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When I was at the University of Iowa in the mid 70's, Jimmy Buffett played at the fieldhouse. He apparently came on stage stoned (big surpirse) and was booed off of the stage. I was in a dorm room about a half a block away and the booing was very loud. If memory serves Emmylou Harris was his opening act and she finished the show.

I had to drive him and Fingers Taylor and a few of the others from their hotel to their jet at the Oxford airport.

I had to rouse them from their post bacchanalia stupor (except Taylor..a nice guy). They had the usual bevy of co-ed groupies (I don't fault them for that...I saw that all the time...even with Arlo Guthrie Jr...I swear)

I had borrowed a Mercedes sedan...an old 300SEL with the floor pedal starter for the ride and Buffett almost fought with me to drive the car. He was still drunk and tooted up and spilling a jug of blue valiums everywhere. We had to literally help carry him to the car where he promptly passed out.

The back up gals were all very sweet and showed me around his Jetstar and that was fun...they were babes of course and I was sort of shy...lol

He gave a good show though and even in his stupor was quite witty but obnoxious...sort of like his politics have always been. This was 1978.