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Sunday, June 13 2010

Pier 500 Parrot Head Cruise

    Just back from tonight’s Parrot Head cruise, up and down the Detroit River.  This was what we were talking about back in Episode 127, the cruise where Mike’s brother Jim (the singer of our theme song) was going to perform acoustic versions of Buffett songs.  I shot video, recorded some audio, and also shot some photos with my cellphone.  Some notable highlights included a pole dance to “Changes in Latitudes” — which I’m pretty sure has to be a world-record, history-making first — and that the drawing for the free concert tickets was won by our very own Schmoe!
    After Mike’s news from two weeks ago, it’s almost getting to the point where we have more tickets than we know what to do with!  ...Not really, but close.  And not that we’re complaining.
    Hopefully I’ll be uploading the video soon, but until then here are the cellphone pictures, which I uploaded to our Photo Gallery.
    Update: here’s the video .

Saturday, June 5 2010

Episode 129: Dawn of the Duck

Show Notes:
Recorded Wednesday, June 2 2010 (10:00 PM - 11:30 PM) at Zodiac Racquet Club, Southgate MI
    “Fleeing from the bikers, we’re back at Zodiac.  Mike has some big news, Schmoe gets some big news, and we finish our look at the Big Top tour’s first leg and move on to the second.  (Special guest: Jennifer.  Cameo by Lee.)”

    Note: this episode had a terrible glitch about a half-hour in.  It’s been corrected and we encourage you to re-download.  Details below.
    00:06 - when Schmoe looked over the bill for the pizza, he reported one of the toppings was “6P” which we assumed was code for something.  Later on, it was explained it’s really “GP” for green peppers.  (And, yes, her saying “green peckers” at 00:12 is deliberate.  It’s an old joke from Mike or Hud that she probably learned from us.)
    00:49 - that’s a reference to Jennifer saying “Leeno” instead of Lee or Dino, before we started recording.  This led to us calling her “Jeeno”, which inevitably led to our inventing a “Zeeno” who plays straight-man and sings a lot (which is a joke on the Marx Brothers, for all you youngsters out there)
    01:40 - we recorded soon after the Tigers game where Armando Galarraga pitched a 28-batter perfect game, only to have it taken away from him by a botched call by the first base umpire.
    Schmoe’s sarcasm is aimed at Tiger manager Jim Lehman’s statement, seen before we started recording, that the umpire is human and we all make mistakes.  Outraged by such a crappy call, we were out for blood, and all the good sportsmanship by the Tigers, pitcher Galarraga, and umpire Jim Joyce, both that night and especially the following day, was really spoiling our thirst for vengeance.
    05:21 - The Abyss (1989), at IMDb
    08:34 - Aquaman would be a better idea; Iron Man’s a better pop reference
    10:29 - “ Buffett helps to recover oiled wildlife in Gulf”, from Buffett News, actually, despite what I said.  I was confused by the blue backgrounds.  Buffett World titled their entry “Buffett Helping Boat Builder in Oil Spill Relief Effort”.
    11:25 - Stephen Colbert on Dawn detergent, from Tuesday, June 1
    11:50 - “Buffett and others honor Michael Douglas”, from Buffett News. | Buffett Performs at Event for Michael Douglas, from Buffett World
    12:48 - Catherine Zeta Jones is on Broadway in A Little Night Music, for which she won a Tony on June 13.  Which seems like a good time to mention Straight Guys Who Love Showtunes.com.
    13:06 - not exactly
    15:02 - when I sent out an e-mail about the contest, Scott responded that he was all over it.  When Mike wrote in to say he’d placed an entry, Scott wrote “Shoot !  There goes my chances!”
    15:49 - Margaritaville Cargo
    17:05 - “Backstage with Buffett in Houston”, from Buffett News | “What It’s Like Backstage with Buffett”, from Buffett World
    18:33 - Detroiter Truck Stop
    19:26 - “Margaritaville Foods Announces Additional Chicken Products”, from Buffett News | “Margaritaville Foods Introduces Frozen Chicken Chunks”, from Buffett World
    21:30 - Mexican Moonshine
    23:44 - “Hello Summer, Goodbye Fees”, from Live Nation
    25:20 - Palacenet.com has a great PDF map which shows every seat at Pine Knob
    31:27 - I also had a cold that week
    27:34 - a first hand Nashville account
    27:46 - Nashville flood, in pictures
    32:49 - I don’t know what’s worse, that a horrendous glitch somehow occurred at this spot or that it took two weeks for me to discover and correct it.  I encourage you download the fixed version; a quick way to recognize it is it’s 51:31 long while the original, damaged file was 51:29.
    39:00 - Jimmy’s second “Stay thirsty, my friend” is from the intro to “Cuban Crime of Passion”

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Sunday, May 23 2010

Episode 128: Tarballs

Show Notes:
Recorded Wednesday, May 19 2010 (9:00 PM - 10:30 PM) at Joe’s Prime Time, Gibraltar MI
    “Scott’s back.  Mike talks about his Florida vacation and the boys rant about the gaffe in the Gulf.  A bit longer than expected, but it does include two concert roundups and was recorded in two locations.”

    03:10 - Tom Petty was on the SNL 35th season finale, May 15 2010, with guest host Alec Baldwin
    07:38 - “Margaritaville Gets a Makeover”, from Buffett World
    08:43 - the Wayback Machine at Archive.org
    09:01 - Mike and Schmoe’s blog and their FSGL site
    09:21 - Sherman, not to be confused with Shurman
    09:30 - Roger Clyne, at the Live Music Archive
    09:41 - Lulu’s op-ed, and, while we’re at it, Lulu’s website
    19:13 - I was trying to joke that Mike’s concern about “the environment” might be about what was going on in our room right then.  We’ve gotten kind of used to people passing through our recording studio to go out to the patio and smoke (even though, nowadays, that is just as illegal as smoking inside the bar), but we’ve never had people walk in, turn the electronic dart board on, and start playing!
    24:14 - sorry guys, those glitches were part of the original Radio Margaritaville broadcast.  I even recorded the concert’s replay but the glitches were repeated then too.
    31:34 - I really should’ve set the mic in place before recording
    33:25 - a reference to Episode 41
    38:30 - I’m pretty sure the name has been mentioned in other episodes, but it got bleeped here anyway.
    40:50 - Goin’ Coastal
    41:52 - the picture Mike sent us
    43:56 - double basses.  I meant, double basses.
    48:24 - a bonus, from the Late Show with David Letterman after we recorded our podcast

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Monday, May 17 2010

This Hotel Room

    This video is already available on Margaritaville.com, but it’s too cool not to share here too.  Besides, they’ve got it in the wrong aspect ratio over there.  Here’s Jimmy and the Reefers rehearsing “Take Another Road” in an Atlanta hotel room.

Friday, May 7 2010

Episode 127: Slamming

Show Notes:
Recorded Wednesday, May 5 2010 (10:00 PM - 11:00 PM) at Joe’s Prime Time, Gibraltar MI
    “Smoking waitresses, slamming doors, Cinco de Mayo, and the start of the Under the Big Top tour.”

    02:58 - http://www.ustream.tv/bttour
    03:57 - Atlanta Soundcheck Report, from Buffett World, with images of Jimmy’s chatroom post and iPad
    05:33 - “Encores Debuts at #7”, from Buffett News
    06:31 - “Jim Mayer’s Acoustic Bass Ukelele Stolen”, from Buffett World
    07:30 - “Buffett to appear on new Zac Brown Band Album, from Buffett News
    08:01 -  Meat Us at Margaritaville for National Hamburger Month, from Margaritaville.com
    09:09 - “Buffett to visit Jamaica”, from Buffett News
    10:19 - “Buffett Comments on Aviation Route Named After Him, from Buffett World
    11:11 - I wasn’t sure if this story was appropriate any more: two candidates for North Carolina senate were squabbling over Gulf Coast “tourists covered in oil”.  (This was before the BP oil rig disaster.)
    11:19 - “HarperCollins to publish Bruce Cockburn’s memoir”, from National Post
    16:00 - Jimmy at the Lost party, from From the Hallelujah to the Hoot
    16:45 - Jorge Garcia on Jimmy Kimmel Live, from Tuesday, May 4 2010
    36:20 - this is the list Schmoe was trying to remember, from his May 4 e-mail:

Off the top of my head:
A Pirate Looks at Forty
Why Don’t We Get Drunk
That one song, Mar-guh-reeta-ville?
Cuban Crime of Passion
Somewhere Over China
OPH
Cocotel
CILCIA
Manana (updated lyrics, perhaps with a Downriver slant, maybe the Mighty North Coast Players can conduct one of their famous writing sessions - I am serious)
Some off the new album (NOT the chill the rose song, don’t worry Scott)
Three words:  Tin Cup Chalice (and perhaps the Wings will have the cup by then)

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Friday, April 30 2010

Top Ten

    Just catching up on old shows on my DVR, and caught this oblique Buffett reference in Wednesday’s Late Show with David Letterman.  Not one of his best, but it fits the criterion to be included here.  I’ve included the whole ten for the sake of completion…and for the huge belly laughs, of course…

First screen

Second screen

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Wednesday, April 28 2010

JB&ZB

    Just like little kids peeking under the circus tent, we’ve been able to get an extra look at this year’s Under the Big Top tour.  A BTTour account has been set up on Ustream, allowing us to catch live streaming video of concert performances and sound checks.  The fan sites discovered it in time for Saturday’s show and Jimmy himself mentioned it during the pre-show interview tonight.  The videos are, sadly, not being archived— evidently you have to catch them live—but here’s a little two-minute clip we managed to capture, of Zac Brown’s guest appearance at Tuesday’s Atlanta show…