re: RIP Jimmy Buffett

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I am glad I got to see him before he passed.

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Got to see him a bunch of times in at least half a dozen venues. Auburn, GT’s Grant Field, 6 flags over Georgia,… It’s been a minute, but I think Lakewood amphitheater might have been the last time I saw him perform.

One time at Six Flags he was singing while walking back-and-forth. As he came over to my side I stood up and cheered, he pointed directly at me. (He might’ve been pointing at somebody else he knew, or some hot chick behind me, but I will always remember my version.)

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Somewhat poetic he passed at the end of the summer

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Trying to reason with hurricane season.
I just listened to The Last Line.

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His music was simple

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Yeah. So? Much of popular music is.

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and terrible.

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Oh go EABOD. He wrote a lot of good songs and carved out his own corner in music that was occupied by NO ONE ELSE.

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him the first time at the Worlds Fair in New Orleans and Randy Meisner from the Eagles played with him and his band. Now both are gone.

Best show I ever saw him at was at Tipitina’s in the early ‘90’s. We used to get Tip’s calendar in the mail and keep it on our fridge. I noticed one band called Freddy and the Fishsticks was playing. Knowing that was the name of a short story in one of his books we showed up and got to see him. Thought I was clever and maybe figured out something that others hadn’t until we got there and the line was around the block.

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In that amphitheater by the river? I was also at that show. I had tickets to the 2nd show that night, so it made for a fricked up evening.

I saw him play at Tip's as Freddie and the Fishstix as well. It was a weeknight and we went straight from work to get in line. I worked at a bank at the time, so my co-workers and I made for a strange sight among the Aloha shirts in our dark suits and white shirts.

I saw this in an article. This is pretty impressive.

Mr. Buffett was also an accomplished author; he was one of only six writers, along with the likes of Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck and William Styron, to top both The Times’s fiction and nonfiction best-seller lists. By the time he wrote “Tales From Margaritaville” (1989), the first of his three No. 1 best sellers.

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He wrote a lot of good songs and carved out his own corner in music that was occupied by NO ONE ELSE.

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He is a great author too. Tales from Margaritaville will make you want to pack your bags and move to the Caribbean. Full of vivid description and great characters. A Salty Piece of Land was a great spin off of the Tully Mars character.

I hope as an altar boy covering his azz, Jimmy got in one last Coastal Confession.

Breathe In. Breathe Out. Move On.

RIP Jimmy

Did he really write those? Likely had a ghost writer.

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I will never understand the people that say this.

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Then he went to England, played the piano
And married an actress named Kim
They had a fine life, she was a good wife
And bore him a young son named Jim

Well frick! My wife and daughter and granddaughter are in Destin this weekend and I have been thinking of his songs all week. Every time we go to the red neck riviera I play his 4 cd collection. My brother turned me onto JB back in the early 70’s. Living and Dying in 3/4 Time, White Sport Coat with a Pink Carnation and Rancho Deluxe. Story I heard don’t really know it’s true was he was at a bar in Tennessee, and wanted to fight the sheriff after being thrown out. The sheriff was Buford Pusser (msp)