A couple of Jimmy Buffett stories...

[Tensaw]

On Jimmy's mother's 80th birthday he flew in for a private party for her. His sister LuLu had a small restaurant on Weeks Bay near Fairhope AL where the party was to be. My wife's best friend's husband was once married to Jimmy's other sister. So we got word and went. Well word leaks out and the place is packed, standing room only. Jimmy walks in laughing and says this is suppose to be a private party. So just Jimmy, his guitar and a bar stool, he starts playing. There were many family stories shared back and forth with his mother. All very funny. It was great because to wasn't a show. It was just a son celebrating his mother's birthday.

LuLu now has a very successful restaurant in Gulf Shores Alabama.

One time Jimmy flies in to visit family. He was staying at the Grand Hotel in Point Clear Alabama. Jimmy tells the manager that he would like to hit some tennis balls. So the manager tells the young assistant tennis pro to hit with him. Later that week I'm hitting with the young pro. I have known him ever since he was a young boy. So he tells me that he hit with this guy. He said that the staff was excited that he was here. He said do you know who Jimmy Buffett is? I said Brian you don't know who he is? He said no but he tips good. Jimmy loved it because no fan fare, he just enjoyed hitting tennis balls privately.

 

[blume357]

My story sort of that I also posted in the other thread:

I read one of his books, autobiographical about flying around the Caribbean and South America I think but in it he was talking about being separated from one of his wives and moving back down to Key West and renting a dilapidated apartment and being seriously depressed and laying in bed one morning and the ceiling fell down on him... he's laying their with the plaster all over him and he calls his friend Sunshine Smith, who I had the pleasure of working for, and tells her what has happened and just does not know what he is going to do... She reply's to him, " Jimmy you know you are rich... go out and buy a house!."

 

[Wyandot Jim]

blume
From A Pirate Turns Fifty

 

[Cholo]

Cool story Tensaw!

 

[coach]

I watched an interview on Otis Gibbs' YouTube channel where a stage manager for Jimmy talked about how generous he was was with the people that worked the shows. He said the typical music industry story is to work people like dogs and spend as little money as possible.

 

[protoolman]

Used to see him occasionally at his sister's place in Livingston MT. Guess that's why he wrote Livingston Saturday night and Cheeseburger in Paradise. (Paradise valley, MT)

 

[Fox Mike]

Some many years ago Linda and I was were in Key West for a day/night visit. Our 'plan' was to go to Hemingway's haunt and visit Margaritaville. When we finally got to Buffett's place it was closed for an "employee only" party.

 

[Wyandot Jim]

Used to see him occasionally at his sister's place in Livingston MT. Guess that's why he wrote Livingston Saturday night and Cheeseburger in Paradise. (Paradise valley, MT)

I had read this before but couldn't remember all of the details.
Sorry not MT but Paradise.

, "Cheeseburger in Paradise" was inspired by a sailing excursion that Buffett himself went on. During the long boat journey through the Caribbean, Buffett's boat was damaged in bad weather. The voyage was extended longer than expected, causing the crew to run low on supplies. Buffett and his crew members were living off of peanut butter and canned food during the worst moments of the trip.

Finally, the boat reached land. The crew headed to the nearest restaurant, where the singer ordered a cheeseburger. Even though the food wasn't that good, Buffett said that the song memorializes his hunger at that moment. This feeling became the inspiration for the song "Cheeseburger in Paradise."

Read More: https://www.mashed.com/263196/the-untold-truth-of-cheeseburger-in-paradise/

 

[Rumrunner]

Sorry, but he preached about being anti-gun, and yet he was all for marijuana. Guns were and are legal, and weed wasn't.

 

[Wyandot Jim]

Sorry, but he preached about being anti-gun, and yet he was all for marijuana. Guns were and are legal, and weed wasn't.

This experience might just turn you against guns in the wrong hands. No matter his opinion he was one great person and a supporter of the Military.

Buffett's song "Jamaica Mistaica" is a laid-back account of a dramatic near-death experience in which his plane, Hemisphere Dancer, was mistaken by the Jamaican authorities for a drug-smuggling aircraft.

While on tour on Jan. 16, 1996, Buffett, an avid pilot, had just landed at an airport in Negril, Jamaica, accompanied by Paul David Hewson, better known as Bono, of the band U2, when a sudden burst of shots rang out, according to one of Buffett's Margaritaville websites.
"We flew the plane in, got off, and as the plane took off to go get fuel, we were surrounded by a Jamaican S.W.A.T. team," Buffett said in a 1996 Rolling Stone interview. "I thought it was a joke until I heard the gunfire."

As Bono recalled, according to Radio Margaritaville: "These boys were shooting all over the place. I felt as if we were in the middle of a James Bond movie."


"I honestly thought we were all going to die," he added.

Also on board the HU-16 Grumman Albatross plane was Bono's wife, Ali, their two young children, and Chris Blackwell, the founder of Island Records.

 

[Ride1949]

Jimmy Buffett Donated Two Aircraft to USS Alabama Battleship Park

An anonymous donation of two airplanes to Battleship Memorial Park in Mobile, Alabama, turned out to be from late singer Jimmy Buffett.

www.breitbart.com

 

[protoolman]

Jimmy's song Livingston Saturday night I think was in the movie Rancho Deluxe in the early 70s. Partially filmed in Livingston mt. Regardless of the inspiration of his song Cheeseburger in Paradise when he sang it locally it was popular in town which is in the Paradise Valley. I was one of the policemen in town 10 years after that and he would sometimes visit his sister who lives there. He worked the name Livingston into other songs also. Even as a person's name something about a cowboy who moved to be a sailor and such.

 

[Rudedawg]

Jimmy was sitting on a picnic table on the campus of USM in Hattiesburg, MS back in the day strumming his 6 string and singing to anyone who'd stop and listen. His song "The Peanut Butter Conspiracy" was based on his shenanigans at a local mini mart there during his college days.
Those were the days.

 

[asteirman]

I used to work for an aircraft engine manufacturer. Back n the 90's we worked on Jimmy's Cessna Citation. He had a parrot on a surfboard painted on the tail of his jet.

Andy

 

[RC44Mag]

This experience might just turn you against guns in the wrong hands. No matter his opinion he was one great person and a supporter of the Military.

Buffett's song "Jamaica Mistaica" is a laid-back account of a dramatic near-death experience in which his plane, Hemisphere Dancer, was mistaken by the Jamaican authorities for a drug-smuggling aircraft.

While on tour on Jan. 16, 1996, Buffett, an avid pilot, had just landed at an airport in Negril, Jamaica, accompanied by Paul David Hewson, better known as Bono, of the band U2, when a sudden burst of shots rang out, according to one of Buffett's Margaritaville websites.
"We flew the plane in, got off, and as the plane took off to go get fuel, we were surrounded by a Jamaican S.W.A.T. team," Buffett said in a 1996 Rolling Stone interview. "I thought it was a joke until I heard the gunfire."

As Bono recalled, according to Radio Margaritaville: "These boys were shooting all over the place. I felt as if we were in the middle of a James Bond movie."


"I honestly thought we were all going to die," he added.

Also on board the HU-16 Grumman Albatross plane was Bono's wife, Ali, their two young children, and Chris Blackwell, the founder of Island Records.

To me that story seems to demonstrate that most 'natives' there, here and everywhere are too much the same and cant be trusted with firearms. Just because they shouldn't have access to them doesn't mean the rest of civilization should be subjected to such a dystopian future to be at the mercy of animals. Buffet and Bono were never on my top hit list.

 

[edm1]

This experience might just turn you against guns in the wrong hands. No matter his opinion he was one great person and a supporter of the Military.

Buffett's song "Jamaica Mistaica" is a laid-back account of a dramatic near-death experience in which his plane, Hemisphere Dancer, was mistaken by the Jamaican authorities for a drug-smuggling aircraft.

While on tour on Jan. 16, 1996, Buffett, an avid pilot, had just landed at an airport in Negril, Jamaica, accompanied by Paul David Hewson, better known as Bono, of the band U2, when a sudden burst of shots rang out, according to one of Buffett's Margaritaville websites.
"We flew the plane in, got off, and as the plane took off to go get fuel, we were surrounded by a Jamaican S.W.A.T. team," Buffett said in a 1996 Rolling Stone interview. "I thought it was a joke until I heard the gunfire."

As Bono recalled, according to Radio Margaritaville: "These boys were shooting all over the place. I felt as if we were in the middle of a James Bond movie."


"I honestly thought we were all going to die," he added.

Also on board the HU-16 Grumman Albatross plane was Bono's wife, Ali, their two young children, and Chris Blackwell, the founder of Island Records.

 

[edm1]

No matter his views, his music touched many people. Being from and growing up in MS, I grew up on his songs, my parents liked them too. Been to LuLus, margaritaville etc. Only real gripe I have is that I ate at the one in Cleveland last year for a work lunch and they didn't have Gumbo on the menu…

 

[oldgunsrule]

Great stories guys! I only got to see him in the paid shows.