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Couch Sale in Margaritaville…RIP
Fishpo31
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I have a conflicted relationship with this. I loved him before he became an oligarch, and still listen to a lot his deep cuts…RIP
https://youtu.be/eLRsEuCocT4?si=_H78gYY2M75PIr5L
https://youtu.be/X7ckBvSKG-Q?si=3Ym8gQ9ZNWq8Y6g0
https://youtu.be/eLRsEuCocT4?si=_H78gYY2M75PIr5L
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I had one of the great nights of my life at his Sausalito bar and grill in 2001
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Think of all the musicians actors in their 80s who are going to be dropping like flies soon.
Dead Pool Tournament?
Hollywood bracket:
Deniro, Pacino, Hackman, Eastwood, Willis (probably early 70s still but has some dementia thing going on), Duvall.
Sunset Records bracket:
Willie, the remaining Stones, Dylan, David Allen Coe, Kris Kristofersen
You could probably throw in brackets for both politics and sports as well. -
A lot of history, and a shitload of fun tims...
1981: First time...After pitching 3 innings in a mid-week game, I went to the training room for ice, and filled up 2 ice chests that were loaded with beer...after the game, went to the show, with many of our opponents that day.
1984: Buffett was stripped down, just him and a piano player. He asked if anyone knew how to play "Cowboy in the Jungle", because it didn't sound right with one guitar...A guy a couple years older than me that I grew up with jumped up and ran to the stage, and Jimmy handed him a 12 string...he killed it.
1987-ish: At the boat races in Tri Cities, he was playing in PDX. We had 15 people that were going to go, and when the time came to leave, most were too drunk and lost interest. 3 of us got in my GTI and took off. Outside Gresham, got a flat, and as 2 of us were changing it, the third pulled out my golf clubs and started hitting balls into the Columbia...as we finished, the cops pulled up. They didn't search the car (thank God). Went to a bar, and ended up tipping our waitress with one of the many extra tickets we had. She grabbed a couple others, they quit on the spot and came with us. Made it back in time for heat 1A on Sunday...
1994: On a baseball trip to Phoenix, 2 coaching friends picked me up from the hotel, and we walked through a hole in the fence at an old air field in Mesa...the only time I ever left a team on the road...
1996: Went to see JB at the Gorge, in a motor home with 12 others. If he asked me to write the set list, this was it...
2018: Saw him in Seattle, stayed up drinking and caught a town car to the airport at 4 AM to fly to Europe.
In college, Thursday night happy hour (10 PM), the juke box on repeat with "Why Don't we get Drunk and Screw"...
TL/DR, I probably haven't listened to him in 2-3 years (and haven't willingly listened to Margaritaville in 20)...lots of memories...
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Dark shit dude, I’ll buy one bracket for each category.CFetters_Nacho_Lover said:Think of all the musicians actors in their 80s who are going to be dropping like flies soon.
Dead Pool Tournament?
Hollywood bracket:
Deniro, Pacino, Hackman, Eastwood, Willis (probably early 70s still but has some dementia thing going on), Duvall.
Sunset Records bracket:
Willie, the remaining Stones, Dylan, David Allen Coe, Kris Kristofersen
You could probably throw in brackets for both politics and sports as well. -
Like the Grateful Dead, I just don’t get Buffett
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Agreed. Blasphemy, I'm sure but the Throbber finds Buffet tunes way up there on the m'eh scale.El_K said:Like the Grateful Dead, I just don’t get Buffett
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Terrible analogy. Just terrible.El_K said:Like the Grateful Dead, I just don’t get Buffett
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It's not a terrible analogy. It's one with which you disagree.YellowSnow said:
Terrible analogy. Just terrible.El_K said:Like the Grateful Dead, I just don’t get Buffett
Never understood the Buffet cult either. Same as the Dead.
Like @IrishDawg22 digging fat chicks. Just not my thing. Doesn't make it wrong.
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From someone not on the cult side but with a healthy appreciation of both, I understand what you mean. Neither Jerry nor Jimmy had world-class vocals but there was just something about them along with their representation of appreciating the simple things in life. It helped that, as electronica and other tech came along and grew more prevalent, their music still wasn't overproduced and retained a feeling closer to the 60's and 70's.PurpleThrobber said:
It's not a terrible analogy. It's one with which you disagree.YellowSnow said:
Terrible analogy. Just terrible.El_K said:Like the Grateful Dead, I just don’t get Buffett
Never understood the Buffet cult either. Same as the Dead.
Like @IrishDawg22 digging fat chicks. Just not my thing. Doesn't make it wrong.
I love being able to identify with the lyrics of the songs and know what they were feeling when they wrote the songs, such as Buffett's "A Pirate Looks At Forty" and the Dead's "Hell In A Bucket" for a few examples.
I never saw Buffett live but was lucky to see Jerry and the Dead at Memorial Stadium in late May of 1995, just a few months before Jerry passed away.






