Post #366854 by bb moondog on Fri, Mar 14, 2008 7:09 AM

....because his stuff is just warmed over COUNTRY ROCK with steel drums (occasionally), while the REAL exoticats at LEAST did the instrumentation right, even though their music was pretty much as ersatz as Buffetts--only in a more EVOCATIVE way of the native musics & locales they WERE ATTEMPTING to invoke!...and from the looks of a LOT of people on this site, there are MANY that were around when Buffett was NOT the major ENTERPRISE he is today..which, speaking less negatively...is HARDLY his doing...more so the Parrot heads who i think were REALLY BUMMED when Jerry died and needed something NEW to fixate on

..and REALLY i am not a big Buffett HATER at all--i like his books and the IDEA of Buffett more than the REALITY and the MUSIC..he seems like a REALLY COOL guy and probably embodies the tiki spirit more than many..its the FANS that have even created the VAGUEST NEED for any forum like this at all.