surfpirate wrote:The problem with these *stages*
is that they are all geared to
people who didn't discover
Jimmy's music until after
the Yellow Album.
There is no stage for anyone who saw
Jimmy in concert in the 1970s
and who bought and owned
8-tracks of his music
and later vinyl
and later CDs
and visited the Florida Keys
before there was ever a Margaritaville Store
(much less a Cafe and franchises
scattered across the globe) and
who remembers when the best
t-shirts were made by Caribbean Soul
and who remembers Come Monday
being played on the radio because
it was actually charting
and who watched Jimmy lose his
mustache and then his hair
and remembers fun as hell
tailgating that involved beer
and ice luges and frisbees and the
pure essence of summer and ....
... and then finds themselves 35 years later
reading a *stage survey* that
defines a parrothead only by categories
that begin for those
who arrived at the party
fashionably late.
That's because 'parrotheads' and the yellow album were both products of 1985. Y'all are pre-parrotheads! Or like my brother has said.. "I was a parrothead before parrotheads were invented". He too used to see Jimmy play on a bar stool at places like the Quiet Knight in Chicago. Because of my brother, I was listening to Jimmy from way back then too... his albums were regulars on our hi-fi, and my brother used to sing and play his songs on his guitar. However, being that I was around 10 years old, he wasn't dragging his kid sister along to see him.
I am totally and completely envious of those of you who are fortunate enough to be pre-parrotheads!
You’re still grinning, we’re still winning, nothing left to say
I’m still gliding as I go flying down this endless wave
I'm with SP on this one there is no particular stage for me.
I was into his music in the late 70's and saw my first concert then.
Have been through "all things Buffett" and back. Have seen more concerts then I can remember
and joined just about every "Buffett" board I could find.
Now days I still love his music but am tired of the concerts because they all seem to be the same set list.
In fact the last concert I "went" to I only did the tailgate party and left the venue when everyone when in to
the concert.
When he does a new album of "New Original" songs I will be pre ordering it and will consider another concert if that tour features the new stuff.
Until then I will be playing on the "Buffett Boards" attending some Phlockings if I can and occasionally listening to the old stuff and remembering the good times.
Maybe my stage should be called the Parrothead Burnout Stage?
SAVE THE EARTH
It's the only Planet that has chocolate.
I've been a parrothead for 5 years. Sometimes I wish that I would have listened to Jimmy in the 70s, but everything has its time to happen, and 2007 was my year to start paying attention to Buffett. It is a wonderful thing when an artist can still be around after 40 years of his summer job, still love it, and still can help a crowd to escape reality for a little while.
Here we are, maybe it's because in spite of all the work we do
It's the child in us we really value
Here we are, with our fins up and our feathers flashing
Here we are, with our coconut shell brassieres chanting
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Hope all is well with you too... I've been following along in the single people thread... 