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SchoolGirlHeart wrote:I hope when the time comes, there's no farewell tour. I hope one year he just says, "that's it" and doesn't go back on the road. When I go to my last Buffett show, I don't want to *know* that it's the last one....

Amen to that!

popcornjack wrote:

SMLCHNG wrote:The link in the article was a 'what happens when/if' thread that hasn't had any activity in a year. It's just the type of discussions we've had around here for many years.

he quotes wikipedia, which quotes a random thread from here, which just goes to show that everything shows up on the internet!!

If it's posted on the Internet then it certainly must be true!

IMHO, and I could easily be wrong about this, but I can't picture Jimmy making the big announcement that whatever year it is will be a farewell tour. Can you imagine the insanity such an announcement would cause. I think there will come a year when he announces that he will not be going on the road.

Wino you know wrote:Jimmy has said repeatedly that as long as we keep showing up, he'll keep playing.

I don't know about anyone else, but I certainly have no reason to doubt the man.

If you got to have fun all the time and party like him and party w/people like us and fly big planes wherever whenever would you quit?
I do not know about any of you but I'd say HELL NO!
PARTY ON!

Plus we all know Wikipedia is bs a lot of the time and if you don't now you do.

ParrotHeadInThe Making wrote:IMHO, and I could easily be wrong about this, but I can't picture Jimmy making the big announcement that whatever year it is will be a farewell tour. Can you imagine the insanity such an announcement would cause. I think there will come a year when he announces that he will not be going on the road.

I agree. It would be a madhouse..... It would be sad and maudlin for the fans (AND the band)..... It would be better to say it's done after the fact and finish with a bang, then keep playing smaller shows (Beach Band, Fishsticks, JB and Mac, etc) 'til he's 90.

SchoolGirlHeart wrote:

ParrotHeadInThe Making wrote:IMHO, and I could easily be wrong about this, but I can't picture Jimmy making the big announcement that whatever year it is will be a farewell tour. Can you imagine the insanity such an announcement would cause. I think there will come a year when he announces that he will not be going on the road.

I agree. It would be a madhouse..... It would be sad and maudlin for the fans (AND the band)..... It would be better to say it's done after the fact and finish with a bang, then keep playing smaller shows (Beach Band, Fishsticks, JB and Mac, etc) 'til he's 90.

There would be hell to pay from all the PHans All out war if he stops now. He's started the party that won't stop.

ParrotHeadInThe Making wrote:

popcornjack wrote:

SMLCHNG wrote:The link in the article was a 'what happens when/if' thread that hasn't had any activity in a year. It's just the type of discussions we've had around here for many years.

he quotes wikipedia, which quotes a random thread from here, which just goes to show that everything shows up on the internet!!

If it's posted on the Internet then it certainly must be true!

IMHO, and I could easily be wrong about this, but I can't picture Jimmy making the big announcement that whatever year it is will be a farewell tour. Can you imagine the insanity such an announcement would cause. I think there will come a year when he announces that he will not be going on the road.

I dont see Jimmy going anytime soon. It will always be five o' clock somewhere to him.

SchoolGirlHeart wrote:

ParrotHeadInThe Making wrote:IMHO, and I could easily be wrong about this, but I can't picture Jimmy making the big announcement that whatever year it is will be a farewell tour. Can you imagine the insanity such an announcement would cause. I think there will come a year when he announces that he will not be going on the road.

I agree. It would be a madhouse..... It would be sad and maudlin for the fans (AND the band)..... It would be better to say it's done after the fact and finish with a bang, then keep playing smaller shows (Beach Band, Fishsticks, JB and Mac, etc) 'til he's 90.

Exactly! The best thing about Jimmy's shows is the atmosphere that he creates. If he were to announce next year that this would be the last tour people would be coming to his shows knowing that this was it, and a lot of the magic would be gone. I would not want to go to a concert knowing in the back of my mind that this would be it.

So my heart has officially dropped to my stomach. Personally, I think I would want to know if it was his last show/tour. This way I could prepare myself for the loss.

i'm going to the Raleigh show tonight...my 3rd over all. The first we'll bring our daughter too. I got to thinking: How many may she have the chance to go to? (She's 6). Will the Bun in the Oven ever get to see one and have it be meaningful.

That made me think...how does it end?

I read this thread and a lot of people say "Just do a show and have it turn out to be the last".

But...what if he decided to do a "Last Show".

Where would it be? I see 2 options: Do it on a beach somewhere...probably FLA or just hold the biggest stadium concert the USA's ever seen.

You'd have to figure that everyone and their uncle would want to go. I would have to think he could sell out a place like the LA Coliseum or Michigan's stadium in Ann Arbor (Thinking of the biggest stadiums in the USA. I think it would be a stretch to think one could do a concert at a place like the track in Indy...it's a tad large in scale.). Imagine a sold-out show for something like 140,000 people. I think he could pull it off.

Or...close down a large stretch of very wide beach somewhere and just utterly overwhelm some small beach town for a weekend.

I don't know...I just sit around and think stuff up a lot of the time.

I just got this from a friend of mine, whose brother's cousin's uncle, works with a guy who, knows someone, who used to date a girl who is distantly related to a guy who worked in an arena where Jimmy played once, 2010 will be the Farewell Tour. Jimmy will bide farewell to the 1st decade of the 21st Century and welcome in the next decade with another New Year Show.

That's my story and I'm sticking to it!

ph4ever wrote:did someone say something about the brown acid??


uhoh............

Does anyone else miss going to concerts and events where they broadcast this type of stuff over they PA system? It only happened to me once, back at the Hampton Colosseum at a Van Halen concert in 1984, but I remember the buzz going across the crowd when they told us to watch out for the acid that looked like yellow rubber ducks.
Concerts now tend to be lame compared to when we were kids. I was at a ZZ Top show a couple of years ago where a guy got up and started dancing. The Cops came and told him to sit down. The guy was obviously drunk or stoned and got up 3 or 4 times over a 30 minute period. Finally they came and grabbed him and hauled his a$$ outta there. I was horrified. I was in the back,standing in the "smoking area" and told they guy next to me I remember the days when we were passing doobies, and now we have to sit down and shut up at a frickin' rock concert. Why bother?
Thank Gawd Jimmy's shows still allow us to act like kids, stand up and enjoy the shows the way the should be.

I remember going to see George Harrison in 1974 and when the house lights came up at intermission there was a thick cloud of pot smoke hovering mid-way between the floor and ceiling of the arena. And I can remember being a Jethro Tull show in the late 70's when a guy kept standing up on his chair blocking the view of everyone behind him. The guy behind me took his lit cig and flipped it hit the guy on the chair in the back of his head. That's how we got him to sit down. And what happened to lighters for encores? And everyone would work their way down to the floor and if you got caught all that happened was the ushers sent you back to your seat, now they throw you out. Concerts are much more subdued now than when I was a kid.

C-Dawg wrote:Who knows when Jimmy will retire?

But, how many of you can guarantee you'll be around for next year's tour if there is one?

I had the chance to see Stevie Ray Vaughn in March, 1990, but was talked out of it by my ex wife because " he's been coming every year, we'll see him next year....I promise".

He died a few months later.

Treat every show like it's your last....savor it!

I do.

Well said, my friend........let's just all enjoy the ride for ever how long we all have air in our lungs and a pulse!

SchoolGirlHeart wrote:I hope when the time comes, there's no farewell tour. I hope one year he just says, "that's it" and doesn't go back on the road. When I go to my last Buffett show, I don't want to *know* that it's the last one....

I already went to my last Jimmy Buffett concert. It was Thursday night. Luckily I'm going to my next one tonight.

I'll believe it when I see it in the National Enquirer!.. Until then no worries. When the time does come, just sail away. It has been a lovely cruise.

Jimmy said at the Atlanta show this year that he wasn't leaving until someone knocks him off, meaning that he isn't quitting until he has to do so

I am not going to think about Jimmy retiring. I'm still the new Jimmy Buffett fan on the block, and I am loving this music and the shows so much. I just want to concentrate on enjoying this ride to the maximum for as long as possible.