Monster hit from a monster talent. Ruled the airwaves '76-'77.
It gets turned up if it comes on, and it'll still be getting played in 2076.
Because it's five o'clock somewhere. Even if you don't drink.
If you can't sing along to this from memory, you're not from my country.
In vino veritas.
True Story: I took The Queen Of The World to a Buffett concert. We were walking around the tailgate before the concert (as much fun as the actual concert) - and I actually blew out my flip flop. We walked around asking for duct tape; most people didn't have it, but we'd get beer every time.
ReplyDeleteGood times, good times.
I remember being in the local greasy spoon and the girls there played it on the jukebox over and over and over......Yep, good ole days. Ohio Guy
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ReplyDeleteSpot on choice. Port Aransas, Texas comes to mind with a myriad of fun times before the place was turned into a high-rise mecca. Good food, partying, lotsa girls and miles of beach on which to four wheel, all the way to the Mansfield cut. Picked up small bivalves at the surfs edge and turned them into a wonderful chowder. Did I mention drinking a beer or two, possibly more. Friend of mine who lived there and I shared some of those times with died in 2018.
ReplyDeleteI worked load in and load out for a Buffett show in San Diego. He started on time, which caught about half the audience flat footed and caught in traffic.
ReplyDeleteDuring the load out, I was hustling, rolling up cable, humping rolls around, and a crew member stopped me. He said, "Hey man, this is Buffett, no one hurries." First time that ever happened to me. We still got out in short order, but without any angst or drama...
nick
Nick, that was always my pisser. You show up slightly before concert time and the band ain't warming up even forty five minutes after the published starting time. Last time I went to a concert I left and demanded my money back and have not been to a concert again. I paid for two hours of a concert and not start half hour later and only play then for an hour and fifteen minutes. Los Lobos was the band.
ReplyDeleteBuffett is a real pro and so is his organization. 'Course, age and maturity help.
ReplyDeleteAnd what the crew guy actually said was "no one busts their ass"...
I figured they wanted to get back to the bus as quickly as possible, like pretty much every other act I ever worked, but they wanted to make sure no one got hurt. Stuck in my mind :-)
nick
"blew out a flip-flop. Stepped on a *pop-top*."
ReplyDeleteThat line right there dates the song. How long has it been since you've seen an actual pop-top? They're as rare as steel beer cans.
The very first Jimmy Buffet concert I went to was in 1977 in Norfolk VA. Good times, good times.
I think I have everything he ever recorded.
ReplyDeleteI was in Tortola on business once, and had a beer and cheeseburger in the restaurant at the Village Cay Marina. I found out a few months later that it was the dive that inspired "Cheeseburger In Paradise".
Bop' til you drop.....
I was in Shanghai around 2009 or 2010 and they still had beer in a pop top. I took a picture.
ReplyDeleteAs a kid, we were always alert for pop tops in the sand at the beach. We were (disproportionately) afraid of slicing our feet open. And of slicing our hands reaching into a pringles can.....
nick
I think it was 'The Select' in St. Barth. What difference does it make?!
ReplyDeleteI was friendly with this guy in the Caribbean. He is down-to-earth friendly. We sailed on each other's boats.
I like the 'A1A' album the best
Must be a generational thing.
ReplyDeleteI lost interest in most of anything sold after 1974. King Crimson "Red" was the last vinyl I remember purchasing. Still have it.
Dayum! The comments are almost as good as the tune.
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ReplyDeleteDude, 1974?
The Sixties are over man. Get over it.
Hotel California. Rumours. The Wall. Back In Black. Boston.
You didn't just miss music, you're actively hiding from it.
I like Swing too, but music didn't die when Glenn Miller did, nor Buddy Holly, no matter how epic Don McLean's American Pie is.
If you'd said 1990, I could at least muster some respect, but 1974?
Pffft.
Spent a month in 1995 in Bandung, Indonesia debugging a prototype of the wireless phone system for that country. The software engineer with me brought a stack of Buffet's works. Listened to little else while there. Enjoyed it greatly, especially considering the location! Nothing like chasing signals through hardware while local farmers are driving their oxen to the local rice fields with Jimmy Buffet playing. Nice!
ReplyDeleteFoggy memories.
ReplyDeleteAlways had a soft spot for Mr. Buffett. I guess I better see about filling another hole in the collection.
ReplyDeleteEh,for me some damn boring/ugly music.A lot of good stuff from the 70's,dead head and parrot head music not the good stuff.
ReplyDeleteNow matter how hard the Marxist try to invert the definition of every word, English will survive and continue it domination of world culture via the very simple mechanism of endlessly-copied pirated pop music, which reached apogee in the 70s. It'll never be as good again.
ReplyDelete> Hotel California. Rumours. The Wall. Back In Black. Boston.
> You didn't just miss music, you're actively hiding from it.
"Boston" is the only album in history in which not only every song was also released as a single, but every one of which is still in constant rotation on classic rock stations. No other single platter every made can boast a filler content of "zero".
Back in Black came out in 1980,was a great album but Highway released in 1979 with Bonn a better album,shame he took the rock lifestyle to the max and thus died!
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