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12-26-2012, 02:28 PM
| | | | Jimmy Buffett is Worth $400 Million
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12-26-2012, 08:19 PM
| | | | I guess slow and steady really does win the race...at least sometimes.
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12-26-2012, 08:47 PM
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12-26-2012, 08:50 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Greenville, NC USA | | | Good for him! Millionaires make the world go 'round no matter what you heard on the news.
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12-26-2012, 09:00 PM
| | | | I'm not surprised. I'm not much of a fan of his music, but I've gathered that he's pretty sharp at business, & I'm a fan of that.
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12-26-2012, 09:20 PM
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Owner/Builder: HJC Customs USA, The Cool Lute, C G O | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Southwest Michigan | | | Jimmy has his name leased to so many things, I am surprised it's not more. Jimmy and Gene Simmons are very similar in how they latched onto marketing themselves. |
12-26-2012, 09:27 PM
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12-26-2012, 09:27 PM
| | | | Yeah...everytime I blow out my flip flop, I curse his name and owe him 20 cents...
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12-26-2012, 09:39 PM
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Originally Posted by hover  Yeah...everytime I blow out my flip flop, I curse his name and owe him 20 cents... | 
My uncle saw him a couple summers ago & said he'd never seen so many bewbs at a show in his life (he's 65 and has seen a ton of shows). I neither love nor hate Jimmy Buffett, but I'll be damned if I can't sing along with most all his songs I hear. Something to be said for that, I guess. |
12-27-2012, 06:57 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: West of Stumptown, USA | | | It was the "Aidsburger in Paradise" bump he got. It was his biggest hit yet, bringing younger listeners into his nearly-depleted demographic. |
12-27-2012, 07:06 AM
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Looking for answers
To questions that bothered him so
Questions like... where's the bank?
Good on you, Jimmy!
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12-27-2012, 07:39 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Baltimore,MD USA | | | Now THAT'S making the most out of modest musical talent, a la Sonny Bono. Can't find anything wrong with it.
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12-27-2012, 09:18 AM
|  | Registered User | | | | He is an amazing business person, and actually a pretty impressive songwriter.
I have never met him, but have three good friends from the 'old neighborhood' that have made up the backbone of the Coral Reefer Band for the last 25 years or so (Roger Guth on drums, and the Mayer brothers... Pete on Guitar and Jimmy on bass (wonderful bassist). These guys are amazing, amazing players (I believe Roger had a shot at a Pat Metheny tour at one point). And, also remember Ralph MacDonald (of Chick Corea fame, wrote 'where is the love', etc., etc.) was Jimmy's percussionist for years (he recently passed).
More musically going on there than you would think. Mack Macanally (amazing Nashville songwriter) has also been part of the band forever.
Nice people, totally professional organization. I've been backstage a few times over the years, and it is a well run machine. Very family oriented. Cool when good people do well!
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12-27-2012, 09:27 AM
|  | KEED SPILLS..no, wait..PILL SKEEDS..SKILL PEEDS? | | Join Date: May 2011 Location: Nashville, Cats | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Edward G. Now THAT'S making the most out of modest musical talent, a la Sonny Bono. Can't find anything wrong with it. | oh, no....disagree.
he may not be your cup of tea (he's not really MINE), but musically and as a song writer, he's fantastic
as far as his money...go, man, go....good for you. 
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12-27-2012, 10:52 AM
| | | | My friend's grandson plays drums for a Jimmy Buffett tribute act and they play a lot of gigs across the country for good money. The guy in the band who does the Jimmy Buffett impersonation does look and sing like him albeit not as good on guitar. People around here pack places to see him.
If I could do what Jimmy has done to create a business empire, I would have done it too. He sure does have a devout fan base. |
12-27-2012, 10:57 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: N.H. | | | Not bad for an old bass player originally. |
12-27-2012, 10:58 AM
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12-27-2012, 11:00 AM
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Originally Posted by Richland123 | Really? 'Cause I wouldn't give you a nickel for him. |
12-27-2012, 11:03 AM
|  | My SQUIER is on Fire! | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Blimp City USA | | | I have nothing against him and also say Kudo's to him but I have never dug his music or understood the interest in it myself. I have seen quite a few other island sytle , acoustic singer-songwriters like him locally who IMO are just as good but have just not found the right song yet I guess.
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12-27-2012, 11:06 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Enchanted Mitten, USA | | | His songs are fun, and singable with catchy hooks. Plus a free and easy appearing lifestyle. All the things that the average person can relate (or wishes they could relate ) to. He appears to really have a knack for marketing those songs into an empire.
Good for you Jimmy!
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