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I tried to get tickets for like 4 years before and ALWAYS missed out on them and FINALLY got to go to my first one:

The Year of Still Here Tour
Toyota Park - Bridgeview IL
Saturday July 26th, 2008

then returned to SUMMERZCOOL the next year and can't wait for the BIG TOP in 2 weeks and Vegas in October

BEST TIMES EVER!

July, 1980, Meriweather Post Pavillion in Columbia Maryland, I have seen him muliple times since then, every year but 1993 and 1996.

Big Bend United Way Benefit Concert, Tallahassee, Fl. Feb. 2007

I had always said to my 'keets that I wanted to see Jimmy before I die. My oldest 'keet, Christin, heard that Jimmy was doing a show in Tallahassee. She and our other 'keet, Chelsea, got together and bought two tickets for my birthday. Cat and I were on a cruise on a stop in Puerto Rico. The kids called Cat and told her. She had to keep it a secret for the rest of the cruise. When we got home, there was a birthday card in the mail for me. When I opened it, there were the two tickets. Holy cow! What a show. After that evening, we have been hooked ever since. Living the lifestyle!

My 1st show...

Saturday, August 6, 1988
Pacific Amphitheatre, Costa Mesa, CA (Orange County)
Hot Water Tour with Little Feat





...will be at my 24th show in October at Irvine Meadows...

IrishPirate wrote:The year was 1977, my date and I went to see Jimmy Buffett at the Tower Theater in Upper Darby, Pa. I had never heard of him before. We walked up to the ticket window about 5 minutes before the show was scheduled to start, paid $8.50 for each ticket and got 11th row tickets! The band was great, but what hooked me was the acoustic set where Jimmy was on the stage alone! That was 33 years ago! I married my date 5 months later!!! We've missed a couple tours here and there because of babies and pregnancies but pretty much have seen him everywhere he has performed in the Philadelphia area. Here's a couple pictures of The Tower Theater. . .

I LOVE THE TOWER!

July 23, 1994 - Merriweather Post - we had been to many rock shows over the previous 10 years but we were unprepared for this tailgate. I think we had a cooler of beer and not much else

Not a bad set list and I really do miss that venue!

1 Fruitcakes
2 Another Saturday Night
3 Changes In Latitudes, Changes In Attitudes
4 Volcano
5 Six String Music
6 Jolly Mon Sing
7 Vampires, Mummies And The Holy Ghost
8 Cheeseburger In Paradise
9 Son Of A Son Of A Sailor
10 Why Don't We Get Drunk and Screw
11 Frank And Lola
12 Distantly In Love
13 A Pirate Looks At Forty
14 Brown Eyed Girl
15 Knees Of My Heart
16 Apocalypso
17 One Particular Harbour
18 Fins

First Encore:
19 Uncle John's Band
20 Margaritaville

Second Encore:
21 Come Monday

Bama Breeze tour in AC 2007! Hooked after that...Year of Still Here tour 2008 AC again....last year Camden...this year Camden.....next year Bethel Woods?????? ( I wish)

Had listened a lot, but did not know the culture or that he toured

First concert was in a monsoon on Sept 12/06 in Detroit at the DTE ....Party at the End of the World Tour.
That was one of the most memorable experience of my life!!!!

It was 1975 and some friends invited me to join them at the Texas Opry House on Richmond Avenue in Houston, TX. After that show, Jimmy joined us via cassette (yes it was a long time ago) on every camping trip. I will be making my 15th visit with Jimmy and the Coral Reefer Band on October 23rd at my new home in Las Vegas after a one year hiatus due to damage to Cynthia Mitchell Woods Pavilion in Houston from Hurricane Ike.

lvparrothead wrote:It was 1975 and some friends invited me to join them at the Texas Opry House on Richmond Avenue in Houston, TX. After that show, Jimmy joined us via cassette (yes it was a long time ago) on every camping trip. I will be making my 15th visit with Jimmy and the Coral Reefer Band on October 23rd at my new home in Las Vegas after a one year hiatus due to damage to Cynthia Mitchell Woods Pavilion in Houston from Hurricane Ike.

At least you are not from Pasadena. During the Houston show he said he lived in a trailer in Pasadena once

Year: 2007
Name: Bama Breeze Tour
Venue: Star Lake Pavilion, Burgettstown, PA. (A suburb of Pittsburgh)

JollyMon66 wrote:

IrishPirate wrote:The year was 1977, my date and I went to see Jimmy Buffett at the Tower Theater in Upper Darby, Pa. I had never heard of him before. We walked up to the ticket window about 5 minutes before the show was scheduled to start, paid $8.50 for each ticket and got 11th row tickets! The band was great, but what hooked me was the acoustic set where Jimmy was on the stage alone! That was 33 years ago! I married my date 5 months later!!! We've missed a couple tours here and there because of babies and pregnancies but pretty much have seen him everywhere he has performed in the Philadelphia area. Here's a couple pictures of The Tower Theater. . .

I LOVE THE TOWER!

What an awesome venue

1993 Chameleon Caravan - Jones Beach and every year since it's now up to over 30 something shows, Of course back in 1994 tickets didn't sell out in 3.5 minutes like they do nowadays. Actually used to stand in line at a ticketmaster outlet. Got introduced by an ex-girlfriend she didn't last that much longer but the Buffett experience still lives on!

July 18th, 1977. Summerfest at Southern Illinois University. Jimmy Buffett and the Coral Reefer Band opened for the Ozark Mountain Daredevils. I've burned lots of brain cells since then, but my main memory was a spinning, whirling, harp player in a white sailor suit (Fingers of course), and of a relaxed, grinning Jimmy Buffett. Totally blew a very good Daredevil band away.

And I also love the picture of the Tower Theater! I was stationed at Dover AFB from 1974-1976, and remember going there with a bunch of black friends from the base to see Earth Wind and Fire. I wasn't the only white guy there, but we were sure in the minority! Fantastic show, everyone was cool to us, and didn't sit down the whole night. Great venue to see a band.

1984 Blosom Music Center. . Haven't missed a concert since (sometimes attending multiple JB shows in a summer!)

SAVANNAH BEE wrote:

JollyMon66 wrote:

IrishPirate wrote:The year was 1977, my date and I went to see Jimmy Buffett at the Tower Theater in Upper Darby, Pa. I had never heard of him before. We walked up to the ticket window about 5 minutes before the show was scheduled to start, paid $8.50 for each ticket and got 11th row tickets! The band was great, but what hooked me was the acoustic set where Jimmy was on the stage alone! That was 33 years ago! I married my date 5 months later!!! We've missed a couple tours here and there because of babies and pregnancies but pretty much have seen him everywhere he has performed in the Philadelphia area. Here's a couple pictures of The Tower Theater. . .

I LOVE THE TOWER!

What an awesome venue

I sat under the balcony for an Alarm show years ago. WMMR was broadcasting live....we were right under the mic. Somewhere on someones tapes can be heard JollyMon yelling

3PARROTHEADS wrote:No shows yet. Going to first JB show in LV in oct. We did just return from Key west, spent a lot of time at Margaritaville.

Welcome concert virgin

ktyertle wrote:1984 Blosom Music Center. . Haven't missed a concert since (sometimes attending multiple JB shows in a summer!)

People go to more than one show in a year? Wow, that's impressive.

OK, so after reading all these posts I am suffering some feelings of inadequacy....

First Concert -- 6/23/07
Bama Breeze Tour
Post-Gazette Pavilion - Pittsburgh, PA

Just ret'd from 8/7/10 Camden, NJ concert and just bought tix for 9/2/10 Bristow, VA concert........trying hard to catch up with alot of you!!

1978 (might have been 1979) - King's Dominion Park outside of Richmond, Va.
$6.00/each and our college IDs got my gal and I into the park for all the rides and the concert as well.
Haven't missed a year without seeing Jimmy ever since.

<------- That *85+* number of shows over there gets less impressive when you
consider that averages seeing about 2 or 3 shows a year every year, almost
all in my backyard. I've only traveled twice for a show ... 2008 in Charlotte and 2009 in Frisco.

Heck .... I know a guy (Jackson Quigley) who traveled to every single show during the
Beach House On The Moon tour, then wrote a book about it.
A great, great book by the way; see link below.