The guy puts on a good show! I'm not really a Parrothead but was dragged to a show a long time ago and found myself really having g a good time.

Good luck,
Michael

If you go to a Jimmy Buffett concert and don't have fun, you are doing it wrong.

I think I went to one and never left the parking lot.

My wife and I go annually to at least one of his concerts, though many get drunk, the people are very friendly, no fights that I have seen and it's great people watching time. There are always a few women who want to flash their boobs before the concert as Jimmy has a video team in the drinking, party lot. I like the old tunes better as well.

Although the last concert we attended a Mass State trooper was killed by DWI driver as he had stopped another car just after leaving the concert outside the Comcast Center in Foxboro.

Drink...use sunscreen, walk around the lot and check out the other tailgaters--you would be surprised at how elaborate some set-ups are.

Relax and enjoy it.

+1

Even if you don't like the music, enjoy the scenery.....(. /\ .)

enjoy the scenery from behind the foster grants to assure you're not being tagged as creepy.
drink some rum.
enjoy as intended.

I feel for ya man. Start drinkin' heavily.

Well, thanks for all of the advice.....I guess I better be quite lubricated before I go!

It could be worse I guess, it could be a Jason Beeeber show!

I used to like JB....until I had to spend an entire day at Margarita Ville in the Turks and Caicos Islands.

I drank a lot that day. Non stop "Margarita Ville" being played by the island band or JB recordings everywhere in the place.

Oh, the burgers which are supposed to be great were mediocre.

Margaritaville Caribbean :: Margaritaville Caribbean Grand Turk

Drink.

It's funny... my father just told me he couldn't figure out why anybody would go to see Jimmy Buffett, but this is from a man who saw Bob Seger twice in two weeks!! I told him that Jimmy Buffett is for some folks what Bob Seger is for him and I think that helped him understand...

I've always liked Jimmy Buffett's music and enjoyed reading his novels. He's had enough adventures in his life for any 10 guys. That being said, I tried going to one of his shows several years ago and it was quite an experience. It did put me off a bit seeing so many people falling-down drunk. Power drinking seems to be pivotal to the experience and is actively promoted by the tour. No surprise though since it was sponsored by a brand-name tequila. As mentioned in another post, a video crew cruises the parking lot before the show and tapes some of the goings-on and these clips are then shown on the giant video screens as people stumble into the venue. The crowd went nuts every time they showed some kid on his back with a funnel in his mouth having hard liquor poured down his throat. At that point, I started to think that this show really wasn't going to be about the music. After things got under way, I knew for sure that it wasn't about the music 'cause you could barely hear any of it with all the drunks hootin' & hollerin' thru every song. I finally packed it up and left when the young lady sitting next to me threw up all over herself and on the poor sap sitting in front of her.
If this kind of thing sounds appealing to you, then you'll have a blast...if not, good luck.

Been here for hours. Heading in now. Lots of drunks and otherwise idiotic people dressed like morons. Hours to go before I sleep. And hours to go before I sleep.

Oh, and why is everybody playing buffet if we are going to see him in a bit?!?

Last time I saw Buffett was in the '78 or so.

He was a Kodiak lookin' fella `bout nineteen feet tall.

Have fun, for goodness sake. Life is once.

Same here, and I had a great time, but wouldn't be caught dead at a "Parrothead Party" these days. Now if Jerry was still alive... :). Different strokes for different folks...

ps: I loved the old Buffet music...nothing better on a sailboat, but disdain the man's business practices. I also realize that the "Key West persona" is just that, a marketing tool, and isn't reality, but neither were the G. Dead.

Know why Grateful Dead fans wave their arms in the air? To keep the music out of their eyes....

Sorry, couldn't help myself...

BTW Art, Seger's "Live Bullet" was an alltime favorite too, but I won't see him as he passes through here next week either... I've "matured" :).

Keith,
I have the album as well as "Frampton Comes Alive", but I've also moved on... My father hasn't...Although it could be worse, he could be listening to Celine Dion or Kenny G!