What's wrong with Jimmy Buffett? - Beyond Tiki

S Swanky Tiki Socialite Hapa Haole Hideaway, Knoxville, TN Joined: Apr 03, 2002 Posts: 5398	S Swanky Posted posted on Thu, May 16, 2002 10:42 AM It also reminds me of being at some show that was billed as Blues, and it was really some loud rock and roll band. When I said I didn't like it, this guy got all offended and said "You don't like the Blues?" I love the Blues. Gimme Little Walter and John Lee Hooker, not Black Sabbath or Stevie Ray Vaughn. Jimmy Buffett is just soft rock. No calypso, no hawaiian guitar, no nothing. Just listening to the music, I wouldn't associate it with Hawaii or tiki. If someone walked into a Tiki bar and had never heard of Buffett and it was playing, they'd hate it. They wouldn't think it fit at all. Because it doesn't. Not the mood. At least the sounds of a reggae band have the ambience of the Carribean, as does calypso and other musics. For the purest, maybe they would gripe. But for the untrained ear, it's a decent fit. It's like the Leopard Lounge in Atlanta. Click here to see To look at the place, you think "Wow! What a great lounge!" And they say they play lounge. Then you get there and it's dance music and absolutely non-lounge crap. I don't like soft rock. I don't care for Buffett. And I hate the soroity girls who sing his songs at full volume in the bars. I personally do not associate him with tiki or tropical even. He does not evoke "island paradise" to me. Just drunken pitifulness. His association to me is about as welcome as when you are dressed to the nines in vintage lounge-wear and having a martini and some goof comes up and says I'm "Money." Or "YEeeahhh Baby, Yeah!"

It also reminds me of being at some show that was billed as Blues, and it was really some loud rock and roll band. When I said I didn't like it, this guy got all offended and said "You don't like the Blues?" I love the Blues. Gimme Little Walter and John Lee Hooker, not Black Sabbath or Stevie Ray Vaughn.

Jimmy Buffett is just soft rock. No calypso, no hawaiian guitar, no nothing. Just listening to the music, I wouldn't associate it with Hawaii or tiki. If someone walked into a Tiki bar and had never heard of Buffett and it was playing, they'd hate it. They wouldn't think it fit at all. Because it doesn't. Not the mood.

At least the sounds of a reggae band have the ambience of the Carribean, as does calypso and other musics. For the purest, maybe they would gripe. But for the untrained ear, it's a decent fit.

It's like the Leopard Lounge in Atlanta. Click here to see To look at the place, you think "Wow! What a great lounge!" And they say they play lounge. Then you get there and it's dance music and absolutely non-lounge crap.

I don't like soft rock. I don't care for Buffett. And I hate the soroity girls who sing his songs at full volume in the bars. I personally do not associate him with tiki or tropical even. He does not evoke "island paradise" to me. Just drunken pitifulness.

His association to me is about as welcome as when you are dressed to the nines in vintage lounge-wear and having a martini and some goof comes up and says I'm "Money." Or "YEeeahhh Baby, Yeah!"

Post #1522 by Swanky on Thu, May 16, 2002 10:42 AM