Comments on: Southern Song of the Day: “Life is Just a Tire Swing”

By: ed mcdonald

ed mcdonald — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:56:07 +0000

Jimmy opened for Marshall Tucker Band at the old Atlanta Omni, just a guy with a guitar and a bar stool singing about Cheese Burgers and Margaritville. Around the late 70′s

By: jeff cochran

jeff cochran — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:09:24 +0000

The Bistro was a great place. Very homey. The Nighthawks played some great sets there back in the mid seventies.

By: Keith Graham

Keith Graham — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:06:11 +0000

I was living in the Northeast when the Great Southeast Music Hall was in its heyday, but everything I’ve heard about it makes me think it’s worth a good story on its own. Jimmy Buffett also played earlier at the old Bistro, which was about as close as Atlanta ever got to San Francisco’s hungry i. Here’s a brief history of that club: http://bistroatlanta.com/
And, apparently, well before he even made it to Atlanta or Key West, Buffett played often at the Admiral Semmes Hotel in Mobile. My wife used to hear him there.

By: Tim Oliver

Tim Oliver — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 00:29:23 +0000

I’ve been a fan since “Havanna Daydreaming”, and I, quickly, went back and bought the meager ( at that time ) back catalog. There were no Parrotheads, back then, just fans who consumed alcohol and smuggled goods, and hung on his every note and lyric. That was a long time ago.
I remember him coming to Savannah, Ga. in 1981, or so, and asking my dive instructor if he wanted me to get him tickets. He was a Nam vet, three tours of duty, Special Forces, spent lots of time in Key West in the very early 70′s training Navy Seals. He asked me “How much?”, and I told him “Fourteen dollars a pop,” and he snorted “Hay-ell no ! Not when I used to give that sorry sumbitch a quarter to play a Hank Williams song in 1971 in Captn. Tony’s !” I had to reflect that I too had paid much less, in 1978, to see him in the Carolina Coliseum, $7.50 a ticket for good seats. And, now, he’s getting hundred dollar pedicures, and farting through silk. I bet he doesn’t blow out flip-flops, anymore.

By: Chris Wohlwend

Chris Wohlwend — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 17:56:13 +0000

“White Sport Coat” was the album that really kicked off Buffet’s career, because of the jukebox play of one tune. Couldn’t get radio time, but “Let’s Get Drunk and Screw” was on all the boxes in Miami, where I was living at the time. And at the Pier 17 in Coral Gables, it was played almost constantly.