Wastin' Away on the North Coast

Show Notes:
Recorded Thursday, July 1 2010 (8:00 PM – 11:30 PM) at Mike’s house, Canton MI
    “We make up for our recent absence with a double-sized show. But once we get started talking about our 2010 Pine Knob show, we just can’t stop. Includes are annual parking lot recording, with cameos by Scott, Patti, Jacob, some guy named Doug, Mike’s dog named Bo, Mike’s noisy Blackberry, Mike’s noisy neighbors, Mike’s noisy frog, and some Fourth of July fireworks.”

    0:01:24 – Commonwealth Displays
    0:02:14 – Bo is the chocolate lab; the German Shepherd lives next door
    0:02:52 – Buffett News: “Jimmy Buffett Announces Free Gulf Concert” | Buffett World: “Buffett Announces Free Show for the Gulf”
    0:03:40 – if I’d paid more attention I would’ve learned Tropical Storm Alex reached hurricane status late on Tuesday, June 29
    0:03:50 – the announcement on M’ville.com
    0:04:10 – Kenny Chesney’s Twitter message
    0:04:18 – Zac Brown Band’s Twitter message
    0:04:31 – “CMT Will Still Air Gulf Concert“, from Buffett World
    0:04:49 – evidently, my local cable now does show CMT in HD, as of July 1. All right, Comcast! (Now if you could only put the HD channels in some kind of order instead of strewing them all over the 200s and 300s.)
    0:04:55 – “Free Concert Sells Out Quickly, eBay to remove listings“, from Buffett News
    0:05:20 – Examiner.com’s shameless play for attention
    0:07:36 – Buffett News: “Video and Photos of the Margaritaville Beach Hotel” | Buffett World: “Photos of Margaritaville Beach Hotel”
    0:08:27 – Margaritaville Hotel.com
    0:08:50 – CNN’s AC360 page
    0:09:06 – Buffett News: “Jimmy plays at Lulu’s Homeport Marina” | Buffett World: Jimmy Plays Surprise Show at Lulu’s”
    0:11:38 – Jimmy last played Lulu’s on Wednesday, October 3 2001, back when it was Lulu’s Sunset Grill in Pascagoula MS
    0:12:07 – as heard in Episode 44
    0:12:57 – as heard in Episode 122
    0:14:17 – Kerby’s Koney Island
    0:20:28 – the Margaritaville Express chalkboard, extracted from my raw video. Exclusive to this show notes entry!
    0:22:08 – here’s another link to our 2010 tailgate video, on YouTube
    0:24:04 – …and if that’s too soon, he left in a minute and a huff
    0:28:04 – an esoteric reference to the old radio show The First Nighter
    0:30:52 – the blonde and her Mom, from our Photo Gallery
    0:31:32 – here’s another link to the excellent and detailed Pine Knob map [PDF] at Palacenet.com
    0:31:49 – actually, it is Charleston. Charleston Miles.
    0:33:29 – for the record, her text was “can u guys hear ok? maybe we should switch :)” at 8:12 PM. I didn’t take time to write back till 9:26, during the intermission. “Sorry. Enjoying our front row seats too much to text.”
    0:38:07 – in fact, he’s only done it twice this tour, prior to our concert: in St Louis (Thursday, April 29 2010) and at the second Mansfield show (Saturday, June 19 2010)
    0:39:30 – another show notes exclusive: my photo of the Radio Margaritaville crowd mic
    0:48:21 – the screens behind us, from our Photo Gallery
    0:48:45 – this quote was part of Jimmy’s intro to “Come Monday”
    0:49:26 – we talk about the second one and forgot about the third one, but I’m sure we’ll mention it in an upcoming concert round-up
    0:53:04 – make that “available light”
    0:55:56 – not exactly backwards order. They did the last song first, but they still followed “Chicken Fried” with “African Friend”
    0:58:57 – every second set started with “Everybody’s on the Phone”, except for the two Mansfield shows immediately prior to ours
    1:03:14 – my best photo of the braless “Cheeseburger” lady, from our Photo Gallery. (She’s in the white top and black skirt, passing the guy in the orange t-shirt.)
    1:04:28 – a bra cup on Mr Utley’s organ, from our Photo Gallery
    1:05:00 – just for Listener Ed, my video of Tina singing “Trip Around the Sun”. Another show notes entry!
    1:06:18 – what the heck, here’s an exclusive link to my “Pirate” video too
    1:07:13 – if paid any attention, I would’ve known “Back Where I Come From” is from Chesney’s third album Me and You (1996)
    1:08:29 – as heard in Episode 127
    1:11:38 – Bret Michaels on Mailboat Records
    1:12:05 – another link to my “Margaritaville” video
    1:12:27 – the Margarillas video, on YouTube; and the Margarillas on Facebook
    1:16:47 – another link to me in the Margarillas video
    1:18:32 – the “Margaritaville” video on Coconut Television
    1:18:49 – another link to the “Alpine Valley” screen grab
    1:20:17 – well, no: he did “Bank of Bad Habits” in this spot in the very first “Under the Big Top” concert. Also in this spot, they played “Brown Eyed Girl”, “USS Zydecoldsmobile”, “Fruitcakes”, and (anticipating my statement at 1:21:06) “Fins”.
    1:21:01 – “Fins” was the first encore song of our 2006 concert
    1:21:06 – a truer statement than with “Last Man Standing” as it turns out. “Fins” was the second to last song for every concert except Nashville’s (Sunday, May 1 2010), as mentioned above.
    1:21:18 – as proof, here’s another show notes exclusive: my video between “Fins” and “Tin Cup Chalice”
    1:24:19 – another link to the photo of Mike’s extended hand
    1:24:35 – a final show notes exclusive: video of Jimmy’s final goodbye and Mike getting pimped
    1:26:44 – as heard in Episode 107
    1:32:12 – another link to our 2009 tailgate video, on YouTube
    1:35:48 – that’s the sound of Doug’s phone hitting the pavement, as mentioned at 1:27:48

Show Notes:
Recorded Wednesday, June 16 2010 (9:30 PM – 11:30 PM) at Zodiac Racquet Club, Southgate MI
    “The boys talk about the recent Detroit River Parrothead Cruise, discuss the latest Buffett headlines, go through the Cincinnati and Houston shows, and look forward to the upcoming Pine Knob concert (less than a week!). (Special guest: Jennifer. Cameo by Scott.)”

    00:04 – we spent a lot of time talking about TV shows — including Firefly, which I’d finally talked Mike into getting on Blu-ray
    01:49 – Pier 500 in Wyandotte | Diamond Jack’s River Tours | Jim Auquier on Facebook
    05:49 – all the Buffett and Buffett-related songs are in our cruise video, with the exception of “Brown Eyed Girl” (since it really was more like Van Morrison’s arrangement) and “Come Monday” (since I was running out of videotape). I managed to get audio of the final song, “Lovely Cruise”, on my cellphone, but it was so over-modulated I only used a snippet in the video.
    06:51 – Chelsea‘s and Willow Tree
    07:08 – the cruise pictures in our Photo Gallery
    08:28 – Pier 500’s tickets provided by Central Distributors
    09:46 – Maxine Nightingale’s “Right Back Where We Started From”
    10:19 – Sunday, July 4 1993. I took someone’s advice and, day of the concert, waited to get tickets at Pine Knob’s will call window.
    14:17 – Silly Bandz — they’re spelled with a Z! How silly!
    15:24 – a girl was handing out Landshark leis and lanyards after the cruise
    17:26 – Jimmy visits the Lawrenceville School, from Buffett World
    17:58 – the Hot in Cleveland premiere had aired on TV Land while we were recording and I’d had trouble remembering Jane Leeves’s character’s name on Frasier
    18:01 – Jimmy sells his Palm Beach estate: Buffett News mention | Buffett World mention
    Between our recording and the publication of the episode, it was revealed the buyer is Jimmy’s next-door neighbor Jon Stryker, from Buffett News
    18:38 – Jimmy tours Florida beach with Gov Charlie Crist: Buffett News mention | Buffett World mention | AP article
    19:53 – “Buffett Visits USM’s Gulf Coast Research Lab“, from Buffett World
    20:20 – Fruitcakes on the Radio winner Dave McCormick, from Radio M’ville’s Facebook page
    21:13 – “Margaritaville Casino in Atlantic City Back on Track“, from Buffett World
    21:29 – Briggs & Stratton generator story: before and after, from Buffett World
    21:56 – Boston Globe interview: Buffett News mention | Buffett World mention
    22:37 – a reference to Episode 56
    22:43 – Buffett News’s WZLX story. Interview recorded Friday, June 11, and complete MP3 available here.
    25:24 – Jimmy attends NBA Finals game: Buffett News mention | Buffett World mention
    25:36 – Garden & Gun‘s Buffett biodiesel story: Buffett News mention | Buffett World mention
    26:24 – sorry, Mansfield, I got the date wrong. The Saturday show is of course on June 19.
    27:26 – Margaritaville Footwear (and link for Famous Footwear). Update: a day after posting these notes, Mike texted us to announce his shoes had arrived, well in time for Tuesday’s concert.
    42:38 – here’s a behind-the-scenes secret: the sped-up female rant is really a YouTube video of Dixie Carter in Designing Women
    47:00 – just because of that comment, I bought WAOTNC.com
    47:04 – yes, Scott was there, but he left before we started recording. (That’s the Tigers playing the Washington Nationals in the background. The Tigers won, 8-3.)

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 to 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”

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