A few people expressed problems downloading our most recent show … and in fact I had a hell of a time uploading it, as well as the second Caseville video. Added to that, the downstreaming Flash videos were verging on being unplayable. All our podcast files were hosted by Go Daddy, which I assumed would be a good and reliable service seeing as they pretty much manage the Internet. I found out afterward — both in reviews and by the hard way — that while they might be a great way to buy domain names, their hosting services are extremely spotty. I was seeing more and more evidence of this as the weeks went on. The last weekend was my last straw. I was annoyed and frustrated enough that I suddenly and perhaps impulsively arranged for another service. Now our files are being served from Bluehost.com, a host recommended to me by a fellow Detroit Podcaster.
I even purchased a new domain name with them too: wastinaway.net. Wastinaway.com is already in use, by a Jimmy Buffett cover band. (Wastingaway.com (with a “g”) has also been purchased, but by one of those rotten “squatter” companies. So no link for them!) I was torn whether to go with “wastinaway.net” or “wastingaway.net” … and I ended up getting both. It will save us the trouble of over-explaining or of needing to spelli the name out during the shows. (Wastinaway.net is the domain with actual content however; wastingaway.net just redirects you to this same page.)
With northcoastcast.com and wastinaway.net covered, I’m figuring onthe.org is pretty much inevitable.
All the files were moved over last night, so hopefully you’ll be enjoying faster download speeds now. You might even have noticed the change, in that some podcatchers recognized the files as brand new today and tried to download them all over again when updated. Sorry about that. There’s no need to download everything over, if your podcatcher has a similar reaction. The audio files are exactly the same, the only change was their location.
I’m still at sea on what to do with our new site. I’ve toyed with starting a new blog there or even a Wiki or discussion board. But this might mean losing some of the features and probably some of the comments stored here. The one thing I did get started is a photo gallery, which so far includes Greg’s Caseville photos and some pictures from Big Al’s.
As for now, the aim is to offer speedier and more reliable delivery of our content. Because, as I said somewhere else, downloading our shows should be no more painful than listening to them.
Friday, August 11 2006
2:00 PM: Show up at Joe’s. Pick up Greg.
3:30 PM: Mike is so eager to get out of his office he said his chair is probably still spinning.
5:30 PM: Get to Bad Axe. Check into our room. Tequila shots. Head over to Caseville at 7:40 PM.
8:15 PM: Buy $5 button at amphitheater for admission to all shows. Walk around town. Have dinner and drinks at Riverside Roadhouse.
12:30 AM: Back at our room in Bad Axe. More tequila shots. Watch TV and video files off Mickey’s laptop.
2:30 AM: Bedtime.
4:30 AM: Mickey finally falls asleep, tiring of using audiobooks to drown out Schmoe’s snoring
Saturday, August 12 2006
Morning: Schmoe, Mike, and Greg avail themselves of the continental breakfast as well as the swimming pool and hot tub.
11:40 AM: In an unusually quiet room, Mickey finally wakes up.
12:30 PM: Head back to Caseville.
1:00 PM: Go to beach first. Buy $6 sunglasses. Find out we could’ve gotten into amphitheater free from the beach.
Afternoon: Mike had seen sign for gumbo so we walk to Farm Restaurant to buy some. Lines to order and to pick-up food are confused and wait is long. No alcohol either.
Later: We walk to Elizabeth Port Grill for Bourbon Burger and Coronas. Next door, in the park, the Lost Shakers are playing. Go across the street to buy “Mike’s Hard Mike-aritas.”
Later still: Walk several blocks to official store. Buy shirts and souvenirs. Interview Marie who invites us to look for Steve by the pink bus at tonight’s concert.
Sunset: Go back to beach, worried lots might be locked-up before long. Park on the street, stop at party store, return to amphitheater for Air Margaritaville.
Evening: Sound problems cut first set short. Manage to videotape both rounds of cheeseburger eating contest (but footage is too dark to be useable). Finally find Steve during Ai Margaritaville’s second set and record interview. See a shooting star but Mickey misses it.
Night: Stuck on the sidewalk as bars are at capacity. Find out about Hersel’s and drive a few miles out of town to find it. Pay $3 cover, quickly buy Coronas, and stand near the dance floor watching the young girls act slutty. DJ clears dance floor by playing “Come Monday”…and even ruins it for us older folks by trying to sing along without benefit of knowing the words.
Late night: Head back to Bad Axe. Mike makes margaritas. Mickey determinedly stands out in parking lot in bare feet until he can see his own shooting star.
Show Notes:
Recorded Wednesday, August 23 2006, (9:30 PM – 11:30 PM) at Big Al’s in Browstown MI
“Mike, Schmoe, Greg, and Mickey discuss the new single, the Hoot bonus DVD, yet more from Caseville, and reviews of Coconut Telegraph. With Dan and Laury as the noisy and mutinous studio audience.”
I freely admit it: we talk too damn much.
I fully expected this to be one of our shorter shows. We had little to talk about — not much in the news and just an album review to discuss — yet we ended up with one of our longer shows. Heaven help you if we ever decide to review Boats Beaches Bars & Ballads.
Dan, mentioned in last week’s episode, showed up in a cameo; and Laury, who first appeared on Episode 11, also stuck around. Together, they threatened to conduct their own simultaneous podcast, as can be heard in the audio file’s left channel. And who can forget the horseshoe game in the right channel.
Latest news on “Bama Breeze” is that the promo CD single is being sent out to radio stations and that the album whence it comes is changing titles every day. (By the way, I knew there had to be a reason I had trouble saying “Bama Breeze” last week, and I think it stems from getting it confused with the Bahama Breeze restaurant in Livonia.) According to Buffett News, the song was written by Chris Tompkins, Josh Kear, and Mark Irwin. And in a Buffett World message board thread, you can download Josh Kear’s demo of the song as well as view the cover for Jimmy’s CD single.
Link for Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame (not to be confused with the Songwriters Hall of Fame).
It’s great to get more live Buffett on DVD, but I found watching the From the Big Apple to the Big Easy video very frustrating. Not only does the director keep returning to the same six audience members, he has a knack for singling out the performer next to whomever is soloing. (I was also disappointed the video is not 16×9.)
Walmart hardly needs us to advertise for them, but here’s the link to their Hoot exclusive. Mike’s quote about forgetting batteries was a direct shot at me, in reference to our recording of Episode 12 (though technically, I had batteries. I simply wanted to go home for fresh batteries). Another inside joke refers to when Mike and Joe were in deep discussion at some very noisy bar. (I was not there so hopefully they can fill in the details.) Mike brought up the subject of Pistons tickets and Joe, obviously mishearing him, looked suddenly shocked and offended if not a little hurt, and asked “Did you just call me a dick?” Mike has since made sure this will be a long-running running gag.
Re: Caseville. Greg gave me a CDR of his photos, so I should be uploading them soon — barring all the ones where I look too fat.
Sing along to our newly minted Album of the Week theme song.
Want to see the album package we’re talking about?
I swear Deborah McColl had a website, back when her first solo album came out in 2000; but at least here’s a link to the album. [Could I have confused it with Claudia Cummings’s website?] Update: Deborah McColl’s website is located at — where else? — Deborah McColl.com.
“Stars Fell on Alabama”, music by Frank Perkins and lyrics by Marshall Parish, was written in 1934. The title has been on the Alabama license plate since 2002. Perkins also wrote the music for the 1964 Don Knotts movie The Incredible Mr Limpet.
We thought it funny that the big dance club in Caseville was named Herschel’s…but it turns out all our jokes were based on a misreading of the sign! Then again, even they get their name wrong (take a close look at the URL).
The selection again did not make the final cut, but our next album review will be for Somewhere Over China.
> Download Episode 14Show Notes:
Recorded Wednesday, August 16 2006, (9:30 PM – 11:00 PM) at Big Al’s in Browstown MI; and location recording from Caseville MI on Saturday, August 12.
“Mike, Mickey, Schmoe, and Greg discuss their pilgrimage to the Cheeseburger Festival, and Scott joins in to opine on Banana Wind. Special guest stars: Meredith and Laura.”
Note: I’m still trying to find time to edit the Caseville video. The first interview was recorded Saturday afternoon outside the Official Cheeseburger Store (6912 Main Street, Caseville MI 4872). The second interview was conducted Saturday night near the park amphitheater, with Air Margaritaville performing in the background. The “thirty to forty, between sets” refers to a cheeseburger eating contest held during the Air Margaritaville intermission.
In regards to the release date for Banana Wind: it was released on June 4 1996. As with Barometer Soup, I got a chance to listen to it the night before it came out, at the now defunct Blockbuster Music on Michigan Ave in Dearborn. I consulted my journal to back this up, and I am reminded that we’d seen these same songs performed in concert at Pine Knob the previous Thursday (May 30).
…I took Middlebelt to Michigan and headed to Blockbuster Music. I needed to pre-order the Buffett disc today if I wanted to get in on that sticker deal. So I sat at their “bar” and listened to the CD. The copy they had was still in its plastic holder, so I asked if they had one open. The guy took that one and unlocked it for me. I listened to bits of each song. I got more than halfway through before I lost track and had to skip around, losing my place. Some of the songs were familiar from the concert. These seemed to be the ones I like best. I couldn’t help but feel slightly disappointed though. I wasn’t sure if it was because I was rushed — because I wasn’t really in the mood, seeing as Mike wasn’t here to make an event out of it [like last year] — but a lot of the album did not grab me as Barometer Soup had done. And I did not care for the overall acoustic sound. The constant strumming got rather monotonous and the some of the songs sounded the same. I noted how the sign behind the “bar” advertised a “collection of stickers” if I pre-ordered. I also liked how the CD was only $12.99 and I would only have to put down five dollars. I was willing to pay for it now, and I was also planning on buying Mike’s copy too. That way I could either pick up both copies Tuesday or he could just swing in and pick his up without having to bother much. I figured I owed it to him; not only was he going through hell [with his dad in the hospital], but he had also provided both the food and booze last Thursday.
The following day, after giving blood at the Red Cross in Southgate, I returned to Blockbuster Music in Dearborn.
I went over to Blockbuster and picked up my two CDs. The kid recognized me and went off to get my CDs from the back. He rang me up but didn’t mention any stickers, so I brought the subject up. He didn’t seem to know anything about it, but the second kid went to the back and came out with a long thin strip in clear plastic. I thought the collection of stickers must be on some wide ribbon, but what he handed over was a simple, single bumper sticker. It was white with “PARROTHEAD” in pink. It was terribly lame, but it was apparently legit since it had MCA and Blockbuster logos on it. The guy remembered to give me two. [After work I swung by Mike’s house to leave the CD with his wife.]
The “Oh? oh? oh? — ooooh!” reaction is from 1987, when Mike sneaked down to the stagefront for the encores. I’ve got the audio but it really isn’t clear enough to include here.
The “Aeolian chords” line is from a famous quote by William Mann, music critic of the London Times, where he described the “Aeolian cadence at the end of “Not a Second Time” (the chord progression which ends Mahler’s ‘Song of the Earth’)” when reviewing With the Beatles. Is that Don’t Stop the Carnival song “Just an Old Truth Teller”?
I coudn’t resist monkeying with Scott’s reviews, turning them into a kind of Poetry Corner-type segment. The music in the background is Mozart’s Piano Concerto In D minor, K. 466: 1st Movement.
Meredith and Laura manage to make a special appearance just before the end. Laura used to be the cook at Big Al’s and, by remarkable coincidence, also had a porch crashed into. The “Dan” mentioned, now in Nicaragua, is the same Dan heard at the very beginning of our Show 0.
The selection did not make the final cut, again, but our next album review will be for Coconut Telegraph.
My favorite show quote is a tie this week: “OK. Jimmy flies. We get it.” and “You’re Chicken Taco Guy!”
Our visit to the festival was a lot of fun. We shot some video, took some photos, and recorded some audio…much of which I hope to upload to the site or include in our podcasts. I’m slowly editing some Flash videos so check this space to see when I’m done. Or you can head over to Caseville right now and make your own memories! The festival lasts through Sunday, August 20.
Show Notes:
Recorded Wednesday, August 9 2006, (9:00 PM – 11:00 PM) at Big Al’s in Browstown MI.
“We tried using an agenda this week and ended up with our longest show yet. Bullet points include a look at the Week in Audio, our Top Ten favorite songs, reviews of Off to See the Lizard, and assorted walk-ons.”
One of my less inspired titles, but I was in a hurry to upload the show this morning and couldn’t come up with anything better. Another sizable turnout with appearances from Mike, Mickey Schmoe, Scott, Greg, Kevin, Greg 2.0, and Meredith.
I was requesting more structure to the shows (if only so we can up with some kind of formal closing rather than just letting the proceedings peter out like we usually do) so Schmoe typed up an agenda. This might expain all the paper-shuffling. Notice the different mic placement? For the heck of it, since we clustered aroud the end of the table, I mic’d from side to side of the table rather than from end to end. Schmoe’s “That was a big one. That was a little one” makes me think of a Dr Seuss book. The first “frog” (or Red Fish) is Kevin and the second frog (or Blue Fish) is Greg 2.0. Scott alludes to an FSGL incident earlier in the day when Mike failed to yell “Fore!” and his golf ball hit 2.0’s foot.
You can download the complete Miles Hampton interview here or here, depending on your allegiance. The Steve Dahl interview is somewhat edited (I know I could’ve cut even more, but I liked what he had to say about License to Chill) and the performance of “Sweet Home Chicago” is heavily edited. For the sake of time, I excised a line or two, a couple choruses, and the guitar and piano solos; but at least you get to hear all of Jimmy’s new lyrics. The Mark Knopfler/Emmylou Harris album Jimmy mentions is presumably this one. Learn more about Gomez here. Keep track of Greg’s nicknames on the FSGL blog. As you can tell, I misquoted the “Nothing But a Breeze” lyric…but, like I said, I only heard it the one time.
Top Tens:
| Mickey’s Top Ten: A Pirate Looks at 40 Volcano One Particular Harbour African Friend Tin Cup Chalice Treat Her Like a Lady The Captain and the Kid The Weather is Here, Wish You Were Beautiful Chansons Pour Les Petits Enfants Brahma Fear Honorable Mention: |
| Mike’s Top Ten: 1. A Pirate Looks at Forty 2. Trying to Reason with Hurricane Season 3. Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes 4. Cowboy in the Jungle 5. Come Monday 6. The Wino and I Know 7. Defying Gravity 8. Livingston Saturday Night 9. Somewhere Over China 10. Island |
| Greg’s Top Ten Brown Eyed Girl Margaritaville Why Don’t We Get Drunk and Screw Cowboy in the Jungle Boat Drinks Take It Back Trying to Reason with Hurricane Season Last Mango in Paris Chansons Pour Les Petits Enfants One Particular Harbour |
| Joe’s Top Ten: Dreamsicle Honey Do Meet Me in Memphis Steamer Sea of Heartbreak That was the Night I Painted the Sky African Friend Cowboy in the Jungle Trying to Reason With Hurricane Season In the Shelter Honorable Mention: |
| Scott’s Top Ten Banana Republics Happily Ever After (Now and Then) Semi-True Stories I Heard I Was in Town Far Side of the World Window on the World Dreamsicle Cowboy in the Jungle School Boy Heart The Nighted I Painted the Sky Honorable Mention: |
I’m compelled to point out how Scott had issues regarding cover versions in our lists, yet includes “Banana Republics” (Steve Goodman) and “Window on the World” (John Hiatt). Pwned, I say, sir. Pwned!
There’s a curious discrepancy on the Off to See the Lizard release date. Some websites say June 19 1989 while others say June 26 1989. Even more curious, both these dates are Mondays, whereas I thought albums are commonly released on Tuesdays. I had to dig out my journal (way back to the old analog, typewriter days) to settle things. Along the way I found out Jimmy was on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson June 19 and Carson held up the LP and announced the new album was out “today”. A check of all the local record stores the following morning turned up nothing. (My journal also reminds me my job did not have “flexible hours” at this time. I was in fact still freelancing that summer.) My records eventually show I got the CD on Tuesday, June 27 1989, at the Tel-Goddard Harmony House:
The new Buffett disc was first up in the new releases section [in the racks]. They didn’t have any on the wall or even in Buffett’s section. […] It was marked down to $14.99 but the guy gave me an additional 25% off ’cause of their Summer Sale. I paid $11.24 for it, plus 45 cents tax; total $11.69.
[…] I was pleased to see Hud’s car in his driveway. I hadn’t seen it when I’d left so I took the chance he wasn’t sleeping or anything and pulled up behind his car. He opened the front door, saw me, put up one finger, closed the door, and, bless him, shuffled his dog Bo downstairs. [Bo was huge and had bit me once.] I went back to the car to get the disc and we looked it over in the driveway. Joe’s sisters stopped by too. Joe had just called Hud up, asking about the disc, and his sisters were now off to Fairlane Mall to pick it up for Joe. I showed the disc to them too. It started to sprinkle so Bill and I went indoors. He put the disc on and couldn’t resist calling up Mike. We ragged on Mike, letting him know we were listening to the album and listening to it first while he couldn’t get to it till after work. I stood nearby, rubbing it in more by reading little tidbits from the CD booklet. It was then I noticed Buffett mentioned Michigan. We called around songs one and two.
The occasional snippets of Off to See the Lizard are from Scott’s MacBook. The CMT show whose title escaped me is Nashville Now; and it wasn’t CMT, it was TNN. “ICE” is the “International CD Exchange” newsletter. It wasn’t St Kitt’s, it was Nevis (scroll to bottom of page). Isabella did not throw a shotglass at the ship’s clock, it was a champagne glass (Tales First Edition, page 152). Evidently I didn’t hear Greg say Jay Oliver wrote “Mermaid in the Night” or else I could’ve told him it was Mac McAnally. And apparently I’m a hypocrite because “I Wish Lunch Could Last Forever” has fake harmonica too.
And even with a printed agenda, our show endings are just as awkward.
Show Notes:
Recorded Wednesday, August 2 2006, (9:30 PM – 11:30 PM) behind Big Al’s in Browstown MI.
“Our biggest turnout yet: Don, Laury, Greg, Greg 2.0, Mike, Mickey, Schmoe, and even Scott, discussing the new DVD and a classic album.”
Can you guys make out what Greg 2.0 is saying? The bar was noisy and he was sitting far from the mic, but if you listen closely you can make out “You know, during my travels, I, I, you know, listening to Sirius radio, looking–looking for something to listen to, I could find the Jimmy Buffett channel.
“…What the fuck?
“[To Nate] Sorry little Joe. I’ll watch my language.
“But uh…I never listened to it, but I saw it. And I immediately thought about you goofy bastards. And I’m driving down the middle of Missouri, laughing my ass off. ‘I bet these goofy bastards are sitting there listening to this crap right now.’”
Is it true there were more people on mic than subscribe to the show? We even had an audience, as Don and Nate (Schmoe’s son) listened off-mic. Well, actually, Nate slept through the whoe recording — which makes him pretty much your typical North Coast Cast subscriber. And apparently we’re going for the record on most gay jokes per minute (gjpm); but how else could we celebrate the return of the prodigal Scott?! He came back in time to discuss the new live DVD. And the “PC” Schmoe refers to (which really was our only light source outside) is actually Scott’s brand new 15″ MacBook. So much for Apple’s “Mac vs PC” marketing campaign. By the way, speaking of gjpm, I think I should’ve said “minced” instead of “flounced” during the show.
Thanks to listener Ed (who’s also present on our our Frappr map) I got word that Best Buy was selling Live at Wrigley Field ahead of its release date. The Best Buy near where I work did not have it, but this was hardly a surprise since they never seem to have anything — despite always having fully stocked shelves. I managed to snag the disc Friday morning at the Southgate Best Buy, and was able to revel in it all weekend long. I even got to watch it on a 50″ plasma screen, pleasantly surprised to find out the concert is 16×9 anamorphic. (Why do I have the feeling Jimmy must have bought a widescreen TV or two recently?) The daylight video reveals some compression problems, but the nighttime stuff looks great. And I have to admit, at the risk of sounding Scott-ish, that watching women thrust their upper frontals at the camera is actually kind of scary on a 50″ screen.
The benefit of being in charge of the show notes is even if I don’t speak up dring the show, I get to have the last word here. Despite liking the DVD, especially the unobtrusive and non-flashy editing, I have a problem with the concert itself. I really wish Jimmy would let go of Heather Perry and the on-stage choreography. I’m not denying Ms Perry looks great, but she is more of a distraction from the music and doesn’t add to the show. (Actually whenever she appears I keep thinking someone from the crowd got up on stage.) I really hate all this theatrical staging, with the props and skits and fire eaters and limbo contests. It reeks too much of those lame Carnival Cruise Line shows. When I go to a Buffett show (those rare years he deigns to visit us) I go fo the great songs, story telling, and banter — not lion tamers, costume changes, and trapeze artistes.
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Those were my DVD notes. Here are my Son of a Son of a Sailor notes. 1) When I was younger I cynically figured Jimmy made this the single just so it would sound like he was going to say “son of a bitch” on the radio. It was a long while later before I got to read the lyrics and see what a great song this really is.
2) I got my Eskatrol definition from the COB,O.org FAQ.
3) as with the title track, I cynically figured “The Last Line” was a veiled reference to cocaine. Reading the lyrics it looks like Keith Sykes might have been extremely depressed. Were there fearful outcries of retirement when Jimmy sang “Time has come to not make a sound” the way some people are now bewailing his writing a song called “Party at the End of the World”?
4) I like to think that I single-handedly got Jimmy to perform “Livingston Saturday Night” live. I couldn’t understand why year after year this song never made the setlist; it seemed like this would be such an exciting, energizing addition to a show. Whenever I wrote to the Margaritaville Store in Key West I would include this demand. And after four years of letters, Jimmy finally played it! I got to hear it three times at his three night stand at Pine Knob, and I would smile proudly knowing this was all because of me. Sadly, this was way back in 1993 and he’s hardly played it since.
5) it’s easy to enjoy a song about cheeseburgers…but then they had to ruin it by having a dancing cow on stage in 2001. Was that Heather Perry in there? 6) like I said in the show, I love the orchestration but the song is too slow for me. 7) I thought it was “cull the world’s rum”, Scott thought it was “crawl the world’s run”, Mike thought is was “Calderwood’s Rum”, Margaritaville.com says “Caldwood’s Rum”; but Google seems to suggest it’s “Callwood’s Rum” (cf. here and here — no matter how many e-mails Schmoe sends me!). And the other lyric debate obviously refers to the sleeves of Dwight Schrute. (Long ago I thought it might have something to do with “cheroot”.)
8) Wikipedia has some juicy quotes from Florida Citrus Commission spokeswoman Anita Bryant and her stand against Dade County’s 1977 anti-descrimination ordinance. I was going to include some here, but I almost feel we’ve done more than enough gay-bashing this week. After all, this show was supposed to be our submission reel for the 17th Annual GLAAD Media Awards. And I was wrong in saying Son of a Son of a Sailor came out that same year; it was released a year later.
And, 9) like I said, Jimmy needs to write more story-songs like this one, and he really needs to perform this one.
Want to read along with Schmoe? Download a PDF of the ABC Records memo.
P.S.: it didn’t make the final cut, but next week’s assignment is our top ten Buffett songs and our thoughts on Off to the See the Lizard. Feel free to share your own with us at podcast@northcoastcast.com.
Show Notes:
Recorded Wednesday, July 26 2006, (10:00 PM – 11:05 PM) at Big Al’s in Gibraltar MI; and July 15 – 19 at Silver Lake MI.
“It’s a double-wide episode to make up for last week’s absence. Half of it is our normal show with Mike, Schmoe, and Mickey. But Schmoe, Mike, and Sarah recorded a whole other Gospel From the Coast show last week, which is included as a postscript.”
Unfortunately this week’s show notes are prevented, by forces out of our control, from illuminating much about what we talked about.
Jackson Quigley’s website is called Club St Somewhere. Megan Mohr, winner of the Radio Margaritaville “Ultimate Parrothead” contest, is known as “Mermaid in Disguise” on the Buffettnews boards. Her full audio submission can (at least currently) be heard on RM’s homepage.
My quip about “Weird Al” Yankovic comes from finding any two-bit “Morning Zoo” radio parody was labeled “Monty Python” or “‘Weird Al’ Yankovic”. Instructions on how to set up On-The-Go playlists can be found here,
Regarding what we’ve been cleared to say about Mike & Schmoe’s vacation: the tequilas they talk about are Herradura and Cabo Wabo. The recording that bookends the show was recorded Saturday, July 15. The big storm occured on Monday, July 17. The aftermath can be viewed here, courtesy of Schmoe’s home movies.
The final recording is from Wednesday, July 19. The wind noise is pretty strong but Schmoe is bemoaning his son asking him if there are “freshwater sharks” in the lake. Here’s some video from that day too.
I forgot that the Songs You Know By Heart: Greatest Hit(s) album cover is available on CD, but only on the MCA gold Masterdisc. In case you have absolutely no idea what we’re talking about when we mention the cardboard boxes CDs used to come in, here’s a photo of my copy of Feeding Frenzy. (It’s the only box I still have from Buffett.) Mike points out Buffett World has a great compendium of LP album art. According to this repository, Off to See the Lizard is the last vinyl release. And, again thanks to this repository, here are the A1A and Havana Daydreamin’ gatefolds. As usual my memory fails me: the psychedelic gatefold is actually from Living and Dying in 3/4 Time. Buffett World doesn’t offer this image, but you can see it courtesy of Buffett @ Music for Life.
P.S.: Crooner Bing Crosby passed away October 14 1977.
P.P.S.: A crooner is typically a male singer performing sentimental songs in a soft, low voice.
Favorite show quote: “I know. A lot of effort to say something wrong.”
We really should have learned by now not to make promises. Every time we promo some upcoming idea, it never comes to fruition. Case in point, Mike and Joe’s plan to do remote recordings during their vacation. You might have noticed that, despite our promises, nothing was uploaded last week.
However, it appears something was recorded after all — although I know better now than to make any promises when this material might be published.
Here’s what Joe sent me, upon his return.
Hey Mick. The reason you didn’t see me send any more files is that it became apparent anything near 5MB was taking too much time. And we also lost power and internet access for a bit with our big storm on Monday. I gave up after that, but I do have some audio and video files to share. I hope to burn them or stick them on my flash drive for Wednesday.
Details to follow, most likely when we hash things out in this week’s show.
I promise.
Show Notes:
Recorded Wednesday, July 12 2006, (9:00 PM – 10:45 PM) at Big Al’s in Gibraltar MI
“A local news exclusive, Greg fills us in on the incredible events of last Thursday…all unfortunately at the expense of anything at all Buffett related.”
With not a lot of Buffett news to recap, the guys discussed their own news stories. There’s not a lot to correct here, on the show notes page, since the original news story is below — and the corrections are part of this week’s podcast itself. Greg brought his laptop, with which he showed scanned photos of the car wreck and the damage to his front porch and garage door. Hopefully we’ll be able to post some of these photos here or in the FSGL photo gallery.
Smithereens, according to a handy dictionary desktop widget, are “small pieces” and the word is believed to originate from the Irish smidirin.
Mike and Schmoe are going away on vacation next week. It sounds suspiciously Brokebackish but they swear their wives are going to. We’re still uncertain how their absence will affect our podcasting schedule. We definitely will not be recording at Big Al’s Wednesday, but plans are afoot to at least release something.
Uncertain of the joke behind this week’s title? Check here.