55 am

Tiki Torches wrote:Folks seem to be missing the point. I don't have a problem with him using a teleprompter. Covering it up when he's made such a big deal about not using one over the years, that I have a problem with. He would have better off never to have mentioned it all rather than lie about it.

The fact that people are saying they don't care doesn't mean they're missing the point, especially when you make the same point over and over and over and over. It means they don't care. You have a problem, it doesn't seem like anybody else does.

Tiki Torches · Post by **Tiki Torches** » February 13, 2007 10:56 am

LIPH wrote:
Tiki Torches wrote:Folks seem to be missing the point. I don't have a problem with him using a teleprompter. Covering it up when he's made such a big deal about not using one over the years, that I have a problem with. He would have better off never to have mentioned it all rather than lie about it.
The fact that people are saying they don't care doesn't mean they're missing the point, especially when you make the same point over and over and over and over. It means they don't care. You have a problem, it doesn't seem like anybody else does.

Oh, to go through life with blinders on....

TropicalTroubador · Post by **TropicalTroubador** » February 13, 2007 1:18 pm

springparrot wrote:Have ya'll ever sung Piece of Work or FSOTW without making a mistake????
Toooo many words to remember.
I don't have a problem with him using whatever he needs to feel comfortable.

I have...once or twice.

The problem comes when I start forgetting the words to my own songs. And I ain't famous enough to use a teleprompter, and a music stand gets too much in the way.

So I just rehearse, rehearse, rehearse, and try not to do things in a show that I haven't played in a year or two.

citcat · Post by **citcat** » February 13, 2007 1:29 pm

Where and when did Jimmy say that about teleprompters?
Anybody besides me think he was just joking around in an interview, and didn't mean to be taken so seriously, literally, ungodly FACTUALLY?

gah.

big john · Post by **big john** » February 13, 2007 1:44 pm

SchoolGirlHeart wrote:
Tiki Torches wrote:
gingerbreadman wrote:Does it really matter?
Yeah. He said he'd give it up before he'd start using a teleprompter. I see no harm in it personally but if he meant he should have never said it.
JB's not the only one in the world who changed his mind on something...

If people didn't ever change their minds on long-standing policies,
none of us would ever get laid.

LIPH · Post by **LIPH** » February 13, 2007 1:54 pm

Tiki Torches wrote:
LIPH wrote:
Tiki Torches wrote:Folks seem to be missing the point. I don't have a problem with him using a teleprompter. Covering it up when he's made such a big deal about not using one over the years, that I have a problem with. He would have better off never to have mentioned it all rather than lie about it.
The fact that people are saying they don't care doesn't mean they're missing the point, especially when you make the same point over and over and over and over. It means they don't care. You have a problem, it doesn't seem like anybody else does.
Oh, to go through life with blinders on....

Why do you say that, because I don't care that JB's using a teleprompter? There's 4 pages of posts in this thread, I just went back and re-read all of them and you're the only one complaining about it. Nobody else cares.

Tiki Torches · Post by **Tiki Torches** » February 13, 2007 2:43 pm

LIPH wrote:
Tiki Torches wrote:
LIPH wrote:
Tiki Torches wrote:Folks seem to be missing the point. I don't have a problem with him using a teleprompter. Covering it up when he's made such a big deal about not using one over the years, that I have a problem with. He would have better off never to have mentioned it all rather than lie about it.
The fact that people are saying they don't care doesn't mean they're missing the point, especially when you make the same point over and over and over and over. It means they don't care. You have a problem, it doesn't seem like anybody else does.
Oh, to go through life with blinders on....
Why do you say that, because I don't care that JB's using a teleprompter? There's 4 pages of posts in this thread, I just went back and re-read all of them and you're the only one complaining about it. Nobody else cares.

Again, I have no problem with him using a teleprompter. It's that he's made such a big deal about not using one when in fact he's been using one since 1995. I don't know about you but I consider that to be out and out lying. I'd have a lot more respect for him if he never felt the need to make such a big deal about it to start with.

LIBuffettFan · Post by **LIBuffettFan** » February 13, 2007 3:50 pm

finsup wrote:Well, I sat behind the stage tonight and sure enough, Jimmy now uses a teleprompter. You will be glad to know that it didn't run on Margaritaville, OPH, and Fins

I have a pic where you can barely see it, Mac pretty much covered it the whole night.

Oh well, for what the tickets cost to get into his shows, I would hope he would use any means possible to get the lyrics, song lists and or jokes right...I have no problems with it if he doesnt

LIPH · Post by **LIPH** » February 13, 2007 3:58 pm

Tiki Torches wrote:Again, I have no problem with him using a teleprompter. It's that he's made such a big deal about not using one when in fact he's been using one since 1995. I don't know about you but I consider that to be out and out lying. I'd have a lot more respect for him if he never felt the need to make such a big deal about it to start with.

I have more important things to worry about than whether or not Jimmy Buffett lied to his audience about using a teleprompter. If you want to get your panties twisted complaining about it, knock yourself out.

Tiki Torches · Post by **Tiki Torches** » February 13, 2007 4:09 pm

My panties aren't "twisted", I just find it a bit disappointing is all.

BarefootinNW · Post by **BarefootinNW** » February 13, 2007 5:22 pm

Sometimes I wish I had a teleprompter just to get through the day. Just imagine the possibilties....

JustDucky · Post by **JustDucky** » February 13, 2007 9:31 pm

I saw Jimmy at NO Marg in 1995 and 1996 and there was no teleprompter. In 1999 when he came to the NO Arena...I wasn't looking nor did I care but I didn't notice any looking down at things during such never played songs as Ringling, Ringling and a few others.

As I recall JB said that on the 60 Minutes thing a few years back. Obviously he was making light of forgetting lyrics or whatever. He was obviously being sarcastic tongue in cheek.

If you think that's lying, stop going to the shows and stop being disappointed and whatever other problem you have. Complain about how many live albums there are or some other real complaint, like all the snitz you can buy at Marg online or Landshark's supposed bad taste.

I don't give a flying shits butt what Jimmy does with selling all that useless garbage and using a teleprompter and how many live albums he puts out - it's all up to me to buy or not buy that crap. Just as it is with anyone else. If he feels the need to make sure he doesn't screw up the lyrics to Manana or Kick It In Second Wind whenever he plays those again because 20,000 know it alls (well, maybe half that seeing that they are mostly SJOPTD fans) sing the song for him then mybe he should be singing them right.

Screw ups are human. JB is human. He usually recovers from his screw ups, makes them work and turn into alternate lyrics. Who gives a gotdamn? Not me. Neither do a lot of people.

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