Jimmy Buffet is eating a cheeseburger in paradise. Rest in peace.
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Jimmy Buffet is eating a cheeseburger in paradise. Rest in peace.
Met Jimmy hanging out at the old For Real Bar (Maureen from their current Sunnyside Bar was serving him).
RIP Jimmy
Another great one gone. Rest in Peace Jimmy.
A person must listen to the deep tracks on Jimmy's albums. Like the track from the album "Banana Wind". The song is "Jamaica Mistaica", with the lyric "When some a--hole started firing as we taxied to Negril". Do any of you long-timers know about that incident? When, where, why, who..etc. In any case RIP Jimmy. He always seemed like he was at peace. Keep listening . One love.
I have been a "Parrothead" for decades. I'd rent a bus and bring 36 of my close friends along to Buckeye Lake about 40 minutes outside of Columbus. We did the bus thing because the cops would literally hide in the trees and scope out the drivers to the concert. They had built a small "U-Turn type area where they would line cars up and hand out tickets like candy. The bus prevented all that. I think we did that for about 5 or 6 years in a row.
A few years after moving here, January '96 if I remember correctly, around noonish, a seaplane buzzed the Negril beach. And it was low. Way too low. Maybe 50 feet in the air, felt like you could touch it! After one pass which had the whole beach talking, here it came again, somehow feeling lower than the first time. What friggin' idiot would be doing such a stupid thing on a beach full of people?
The police were ready for a third pass but as the plane started in on its next "strafing" run, a few police guns pointed at it changed the pilot's and/or passengers minds.
The plane took off towards the West End and we thought not much more about it. Just another day on the Negril beach.
About an hour later, news started to trickle back that the seaplane "landed" in the waters near Ricks! The police were shooting at it as it taxied to The Caves and Chris Blackwell was noticed to be on board. The shooting ceased immediately. Apologies were spread all around. "Sorry about that beach thing" and "sorry about the live ammo" were exchanged more than once.
Funny how Jimmy (RIP) didn't put the beach strafing into his song. But as they say in Texas, never let the truth get in the way of good story!
It's 5 o'clock somewhere, Jimmy! Thanks for all the great times, man!
RIP Jimmy! Your music changed the path of my life. Fins Up!
This story is in the NY Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/02/a...-mistaica.html
RIP Jimmy. Did he ever play a live show in Negril?
Yes, at, of course, Margaritaville!Quote:
Originally Posted by Kold Ass Mofo
Years ago, my wife Deana and I got to go backstage at a concert for a pre concert tour. We were being escorted by a member of the band (long story). As we were going through the narrow dark halls filled with road cases, Deana bumped rather hard into a short hunched over old man shuffling through coming the opposite direction - A couple of quick “excuse mes” and he shuffled past. Peter Mayer, the lead guitarist for the Coral Reefer band said “Do you know who you just bumped into?” Yup, Jimmy Buffet himself. He seemed 10 feet tall stage