Buffett wasted on Boston (Changes in Latitude, Changes in Attitude?)

Boston Herald ^ | March 24, 2004

[presidio9]

Oh no, the Parrotheads are coming. The Parrotheads are coming.

Lock your doors. Put bars on the windows. Call the cops!

Why is it that Boston, which has delusions about being a world-class city, every now and then behaves like East Podunk? Latest case in point: two proposed Jimmy Buffett concerts at Fenway Park.

Now it's no great secret that for Buffett fans - Parrothead Nation - the concert itself is only half the fun. The real event simply must include a little tailgating in the Margaritaville spirit. (How else to properly show off those wild and crazy Hawaiian shirts?)

So when the Fenway concert idea was first proposed, Mayor Tom Menino got into the spirit of things and proposed a Parrothead Village. That could mean closing off some streets around Fenway, possibly including a nearby parking lot so fans could park their RV's and set out the grills and the coolers. It seemed like a good idea at the time.

Ah, but the mayor apparently didn't reckon with the Fenway community, Councilor Michael Ross, who represents the Fenway, and Patricia Malone, commissioner of the Mayor's Office of Consumer Affairs and Licensing.

Ross insists that not only should there be no tailgating - no time, no way, no how - but that concert goers must be reminded of same with a warning right there on their tickets.

Malone insists, ``There is not going to be tailgating per se on the streets of Boston around Fenway Park.'' And she has told Red Sox officials that no tickets can go on sale until all those details are worked out.

Sox officials, not surprisingly, would like a ``controlled'' Parrothead zone (no RV's, etc.) where, of course, they could make some extra bucks selling those margaritas.

All of this ought to leave Parrotheads fightin' mad. Maybe it's time Buffett just picked up his guitar and moved this show down the road - back to the Tweeter Center where life was good, no one got hassled and the idea of ``wastin' away again in Margaritaville'' - if only for a couple of hours - didn't send officials into a panic.

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Is there anything about Boston that isn't annoying?

[jimbo123]

Talk about annoying, Buffett is a hypocritical Clintonoid.

[New Perspective]

I went to his labor day show a couple of years ago at the Tweeter center. I was never really a big fan, until I went. It was a 2 day event, with a giant tailgate party the day of the concert. I have never had so much fun with no many people I didn't know. I did not see 1 problem, and everyone acted as if you were their best friend. It was simply a quality atmosphere, drinking in moderation, people cleaning up after themselves, and a wonderful night of quality music.

[billorites]

"Is there anything about Boston that isn't annoying?"

I found leaving Boston to be quite gratifying.

[theDentist]

Is there anything about Boston that isn't annoying?

Yes. There's... ummmm...........

no, guess not.

[presidio9]

Is there anything about Boston that isn't annoying?

The Red Sawx losing a playoff series in dramatic fashion and the crushing heartbreak visible on the faces of their formerly delusional and obnoxious fans. That never gets old. I wish it was October right now.

[EQAndyBuzz]

Originally I thought this was about Warren Buffet and was gonna make a different comment.

I have nothing against the Parrot heads. They wanna get drunk and enjoy an hour or two of light island rock, more power to them. As long as Jimmy "shuts up and sings" it should be loads of fun.

[eddie willers]

Bwahahahaha

[ecurbh]

Ping

[HostileTerritory]

says the guy with the New Jersey flag on his homepage!

Boston has its annoyances, but I left NJ for Massachusetts 10 years ago and have never regretted it for a minute. (at least not between June and November.)

[HairOfTheDog]

Why don't we.... ;~D

[HostileTerritory]

Jimmy Buffett is a Clintonoid?

[FourtySeven]

I've hated Jimmy Buffet ever since I got stuck on I-70 driving away from Columbus towards the PA turnpike to go home for spring break one year when I was at college. The traffic was backed up for MILES, with stupid "parrot heads" walking in-between the cars selling rediculously overpriced t-shirts.

By the time I moved past the exit that apparently everyone in the world but me was getting off (two HOURS later, with the bulk of my 7 hour drive STILl in front of me), I could've shot Mother Theresa herself if she was wearing a Parrothead t-shirt!

I'll never understand what people see in a guy that sang about cheeseburgers.

[TheBigB]

Buffett is a raging liberal.

[Repugnant Reptile]

Just move it to Foxboro. Everyone would be happy except the Red Sox owners.

[presidio9]

I left NJ for Massachusetts 10 years ago and have never regretted it for a minute

I imagine that there have been people who left Swampland for Hati and looked on the bright side.

[HairOfTheDog]

I guess he isn't as effective as a raging liberal as he is a terrific lyricist then. I love all his music, have for years, and remain unaware of any political leanings he has.

But then.... I don't obsess about politics ~all~ the time.

[Sam Cree]

"Buffett is a raging liberal."

In his autobiography, "A pirate looks at 50," which could more appropriately be titled "Jimmy Buffet Goes on Vacation With His Family," Jimmy talks about how, even at 50, he still distrusts "authority."

Yet, as a "liberal," he believes in leftist philosophy, the philosophy which requires the ulitmate authority, an authority that allows a totalitarianism in which the state interferes in even the smallest aspects of one's life.

Takes alot of brains, Jimmy. Same to you, Willie (Nelson). These guys don't see real clearly.

Still, I have heard from folks who should know, that Buffet is a nice person, and I like his music pretty well. Willie's too.

[Vision]

Why is it that Boston, which has delusions about being a world-class city, every now and then behaves like East Podunk? Latest case in point: two proposed Jimmy Buffett concerts at Fenway Park.

This is an unhappy person