Skiing and Music

[chuckstah]

For $5 thats a no brainer in my opinion. Actually listened through Mellon Collie earlier today. Where are you finding these tickets so cheap?

StubHub is $5 for lawn in NH. Game time is actually down to $4. Undersold shows and dynamic pricing for the win

 

[jimk]

StubHub is $5 for lawn in NH. Game time is actually down to $4. Undersold shows and dynamic pricing for the winView attachment 58910

That's amazing.
I was told that at the height of the ugly Dan Snyder era with the Redskins/Commanders you could get tickets for their NFL games off sites like stubhub for $9. Only problem is they still stuck it to you for parking, something like $25-30 per car. And Fedex is not a good stadium for public transportation options.

 

[Smellytele]

Phish tomorrow, hate SPAC but hopefully Trey is on tomorrow.

seating makes all the difference at Spac. Worst lawn ever but if you have an actual seat it is a lot better

 

[KustyTheKlown]

Worst lawn. Bc inside there’s a balcony. The lawn watches the show thru a letterbox slit

 

[chuckstah]

That's amazing.
I was told that at the height of the ugly Dan Snyder era with the Redskins/Commanders you could get tickets for their NFL games off sites like stubhub for $9. Only problem is they still stuck it to you for parking, something like $25-30 per car. And Fedex is not a good stadium for public transportation options.

I went to a game at FedEx Field about 4 years ago, Patriots -Redskins. Tickets were cheap, but not $9 cheap, maybe because we got good seats. The vast majority of the crowd, maybe 80 percent were Pat's fans, really weird. I stayed with family in downtown DC, and we took the subway to the game. A bit of a slog with a connection but it worked well. There was a walk of about a mile to the stadium from the closest stop.

 

[jimk]

I went to a game at FedEx Field about 4 years ago, Patriots -Redskins. Tickets were cheap, but not $9 cheap, maybe because we got good seats. The vast majority of the crowd, maybe 80 percent were Pat's fans, really weird. I stayed with family in downtown DC, and we took the subway to the game. A bit of a slog with a connection but it worked well. There was a walk of about a mile to the stadium from the closest stop.

I've lived in the DC area for 60 out of my 70 years and have only been to the same number of games at Fedex as you. One! Terrible game experience for us home fielders. Lots of enemy fans and the local fans were all drunk and ignorant. RFK was a much better home field venue, of course the team was much better back then too.

 

[Zand]

Saw Bruce for the first time on Saturday in Foxboro. I mainly went in with my usual attitude of "just wanted to see him before he retires or croaks" I usually have with classic rock acts, but honestly one of the best shows I've ever been to. For a bunch of guys in their 70s, they brought it nonstop for 3 hours. Never been a big fan of a lot of his stuff in the studio versions but everything was so good live.

 

[deadheadskier]

Really fun moe. show in Lowell tonight.

 

[KustyTheKlown]

jimmy buffet's death is hitting me fairly hard this morning.

i grew up on buffet. he is one of a handful of artists who really meant something to my dad (the beatles, springsteen, buffet), and that was responsible for eventually sending me down the grateful dead road and the rest writes itself

while buffet is obviously associated with the tropics, his music is deeply intertwined with skiing for me. maybe its my dads limited car/condo music on childhood ski trips, but i also think it has to do with jimmy's music being about this benevolent hedonism, this pursuit of fun as top priority, which i think tracks with ski culture. the same way the grateful dead's ethos of freedom and the open american road does the same.

jimmy buffet was an american poet, storyteller, and entrepreneur. he was a modern pirate. he will be deeply missed.

 

[jimmywilson69]

Well said KK, RIP Jimmy...

 

[jimk]

Learning about Jimmy Buffett's financial holdings. Into all kinds of stuff and he seemed to have the golden touch with all of it!

 

[2planks2coasts]

jimmy buffet's death is hitting me fairly hard this morning.

i grew up on buffet. he is one of a handful of artists who really meant something to my dad (the beatles, springsteen, buffet), and that was responsible for eventually sending me down the grateful dead road and the rest writes itself

while buffet is obviously associated with the tropics, his music is deeply intertwined with skiing for me. maybe its my dads limited car/condo music on childhood ski trips, but i also think it has to do with jimmy's music being about this benevolent hedonism, this pursuit of fun as top priority, which i think tracks with ski culture. the same way the grateful dead's ethos of freedom and the open american road does the same.

jimmy buffet was an american poet, storyteller, and entrepreneur. he was a modern pirate. he will be deeply missed.

Agreed. Saw him live a few times. Always awesome. Portland, OR, Paris, FR, Bangor, ME...... He lived and sang the good life, beaches, boats, airplanes.... I'm pretty certain he'd approve of "beaches" at ski areas. RIP.

 

[jimk]

Consider this:

Steve Harwell lead singer of rock group Smash Mouth, songs on the Billboard charts: Three hit the top 10: “Walkin' on the Sun” (No. 2, 1998), “All Star” (No. 1 for six weeks, 1999) and “Then the Morning Comes” (No. 5, 2000). Two others hit the top 20: “Can't Get Enough of You Baby” (No. 18, 1998) and “I'm a Believer” (No. 15, 2001)

Net worth at time of death: $2.5 million.

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Jimmy Buffett songs on the Billboard charts:

“Cheeseburger in Paradise”​

Another in the long line of Buffett’s trademark feel-good anthems (and the most mouth-watering), it hit No. 32 on the Hot 100 in June 1978.

“Come Monday”​

The song reached No. 32 on the Hot 100 in July 1974. His first top 40 Hot 100 single also hit No. 3 on Adult Contemporary, where it became his first of two top 10s.

“Margaritaville”​

Buffett’s most recognized hit brought him to the Hot 100’s top 10, peaking at No. 8 in July 1977. It also lifted him to No. 1 on Adult Contemporary and reached No. 13 on Hot Country Songs.

“It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere”​

Jackson and Buffett’s duet reached No. 17 on the Hot 100 in September 2003, becoming Buffett’s highest-charting hit in 26 years.

“Knee Deep”​

Zac Brown Band’s song featuring Buffett climbed to No. 18 on the Hot 100 in August 2011. It also spent a week at No. 1 on Hot Country Songs, marking his second of two leaders.

Net worth at time of death: $1 billion.

 

[2planks2coasts]

Consider this:.......

Only a small part of Buffett's wealth came from his music.

 

[4aprice]

What a weekend of water and music. Starting Friday night at the Jefferson House Tiki Bar with a local band and some dancing.



Then waking up to the devastating news that Jimmy had died. I am so glad that I got to see him several times. He will be missed. Of course that led to playing his music all day Saturday and Sunday Morning and toasting him with various shots out in the cove.

Then Sunday afternoon and night I got to cross off a bucket list item an went to see Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band at Met Life. A Jersey boy seeing a Jersey boy in Jersey. What a great show and I don't believe I have ever heard a crowd sing louder when he played some of the biggies off Born to Run and Darkness on the Edge of Town.



Then Monday the news of the Smash Mouth singer and today I heard Gary Wright passed away as well. Like I said what a weekend.

 

[KustyTheKlown]

nice. i was at bruce on sunday. really good show.

do you think it was a mistake the way the house lights turned on during born to run and stayed on for the last 5 or 6 songs?

at first i thought they wanted big lights for the big song, and perhaps bruce likes the lights up so he can really see the crowd. but when they stayed on it just felt weird. like not how a concert should be. so bright. jarring. my theory is that these lights were thrown on by mistake, and that there's a shutdown/start up issue with turning them off and then firing them back up shortly after when the show actually ended, so they just left them on. really killed my buzz for what should have been the peak of the show (born to run, rosalita, 10th ave)

re: buffet and hits. wasnt about hits. much like the dead, buffet was about supplying a hardcore cult fanbase with what they wanted, with little regard for mainstream markers of success. his money came from being a massive touring machine and then creating/licensing the margaritaville brand to tons of stuff from hard goods to restaurants to cruises to resorts. real american dreamer.

re: smashmouth. does anyone really care about this 3 hit wonder?

 

[Zand]

Lights stayed on the whole encore at Gillette then came down for the final song (and stayed down for like 2 mins after the show was over). I took thought they were just doing it for Born to Run since they started showing crowd shots on the big screen but then when they left them on for the next 30 mins it was kind of a buzz kill and people started streaming out.

 

[KustyTheKlown]

Lights stayed on the whole encore at Gillette then came down for the final song (and stayed down for like 2 mins after the show was over). I took thought they were just doing it for Born to Run since they started showing crowd shots on the big screen but then when they left them on for the next 30 mins it was kind of a buzz kill and people started streaming out.

bizarre. never seen anything like that in hundreds of concerts. house lights up means gtfo and shouldnt go up til after the encore.

 

[crank]

I've seen shows where they bring the house lights up for a song or part of a song but not for a bunch of songs.

Went to Rhythm & Roots Fest in Charlestown, RI this past Friday Saturday and Sunday.

Some NOLA, some Blues , some bluegrass and some other just a good time, bunch of old hippies and good music. Caught some good natured shyte for wearing my Jets Sweatshirt in patriots country.

Favorite band of the weekend was the Infamous Stringdusters. The closing act, Greensky Bluegrass played a nice cover of Come Monday.

We played a lot of Jimmy Buffet tunes at our rental house.

I'm supposed to play a party gig with my band on Saturday. I think we'll play Come Monday and Margaritaville... Maybe Why Don't We Get Drunk and Screw.

 

[Domeskier]

Once at Xanadu I heard them plan Atlantic City in the food court. It was the original. Not the far superior The Band cover.