So many great memories with family and friends. I met so many good and intersting people at his shows; it was and is a great community of people. My wife and I will miss our annual trip to Parrotheadland Rest in Peace, my friend. You will be missed and celebrated

I was hoping to see him in Vegas next October.

More than most musicians passing. Saw him 7 times, thankful my daughter got to see him once.

“ 'Margaritaville,' released on Feb. 14, 1977, quickly took on a life of its own, becoming a state of mind for those ” 'wastin’ away,' an excuse for a life of low-key fun and escapism for those 'growing older, but not up.' "The song is the unhurried portrait of a loafer on his front porch, watching tourists sunbathe while a pot of shrimp is beginning to boil. The singer has a new tattoo, a likely hangover and regrets over a lost love. Somewhere there is a misplaced salt shaker. 'What seems like a simple ditty about getting blotto and mending a broken heart turns out to be a profound meditation on the often painful inertia of beach dwelling,” Spin magazine wrote in 2021. “The tourists come and go, one group indistinguishable from the other. Waves crest and break whether somebody is there to witness it or not. Everything that means anything has already happened and you’re not even sure when.' " --------- "Rolling Stone, in a review of Buffett’s 2020 album 'Life on the Flip Side,' gave grudging props. 'He continues mapping out his surfy, sandy corner of pop music utopia with the chill, friendly warmth of a multi-millionaire you wouldn’t mind sharing a tropically-themed 3 p.m. IPA with, especially if his gold card was on the bar when the last round came.' ” --------- "Buffett was actually in Austin, Texas, when the inspiration struck for 'Margaritaville.' He and a friend had stopped for lunch at a Mexican restaurant before she dropped him at the airport for a flight home to Key West, so they got to drinking margaritas. “ 'And I kind of came up with that idea of this is just like Margarita-ville,' Buffett told the Republic. 'She kind of laughed at that and put me on the plane. And I started working on it.' "He wrote some on the plane and finished it while driving down the Keys. 'There was a wreck on the bridge,' he said. 'And we got stopped for about an hour so I finished the song on the Seven Mile Bridge, which I thought was apropos.' ” ** Edited by PhotoHokieNC at 9/2/2023, 8:57:45 AM

A couple of us were heading to a Phins preseason game, and a FHP trooper was able to turn around on the bridge to come after me. I started to slow as I passed the speed limit sign that dropped the limit 10 mph approaching Marathon. The trooper cut me zero slack...9 mph over the speed limit. I attended the traffic class in Key West to get the ticket taken off my license. The class only consisted of someone telling us where all of the speed traps were in the Keys. That was actually worthwhile...lol

Enjoyed many of his concerts back in the day.

said on social media that he had been in the hospital. Then it said he was surrounded by family, friends, music and his dogs. Makes me think he was at home, and whatever took him from us too soon was fairly recent??

He cancelled shows back in May after being hospitalized and also cancelled dates last October after another hospitalization. Seems he had been dealing with something.

just hard".. I see now that his health had been failing.. GHe will be missed........... RIP