Thursday, July 8 2010

Schmoe Goes Pro

    Schmoe talks the staff at Zodiac Health & Racquet Club (14795 Dix Toledo Rd, Southgate, MI) into making his signature drink, the Schmoenade™.

    Shot Wednesday, July 7 2010 on Mickey’s iPhone 4, with guest appearances by Schmoe, Jennifer, Lee, Mike, Scott, Hud, Mickey, and Annie.

Monday, June 28 2010

A Word from Our Sponsor

With the holiday fast approaching, here’s that old video again for those in those in our area…

Friday, June 25 2010

Rock of M’Ville

    There were rumors in the parking lot that Bret Michaels had shown up in a limo and would be guesting onstage.  Amazingly, Michaels actually did show up on stage, singing with Jimmy on “Margaritaville”.  I tried to record the whole thing, but the best my iPhone 3G can shoot is at best about 6 frames a second.  (Figures the brand new iPhone 4 can shoot in 720p, but wouldn’t be released till two days later).  Luckily the “Margarillas” shot the song right from the stage and shared the video on Facebook and YouTube.  The funny thing is the camera is facing our section of the crowd.  If you look close enough (and you know whom to look for), you can spot me, Mike, and Mike’s sister and brother-in-law.

    Update [6/30]: another video of this event has been posted, this time on Margaritaville.com’s Coconut Television page (found via Buffett World).  Don’t mind that “Bret Michaels sings Margaritaville at Alpine Valley” caption; it’s still Pine Knob on Tuesday.

Wednesday, June 23 2010

News From the Front

    Back home from another great Buffett show at Pine Knob.  Here are a few images from our amazing Row A seats.  I shot some video too but the quality is quite poor (my phone is two years old); I at least used it for the freeze-frames of Bret Michaels surprise duet on “Margaritaville” and when Jimmy came by us at the end of the show.  The pictures have been upload to our Photo Gallery, or you can also check them out at my Flickr page or my Mobile Me gallery.

Nadirah singing “Creola”

“GOOOOAALLL”

Bret Michaels guesting on “Margaritaville”

Fins to the left

The laying on of hands

    Update: our tailgate video was edited late in the afternoon and uploaded to Vimeo and YouTube:

Sunday, June 13 2010

Pier 500 Parrot Head Cruise

    Just back from tonight’s Parrot Head cruise, up and down the Detroit River.  This was what we were talking about back in Episode 127, the cruise where Mike’s brother Jim (the singer of our theme song) was going to perform acoustic versions of Buffett songs.  I shot video, recorded some audio, and also shot some photos with my cellphone.  Some notable highlights included a pole dance to “Changes in Latitudes” — which I’m pretty sure has to be a world-record, history-making first — and that the drawing for the free concert tickets was won by our very own Schmoe!
    After Mike’s news from two weeks ago, it’s almost getting to the point where we have more tickets than we know what to do with!  ...Not really, but close.  And not that we’re complaining.
    Hopefully I’ll be uploading the video soon, but until then here are the cellphone pictures, which I uploaded to our Photo Gallery.
    Update: here’s the video .

Monday, May 17 2010

This Hotel Room

    This video is already available on Margaritaville.com, but it’s too cool not to share here too.  Besides, they’ve got it in the wrong aspect ratio over there.  Here’s Jimmy and the Reefers rehearsing “Take Another Road” in an Atlanta hotel room.

Wednesday, April 28 2010

JB&ZB

    Just like little kids peeking under the circus tent, we’ve been able to get an extra look at this year’s Under the Big Top tour.  A BTTour account has been set up on Ustream, allowing us to catch live streaming video of concert performances and sound checks.  The fan sites discovered it in time for Saturday’s show and Jimmy himself mentioned it during the pre-show interview tonight.  The videos are, sadly, not being archived— evidently you have to catch them live—but here’s a little two-minute clip we managed to capture, of Zac Brown’s guest appearance at Tuesday’s Atlanta show…