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Re: Official Parrothead Thread
« Reply #15 on: June 13, 2006, 02:32:18 pm »
OOOOO-EEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!
Some of the posts on this forum lately have just given me the WILLIES!  It really makes me look at my own little post-op problems in a whole new light--I got off easy!  My heart just breaks when I read some of the stuff these folks and their family members have endured.
Even more of a reason to enjoy each day and pursue all things UPBEAT!
I don't think JB has ever written a morose or sad song his whole 35 year career.  Every tune has something positive, happy, humorous, and just plain wacky in it. (I just listened to "Fruitcakes.")  Every having a rough day, listen to some Buffett for a little while--bound ta give ya a lift!

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Re: Official Parrothead Thread
« Reply #16 on: June 13, 2006, 05:09:08 pm »
I hear you, oh Pirate wench, on that one. Counting blessings each day.

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Re: Official Parrothead Thread
« Reply #17 on: June 14, 2006, 12:08:02 pm »
Oh BOY, I converted another one!!!!  I am a missionary for the Church of Buffett.  (That is a real place--Google it!) Since you've been to a Buffett concert, I guess you know how to make the "sign."  I PHinned a total stranger in the grocery store the other day--he was about 35 with his little 4 yr old daughter and they both had Buffett T-shirts on so I figgered I was safe.  The kid PHinned me back!!! ;D ;D

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Re: Official Parrothead Thread
« Reply #18 on: June 14, 2006, 01:16:11 pm »
Just to let you know, Capt., that I've been listening to Radio Margaritaville, on my t.v as it has the sirius radio thingie on there.  It's been fun!! 

Wishing we were all like Samantha on Bewitched and could just twitch our noses and we could all enjoy a lovely day and night in the Caribbean and have some of that good food you mentioned and enjoy the warm waters.  I go there in my daydreams. 

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Re: Official Parrothead Thread
« Reply #19 on: June 14, 2006, 01:23:43 pm »
THAT"S prcisly why I tune in to Official Parrothead Radio every day in my studio--that's the days I'm able to work!  They even have folks who are on St. Croix, Antigua, Barbados, etc. calling in and we get to hear those wonderful West Indian accents.  When I go down there I usually give the taxi drivers a real chuckle--I speak fluent West Indian, mon! Been going to the Caribbean since I was 14 and learned to drive on St. Croix, on the left no less!
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Re: Official Parrothead Thread
« Reply #20 on: June 15, 2006, 03:15:55 pm »
OK Parrotheads and PH wannabes!  Here's a pic of the happiest place on earth!  Spent many a moonlit night here eatin' conch stew and johnnycakes and dancin' to a scratchy band and even a little r & c back in the day!


Cane Garden Bay, Tortola, made famous by that song, Please don't say manana if you don't mean it!
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Re: Official Parrothead Thread
« Reply #21 on: June 15, 2006, 06:37:24 pm »
I think I'll set up a looney bin for parrot heads - got me some regular inmates here!!!!


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Re: Official Parrothead Thread
« Reply #22 on: August 15, 2006, 06:30:56 pm »
WOW! right now I'm a'listenin to a live concert re-broadcast of Jimmy and Jerry Jeff Walker doing an acoustic concert and it is incredible--those guys are just off-the-wall! On fron 8-10 tonite at http://www.radiomargaritaville.com for free on your 'puter! Just what I need ta cheer me up!
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Re: Official Parrothead Thread
« Reply #23 on: August 15, 2006, 07:15:56 pm »
Cheryn,
 
Did you say you have parrots.... Oh my gosh......


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Re: Official Parrothead Thread
« Reply #24 on: August 15, 2006, 09:46:36 pm »
Wow,
          Last time I saw Buffett was in 1979 at Tanglewood in the Berkshires.

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Re: Official Parrothead Thread
« Reply #25 on: August 15, 2006, 11:14:00 pm »
Beautiful picture....thanks Deb...... really good to see something not that immediately related to an An....

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Re: Official Parrothead Thread
« Reply #26 on: August 16, 2006, 09:03:59 am »
Wow,
          Last time I saw Buffett was in 1979 at Tanglewood in the Berkshires.

  Paul

So you haven't been to a concert of his recently--they are totally insane--everyone shows up in crazy costumes--coconut bras and grass skirts on EVERYONE (including the blokes) weird hats (and I mean WEIRD)-he does relatively small venues like amphitheaters where the ganja smell is a little toned down cuz it's outside. I tried to get tickets for the Charlotte Show and they sold out in about an hour. I called 5 hr after the box office opened and they were already sold out.  Would have been a challenge anyway.  I saw him a lot in the 70's when I was cruising--he'd just show up with his guitar at the local beach bar and sit in with whatever scratchy band was playing. I played with him myself once on St Barts at Le Select.
He remembered me from Aspen as I designed the sets for a group benefit concert he played in (with the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and lots of local talent) I'm the chick that painted the giant skiing turkey with the cowboy hat with the big red"No" circle/cross thingie over it surrounded by 9 tie-dyed king-size bed sheets! They walked in for the sound check and I was still painting it on a sheet laid out on the stage.The concert was to raise money to sue the Aspen Ski corp cuz they decided to eliminate the season pass for the locals--apparantly the celebrities were starting to complain about having to share the slopes with us skiin' waitresses, maids, waiters and bartenders, who were way better skiers and a little radical to boot!

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Re: Official Parrothead Thread
« Reply #27 on: August 16, 2006, 11:59:58 am »
That's a neat story Deb! I keep hearing much people love Colorado. I'd love to go there myself someday!

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Re: Official Parrothead Thread
« Reply #28 on: August 22, 2006, 01:00:59 pm »
Well, I just heard one of my favorite JB songs on RadioMargaritaville and it really cheered me up, so maybe it would cheer some o' you up too! Enjoy! (Don't read this if ya don't want to, please)

You know I was talking to my friend Desdemona the other day,
She runs the space station and bait shop down near Boomtown.
She told me that human beings were flawed individuals, that the cosmic
bakers took us out of the oven a little too early, and I believe it.

Take for example when you go to the movies these days.
They try to sell you this jumbo drink 8 extra ounces of watered down
Cherry Coke for an extra 25 cents, I don't want it, I don't want that much
organization in my life.
I don't want other people thinking for me.
I want my Junior Mints! Where did Junior Mints go in the movi?
I don't want a 12lb. Nestles Crunch for 25 dollars.
I want Junior Mints!
We need more fruitcakes in this world.
Less bakers!
We need people that care!
I'm mad as hell and I don't want to take it anymore!!

Chorus:
Fruitcakes in the kitchen
Fruitcakes on the street
Struttin' naked through the crosswalk
In the middle of the week

Halfbaked cookies in the oven
Half baked people on the bus
There's a little bit of fruitcake left in everyone of us.

Paradise--Lost and Found
Paradise--Take a look around

I was out in California
Where I hear they have it all
They got riots, fires and mud slides
They got sushi in the mall
Water bars, Brontosaurs
Chinese mondern lust
Shake and bake life with the quake
The secret's in the crust.

Chorus

Speaking of fruitcakes--How 'bout the government,
your tax dollars at work.

We lost our Martian rocket ship
The high paid spokeman said
Looks like that silly rocket ship
Has lost its cone-shaped head

We spend ninety jillion dollars
Trying to get a look at Mars
I hear universal laughter
Ringin out among the stars

Fruitcakes in the galaxy
Fruitcakes on the earth
Struttin' naked towards eternity
We've been that way since birth

Half baked cookies in the oven
Half baked people on the bus
There's a little bit of fruitcake left in everyone of us.

Religion, religion. OH there's a thin line between Saturday night and
Sunday morning.
Here we go now.
All right altar boys.

Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa
Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa

Where's the church, who took the steeple
Religion's in the hands of some crazy ass people
Television preachers with bad hair and dimples
The God's honest truth is it's not that simple

It's the Buddhist in you, It's the Pagan in me
It's the Muslim in him, she's Catholic ain't she?
It's the born again look, it's the WASP and the Jew
Tell me what's goin on I ain't got a clue.

Here come the big ones--Realationships--We all got 'em, we all want 'em.
What do we do with 'em?

Here we go I'll tell ya
She said you've got to do your fair share
Now cough up half the rent
I treat my body like a temple
You treat yours like a tent.

But the right word at the right time
May get me a little hug
That's the difference between lighting
And a harmless lightning bug.

Chorus

The future--Captain's log--Star date 2000 and sometin'

We're seven years from the millenium
That's a science fiction fact
Stanley Kubrick and his buddy Hal
Now don't look that abstract

So I'll put on my Bob Marley tape
And practice what I preache
Get Jah lost in the reggae mon
As I walk along the beach

Stay in touch with my insanity
Really is the only way
It's a jungle out there kiddies
Have a very fruitful day

Chorus

That's right. You too. Those crumbs are spread all around this
universe. I've seen fruitcakes. I saw this guy in Santa Monica roller
skate naked thru the crosswalk. Down in New Orleans, in the French market
there are fruitcakes like you cannot believe. New York, forget it,
fruitcake city. Down island we got fruitcakes. Spread them crumbs
around. That's right. We want 'em around. Keep bakin' baby, keep
bakin'!


--Jimmy

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Re: Official Parrothead Thread
« Reply #29 on: August 22, 2006, 01:27:26 pm »
I love this song, thanks for posting it Capt. Deb

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