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Beantown Express 2.0

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6 minutes ago, MirrOlure said:

His books alone, without the music or the restaurants, would be a legacy.

Silly as it sounds, his immense talent is still somehow underrated to a certain extent.

Queue up A Pirate Looks at 40; Trying to Reason with the Hurricane Season; Come Monday…..

RIP

Rip Jimmy.  The lyrics below from A pirate Looks at 40 are fantastic.

 

Yes I am a pirate, two hundred years too late

The cannons don’t thunder, there’s nothing to plunder

I’s and over-forty victim of fate

Arriving too late, arriving too late

I’ve done a bit of smuggling, I’ve run my share of grass

I made enough money to buy Miami, but I pissed it away so fast

Never meant to last, never meant to last. 

 
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19 minutes ago, Beantown Express 2.0 said:

Rip Jimmy.  The lyrics below from A pirate Looks at 40 are fantastic.

 

Yes I am a pirate, two hundred years too late

The cannons don’t thunder, there’s nothing to plunder

I’s and over-forty victim of fate

Arriving too late, arriving too late

I’ve done a bit of smuggling, I’ve run my share of grass

I made enough money to buy Miami, but I pissed it away so fast

Never meant to last, never meant to last. 

 

I have been drunk now for over two weeks,

I passed out and I rallied and I sprung a few leaks

But I got to stop wishin, got to go fishin

Down to rock bottom again,

Just a  few friends, just few friends 

 

 

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This one really hurts.  My wife (no pics), kids, and I love his music and celebrate the islands.  But we’re not gonna get dragged down - we are gonna celebrate his life and what he meant to so many.

 

But now I think about the good times
Down in the caribbean sunshine
In my younger days I was so bad
Laughin' about all the fun we had

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9 minutes ago, solamente73 said:

This one really hurts.  My wife (no pics), kids, and I love his music and celebrate the islands.  But we’re not gonna get dragged down - we are gonna celebrate his life and what he meant to so many.

 

But now I think about the good times
Down in the caribbean sunshine
In my younger days I was so bad
Laughin' about all the fun we had

Yeah if you like a boat, island, sailing kinda vibe, it’s hard not to have his music on regular rotation. 
 

my boys and I turn up any one of a dozen songs on the way back to the marina.  My boys have gone from riding along as green ears to driving the boat and making sure we had him on.
 

he’s our family sunset music… standard view riding back… 

 

 

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He Went to Paris is one of the most beautiful songs ever written in my opinion. 
 

listened to it on loop this morning over a couple cold 24 oz Yellowbellies due to the shocking nature of waking up to find out he was gone.  
 

he’s not my favorite musician, but the memories of his music intertwined with the different facets of life is what weaves him so closely to many of us.  Hurts as bad as waking up to feed my oldest her 2 hour milk at 3 am only to find out we’d lost Jerry Jeff.  
 

RIP legend 

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7 hours ago, shadow_operative2.0 said:

Damn, always dug this one. 

Was going to post this video a few days ago. Just a thrown together bit of footage but it paints a nice picture. The girl, who I believe became his wife, is smokin’.  
 

There’s not a person over 30 who doesn’t have some great memories that are tethered to a Buffett song or two. Seemed like the soundtrack to certain years of my life. And not many guitar players haven’t learned a few Jimmy songs. 
 

I’m in Tuscaloosa for the game today and know that the people of this state hold him dearly. I suspect the pre-game music today will have him in heavy rotation. If I had’em with me, I’d have my hush puppies on. 

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2 hours ago, cabowabo said:

Only saw him in concert once. September 21, 1996 at Southpark Meadows. Went and saw Texas and Notre Dame at DKR during the day and Buffett that night.

I was at both of those events that day as well- hell of a fun Saturday. I went to a handful more of his shows over the next 10 years- always a great time.

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2 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

He apparently was hospitalized in May.  That could obviously be related.

I didn’t know that. We were Wondering if he might have had an aggressive cancer or something and he was like turn up the music and bring me my dogs, I’m out.

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“Please don’t say manana if you don’t mean it. I have done your lies for so very long”

“try to describe the ocean  when you’ve never seen it.” 
 

he considered himself an average songwriter and maybe his actual tunes are but his lyrics are top notch. 

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2 minutes ago, troph said:

I didn’t know that. We were Wondering if he might have had an aggressive cancer or something and he was like turn up the music and bring me my dogs, I’m out.

I just talked to my sis -- he had cancelled a lot of obligations this spring and summer.  She doesn't like to press her friend about details associated with Jimmy or the band, but it's clear that there was already concern he might never go out on the road again.

One of the many sad things about losing a guy like Jimmy is the ripple effect through so many families just from a financial perspective.  He was so wealthy, though, maybe he willed some money to his band and crew.

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“When you're back at work at your 9 to 5
And it's pourin' rain on your mornin' drive
You'll remember when you were last alive
Down at the lah de dah”

 

“Now he lives in the islands, fishes the pilin's
And drinks his green label each day
He's writing his memoirs and losing his hearing
But he don't care what most people say
Through 86 years of perpetual motion
If he likes you he'll smile then he'll say
Jimmy, some of it's magic, some of it's tragic
But I had a good life all the way”

 

 

“I want to go back, to the islands
Where the shrimp boats are tied up to the piling
Give me oysters and beer
For dinner every day of the year
And I'll feel fine... I'll feel fine
I want to be there
Want to go back down and lie beside the sea there
With a tin cup for a chalice, fill it up with good red wine
And I'm a chewin' on a honeysuckle vine”
 
 

 

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I got the news before dawn, went out on my porch to watch the sun come up over the lake & made it through half of “Wonder why we ever go home” before I broke down & went back inside so my neighbors wouldn’t see me.  F’n donkey kick to the gut.  Thanks for the music and that sunrise Jimmy…

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