Reported in TMZ website half hour ago. Buffett died earlier on 9/1. No word if he ever did find his lost shaker of salt.
Reported in TMZ website half hour ago. Buffett died earlier on 9/1. No word if he ever did find his lost shaker of salt.
Great musician. actually had back stage passes to one of his Hialeah concerts about 20 years ago. RIP old friend.Quote:
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Clearly they kept something under wraps. He had been hospitalized multiple times in the past year and the comment from his family is telling “he died peacefully surrounded by family and friends”. Guess is he had cancer or he had gone into heart failure since several shows and even a tour were delayed citing Dr orders to rest up.
The good news is apparently his death wasn’t likely from Tetanus due to that pop top he stepped on and cut his foot. (Sorry song lyrics from his biggest hit stuck in my head).
a legend. rip
Pretty sure that's Gordon Lightfoot who's also recently DD.Quote:
Originally Posted by tgullGreat musician. actually had back stage passes to one of his Hialeah concerts about 20 years ago. RIP old friend.Quote:
Originally Posted by ftpjesus
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That guy took a song lyric and vibe and created a multibillion dollar empire.
more people are likely familiar with the resorts, retirement villages and hotels than his music
His music is the national anthem of the Caribbean
Rip.
Gordon Lightfoot is the funnest thing ever
How many deadpool players saw "Buffett dead"and then got sad realizing it wasn't Warren?
Jimmy buffet is my most hated artist ever.
Over twenty years ago I had a job working with adults with developmental disabilities in their homes. Most of these jobs were pretty damn sweet. You often barely had to do anything and could get paid to study for exams. Except one placement where this woman lived who would constantly hit, yell, and bite herself. It was ducking stressful trying to stop her all day. To top it off All she did was play jimmy buffet tapes. Whenever margarita ville comes on it brings me back to that moment of her screaming and biting herself. I got out of that house after about 3 days and never came back nor have listened to that song fully since.
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Originally Posted by Hockey GuyPretty sure that's Gordon Lightfoot who's also recently DD.Quote:
Originally Posted by tgull
literally twice the performer and a legendary Canadian...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lfo0XBrGgI0
Not my favorite artist but saw His concert in May. Music has always been cheesy to me but the stadium was packed with his hardcore fans. Fun experience and seemed like a good guy to have a beer with. Best song they played was Southern Cross which obviously isn’t his song.
Anyway, RIP
Yep, Southern Cross he played that. But you are right it's a Lynyrd Skynrd all time great.Quote:
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LOL I see what you're doing, well done.Quote:
Originally Posted by tgullYep, Southern Cross he played that. But you are right it's a Lynyrd Skynrd all time great.Quote:
Originally Posted by nightmarefish
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bw9gLjEGJrw&t=3s
In 1984 I was roaming around Montana in a Toyota 4X4 hustling pool and playing poker. I was not a world beater with a pool cue but I did pretty good against the barflies in the dive bars. And it was my first introduction to live poker other than kitchen table.
I made money on the pool tables but dumped it in the 5 stud games. I had no clue about poker back then. There was always a poker game in at least one bar in every little town you passed thru. They played 5 card stud with some California Lowball mixed in. And I was also introduced to a new fangle'd poker game called Texas Holdem at the Crystal Lounge in Billings. Years later Annie Duke would get her start at the Crystal.
I had a cassette player in the truck with a lot of cassette tapes. One of them was Jimmy Buffet's Living and Dying in 3/4 Time. His hit song, Come Monday was on it but there was another catchy little tune called Ringling, Ringling. I listened to it often. Here's the lyrics to the song:
"Ringling, Ringling
Slippin' away
Only forty people, livin' there today
Streets are dusty and the bank has been torn down
It's a dyin' little town
Church windows broken
That place ain't been used in years
Jail don't have a sheriff or a cell
And electric trains they run by maybe once or twice a month
Easin' it on down to Musselshell
Ringling, Ringling
Slippin' away
Only forty people livin' there today
'Cause the streets are dusty and the bank had been torn down
It's a dyin' little town
And across from the bar there's a pile of beer cans
Been there twenty-seven years
Imagine all the heart aches and tears
In twenty-seven years of beer
So we hopped back in the rental car
and we hit the cruise control
Pretty soon the town was out of sight
Tho we left behind a fat barmaid, a cowboy and a dog
Racin' for a Ringling Friday night
Ringling, Ringling
Your just slippin' away
I wonder how many people will be there a year from today
'Cause the streets are dusty and the bank has been torn down
It's a dyin' little town
It's a dyin' little town"
In this song Jimmy sings about a defunct church and a pile of beer cans next to a bar in a town called Ringling. So one morning I was headed south on Hwy 89 from White Sulphur Springs to Livingston. I was in the middle of nowhere. I came upon this sign that said "RINGLING, MONTANA." Then up on the hill overlooking the town was an obviously defunct old church with all the windows broke out. I thought "What the hell?" Then I seen the bar with a giant pile of beer cans next to it. I went Wow! This is bizarre. Has Jimmy Buffet been here before? He couldn't have written that song about any other town but this one."
What I didn't know back then, but later discovered, was ten years before, Buffet was friends with a novelist named Tom McGuane who had lived in the Livingston area since the late 60's. McGuane was married to Margot Kidder for a couple of years. He wrote the screenplay for the movie, Rancho Deluxe, which was filmed in the Livingston area. The film was about two modern day cattle rustlers in Paradise Valley. Buffet wrote the soundtrack for the movie and came to Livingston to make a cameo appearance in the movie singing Livingston Saturday Night. My guess is that's when he cruised thru the little town of Ringling and wrote the song.
McGuane married Buffet's sister, Laurie in 1977. They still live in the Livingston area. Most of the movie was filmed in the Paradise Valley south of Livingston. You can see a lot of it in the movie. It's one of the most scenic valley's in Montana and a lot of celebrities have or have had homes there. Margot Kidder, Peter Fonda, Jeff Bridges, Michael Keaton, John Mayer.
Here's the song, Ringling, Ringling:
https://youtu.be/bruEfFkgLDw
You can watch Rancho Deluxe on Youtube for free. Buffet appears at 39:00.
https://youtu.be/-LKoOzAb4Bs
Aggressive form of skin cancer - life in the sun.
No white guy spent more time in the sun than me. Except Tyde of course. We either didn’t know about sunscreen and later chose to ignore it.
I loved wind surfing and thought sun tan lotion was slippery and gay.
I coulda passed for a negro in Phoenix as a kid. I tried
Never wore a hat and rarely a shirt on the boat
I’m gonna get fucked
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I had a good friend die of Leukemia in his early twenties. Literally no lifestyle risks and seemed to be in perfect health. As much as we like to talk about risks factors, for lots of cancers it comes down to genetics and pure luck. Now the good thing about skin cancer is that you can catch it early with screening and its treatable. There are so many people who have lived a similar lifestyle as yours and we just don't see them dying of skin cancer in middle age.
That's too bad. Personally I always took proper precautions, always wore a hat and a shirt, and if I did go shirtless I lathered up with 40 UV protection. I went to a dermatologist last year for simply a general check up and basically given a total unmitigated clean bill of health. Hope things work out for you, but generally the way melanoma works is on the scalp hidden by hair. When you find the lesion, it's generally too late and the cancer has already entered your bloodstream. Like I said, I am glad I took the necessary precautions and never have to worry about a stage 4 melanoma.Quote:
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Originally Posted by tgullThat's too bad. Personally I always took proper precautions, always wore a hat and a shirt, and if I did go shirtless I lathered up with 40 UV protection. I went to a dermatologist last year for simply a general check up and basically given a total unmitigated clean bill of health. Hope things work out for you, but generally the way melanoma works is on the scalp hidden by hair. When you find the lesion, it's generally too late and the cancer has already entered your bloodstream. Like I said, I am glad I took the necessary precautions and never have to worry about a stage 4 melanoma.Quote:
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melanoma is the least of your problems you fucking alcoholic
once your gastritis kicks in to stage 4, and your stomach lining starts rapidly disintegrating…
it’s game over for you buddy
also you might want to check out those liver enzyme levels before you’re on a dialysis machine 8 hours a day
lol @ bottomset concerned about melanoma of all things
thats hysterical
Naw, just get thoroughly looked at yearly by a dermatologist.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sanlmar
Besides that, when you shower check your body for any changes, and have your wife look at areas you can’t see every couple of months.
Skin cancer very treatable when caught EARLY.
When I used to drink and was doing poker parties, a guy that attended had some funk on his ear. I told him in my stupor that looks like cancer then laughed hysterically. I told him to see a doc asap. He did and they cut a good portion of his ear off and he told me if I didn’t do that when I did he would have been a goner.
Since I don’t drink anymore I have vowed to keep that annoying abandon.
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If Dylan gives Buffet a nod that’s good enough for me.Quote:
[In a latter-day interview, Dylan cited Buffett as among a half-dozen songwriters he had been influenced by, alongside Randy Newman, John Prine, Gordon Lightfoot, Guy Clark and Warren Zevon.]
“Tangled Up in Blue” has been a life-long top 5. Stumbled upon this deciphering of the lyrics recently. The author put to words what I never could
https://youtu.be/y4VwQXoyodk?si=xHR8uK02A1WWwHd-
Dylan takes in a little of everything from 19th century poets to Japanese novels to early musical artists and creates something hard to define and you either get it or it’s not your cup of tea. Nothing was ever close to me. Every screen name I had on early poker sites was some Dylan reference. I was Idiot Wind or Napoleon in Rags or Blind Willie McTell or half a dozen on other sites just for conversation starters. You can kind of see some Buffet influence in that Caribbean Wind period of Dylan music. Where they are most similar is in their work ethic. Both seemed to be in perpetual touring mode and both are on a boat somewhere when not touring. Dylan has unique artistic longevity. Most of Buffets best stuff was written in a smaller window, where Dylan might have legit done his best stuff later in life. Less influential, but better imo. Deeply layered.Quote:
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Dylan is the older of the 2, and I’d guess Dylan influenced Buffet more than vice versa, but they clearly both liked the others stuff. I recall Buffets Pacing the Cage around 2000 or so and I liked it a lot, and it reminded me of a Dylan song right off the bat. He didn’t write it, Bruce Cockburn did, but it felt Dylanesque. His choice to include it was a window into his worldview.
Also kind of described both guys aptly. Think they always felt most comfortable out touring and anything else felt like a torture of sorts.
Buffet concerts were like a summer rite of passage. I probably went to 15? His music was secondary. He created that niche and it was just a festive always good time.
Edit- frustrating you can’t edit out those icons I fat thumb on my phone
@BCR
You wrote, “Dylan might have legit done his best stuff later in life”. I appreciate Dylan more later in my life than before.
I remember reading in Sports Illustrated when I was a kid that Bill Walton spent his waking hours that weren’t spent on the court listening to Dylan. There was a generation that thought his lyrics held some divine meaning.
The only modern equivalent might have been Vanilla Ice
Never saw Buffet though he always played Fenway Park in recent years. Buffet was the soundtrack to the Caribbean for me. A day trip excursion on a catamaran drinking their free rum punch at 10am in the sun with Buffet on the boat’s speakers. Perhaps those lyrics revealed the secrets of life too.