Wastin' Away on the North Coast
Podcasting about Jimmy Buffett from the Great Lakes State
From the Michigan marching band newsletter:
As the 2009 season begins, the Michgan Marching Band will celebrate the season opener “island-style” with Jimmy Buffett. The show begins with Margaritaville (look for the glass formation), continuing with Volcano, and ending with Fins and Cheeseburger in Paradise.
Musical arrangements for this show were created by former MMB Director, Jamie L. Nix, and long-time arranger, John Stout.
Next Week: Neil Diamond.
A sneak peek at tomorrow’s U of M halftime…
Show Notes:
Recorded Wednesday, August 19 2009 (10:00 PM – 11:00 PM) at Joe’s Prime Time, Brownstown MI
“Mike, Schmoe, and Mickey take a closer look at the recent Pine Knob concert. (Guest appearances by Jacob and Nathan.) ”
I, Mickey, formally concede, from the outset:
A) Schmoe is right about “Margaritaville” on You Had to Be There. Frankly, I have no idea now what I was talking about. And, 2) It does sound like I say “1997”. I still don’t see how I could confuse the years; I can only assume it was a case of lazy-mouth.
And now, the show notes:
03:23 – our tribute slideshow is still viewable at nothingbutmonkeys.com
03:47 – Cheeseburger in Caseville.com
04:13 – once again, the 2009 Cheeseburger Festival logo
04:55 – the photo in question
05:17 – you can hear us bitch about the absence of portajohns at the end of Episode 17: “Wet Wet Wet”
05:56 – the forecast for Clarkston on August 13 was sunny with a high of 83°F
08:02 – the concert that year (2003) was like a freaking Carnival Cruise Line show, with native dancers, jugglers, and fire-eaters.
10:57 – another link to my concert photos
18:37 – concert clips are once again from SunLover, over at the Buffett News discussion board, since, as you might have guessed, we were busy that night
20:11 – a commercial for Ford, plus subliminal product placement for Dodge and Toyota
21:12 – Playing for Change CD/DVD
23:09 – screenwriter/director John Hughes died Sunday, August 8 2009
23:30 – I don’t remember now. It could have been “Pirate” or maybe it was “Last Mango”.
24:56 – just ignore this whole part. Mike might be right: maybe I heard an old recording on Radio Margaritaville’s “Buffett Buffet”.
28:43 – “A Pew Research survey released last month showed that 81 percent of respondents between ages 16-29 said they liked The Beatles. Eleven percent said they dislike the band and only 4 percent said they have never heard of them.” Source: CNN
32:51 – The Office, Season 4, Episode 13
33:22 – our tailgate video, on Vimeo. It’s also viewable at YouTube, Facebook, MySpace, and Viddler.
36:04 – the Tahiti™ Frozen Concoction Maker™
40:41 – Scott’s photos, on Facebook
43:13 – movie quote from Stripes (1981)
Show Notes:
Recorded mainly Thursday, August 13, and Monday, August 17
“An odds and ends episode, collecting the latest headlines, concert clips from the most recent leg of the tour, and our live, on-the-scene report from the Pine Knob parking lot.”
Holy crap! A new episode!
02:16 – Walter Cronkite memorial: Buffett News’s write-up | Buffett World’s write-up
02:56 – Coastal Marina: Buffett News write-up | Buffett World write-up
03:15 – Stephen Talkhouse: Buffett News write-up | Buffett World write-up
03:35 – Late Night with Jimmy Fallon: Buffett News write-up | Buffett World write-up (and rehearsal photos)
03:50 – at least as I experienced on Brit Rail
05:46 – Mac’s album on Amazon
06:01 – T-Pain’s fight song, with video
09:19 – couldn’t resist including this reprise of Walter Cronkite’s cameo, originally from the 1999’s Beach House tour
11:26 – this clip was heavily edited for time, just to include Utley’s cool tack piano
26:39 – recorded August 5. We hadn’t officially started, which explains the TV noise in the background. The webpage to which Scott refers is Greg’s Facebook profile. And the page to which Mike refers is the Nothing But Monkeys site we created. (The viewer total at this writing is 546.)
29:41 – no one made a move to start podcasting so I didn’t even take the gear out, using my cellphone for an off-the-cuff recording. Here’s a cellphone photo from that night (August 12), to prove we did assemble with plans to podcast
31:20 – the big tailgate video, viewable at Vimeo, Viddler, Facebook, MySpace, and YouTube.
31:39 – sorry about the distortion; I held the phone up too close, not expecting it to pick up the sound as well as it did
33:08 – I know. That doesn’t make any sense to me either
39:55 – what a rip-off! He’s padding the book with duplicate chapters!
41:22 – as discussed in Episode 106B — only the last episode. Schmoe!
48:36 – not a still camera, but my full-sized Canon HV20 HD video camera (which was used to shoot the video mentioned at 31:20)
52:15 – sorry we ended on a puke story, but that’s the way it went
Straight from the lab, its reels still drying, here’s our tailgate video from Thursday’s concert. We start off at Schmoe’s Cantina, pay a visit to St Hedwig’s, drive up to Clarkston, meet up with Schmoe and Co again, encounter lots of Woo Girls, see another great show, and, ultimately, return to the cantina.
Thus…
In total, viewable at YouTube, Facebook, MySpace, Vimeo and Viddler.
Buffett Day has come and gone in Michigan. The concert is over and, as Mike would say, Summer is now over too. SunLover over at the Buffett News discussion board has made MP3s of the concert available, if you didn’t catch it or want to hear it again. I’m working on a quick little tailgate video from yesterday, but for now here are some cellphone photos I took during the show.
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And one from Scott…
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Show Notes:
Recorded Wednesday, July 15 2009 (10:00 PM – 11:30 PM) at Joe’s Prime Time, Brownstown MI
“We finally get around to highlighting the last three June concerts.”
Notes: Voice-over was recorded on a cheap USB headset in a very noisy room. Hopefully audio levels aren’t too bad; but considering all those clips, it was tough to keep the levels consistent. Music beds are usually from the song Jimmy is in the process of introducing. Song clips are quite often edited to fit in all the good bits in as short a time as possible.
According to my Midomi phone app, the version of “One Love” played on the PA is from Playing for Change
The little postscript is from the Bungie podcast [RSS link].
I uncovered this footage today and whipped up a new video to accompany the 1999 one. It’s not quite as polished as that one, mainly because I realized too late my camcorder was losing battery power — which explains the choppiness before the video ends.
Nevertheless, here’s a look at Pine Knob Tailgating 2000.
Show Notes:
Recorded Wednesday, July 15 2009 (10:00 PM – 11:30 PM) at Joe’s Prime Time, Brownstown MI
“Inspired by a recent Detroit Free Press article, the boys consider Buffetty boat names.
(Guest starring AC/DC, Aerosmit, Bob Marley, and Bob Seger.)”
02:28 – Lance Armstrong’s tweet about Buffett
02:37 – Buffett interview video
04:24 – Magaritaville in Calgary
05:27 – “How the Miami Dolphins Landed a Shark”, South Florida Business Journal
08:23 – to illustrate what we’re talking about, I whipped up this quick little Riverbend road trip video:
10:33 – Will Kimbrough’s blog entry
13:23 – “Naming a Boat is Serious Business”, Detroit Free Press
15:13 – the listener photo I was trying to find
Show Notes:
Recorded Wednesday, July 8 2009 (9:30 PM – 11:00 PM) at Joe’s Prime Time, Brownstown MI
“Fresh from visiting Key West Coffee & Cafe, the boys return to an old favorite haunt. Includes a look at the two Camden shows, ‘This Week in Buffett’, and Mike using ‘decor’ and ‘ambience’ in a sentence. (Special guests: Larry and Rachel. Cameos by Jacob and Nathan.)”
Don’t be put off by the show title. Fore-Skins is the name of our golf league.
00:00 – the sponsorship announcement comes from the 7/10 “NPR: Most E-Mailed Stories” podcast
02:02 – the new and improved Key West Coffee & Café site
04:01 – not sure where I saw the first set of reviews now, but here are several for your perusal
09:41 – way back in high school I helped Mike write a poem. I now can only recall the opening verse:
Insects
always make terrible pets
If you take them for walks
they’ll go for your necks.You can’t put them in cages,
they’ll go through the bars
and get themselves smashed
on the windshields of cars.
11:16 – …but we’ll link to Cutter Advanced anyway
13:25 – well, here’s a web ad for Landshark:
17:51 – Buffett World post on the London show
18:24 – Radio Margaritaville’s Summerzcool Contest
18:43 – Buffett News’s write-up on the ESPN doc
20:51 – it might sound like we’re repeating the drunk chick’s love call, but each one is different — and there was more where that came from. Those are just the screams from between songs.
23:48 – Summer 2009 started at 1:45 AM (Eastern) that night (June 21)
26:36 – Boston Globe interview
26:41 – Buffett News’s Men’s Journal scans
27:08 – the clip comes from the 7/01 Daily Show, during an interview with TIME columnist and author of The Myth of the Rational Market, Justin Fox.
28:01 – from MacBreak Weekly #143. Voices are Alex Lindsey, Scott Bourne, Andy Ihnatko, and Leo Laporte. Lost in the editing is that Alex Lindsey is discarding pants because he’s losing weight. (…And what the heck, here’s a Boone’s Farm link.)
29:44 – here’s a link to the SModcast podcast but I’ve listened to far too many of them too quickly to identify the particular episode I’m talking about. Besides, I’ve heard “Cheeseburger” and “WDWGDAS” since then too.
30:16 – Larry was about to bring up Roger Clyne
I know I should be finishing Episode 105, but instead I’ve dug into the archives to reassemble a new edit of Club Trini performing in the Pine Knob parking lot, June 8 1999. The edits might be a little abrupt, but this is pretty much everything I shot that day.
