RIP Jimmy Buffett

Pretty sure he's top 5 of wealthiest musical performers behind only JayZ, McCartney, and Rhianna. Prolly makes up for no Grammys.

 

NYT send out a breaking news email at 4:19 Central this morning. That lends weight to the A1 argument. They don’t do that for many people.

 

1. Migration
2. Miss You So Badly
3. Distantly In Love
4. Death of an Unpopular Poet
5. He Went to Paris
6. Love in the Library

 

If they’ve got their dad’s work ethic, they may triple whatever he left them.

 

Just because we're a sports board, sorta. Didn't he get thrown out of a game by a ref once?

 

Today is a day to listen to The Captain and the Kid.

 

Both of the most serious significant others I’ve had in my life (the one I married and the other I didn’t) have had some passing fancy to Buffet. Not sure what it says about me and my appreciation of metal, pop-punk, folk rock and a smattering of 80s rock.

But when the Mrs. and I were dating and really getting more serious in our relationship, we had some silly thing where we couldn’t find a salt shaker and it turned into a running thing with the song. Mrs. Highlander-Spartan is disappointed today. I’m not as disappointed as some of you as I never got too deep into his music, but both relationships are on my mind today and I guess that’s the point of Buffet.

 

Saw him once. I'm more into music than singing and theatrics. But it was damn fun.
A few times they let the band just go for it and their rock 'n' roll was great. I was up and dancing. Everybody was having a good time.
RIP to an icon.

 

I do hope the family releases the cause of death. It’s not that the public has a “right” to know, but if someone has lived their life in and made their fortune from the public for 50 years, then the public deserves some kind of closure. It doesn’t have to be detailed. Just say cancer, stroke, heart attack, whatever.
Start a foundation to research whatever it was. I’ll kick in.

 

A lot of that is covered in this great feature from 2018: Jimmy Buffett Does Not Live the Jimmy Buffett Lifestyle (Published 2018)

 

His greatest hits compilation was the soundtrack to a road trip me and my high school buddies took in the summer of '92. When you're 18, few things are funnier than playing "Why Don't We Get Drunk And Screw" over and over and over again. I never got any deeper into the catalogue but as has been noted on this thread, it was impossible to not have some connection to his music and appreciation for what it (and he) embodied. RIP.

 

Sorry for your loss. That's something you can never be ready for no matter how much preparation you've taken on.

Same here. I'm more of a Robert Earl Keen/Todd Snider kind of listener when it comes to live-venue storytellers. (Or as close as I'll get to it without actually suffering a crowd.)

Handlers who go-fered for Buffett had nice things to say about him. I like that what he did made people happy.

That might be a nice consolation if not as much fun as an actual Jimmy Buffett concert. It might work Remember this?