I took some time to think about Jimmy Buffett’s passing. I enjoyed him since the early 1970s and loved to sail over from Niagara to his concerts at the Molson amphitheater in Toronto and it was almost a fun religious event.
Back when Compuserve was big, I accidentally got backstage for about 5 hours and met him snd his team. I was in heaven.
I wasn’t allowed to take pictures and this was far before I was a photographer, but I did surreptitiously take one photo that captured the moment, I thought at the time.
When I got back to Niagara I gave the only copy to my favourite bartender.
A couple of days ago I was sitting on the sailboat and thought, for some reason how much fun it would have been to do a portrait shoot of Jimmy Buffett. I’m sure his Songs You Know By Heart would have been dancing through my head while I was setting lighting, relating to the subject of the photograph, fiddling with the camera’s knobs and creating the vision of the artist that had made me so happy for so many years.
The picture happened and it was as close to a photoshoot with Jimmy Buffet as I could ever get, but somewhere a bartender named Lenny has that germ of my dream on his mantelpiece.
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Phil,
I would love to join you guys, when I finish this semester for my gap year(s). I sailed tons while in school in Miami. Powerboats and sail boats. I done ASA up to 106 at the Biscayne Bay Academy and am good on car electronics. I have an oscilloscope and electrical tools. I figure you must be down near the Bahamas but cant find you on AIS. I would love to head to the Asores. Steve