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Sept. 3, 2023 - Lionel Nation
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Rhythm and Schmooze ➣ America Mourns Jimmy Buffett
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I wanted to give you this eulogium, this elegy, this requiem for Mr. Buffett.
Jimmy Buffett was a genius.
Jimmy Buffett was a great musician, great songwriter, really good musician, great singer.
Great chops.
Versatile.
Smarter than anything anybody could ever imagine.
Rhythm and schmooze, baby.
Gave people an image and a dream and I don't want to say white, but a bunch of, in particular, a bunch of white men in particular who just I remember Jimmy came along.
Jimmy.
When I was right middle of high school, then into college, and we were kind of looking for something, we were in Florida, and we really didn't have any kind of an identity of any kind of sort.
I mean, you know what, the old people.
Florida was different than it is now.
Miami wasn't Miami.
That was before the cocaine days.
That was before, you know...
Coconut Grove and all that stuff and blah, blah, blah.
But it was a different time.
He gave us something to be kind of sort of proud of.
But what he gave those same people later on, bald-headed guys with pot bellies wearing Hawaiian shirts, is his dream about being a parrot head.
Or you could be a complete gedruel, a borrach, to be gooned all the time, drinking your shrimp and hammocks and...
Sea breezes and fishing and boating and oh my, he was brilliant!
Even though he had nothing to do with that, this guy was as un-rustic as you can imagine.
Palm Beach, the Hamptons, he didn't believe that crap, but it didn't matter.
It didn't matter.
He was something else.
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PrepareWithLionel.com You know, when Jimmy Buffett died this morning, I thought, oh God!
Good egg.
I didn't know him.
But he seemed like a good egg.
He seemed...
He sold people this dream.
He sold them this...
I mean, it was a package.
Who else had that?
Who were you bought?
Not just the music, but the lifestyle.
Maybe...
What?
I don't know.
Cowboy?
Nah.
Motorcycle?
Nah.
Maybe?
I don't know.
Born to be Wild, but that was one song.
That was anthemic.
Jimmy Buffett was about, again, you know, getting drunk.
Why don't we get drunk and screw?
I still think the best songs are...
My favorite is...
Tampico Drama, Coast of Marseille, And I was looking, listening, going back to his discography.
It started really in 1973.
A white sport coat and a pink crustacean.
Remember the great filling station robbery?
Living and dying a three-quarter time.
A1A.
A1A!
When I was 16, you couldn't even find that sign.
People wanted it.
He became so much a part of it.
Havana Daydream in 1976 was big.
And then changes in latitude, changes in attitude.
Incredible.
Son of a sailor.
He had to be there.
Okay, the live stuff.
And then Coconut Telegraph Volcano.
One particular harbor.
And at last, Mango in Paris, Florida.
Okay, it got a little schmaltzy.
The whole thing was schmaltzy.
But, God, he was great.
God, he was great.
And he, again, I know friends of mine in particular, one guy, great friend, retired cop, devoted his whole backyard scenery to this parrot head bar.
and...
Thank you.
And he sold Margaritaville.
And I don't know.
He tried to go on Broadway.
Hey, good for him.
It didn't work.
Same thing with Sting.
Didn't work.
You would think, you know, music, you know, when we're going on Broadway.
No, not necessarily.
Sometimes it works.
Sometimes it doesn't.
It doesn't matter, but he kept doing it.
Flew a seaplane and people that I know who were a part of his security contingent, his friend of mine who was, again, a retired cop.
Who was a helicopter pilot.
Ran into him.
He was a great guy.
Good egg.
He was always laughing.
Never got political.
Never got, you know, never talked about Trump or this or worked climate change into the water or whatever the hell he was talking about.
But it was that thing.
I think he even talked about a retirement community for Parrothead.
No.
No.
No, thank you.
But he did it.
And when he came out, he was touring and they...
Let me tell you something.
Second only to him.
Second was a Grateful Dead.
Never saw him.
Never liked him.
Riding that train.
I'm sorry.
Please, no offense.
They never did anything for me.
Never.
Jerry Garcia was fantastic in terms of his bluegrass stuff.
But they sold I'm a hippie kind of a thing.
Look at me, I'm a hippie.
I'm a hippie.
Okay, you're a hippie.
You're a big hippie.
Okay, you're a hippie.
Hippie, I okay.
Okay, fine.
That was it.
But Buffett?
Puppet came out with the barefoot and the thing, and he gets back in and just rolls and goes back to the Hamptons.
But you know what?
He was authentic.
Why shouldn't he enjoy the fruits of his success?
He did it.
Worked his ass off.
And he's a great, great, great singer.
Let me ask you this question.
Who was it whose death kind of caught you?
I mean, he was 76. Not that that's, you know, ancient by any stretch of the imagination.
I mean, he should have lived longer.
The only time anybody's ever died in my life, any musician that I didn't know, whatever, was Terry Kath in 1978 when he died.
Tragically, that really got me.
I mean, I was 20 years old at the time.
Almost, really, 19. And, uh, whoa, whoa, boy, that, that, uh, wow, that bothered me.
I loved him.
Chicago, when I was growing up, that was my Beatles.
That, that was, that was the group for me.
And the original, uh, the original, the, the Terry Kath years, some of the best music I've ever heard.
And they learned it was good, dude.
Donnie Dacus was okay.
Chris Pinnock was okay.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, but not Terry Kath.
Terry Kath was still...
I know we're talking about Jimi Hendrix, but I've got to tell you, Terry Kath, this was Jimi Hendrix, his favorite guitar player.
That one got me.
And I know there are a lot of people who were saying, oh, Jimi's like, thank you, Jimi.
Granted, again, he's not ancient.
It's still a tragedy.
He didn't go out.
He didn't make a big deal of it.
He said, I'm going to try to get better.
But he was great.
And like I'm telling you, he sold something I'm going to say something to you, and a lot of people might take offense at this, but he was kind of like Trump.
Trump sold his...
It wasn't just, I'm running for president.
Trump was a movement.
Now, you might hate the movement, MAGA, Parrot Heads, okay, but it's the same thing.
Sorry to say, but it's the same thing.
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Please put down, please tell me your thoughts of Jimmy, your thoughts of Buffett.
Were you a Parrothead?
Did you ever see one of his concerts?
Did you ever enjoy it?
And also, if not Jimmy Buffett, whose death really affected you?
Alright, Mr. Buffett, thank you, sir, for your time, for your efforts, for your contribution to humanity.
You made people happy.
And there's, listen, what's better than that?
Thank you, my friends.
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