Jimmy Buffett Live Experience

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Jimmy Buffett Concerts and tours

Setlist Structure

Buffett and the Coral Reefer Band are famous for their concerts. Most shows consist of 26–30 songs and two separate encores.

With the exception of Fruitcakes ’94[19] and License to Chill ’04,[20] Come Monday is played during the first set of the show. Usually, after 12 to 14 songs, a 20-minute intermission is taken while a video plays for the fans.

The first part of the second set usually consists of slower songs. There has never been a tour where A Pirate Looks At Forty hasn’t been played during the second set.

The first encore usually consists of two songs. After the first song, Buffett introduces the band, and then they segue into the second song. The second encore usually consists of a single acoustic ballad. A Pirate Looks At Forty is a typical closer at shows, however, Buffett sometimes takes the opportunity to choose a more obscure song to perform such as: He Went to Paris, Changing Channels, Defying Gravity, Nautical Wheelers, Survive, Tin Cup Chalice, Twelve Volt Man, Distantly in Love etc.

Fins, mostly performed during the first encore in recent years, is always preluded by the Jaws theme as a teaser, which gets the fans pumped. Buffett calls out to the Parrotheads, or "land-sharks", to get their "fins up"! The fans raise their hands in the air, in the manner of a dorsal fin, and wave it left and right. "Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes" usually has a video of local parrotheads in the arena/venue parking lot playing over its performance. "Why Don’t We Get Drunk" is sometimes performed in a different style (Tiki Time ’03 Hawaiian style, Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays ’00 performed karaoke style, Banana Wind Tour ’96 audience members selected to perform, and Jimmy Jump Up ’90 performed sing-along style). "One Particular Harbour" is played for women and men wearing hula-skirts. "It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere" is performed with Mac McAnally taking Alan Jackson’s place.

The band will also often throw in references to and skits about the actual venue they’re playing to please home town fans. As an example, when Buffett and the Coral Reefers performed at Fenway Park, Boston, in September 2004, they added a performance of Take Me Out To The Ball Game featuring Dr. Charles Steinberg on organ, segued Why Don’t We Get Drunk into Red Sox favorite Sweet Caroline, and attempted to reverse the Curse of the Bambino (some even claim they were successful, as the Red Sox won their first World Series in over 80 years a few weeks later).

Buffett will sometimes kick the tour off with an obscure opening cover song. A Salty Piece of Land ’05 opened with Little Feat’s "Time Loves a Hero"[21] in South Carolina, and Bama Breeze ’07 opened with Willie Nelson’s "On the Road Again" in Houston and Burgettstown, Pennsylvania.

[edit] "The Big 8" and Standard Songs

Before 2003, songs played at every Buffett show were known as the Big 8. With the success of the Alan Jackson duet "It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere", and the rising popularity of "One Particular Harbour", the list of songs played at every show have now gone from 8 to 10. The "Big 8" were:

1. "Margaritaville"
2. "Come Monday"
3. "Fins"
4. "Volcano"
5. "A Pirate Looks At Forty"
6. "Cheeseburger in Paradise"
7. "Why Don’t We Get Drunk (And Screw)" — Only played occasionally, as of 2007
8. "Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes"

However, neither Buffett nor the Coral Reefers have ever used the term "Big 10" for the new line-up.

This list doesn’t necessarily mean that those songs have been played at every show. "A Pirate Looks at Forty" was not played during the George, Washington ’92 show.[22] "Cheeseburger in Paradise" was excluded from two setlists during the 1998 tour.[23] "One Particular Harbour" was left out of 11 shows during the 1997 tour,[24] not to mention every show during the 1988 & 1989 tour.[25] "Why Don’t We Get Drunk" wasn’t played at all during the Bama Breeze tour, and has since only returned to be played on an occasional basis. "Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes" did not appear during the opening Tiki Time ’03 show in Houston.[26] "It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere" was omitted from first of the two Irvine shows in 2006.[27]

Other notable songs that are played at almost all shows, but have been dropped on occasion, are "Son of a Son of a Sailor", Van Morrison’s "Brown Eyed Girl" and Crosby, Stills and Nash’s "Southern Cross". However, it’s not unusual for these three songs to be dropped from a show, therefore they aren’t considered a standard.

List of tours

* 1976: A Pink Crustacean Tour
* 1978: Cheeseburger in Paradise Tour
* 1979: A Hot Dog & A Road Map Tour
* 1979: You Had to Be There / Volcano Tour
* 1980: Coconut Telegraph Tour
* 1980: Homecoming Tour
* 1982: Somewhere over China Tour
* 1984: Feeding Frenzy Tour
* 1985: Last Mango in Paris Tour
* 1986: World Tour of Florida
* 1987: A Pirate Looks At Forty Tour
* 1988: Cheap Vacation Tour
* 1988: Hot Water Tour
* 1989: Off To See The Lizard Tour
* 1990: Jimmy’s Jump Up Tour
* 1991: Outpost Tour
* 1992: Rece$$ion Rece$$ Tour
* 1993: Chameleon Caravan Tour

* 1994: Fruitcakes Tour
* 1995: Domino College Tour
* 1996: Banana Wind Tour
* 1997: Havana Daydreamin’ Tour
* 1998: Don’t Stop The Carnival Tour
* 1999: Beach House On The Moon Tour
* 2000: Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays Tour
* 2001: A Beach Odyssey Tour
* 2002: Far Side of the World Tour
* 2003: Tiki Time Tour
* 2004: License To Chill Tour
* 2005: A Salty Piece Of Land Tour
* 2006: Party At The End Of The World Tour
* 2007: Bama Breeze Tour
* 2008: Year of Still Here Tour
* 2009: Summerzcool Tour