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Krev wrote: Sat Sep 02, 2023 6:20 pm
Anthony Flack wrote: Sat Sep 02, 2023 6:02 pm I had no idea that Jimmy Buffet turned his one and only top ten hit into a resort hotel chain that made him a billionaire.
Like a quarter of the US state of Florida is a Margaritaville. It's insane the extent to which he appealed to alcoholic, white baby boomers. Steve Miller ain't got shit on JB.
Yup. My parents fall precisely in this demographic.

Hearing Jimmy as a kid usually meant a) we were on vacation in Florida, b) we were about to go on vacation in Florida, or c) my parents were pretending that they were on vacation in Florida. All involved them drinking alcohol.

Many memories inevitably tied to his music, not by choice.
jason (he/him/his) from volo (illinois)

Re: RIP v2 - still no cure for death

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Anthony Flack wrote: Sat Sep 02, 2023 6:02 pm I had no idea that Jimmy Buffet turned his one and only top ten hit into a resort hotel chain that made him a billionaire.
Eh, he had one top ten hit in the same way that the Grateful Dead had one top ten hit.

I really can’t stand Buffet’s music, but he apparently put a lot of his wealth toward good environmental causes, and he openly hated Trump, at the risk of alienating his own fan base. Nobody really had anything bad to say about him as a person, which isn’t true of Billy Joel or the Eagles.

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Wood Goblin wrote: Sun Sep 03, 2023 8:29 am
Anthony Flack wrote: Sat Sep 02, 2023 6:02 pm I had no idea that Jimmy Buffet turned his one and only top ten hit into a resort hotel chain that made him a billionaire.
Eh, he had one top ten hit in the same way that the Grateful Dead had one top ten hit.

I really can’t stand Buffet’s music, but he apparently put a lot of his wealth toward good environmental causes, and he openly hated Trump, at the risk of alienating his own fan base. Nobody really had anything bad to say about him as a person, which isn’t true of Billy Joel or the Eagles.
The only shitty thing I heard, which is certainly not Serial Child Rapist Ted Nugent-level shitty, is that he gets mad that the venue staff can hear him play without paying.

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turnbullac wrote: Sun Sep 03, 2023 4:18 pm Smash Mouth’s Steve Harwell on Death Bed, Only Days to Live
https://www.tmz.com/2023/09/03/smash-mo ... s-to-live/
I struggle on a daily basis between craving and glorifying alcohol vs. knowing it's horrible and wanting to quit.

I'm not a fan of Smash Mouth nor do I know much about Steve Harwell, but this is an awful way for anyone to die.
jason (he/him/his) from volo (illinois)

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