"So sorry Kelly... never met him but was lucky enough to be in his sphere a couple of times."
The world woke to the news, this mourning, that Jimmy Buffett had died at the age of 76. The man who popularized “gulf and western” music was most famous for his one top ten hit Margaritaville, which encouraged an aimless beach lifestyle. Buffett, who turned the song into a billion dollar brand, was much loved by surfers and especially the greatest of all-time, Kelly Slater.
The 11x champion took to Instagram in the wee hours in order to pen a moving tribute.
“I grew up listening to Jimmy Buffett with my family. His music basically outlined the lives we desired… fishing, diving, dreaming about being in the tropics, playing music and just living the dream.”
Slater goes on to describe how he first met Buffett in France in 2010. After his father died, he informed the artist how much he reminded him of his dad and “from that moment on he kind of became a surrogate for me.”
Buffett, Slater said, would call and check in regularly, giving him advice, etc.
“I’m having a tough time accepting his passing, he continued, “but I do feel blessed to have some incredible memories every single time I hung out with him.
Slater ended with, “It 5 o’clock somewhere, Jimmy and I know you’d be smoking a joint with a drink in your hand and a huge smile on your face like any good pirate would.”
Tributes poured in.
Bruce Weber, famed photographer who captured Slater at his dreamiest, wrote, “It’s crazy Kelly so many friends and heroes are going off to another great island – I guess it just makes you want to keep going on until your bags are packed full of memories…”
Surf industry icon Bob Hurley said, “So sorry Kelly… never met him but was lucky enough to be in his sphere a couple of times… very well said… resonates soooo true… we are fortunate to have his work and good vibes live on.”
Songstress Jewel, “Awwww man! So sad! He was great!”
Surf stud Josh Kerr, “Great words! Such a iconic man!’
On and on it went.
Much sad but, hopefully, comfort in the Slater home tonight.
double b batteries? or D/
FWIW Jimmy Buffet was one of the SHACC’s biggest monetary supporters for many years. Thanks for that.
An Irish pal always refered to him as Fookin’ Jimmy Boofoot.
RIP Fookin’ Jimmy Boofoot
He had a lot of fun and made a lot of people happy. Jimmy is an American legend.
“Encouraged an aimless beach lifestyle.” That’s more to the point than Kelly Slater’s sentimental and twee eulogy.
Friendships are such a blessing. Especially the ones where you share each other’s fame. It can even surpass life itself.
Kelly playing a guitar with a Florentine cut-0ut like he’s gonna shred a solo high up on the neck. Douche!
First time I ever smoked weed was at a Buffett show around summer of 91. Incredible fun. RIP
Filipe Toledo’s, “Caramba, estou com medo de coral.”
“Damn, I’m scared of coral!” Is this really what they put on the jersey? Fucking hilarious!
Buffet?
Was standing behind David Byrne at one in London.
He bent down,spread his arms wide,and whispered to the sausage rolls ‘You are ALL my children’.
Yeah he came from mobile and tonight I’m guessing water Street will be playing all his music and the parrot heads will be crying and singing all 30 albums of songs so I’m sure to stay far..far away . They wear these Goofy parrot hats and can’t hold there liquor for shit and I can’t stand to hear a drunk with a funny hat on try to sing wasted away in Margaritaville for the 10,000th time… On the bright side surf was a foot overhead yesterday in Alabama and so clean it was amazing…. Maybe next year.
Still getting a ripple here from Idalia….
I feel like Jewel paying attention to Kelly should be a bigger part of this story.
Kelly reminds me
Of my Dad, short, bald, grumpy
And slightly unhinged
Fins to the left!
If we weren’t all crazy, we’d all go insane. Fill up you tin cup chalice with your beverage of choice and enjoy. Shit is over too fast. Offrocker and Jimmy now splitting a peak. All of us will be there one day. Do something crazy today, fuckers, ideally involving a surfboard and laughter.
My Mum and Dad are devastated too
Christ, Kelly Slater always wants to be the bride at every wedding, and the corpse at every funeral.
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his music may inspire aimless beach lifestyles, but one look at his fan-base would inspire any slacker to get a haircut, some dad sneakers, move away from Kokomo, and study global finance
It’s still a shame that Margaritaville will always overshadow Coconut Pete’s Piñacoladaberg, a little song written seven and a half fucking years before Margaritaville was on the map. And in spite of Coconut Pete’s death in the horrific Pleasure Island murders in Costa Rica nearly 20 years ago, his music never got the credit it deserved.
Not to mention Bunderburgberg!
The fighting juice of bogans immortalised by Kevin Bloody Wilson xox
Aww, the hillbilly pretend beach guy!? He was a visitor to Epstein Island, and preferred that Children be read pornography. The World is better off without these boomer-groomers! Ba-bye!
“You got fins to the left, fins to the right, and you’re the only bait in town”
no mention from KS that JB may have been a primary character in “Thai Stick…”
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that is some low-grade dirt weed if i ever saw it, in keeping with the Buffett vibes!
no way! that’s what thai looked like and the sights that came with it. South Bay in the mid-70s was the last time I’ve seen this!
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I smoked some really good Thai sticks back in the day.
early 70s, thai sticks arrived in SD, blew all the other herbs away. Looked funky, but very clean and strong. No crap indica dna mixed in.
Pure seeds still very sought after.
Pure Thai seeds hermi and take forever to flower. You can them from some Nor Cal breeders. Pure Vietnamese also
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Im always harping on new 3 month wonder strains. Not a fan……but my backyard grows are over. Most sativas do take seemingly forever, I had a difficult time with them here at Cal coast when I tried to grow. They love that 12/12 cycle. Times have REALLY changed since my farm days though. I still dislike Indica high but grant that it has dna characteristics worth mixing.
Great pics at that Instagram, seemed like the guy vanished though?
I liked it when you could get either pure Indica or pure Sativa . Back when there was Humboldt skunk Indica or Thai sticks. Pure indica doesn’t really exist here anymore.
Yea looks like that guy packed it up
I guess . Legalization made it hard to make any money.
Yeah, I agree. haha I just remembered “hash plant” strain……ha..
I still think there are opportunities for making money though, specialty strains etc. underground sales, skip all the legal stuff. Maybe not the money of old, but that was absurd anyways. $500/lb is still not bad farming pay, even strawberries arent that expensive….yet.
Plenty of pure kush strains around. Probably more now than ever before, now that getting seeds from Afghanistan and Pakistan is so easy.
Snowhigh has MS , that’s why he isn’t around.
If you want to grow pure tropical strains this is a good site to get seeds from https://www.zomiacollective…
Bunkey Sprecklers and sampangs and deep sea fishing boats and trawlers with no nets…in international waters. Need seeds?
Land race sativas!!! I be down at Mondos nowadays, getting burned by teenage girls!! haha…….Just leave em on the hood of my Tundra. Gracias amigo.
Snowhigh has MS. Don’t think he is doin so well.
Here is a good site for landrace genetics from their origin –
https://www.zomiacollective…
Thanx….that site is crazy………..wow. wish the commercial ops here were interested in these strains, instead of “30 day wonder” ha