Jimmy Buffett Tickets

Jimmy Buffett and his Coral Reefer Band and their "island escapism" music are bringing Margaritaville to audiences across the country with their 2007 Bama Breeze Tour.

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Notorious for their concerts as well as the lifestyle and partying that accompany the tours, "Come Monday" tickets to see Buffett fly out the window. His fan base of "Parrotheads" enjoy eating Cheeseburgers in Paradise and a restaurant has even opened to capitalize on the success of that song. Starting in 1960 in Nashville, Buffett has historically been more successful with his tours than his albums.

Buffett's 2004 release of License to Chill broke onto the US pop albums charts for the first time in his 30-year career. Most concerts sell out in minutes, and Buffett has taken to playing on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. Most concerts are 27 to 30 songs in length, with a ten minute intermission at about the 12th or 14th song. Shows almost always end with at least two encores. Come Monday is always played within the shows' first set, and there has never been a tour that A Pirate Looks At Forty was not played during the second set.

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Descriptions of the goings-on outside Jimmy Buffett's gigs range from a crazed pirate scene to something more befitting a big football game; masses of tailgaters and boozers throng the parking lots of the stadiums where he plays, all functioning as one big happy family. Inflatable plastic fetish items such as Parrots and sharks abound, as well as girls in bikinis, and shirtless guys wandering around looking for drinking partners or someone with whom to share the contents of their frozen blender. It's definitely not your average concert scene, but its irresistible and tickets to Jimmy Buffett are understandably in high demand wherever he plays.

Many of the revelers arrive hours in advance to stake their claim to a decent spot in Margaritaville, the name given to the alternative world which suddenly explodes into life on Buffett concert day, packed with guys and gals fortunate enough to have acquired Jimmy Buffett tickets. The fans are known as parrotheads, many of whom follow the tour around the country, Grateful Dead style, snapping up the concert tickets as they're released and hunkering down for a day's technicolor mayhem and partying.

According to Buffett legend, it was actually a member of Buffett's own band who coined the term parrothead. Some parrotheads show up early in the morning of the gig, and proceed to construct their barbeques, inflatable tropical animals, and to don Hawaiian shirts in preparation of the coming musical fiesta. Deck-chairs and coolers are de rigeur, but the mock beach scenes are reserved only for the truly dedicated, with sand and maybe even a small water body to simulate the ocean. Many parrotheads claim that the party atmosphere is as important as the concert, and that the day leading up to the gig is often more memorable than the gig itself. Not a one of them would ever give up their Jimmy Buffett tickets, though, because to not go into the arena and see the legendary singer perform would be sacrilege.