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.
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)
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…
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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…
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Recorded Wednesday, April 21 2010 (9:30 PM – 11:00 PM) at Joe’s Prime Time, Gibraltar MI
“Season 9 already? The boys share their initial reactions to Encores, and Schmoe … well, the less said about his subplot the better”
Dank! (Can’t forget that little stinger after the big final chord.)
00:09 – Martian Invasion of Races
00:33 – Body Glide
01:01 – I bet I know why! Cactus Boy and Cactus Boy 2
01:31 – if you still want to after seeing the following photo, you can befriend Schmoe on Facebook
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04:09 – “Fun Run” was the two-part fourth season premiere of The Office. Read about it at the Office Tally fan site.
05:27 – a reference to a story Schmoe told at the end of Episode 113B
05:56 – we did brainstorm some nipple-related show names, but ultimately rejected them. Besides, it was likely the names would’ve been censored by some podcatcher programs and sites.
08:30 – “Buffett to Expand Business Empire to Middle East“, from Buffett World
10:12 – Hollywood FL opts for Margaritaville over Planet Hollywood: Buffett News mention | Buffett World mention
10:24 – the World Beer Cup site. (The competition was held in Chicago, not Colorado. Either my eyesight has really gone or the article I read originated from Colorado.) List of World Beer Cup 2010 winners. And the winners’ sites: Tiger Crystal, Quilmes Cristal. and Landshark Lager
11:04 – GAC’s The Collection link
11:37 – I wish the levels were better, so it would be easier to make out what Alan Jackson is saying, but that audio mix is straight from the TV show
12:38 – “Jimmy Buffett” on South Park #200 and #201. (“Jimmy” shows up in both but only speaks in the first.)
13:09 – play the Where’s Jimmy?© game:
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13:51 – “Buffett Lecture at University of Miami“, from Buffett News
14:15 – National Record Store Day
14:40 – Dearborn Music link
14:52 – Encores at Walmart.com and at M’ville.com
17:07 – my obligatory Whedonesque reference
21:23 – Hits Daily Double prediction: Buffett News mention | Buffett World mention
22:40 – I’m in error here, evidently getting my tours confused. Tim Krekel passed away June 24 2009, a year after most of Encores was recorded.
28:45 – added four videos to our VHS Tape Library on April 1: the Today show (1998), Larry King Live (1998), Charlie Rose (1999), and the Tonight show (1999)
29:05 – split the RSS feed, early in the morning on April 2: link for the up-to-date feed, link for the archive feed. (Paste those links into your podcatcher software.)
30:54 – iTunes link to archive feed (and, what the heck, here’s the iTunes link for the up-to-date feed too)
31:30 – Skype us at NorthCoastCast
32:06 – added photos from 1997 and 1998 on April 16 to our Gallery, and photos from May 1996 and June 1996 on April 17
Show Notes:
Recorded Wednesday, March 31 2010 (10:30 PM – 11:30 PM) at Zodiac Racquet Club, Southgate MI
“A look at the Encores track list, rumors of Jimmy playing the Super Bowl, and lots less on the next Wastin’ Away on the North Coast. Stay tuned. (Special guest: Jennifer.)”
01:33 – Buffett on the shortlist for Super Bowl halftime: Buffett News mention | Buffett World mention
01:45 – as discussed in Episode 120
03:53 – Buffett Info.com’s Facebook group page for Buffett at the Super Bowl
04:33 – I had a good time making fun of the spelling of “preform” in the title, but had to take it all back when the group name got changed
04:49 – Encores track list: Buffett News mention | Buffett World mention
05:03 – Walmart.com’s Encores pre-order page
05:38 – Buffett News’s Setlist Database
07:05 – Encores at Mailboat Records. According to the sound samples. “Tin Cup Chalice” is not from our 2008 Pine Knob show
09:01 – as discussed near the end of Episode 115
10:26 – Buffett surfing in St Barths, according to Buffett News
10:39 – Buffett playing in Panama City FL: Buffett News mention | Buffett World mention
14:51 – we assumed jennifer must be a huge fan of Romeo Void’s “Never Say Never” every Wednesday, but she told us recently that there’s one guy who requests it every time he shows up. Incidentally, “A Void of Romeo Void” was in contention for show name.
15:03 – Scott e-mailed us four times that afternoon to tell us about his school’s road rally fundraiser and how he would be expecting to take money from us…and then he never showed up for the podcast
17:53 – or one of Santa’s helpers, more like
20:08 – you know, there probably should be a double-entendre alarm here too
Show Notes:
Recorded Wednesday, March 24 2010 (10:00 PM – 12:00 AM) at Zodiac Racquet Club, Southgate MI
“The boys discuss Buffett & the Reefers’ recent appearance with Zac Brown Band on CMT Crossroads and then round the night off with a special, extended joke cavalcade. (Special guest: Jennifer. Cameos by Joe Maj & Jacob.)”
01:02 – tonight’s recording was preceded by an FSGL rules meeting to recapitulate the annual transition from wallyball to golf. It was thought the meeting might impede on recording time, but we managed to get a podcast in before it got to late. Which is all to preface mentioning the Mike saying “parenthetically” was to tease Schmoe for using the term during the meeting.
01:25 – Buffett News on Margaritaville Nashville setbacks
02:24 – Buffett World on Niagara Falls Café job fair
03:20 – Watch Crossroads online at CMT.com
04:50 – Buffett News report, which we should’ve read more closely before our show
12:18 – Zac Brown Band’s “Toes” video, on YouTube
16:11 – regarding the band lineup, Buffett News says: “They split it up into 2 sets, first the Zac Brown Band sang and then Buffett’s set. During the Zac Brown set Nadirah, Tina, Robert, Ralph, and Utley were also on stage. Mac joined for the final 2 songs. During Jimmy’s set Roger Guth, Will Kimbrough, and Uncle Jim joined the party.” I guess we got fooled by the editing.
20:36 – first clip, from The Colbert Report on Thursday, March 11
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Coincidentally, @StephenTColbert repeated this same list on Twitter shortly after Episode 124 went online
21:10 – second clip from The Colbert Report on Wednesday, March 17. The author is Nell Irvin Painter and the book is The History of White People
.29:02 – joke lifted from Marc Maron’s WTF podcast, but I can’t remember the episode number any more
P.S.: Hud did not stick around for the to the recording, but he still wanted to add the following observation: Jimmy is starting to look just like sportscaster and former coach Dick Vitale, who appeared in a commercial during the initial airing of CMT Crossroads.
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Show Notes:
Recorded Wednesday, March 10 2010 (11:00 PM – 12:00 AM) at Zodiac Racquet Club, Southgate MI
“Features the last two Summerzcool concert roundups and your latest Jimmy Buffett headlines, but a major pre-show gaffe makes this an unintended sequel to Episode 4. (Cameo appearance by Jennifer.)”
It was such an amateurish mistake you’d think I was blind drunk Wednesday night. We were sitting in a different configuration so I changed the microphone record pattern. Evidently my fingers thought I’d pressed enough buttons, since I set the recorder back down without hitting the Record button. I ended up missing a very lively and very funny panel. It was the kind of relaxed conversation we don’t seem to have that often, as if we subconsciously knew the pressure was off and we weren’t being recorded. Just like what happened with Episode 4.
After half an hour I guess I sensed something was amiss – maybe I didn’t see the red Record light in the corner of my eye. I picked the recorder up and realized none of our talk had been captured. It wasn’t because of some hardware failure; it was my own damned fault in taking things for granted and in being inattentive.
Despite how late it had become, we elected to press on, trying to remember what we’d already talked about so we could try again.
00:33 – one of the first topics Schmoe had brought up in our “rehearsal” was how Mike and he felt incomplete without their Buffett tickets. Whereas my $5 extra fee now gave me the peace of mind of having tickets in hand. They’d chosen to print them up themselves, but didn’t want to do so till closer to the concert date. Plus, Schmoe added. “my printer is out of ink”. This struck Mike and me as sounding somewhat dirty, making us joke how the double-entendre alarm must be sounding. Schmoe followed this up with another comment which sounded dirtier than the last – and then a third comment. The timing was perfect, but it didn’t get recorded…and I can’t remember what the other two comments were. (Incidentally, the double-entendre alarm probably should’ve sounded at 00:19, but that might have spoiled its appearance here.)
03:43 – once I mentioned Zach Galifianakis during the “rehearsal”, we talked a good ten or fifteen minutes about his Saturday Night Live performance
06:37 – Zac Brown Band’s CD The Foundation
07:46 – Will Kimbrough’s album Wings on iTunes, as MP3 downloads at Amazon
08:29 – Tennessean.com’s article on Will Kimbrough’s album release party
09:05 – Market Watch’s story on Orange21’s Margaritaville eyewear
10:26 – Jimmy flies to Haiti: from Buffett News | from Buffett World
10:56 – Hollywood FL resort: from Buffett News | from Buffett World
12:40 – link to Episode 117 | link to Fisher Stevens on IMDb
14:07 – link to Episode 120 | the latest on the Alabama state song from The Gadsden Times
14:56 – here’s a bonus news story: a nice article on Michael Utley from Examiner.com
17:27 – those listening at home missed out on Jennifer belly dancing to the sound of her ringtone
18:29 – I also forgot to mention how “Five:o’Clock Somewhere” was moved to later in the show, “Boat Drinks” got added to both shows, and “Nobody from Nowhere” and “Brown Eyed Girl” were made into a rocking encore
26:06 – oh God, that woman is back!
30:56 – Gamble Rogers on Wikipedia
32:44 – for the first time in concert roundup history, the only pre-show interview without a single edit
42:39 – during a break, I played Zac Brown’s “Margaritaville” video clip for Mike. Since we were quite familiar with the song we did not play it to the end. We obviously stopped to soon for Jennifer’s liking though.
Show Notes:
Recorded Wednesday, February 24 2010 (10:00 PM – 11:00 PM) at Zodiac Racquet Club, Southgate MI
“Two concert roundups from the current Summerzcool winter session plus we share our ticket-buying stories. (Special appearance by Jennifer.)”
02:55 – Heckler Custom Guitars
04:13 – Encores album: Buffett News mention | Buffett World mention
04:59 – Jimmy in St Barth’s, according to Buffett News
05:16 – Margaritaville Café in Nashville: Buffett News mention | Buffett World mention
05:23 – Funny or Die.com online | Funny or Die Presents on HBO
18:53 – Jamaican Dogsled Team
19:15 – the Iditarod Trail
24:51 – if it sounds like Jimmy started early, it’s because I cut a few bars from the intro. He started the verse on time but then stopped singing.
25:13 – what a terrible crossfade. This one concert roundup is rife with awkward and uninspired transitions.
26:57 – once again, we saved the sad story for offline perusal: Save the Manatee.org says record cold is leading to record manatee deaths
27:17 – a quick look at Margaritaville.com suggests the total is ten right now, not including the recently announced locations
27:59 – DOM Coon’s photos, in our gallery: photo #1, photo #2, photo #3
38:50 – conveniently, I finally got around to updating my selists pages two days prior
Show Notes:
Recorded Wednesday, February 17 2010 (10:00 PM – 11:30 PM) at Zodiac Racquet Club, Southgate MI
“No, it’s not a podcast about Detroit sports. It’s us getting all worked up over buying our “Under the Big Top” tour tickets this Saturday. (Special appearance by Jennifer. Cameo by Joe Maj.)”
01:02 – it was Thursday, February 12. I guess Buffett News posted the rumored dates first, but Buffett World was where I saw them.
Our local papers mentioned the concert date the following day, but I wasn’t sure if they were confirming the news or just repeating the rumor.
As far as I was concerned, it wasn’t confirmed until we saw the DTE ad on Sunday, February 14.
02:17 – Listener Lisa was the person who objected on MySpace. There’s a Country Fest Music Festival in Cadott WI, June 24-27; maybe it’s to that she’s referring.
03:01 – “Farewell Tour in 2010?“, from Orange Country Register. (Did I say “Oakland”? That’s a county in Michigan.)
05:27 – Taylor Swift is playing March 26 and 27 at the Palace of Auburn Hills
10:02 – Mike and Schmoe talk about one corporate gig by The Knack in Episode 61B
10:06 – Doug Fieger, in Wikipedia
19:04 – a reference to a conversation that happened before we started recording. New dad Joe Maj was asking for advice about his child’s teething problems.
20:40 – the August 5 1995 setlist
23:20 – honestly, it was more like two hours of sleep and three hours of empty room
26:19 – watch Firefly on Blu-Ray
26:57 – the original, uncut audio file
28:04 – the original, uncut audio file
28:29 – the space station’s “Window on the World”
28:50 – Paradise Key Teas website