Wastin' Away on the North Coast

Show Notes:
Recorded Wednesday, November 19 2008 (9:30 PM – 12:00 AM) at Zodiac Racquet Club, Southgate MI
    “It’s our review of Living and Dying in 3/4 Time. (Cameos by Jennifer and Lee.)”

    00:00 – Schmoe usually handles the Skype duties, but Scott volunteered this week (but Schmoe took over again about halfway through)
    02:13 – Real Kiteboarding.com
    02:17 – this week’s cellphone interference brought to you by Hud
    02:40 – Mac’s CMA win
    02:53 – Jimmy at Gators game, from the Miami Herald
    04:03 – ajimmybuffettfan.com
    04:55 – yes, you heard right. We’re only now reading a letter from October 6.  We suck.
    06:37 – I know, I know! New South Wales — what do I win?
    09:53 – the gatefold, courtesy of Buffett World
    09:58 – mentioned in Episode 60
    12:45 – perhaps because the back cover credits list the “Second Coral Reefer Band”
    15:11 – I beg to differ.  People still know who Ricky Ricardo is, right?  He’s the I in I Love Lucy.
    15:42 – Andy Devine‘s IMDb page
    19:31 – my 1999 setlist page
    19:52 – Ringling, Montana, on Wikipedia
    20:16 – a range expander to boost the wireless signal (first discussed in Episode 82) and a deadbolt to more firmly close the back-room door and keep it from always coming ajar and letting in jukebox noise
    20:41 – we finally confronted Jennifer tonight about why they play the same half-dozen songs every Wednesday.  We were under the impression she and Lee have no imagination; but she blamed it on some other Wednesday regulars
    23:29 – another reference to the Episode 27
    24:07 – see 23:29
    24:25 – No.  It’s a “coincidence”.
    26:48 – editor’s note: the recording was accidentally stopped during the “Brand New Country Star” review and not noticed till a song or two later.  We made up for it by redoing those songs, hence all the coy comments about having rehearsed
    29:10 – Scott is not kidding. Because of the above mentioned mistake, he is able to quote Greg’s review.
    29:30 – see 23:29
    34:31 – “in the window” is a reference to dating age (in relation to ours, that is); not to, as some might think, European red light districts
    39:02 – Schmoe continued to wax rhapsodic over Willis Alan Ramsey’s first album, as he did in Episode 35, but all that has been cut out
    39:58 – former Detroit Piston John “Spider” Salley, on Wikipedia
    40:30 – I presume a reference to the medical marijuana proposition (Prop. 1) we voted for last Election Day
    41:51 – I read it on Buffett World’s lyrics page
    44:36 – the boys are yelling at Lee while trying to watch the Central Michigan Chippewas lose 31-24 to the Ball State Cardinals (“the fiercest robin-sized bird in the world!”).

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Show Notes:
Recorded Wednesday, September 17 2008 (9:00 PM – 11:30 PM) at Zodiac Racquet Club, Southgate MI
    “The gang finally sits down for their Last Mango in Paris review. With his Houston hotel flooded following Hurricane Ike, Mike is still in town and was able to join us in person. Greg and Scott join Schmoe and Mickey as well, for a raucous and rambling discussion just like old times. (Special guest: Jennifer.)”

    Sorry about all the rattling, evident throughout the background of this episode.  I think it’s coming from the overhead heating register.
    00:57 – three YouTube videos of Buffett at the Herman Wouk tribute
    01:28 – Surfer’s Healing benefit
    02:34 – Nod to the Storyteller, from Mailboat Records
    04:30 – as mentioned in Episode 19
    05:33 – originating in Episode 20
    08:04 – I am incorrect. All the lyrics and liner notes are duplicated, but one side of the inner sleeve has a black and white photo which is not included with the CD.  And, courtesy of Buffett World, here’s the back cover I’m talking about.
    09:28 – I meant to add that CDs came in “longboxes” so that store owners could re-purpose their cassette racks to display them
    11:53 – thanks to TV’s David Simon, I believe the word I was trying to come up with is “epigram”
    13:07 – sorry about the crosstalk, but, if I may make a suggestion, the conversation on the right is more interesting
    14:07 – make note of this.  I can guarantee we’ll be referring to it a lot.
    14:45 – it’s almost as if…wait for it…”Math Suks”. Oh, the irony
    18:10 – the Steve Goodman: Facing the Music book, at Amazon
    22:53 – I believe we are confused here.  Buffett played the Palace twice, and I think Scott is referring to Buffett’s second appearance (July 1 1990) while the rest of us are thinking of the first (June 30 1989).
    24:08 – here’s a chance for my own North Coast Flip Flop™; and since no one called me on it, I’ll state it here.  I made my pronouncement before giving the album a full and proper listen, and, now having done so, I can say that “If the Phone Doesn’t Ring It’s Me” sounds a heck of a lot more dated that I remember.  It’s those danged 80s drums. However, two songs which do manage to still sound contemporary are “Last Mango in Paris” and “Jolly Mon Sing”.  So I take back what I said.
    35:39 – Jonathan Edwards
    38:33 – normally I excise these conversations that spiral into nowhere.  But this one fascinates me.  It’s such a cluster, with everybody agreeing yet still stating contradictory things.  And I thought I was the one who drank the most.
    42:08 – that is, the part of the song where they sing “Pennsylvania six five oh-oh-oh”
    42:13 – yikes, what an edit. And what a song choice.  Maybe the bar patrons are brushing up on their CPR skills

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