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Dirk Struan
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 Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 5:59 pm Post subject: Any Parrot-heads? |
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I am curious as to whether or not people who play pirate games also listen to Jimmy Buffett....
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| Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 6:00 pm Post subject: Re: Any Parrot-heads? |
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| Dirk Struan wrote: | | I am curious as to whether or not people who play pirate games also listen to Jimmy Buffett.... |
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Howie
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| Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 8:31 pm Post subject: Re: Any Parrot-heads? |
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| Dirk Struan wrote: | | I am curious as to whether or not people who play pirate games also listen to Jimmy Buffett.... |
I say lets make this thread a parrots only thread. You have to have a parrot in your hand to enter! 
Jimmys cool. I must confess I don't own any of his albums though.
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| Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2005 1:30 am Post subject: Re: Any Parrot-heads? |
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| Dirk Struan wrote: | | I am curious as to whether or not people who play pirate games also listen to Jimmy Buffett.... |
 Yeah, mon! Check out me Sig. (I love that song.)
Cutlass Isle can't be all that far from Margaritaville, can it?
Look! I see fins to the left. And fins to the right! Feeding frenzy at Cutlass Isle tonight (except for that one Governor's daughter, she's way too plain!).
Yeah, I've got several Jimmy Buffett tapes and CDs. I've even got a CD of Jimmy Buffett songs done by some Nashville bluegrass studio musicians called "Pickin' On Jimmy Buffett, a Bluegrass Tribute" from the Great Pickin' On Series (If you like Bluegrass and other types of music check them out at www.cmhrecords.com. They've got something like 154 Bluegrass tributes of everything from Eric Clapton & Jimmie Hendrix to Garth Brooks & Alan Jackson to CCR & CSNY to Metallica & Ozzy Osborne)
P.S. I noticed that they have a "Blues Tribute To Jimmy Buffet" CD also. Follow the link along the top to the Tributes page.
Great! I sound like a bloody commercial!
(Deep voice):
"This message brought to you today by the Cutlass Isle Ad Council and Sugar Buckies. Yes, Sugar Buckies. Sugar-coated, whole grain little buccaneers with marshmallow cutlasses, treasure chests and anchors. With a whole day's supply of vitamin P, the Pirate vitamin, in every bowl. All the great Pirates start their day with Sugar Buckies (AKA candy-coated sugar bombs). Part of this complete Pirate breakfast (cut to a picture of a bowl of Sugar Buckies surrounded by a steaming mug of black coffee, a hunk of hot crusty bread drenched with melting butter and a tall glass of dark rum)! And in one out of every five boxes, you get a free Secret Pirate Decoder Ring! Now in the Limited Edition boxes with a famous Buccaneer on the front of each one! Collect all ten!"
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| Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2005 1:34 am Post subject: |
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More like 400 years too late!!! Anyway, Mother Ocean is a great tune. Parrot head all the way here.
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It really Scared me for some reason... |
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| Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2005 1:36 am Post subject: |
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Howie, I see you opted for the Peter Pan look. 
Just kidding. I thought about for a bit, but decided on something a little different.
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| Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2005 2:55 pm Post subject: |
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| Vulture wrote: | | More like 400 years too late!!! Anyway, Mother Ocean is a great tune. Parrot head all the way here. |
I'm enough of a Parrothead to be annoyed when Vulture calls A Pirate Looks at Forty "Mother Ocean!" 
My mom played "Why Don't We Get Drunk?" for me when I was about 15, and of course that was hilarious to my teenage self. A few years later I was looking for that song, and picked up a copy of Song(s) You Know By Heart, and realized that it was full of stuff a lot better than "Why Don't We Get Drunk?"
Been hooked since then. Bought the box set and some of his newer albums. Seen several concerts, been to the Margaritaville store in Charleston, SC. Read his first three books, and the wife just got me "A Salty Piece of Land" for Valentine's Day. 
So yeah, I guess I'm a Parrothead. |
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| Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2005 3:18 am Post subject: Parrot-head pirates |
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Actually have a tatoo of a parrot,even. And a copy of "Tales From Margaritavile". |
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| Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2005 10:17 am Post subject: funny you should ask |
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I live in South Florida, and made occassional trips to Key West. There I walk up and down the streets listening to various people playing Jimmy Buffet tunes in bars. Being a troubador myself, I know material selection is a major part of being "who you are" as a performer, and I also know by the look in someone's eye if they're playing something they like, or something they must to hold the gig....Key West
All the tourists come down and expect the Buffet ambiance, so to get gigs in these places, you have to know a lot of Jimmy Buffet. I play ONE Jimmy Buffet tune, Margaritaville. I quote one at home a lot "My head hurts, my feet stink, and I don't love Jesus. Was that kinda mornin'. Musta been that kinda night." Beyond that my appreciation of Jimmy Buffet lies around somewhere between Liberaci and Frank Sinatra, both of whom I can't stomach to any degree.
My more eclectic tastes are in the delta blues area, and even uptown blues with brass and all that electric stuff, with drums. My favorite BAND is Pink Floyd, and my favorite American band (best band they evah wuz) is the Allman Brothers Band with the original lineup including Duane Allman and Berry Oakley...if you don't count Lowell George and Little Feat.
Bottom line? I don't go to Key West anymore cause all you hear are people doing Jimmy Buffet from bar to bar to bar. Oh sure, occassionally there's that reggae band...but they always have this look like "what am I doin' here playin' to a bunch of cracker tourists..." After all, Buffet is MOR, or Middle of the Road, music and we all know what happens if you stand in the middle of the road.
Gordon Lightfoot is way better than Buffet could ever hope to be, by the way. I do about four hours of Lightfoot's material, including The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, and Yarmouth Castle, Botany Bay...and one which name escapes me he wrote about his own boat...."I call her Silverheels, and I love the way she feels."
"Her sails billow like bubbles when you sip your daily doubles.
if she wasn't so fond of the weather she might give the deckhands trouble."
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| Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2005 2:38 pm Post subject: |
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| Capn Hook wrote: | Howie, I see you opted for the Peter Pan look.
Just kidding. I thought about for a bit, but decided on something a little different. |
Yeah old Peter Pan is my hero. So I figured I would honor him along with Robin (minus batman), the Green lantern and all the other cartoon heros that wore green. I like green if you haden't noticed!
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| Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2005 3:27 pm Post subject: Re: funny you should ask |
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| Airsaw wrote: | | ...if you don't count Lowell George and Little Feat. |
Well yeah, you could… but that would be sacrilege.
I understand that when Buffett kicked off his latest tour in Columbia, South Carolina a week ago that he opened with The Feat’s “Time Loves a Heroâ€Â.
Aaaahhhhh, Waiting For Columbus. Background music to my grad school studies.
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| Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2005 3:57 am Post subject: |
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Arrrrrgh! I thought this thread was your short on soup fixens! I was hoping to get me some Parrot Head Soup!
Shiver me timbers! Arrrrrggghh. |
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Dirk Struan
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| Lengo wrote: | Arrrrrgh! I thought this thread was your short on soup fixens! I was hoping to get me some Parrot Head Soup!
Shiver me timbers! Arrrrrggghh. |
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| Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2005 10:53 pm Post subject: |
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C'mon Airsaw! Gordon Lightfoot better than Jimmy Buffett? No way! My grandma used to listen to Lightfoot. And by the way, Frank Sinatra is the best thing in the world to listen to driving down the Vegas Strip with the top down. But, I agree with you about Delta Blues. I love that stuff. From Robert Johnson to Junior Kimbrough. Taught myself how to play Delta slide with an Epiphone resonator guitar and a Craftsman 19mm stainless steel socket. Sounds great.
As far as Buffett for Pirates fans it's okay, but some good Rasta Reggae is better.
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