Jimmy Buffett & the Coral Reefer Band
Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A.
July 4, 1980
performance quality: B+ maybe better, I don't listen to JB much (except Jack Bruce and Jeff Beck)
recording quality: A to A- (a few minor noises here and there in the broadcast
but the reception and recording are clear)
source: master FM broadcast tape (live national broadcast, not recorded)
setlist: (some titles provided by etree guide that I could not positively identify)
disc 1: 58:32
1: radio announcer introduction (this track is not clear sound, just this one, due to broadcast problem)
2: fins
3: Cuban crime of passion
4: trying to reason with hurricane season
5: growing older but not up
6: volcano
7: come Monday
8: changes in latitudes, changes in attitudes
9: margaritaville
10: dreamsicle
11: god's own drunk
disc 2: 51:40
12: chancon pour les petit enfants
13: incommunicato
14; wonder why we ever go home
15: landfall > why don't we all get drunk
16: band introductions
17: cheeseburger in paradise
18: a pirate looks at 40
19: dixie diner
20: jam time
21: survive
comments:
I was more than a bit nervous that this upload attempt would either
prove to be a total waste of time (bunch of released tracks in here somewhere?),
or else I'd find out there are via a ban notice, but I checked out Buffett's
list of discs and video releases on etree list, his 1st live album is from 1978
(various shows), and the second didn't come until 1990. As for videos, one of
his listing's pages would not come up at all (so I don't know where/when it's from,
with my luck with this stuff it will be this concert but I don't think it is)
but other than that, I could easily spend a week looking through for B-sides and the
like since Jimmy's discography is very big but the video one is not that big and neither
is his live discography for a fellow with such a long and popular history. So I am at
least as confident as I ever get uploading an FM of an artist this popular that this
post won't turn up a bunch of released B-side/extended play or re-release tracks in it.
which is not very confident, since there is no database that lists all officially
released tracks, especially B-sides, extended plays and re-release bonus tracks. I
have another term for those but it's not suitable to put in post. Especially now.
Those are the ones that ban almost all of my banned posts, and if there is/are one or
more of those in here it would mean a ban notice but also a probable repost with just
a track or 2 removed. If there's more than that, there would not be any reposting.
Although Buffett has reached a near Springsteen/Winwood level of popularity in
recent years, and was already quite popular even in 1980, he was not nearly as popular
yet, and this would have to be considered "vintage" Jimmy Buffett, now 28 years ago.
This post has helped answer the question of why there's not much Buffett posted,
since he is so popular, and not on the NAB list. Because it takes alot more looking to
find released tracks to avoid of an artist with alot of releases, and Jimmy Buffett
has alot more albums than I ever knew about before I decided to do this post. Almost
the entire reason I'm posting this, is because so many people consider Buffett a
staple in their musical heritage, and I have this one recording of him that I made
off the FM radio one very hot July 4th afternoon. A couple of folks have asked me for
it for years, so long now I don't remember who wanted it, but alot will, I suspect.
There are quite a few folks who think a Buffett show is one of their favorite ways
to fry their way through the summer heat. So I need to share this (if I can.)
I have a friend who really likes Buffett alot but I have never known much at all
about him, I did record this concert off the radio and I did get it all in good
FM quality. Apparently every Buffett show has several songs they always play
(or almost always), like Margaritaville and god's own drunk and cheesburger in
paradise and volcano and changes in latitudes... all those and many more Coral Reefer
Band faves are in here. We in America have close to 300 million ways to celebrate our
independence and for 30 years plus, one of those ways has been to throw a Buffett disc
in the player. I'd be more likely to throw on Return to Forever or maybe some Allman
Brothers (even though they can't be posted) but for the sake of an American institution,
before this becomes unpostable, since it is apparently not released as of posting time,
I'd like to share with you all my one and only Buffett recording, since it is a good show
(if you like Jimmy Buffett music, as many do, he sold out Fenway Park just a few years ago
and at least part of that is officially released!), actually a national birthday broadcast
party I've been holding for around Indy day. I don't offer much music for drinking (alcohol)
by, but this guy definitely likes to get drunk and is not ashamed to admit it in front of 3
million people. Fortunately for his fans, he does know how to put on a concert that's fun for
the whole of-drinking-age family, and his music is unoffensive enough to reach to some of the
most and least "conservative" of folks. Jimmy Buffett has an appeal that reaches to many people,
especially in the summertime, when the weather's warm, some people love this music, so for
those of you, this still rather shiny 5 year old dime could use just a touch of "Buffing",
from America's most popular "bufferman", so here you go, dime.