Jimmy Buffet RIP

[FloriduhBoy]

I saw him in 1976, at The University of West Florida. Tickets were $10. The good old days.

Jimmy Buffett, Roguish Bard of Island Escapism, Is Dead at 76

With songs like “Margaritaville” and “Cheeseburger in Paradise,” he became a folk hero to fans known as Parrot Heads. He also became a millionaire hundreds of times over.

www.nytimes.com

 

[GuyK]

I never had opportunity to see him live, but have listened to his music for decades. So many great songs! R.I.P.

 

[MikeT.]

Such a great life and great music. RIP Mr. Buffett.

 

[S0und Dragon]

Rest easy and thanks for the music. margaritaville has always been a guilty pleasure of mine.

 

[kray]

RIP Jimmy!

 

[Fran604g]

Another of our icons gone, sadly.😧 RIP Jimmy, I hope there's plenty of ice cold Margaritas up there.

 

[Andyman]

RIP Jimmy; your songs always made be happy.

 

[MrEd]

I saw his show in Austin late 80s.
I read once the he lived there in the 70's and wrote Margaritaville inspired by an old watering hole where people would gather and watch the sunset from the roof top looking out over the lake.
I remember doing the same with friends when I first moved to Austin, but the bar is long gone nowadays.

 

[mhardy6647]

I'll paste a note I sent this morning to a friend who pinged us after hearing that he had died.

Yeah, I am much saddened by this, actually.
The mainstream music press never had a good thing to say about him (his music, or his modus operandi, but I enjoyed his stuff all the way back to Come Monday. For every Cheeseburger in Paradise in his canon, there was a He Went to Paris.
He was the best in the world at what he did (sort of like the Dead). I'd even go as far to say that he was kind of a wholesome (relatively speaking!), middle class variant of the Dead ethos -- and he was almost wildly successful as a brand, too.
We'll listen to some Jimmy Buffett music this weekend.

Which we, in fact, already have.

PS He also gets bonus points for covering great songs like Bruce Cockburn's Pacing the Cage.

 

[MrEd]

I saw him in Austin in the late 80's
I read once that he spent a lot of time in Austin in the 70s, supposedly the inspiration for the song Margaritaville was an old water hole there where folks would gather on the rooftop and watch the sunset over the lake.
I did partake of of some sunsets and libation there when I first moved to Austin in the early 80s.
The place is long gone now, and I can't member it's name, but it had pretty cool vibe.

 

[RoadDawgWest]

Many Jimmy Buffett tracks were the backing soundtracks of many rememberable parties. R.I.P.