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Paullelujah!

By Matt LeMay

Coup D'etat

November 20, 2002

Sometimes it's best to stand aside and let a record speak for itself.

"I've got a very goth towel/ A terrycloth cowl/ And when I wear it/ I'm a hairy moth owl."

"I'm iller than the Iliad/ And show more than Shoah/ While you're so corny you've got a SOH-CAH-TOA/ PEMDAS EFX the number one skirmisher."

"I'm advancing the art form/ De-pantsing a fart storm/ Some people don't like thinking/ I guess it's too hard for 'em."

"I bungee jump/ Into my grungy dump/ And come up with a trust fund-y dust bunny spongy clump."

A few more pieces of information to give you a pretty clear picture of what Paullelujah! is trying to say:

All of the above quotations are taken from the same song, "Excuse You".

The "very goth towel" line actually appears in two songs: the aforementioned "Excuse You" and "Vulture Shark Sculpture Park".

The line, "My dandy voice makes the most anti-choice granny's panties moist," from Paul's It's Very Stimulating EP, is repeated on Paullelujah! in the chorus of the song "Cock Mobster".

Nonsensical, awkward alliterative rhymes! Lame-ass mnemonic devices from high school math class! Gratuitous references to Greek epic poetry! Wow, Paul Barman sure is one clever, well-educated guy. He can rhyme words with other words! He's an iconoclast! In a thigh-high condom cast! Building upon the past like Monet painting a pond and grass!

So what exactly is Paul trying to say with Paullelujah ? Well, let's see... Paul's rhymes consist mainly of vaguely clever attacks on trendy ultra-liberal types, totally out-of-place references to art and academia, third grade poop humor that would probably lead most third graders to kick the shit out of him, and aimless, self-indulgent wordplay. What can we learn from all this? Obviously, that Paul is a smart fellow! He knows lots of stuff about everything! Hey, he rhymes about John Cage! And rapping about John Cage is like crapping on a fond sage! Or an actor napping when he's supposed to be on stage! Hey, that's more confusing than reading a Jacques Lacan page!

Yes, that's right, it's fun to see how many consecutive rhymes you can construct for a given phrase, regardless of logic and meaning! It's not even that difficult! And when you're done, you're left with that wonderful sense of smug self-satisfaction that you can only get from doing something completely fucking useless.

On Barman's It's Very Stimulating EP, the relatively consistent theme of sex at least gave Barman some kind of focus, resulting in some genuinely funny rhymes. Here, he's all over the place, the only at all constant theme in Barman's raps being... well, Barman himself. It was kind of funny the first time around, when Paul opened his EP with the line, "My brain makes the earth dark/ But I'm hung like a birthmark," but on the unrelentingly self-glorifying Paullelujah! , Barman tries to play both sides, dropping endless, useless bits of trivial knowledge as well as endless, useless references to his endless, useless store of trivial knowledge, while glibly playing up his own weaknesses as an MC.

And indeed, Barman's flow is even worse on Paullelujah! than it was on It's Very Stimulating . He trips up on his own words so much that it's often hard figure out what he's saying. Thankfully, it doesn't really matter what he's saying-- twenty seconds into the record, you'll probably have already stopped giving a shit.

And it's kind of a shame, too, because Barman got some pretty talented producers to help him out on this record. Old standby Prince Paul, modern-day innovator MF Doom, and probable furry Phofo, all lend their production skills to the record. Some of the beats-- most notably MF Doom's contribution to "The Anarchist Bookstore"-- are pretty tight, but any rhythmic complexities present in the beats are immediately bulldozed by Barman's lame and awkward rhyming. It's always been clear that Paul likes to be the center of attention-- and though some of the beats on Paullelujah! are pretty creative, they're always kept repetitive enough that you'll eventually have no choice but to pay attention to Paul's lame-ass rhymes.

I could spend another ten pages going into the specifics of why this album is disastrous, but I don't think that's necessary. Instead, I'll briefly summarize what you can learn from listening to Paullelujah! , leaving absolutely no reason for you to bother with it.

Paul Barman is a smart, educated, politically informed guy. He knows stuff about art and math and stuff. And he can rhyme, like, anything. He's probably way smarter than you. Seriously.

But he's not like those other smart, educated, politically informed guys. Because he makes fun of them. So he's smarter than them, too. Seriously.

But, seriously, don't take him that seriously. Because he thinks poop is really funny, and there are goofy skits and stuff on the record. Hey, remember De La Soul? Didn't they do goofy skits? Didn't Prince Paul produce them, too? Didn't it actually seem relevant back then?

So, in conclusion, Paul Barman has recorded the perfect album for his target audience-- assuming, of course, that his target audience is Paul Barman. I can only hope he enjoys it as much as I do.

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Jimmy Buffett Tribute at Hollywood Bowl Brings Together Paul McCartney, Eagles, Snoop Dogg, Harrison Ford, Brandi Carlile, Jane Fonda and Scores of Stars

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Paul McCartney was the obvious headliner of the bill Thursday at the Hollywood Bowl. But it was Buffett-mania that was in full sway, as a cast of dozens of singers and celebrity presenters — from Jane Fonda to Snoop Dogg — saluted or parroted a fallen musical hero for the three-and-a-half-hour “Keep The Party Going: A Tribute to Jimmy Buffett .”

Most of the night’s entertainers covered Buffett classics or obscurities, although McCartney, the Eagles and Snoop Dogg broke with that to regale the full Bowl house with their own material, while Zac Brown and (sending in a video contribution) Dave Matthews debuted brand new songs saluting Buffett.

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The cast of singers and musicians bringing a sometimes elegiac, sometimes anything-but-sober tone to the proceedings included Brandi Carlile , Sheryl Crow, Kenny Chesney, Jackson Browne, Eric Church, J.D. Souther, Angelique Kidjo, Zac Brown, Jake Shimabukuro, Jake Owen, Jack Johnson, Scotty Emerick, Mac McAnally, Caroline Jones and the unlikely cross-genre pairing of Pitbull with Jon Bon Jovi.

“Hollywood-fucking-Bowl, come on!” exhorted McCartney, no stranger to the venue. Settling down, the former Beatle said: “I had the great pleasure of knowing Jimmy, and like everyone else on the bill has said, this was one great man. He was generous; he was funny; he had done just about everything in his life. I say he was so generous: I was on holiday with him and I forgot to bring my guitar, so he had his own guitar strung left-handed for me. And then the next time I saw him, he had one custom-made, left-handed, for me.”

“In the last week of his life,” McCartney continued, “I was invited up to his house by Janey… to sing a couple of songs for Jimmy. And he was in a pretty bad way, but he still had that twinkle in his eye. So I thought I’d sing one of those songs I sang for him tonight.” After “Let It Be,” McCartney returned to the stage with the rest of the ensemble, conspicuously carrying a margarita.

If anyone was wondering what Buffett covers he, the Eagles or Snoop were going to work up for the evening, there were no rules about having to interpret his catalog. The Eagles did a mini-greatest-hits set, without speaking about Buffett (Joe Walsh’s “How ya doin'” was the sum total of their dialogue), although some meaning may have been intended in the choice of songs, if we can consider Buffett to have been a boy of summer who took it to the limit.

However, Timothy B. Schmit did get his own number earlier in the evening, recalling the three years that he spent as a member of the Coral Reefer Band at Buffett’s behest in the ’80s, after the Eagles broke up. He sang the cheerful potential-disaster anthem “Volcano,” after bragging to the crowd that it was during that run as a Buffett sideman that he coined the term “parrothead.”

As for Snoop, he was not about to work up his own version of “A Pirate Looks at 40,” but did pipe in with a shared love of recreational whatever. As Apatow said a little later, “I must’ve gotten stoned on Jimmy’s gummies backstage, because I swear to God, I thought I just saw Snoop Dogg sing ‘Gin and Juice’ with the Coral Reefer Band.”

Most of the rest of the night consisted of interpretations Buffett chestnuts. Befitting her status as rock’s perennial saluter-with-the-mostest, Carlile was the only performer of the night other than Coral Reefer Mac McAnally to sing two Buffett covers. She hit both his partying and contemplative modes with back-to-back renditions of “Come Monday” and “Tin Cup Chalice.”

But, she continued, “he was so good to me, and I feel like he was good to me mostly because he knew how much I loved his wife, Jane, who is one of my most precious, precious friends. He would text me and he’d say, ‘This is Jimmy, Jane’s husband, Brandi. I need a favor. I’ve got some lesbians that want to go fishing with you.”… Jane used to call him ‘dude.’ I just so deeply admired the beauty and timelessness and the power of their love story. Jimmy and Jane’s love story is one for the ages.”

Carlile was introduced by Jane Fonda as “a woman that I admire from the bottom of my heart, one of the great American singers who never ceases to surprise us with her style and range, it’s so vast.” But she mostly came to praise Buffett, saying, “Even now, Jimmy has the ability to, like Tinkerbell spread happiness all over. … He was such a generous man, generous of heart, generous of spirit. He loved people and that’s why we love him, because … even through his music, you could feel that.” On the lighter side, she insisted at the top of her speech that “I was actually the one that smoked a bowl with Jimmy on the roof of the Vatican,” and she comically ended it with: “Just remember that about the Vatican roof and everything.”

Harrison Ford got one of the most rousing receptions from the crowd, which led him to playfully snark, “Simmer down,” before getting into his own Buffett story. “Jimmy Buffett was a cool guy,” he said. “I remember one day I had a long, some might say boozy lunch with Jimmy and Ed Bradley for Bradley’s birthday. I saw both of ’em had earrings. So right after lunch, I got my ear pierced. That’s just how infectious Jimmy’s coolness was — infectious enough for a 40-year-old man to spontaneously get his fucking ear pierced.

“And,” Ford continued, “infectious enough to create an entire culture around his music. There is no other way to say it. There will never be another like Jimmy. Usually cool guys ae not that nice. Jimmy was more than nice: He was kind. He was beloved by his family, by his friends, by his crew and his collaborators, and he loved them all back.”

Don Johnson got a bit saltier still in his introduction of the Eagles. As the brother of Jane Buffett, he recalled a special night “when Jimmy was cooking and he made some of the most delicious duck I’ve ever had. The flavors were so strong they were able to break through the insane amount of cocaine that we had done.” After a long laugh, he added, “Aspen in the ’80s.” With a bit more tenderness, Johnson noted, “Jimmy was a great host, but he was an even better friend. He always made sure that everyone was having the best possible time. He lit up the room with his stories. Some of ’em fact, and most of them fiction — and he turned those stories into bestselling books,” Johnson added, before getting emotional as he read an excerpt from a prose passage Buffett wrote at 50, in which he said, “I have always looked at life as a voyage, mostly wonderful, sometimes frightening…”

“And I said, ‘Jimmy, where are you going?’ And he said, ‘I gotta go get certified for the takeoff and landing at the St. Barts airport.’ Now, the St. Barts airport is death-defying. It’s like a controlled crash, and it’s scary. And he said, ‘I gotta go and I gotta get certified; I gotta go do a bunch of takeoff and landings, like 30 of them… You want to go?’ And I said, ‘Yeah, of course I want to go!’ He said, ‘Great, I’ll just go get my stuff.’ And he left the room. And Jane turned to me and she said, ‘Dude, Jimmy has been in like three plane crashes. You’re not going with him.’ So I bailed.”

Later, Apatow got a dig in. “He and Jane, they’re the most generous, wonderful people ever,” said the comic/filmmaker. “I remember once we were in St. Barts and Jimmy said, ‘Do you wanna fly with me? I have to practice landing at the airport 30 times.’ And I said, yeah — and it was fine. He did a good job. The moral of the story is: Will Arnett is a pussy. Get in the plane, be a man.”

Jon Bon Jovi amplified the flying motif. “He’s the only guy I’ve ever met that used to show up to a picnic or a rock show dressed in the same clothes. And each one of us, you know, we walk around and we go, ‘No, I’m a rock star. I’m a rock star.’ Then Jimmy Buffett walks in the room — he flies his own plane to his own show. That’s a rock star.”

Bon Jovi was on hand to do a duet with Pitbull on the latter’s “Thank God and Jimmy Buffett,” a paean that beat the newly minted tribute songs by Matthews and Brown to the punch by decades. Pitbull told the story of how he let Buffett know he’d written a song about him. They ended up at the same event, and he recalls Buffett asking him, “‘What the fuck are you doing in Nascar?’ I said, ‘Jimmy, man, I’m just taking the page outta your book. But crazy enough, Jimmy, I got this song on my phone I’ve been working on for years at this point, which is called “Thank God and Jimmy Buffett.”‘ And Jimmy looked at me with that little shit-eating grin and he said, ‘Now you’re fucking with me.’ So I played it for him right there off of my phone, being one of the only people at that time to have a Blackberry in the whole world.”

Brown debuted his own “Pirates and Parrots,” which he said will be coming out April 19, in addition to performing a cover of “Knee Deep.”

Crow won the crowd interaction award of the night by performing “Fins,” and doing the overhead shark-fin motions that were a peculiar staple of Buffett shows. She did not have to do a lot of research for the routine: As she explained, she had been a member of the Coral Reefer Band for a spell in the 1980s, prior to signing her recording contract.

McAnally and the Coral Reefer Band still managed to be stars of the show, despite all the starpower on hand. Among the choices McAnally turned in were a song he said he had to keep convincing the boss to keep in the touring setlist, which surprised Buffett, since he considered McAnally to be “the Southern Baptist of the band”: “Why Don’t We Just Get Drunk and Screw.” But McAnally said he knew it to just be a great country song, morality aside, “and if he hadn’t become an icon, he could’ve played college frat gigs the rest of his life off that one song.” In honoring the even more irreverent path not quite taken, McAnally did his comrade proud.

“It’s 5 O’Clock Somewhere” – Mac McAnally & Scotty Emerick “Grapefruit / Juicy Fruit” – Jake Owen “Pencil Thin Mustache” – Scotty Emerick “Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes” – Kenny Chesney “Back Where I Come From” – Kenny Chesney & Mac McAnally “One Particular Harbour” – Angelique Kidjo “Pirates and Parrots” – Zac Brown  “Knee Deep” – Zac Brown “Son of a Son of a Sailor” – Eric Church “Volcano” – Timothy B. Schmidt “Tin Cup Chalice” – Brandi Carlile

“Come Monday” — Brandi Carlile “Cheeseburger in Paradise” – Scotty Emerick “He Went to Paris” – Jackson Browne “Bubbles Up” – Mac McAnally and Caroline Jones “Southern Cross” – J.D. Souther “Why Don’t We Get Drunk” – Mac McAnally “Gin and Juice” – Snoop Dogg “We Will Rock You/While My Guitar Gently Weeps” – Jake Shimabukuro “Don’t Stop the Party” – Pitbull “Thank God and Jimmy Buffett” – Pitbull and Jon Bon Jovi “Fins” – Sheryl Crow “A Pirate Looks at 40” – Jack Johnson and Caroline Jones “Brown Eyed Girl” – Zac Brown (Dave Grohl on drums) “Lovely Cruise” – Dave Matthews (video) “The Boys of Summer” – Eagles “Take it to the Limit” – Eagles “In the City” – Eagles “Let It Be” – Paul McCartney with the Eagles “Margaritaville” – Full cast

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Watch Paul McCartney Play With Eagles at Jimmy Buffett Tribute

Paul McCartney teamed up with Eagles at Thursday night’s Keep the Party Going: A Tribute to Jimmy Buffett , performing “Let It Be.”

McCartney noted from the stage that he’d visited Buffett during the last week of his life and played a few songs for him then. Buffett “was in a pretty bad way, but he still had that twinkle in his eye,” McCartney explained. “Tonight I thought I’d sing one of those songs.”

You can view fan-filmed footage of the performance below.

The concert, which took place at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, also featured performances by Jon Bon Jovi (“Thank God & Jimmy Buffett,” with Pitbull), Sheryl Crow (“Fins”) and Jackson Browne (“He Went to Paris). Before performing with McCartney, Eagles took the stage on their own for renditions of “Boys of Summer,” “Take It to the Limit” and “In the City.”

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Also on the bill was Eric Church, Brandi Carlile, Jack Johnson, Jake Owen, Kenny Chesney, Zac Brown and Buffett’s own Coral Reefer Band.

“We all think we’re rock stars, but he flew his own plane to his own show,” Bon Jovi said during his portion of the show (via the Los Angeles Times ). “That’s a rock star.”

The evening concluded with all of the performers coming together for Buffett’s signature song, “Margaritaville.”

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Paul McCartney celebrated Jimmy Buffett during a tribute concert at the Hollywood Bowl last night, sharing memories of the musician and performing the Beatles ‘ “Let It Be” with the Eagles.

“I had the great pleasure of knowing Jimmy,” McCartney told the audience. “And like everyone else on the bill tonight has said, this is one great man. He was generous, he was funny, he’d done just about everything in his life.”

He added, “I was on holiday with him and I forgot to bring my guitar, so he had his own guitar strung left-handed for me. And then the next time I saw him he’d had one custom made left-handed for me.”

He explained that he sang several songs for Buffett during the last week of his life and wanted to perform one of them for the concert. McCartney, who was introduced by Dave Grohl , showcased the 1970 song at a grand piano while backed by the Eagles.

Elsewhere during the tribute concert, Coral Reefer Band, Brown, and Grohl teamed up for a cover of Van Morrison’s “Brown Eyed Girl,” while Sheryl Crow showcased “Fins.”

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Snoop Dogg also appeared onstage, performing his song “Gin and Juice” for the audience.

Buffett died on Sept. 1, 2023, at the age of 76. At the time, McCartney wrote , “He had a most amazing lust for life and a beautiful sense of humour. When we swapped tales about the past his were so exotic and lush and involved sailing trips and surfing and so many exciting stories that it was hard for me to keep up with him. Right up to the last minute his eyes still twinkled with a humour that said, ‘I love this world and I’m going to enjoy every minute of it’.  So many of us will miss Jimmy and his tremendous personality. His love for us all, and for mankind as a whole.”

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Music + concerts, music + concerts | jimmy buffett tribute brings paul mccartney, jane fonda and more to hollywood bowl, the keep the party going: a tribute to jimmy buffett concert included eagles, harrison ford, brandi carlile, snoop dogg, dave grohl and more..

Rarely in the Hollywood Bowl’s 100-plus years has the storied venue hosted the sheer star wattage from different fields that filled its stage Thursday night, April 11.

The occasion was Keep the Party Going: A Tribute to Jimmy Buffett, a chance for the late singer’s friends in the music and movie worlds (plus a couple of Hall of Fame athletes) to show their love for the tropical troubadour, who died last year of skin cancer at 76. It was the kind of night where you see and hear things you don’t usually see or hear.

“I want to set the record straight — I was the one who smoked a bowl with Jimmy on the roof of the Vatican,” actress Jane Fonda told the sold-out crowd, jokingly correcting a tall tale Woody Harrelson had spun earlier. Tennis legend John McEnroe kept the gag going later by claiming he and Buffett had sparked up on Wimbledon’s Centre Court.

From left, Brandi Carlile, Angelique Kidjo, Sheryl Crow and Jon Bon Jovi share a microphone while performing “Margaritaville” during the finale of Keep the Party Going: A Tribute to Jimmy Buffett on April 11 at the Hollywood Bowl. (Photo by Randall Michelson, Hewitt Silva-Live Nation)

Dave Grohl sits in with the Coral Reefer Band on “Brown-Eyed Girl” during Keep the Party Going: A Tribute to Jimmy Buffett at the Hollywood Bowl on Thursday, April 11. (Photo by Randall Michelson, Hewitt Silva-Live Nation)

Brandi Carlile performs during Keep the Party Going: A Tribute to Jimmy Buffett at the Hollywood Bowl on Thursday, April 11. (Photo by Randall Michelson, Hewitt Silva-Live Nation)

Paul McCartney performs “Let It Be” during Keep the Party Going: A Tribute to Jimmy Buffett on April 11 at the Hollywood Bowl. (Photo by Randall Michelson, Hewitt Silva-Live Nation)

Zac Brown performs with the Coral Reefer Band during Keep the Party Going: A Tribute to Jimmy Buffett on April 11 at the Hollywood Bowl. (Photo by Randall Michelson, Hewitt Silva-Live Nation)

Eagles bassist Timothy B. Schmit performs “Volcano” during Keep the Party Going: A Tribute to Jimmy Buffett on April 11 at the Hollywood Bowl. (Photo by Randall Michelson, Hewitt Silva-Live Nation)

Snoop Dogg leads the crowd in a rendition of “Gin & Juice” during Keep the Party Going: A Tribute to Jimmy Buffett on April 11 at the Hollywood Bowl. (Photo by Randall Michelson, Hewitt Silva-Live Nation)

Pitbull, left, and Jon Bon Jovi perform Pitbull’s song “Thank God & Jimmy Buffett” at the Hollywood Bowl on April 11. (Photo by Randall Michelson, Hewitt Silva-Live Nation)

Jake Shimabukuro performs during Keep the Party Going: A Tribute to Jimmy Buffett on April 11 at the Hollywood Bowl. (Photo by Randall Michelson, Hewitt Silva-Live Nation)

Paul McCartney stands with members of Jimmy Buffett’s Coral Reefer Band at the Hollywood Bowl on Thursday, April 11. (Photo by Randall Michelson, Hewitt Silva-Live Nation)

The evening’s performers sing “Margaritaville” at the end of Keep the Party Going: A Tribute to Jimmy Buffett at the Hollywood Bowl on Thursday, April 11. (Photo by Randall Michelson, Hewitt Silva-Live Nation)

Keep the Party Going: A Tribute to Jimmy Buffett brought out stars of music, movies and sports to honor the late singer-songwriter. (Photo by Randall Michelson, Hewitt Silva-Live Nation)

Paul McCartney, center raises a margarita glass to the sky during the finale of Keep the Party Going: A Tribute to Jimmy Buffett on April 11 at the Hollywood Bowl. (Photo by Randall Michelson, Hewitt Silva-Live Nation)

While tales of the Pirate Laureate’s prodigious partying — both real and embellished — were a regular source of laugh lines, the evening’s emotional touchstone was Buffett’s humanity and generosity of spirit.

“Jimmy Buffett was a cool guy,” actor Harrison Ford said. “There will never be another like Jimmy. Usually, cool guys aren’t that nice. Jimmy was more than nice. He was kind.”

Jon Bon Jovi compared the life lessons he learned from Buffett to being “at the knee of the Jedi.” Added pro surfer Kelly Slater: “He was keenly aware that life is fleeting and we have to make memories while we’re here.”

Paul McCartney, the night’s final individual performer, summed it up this way: “Like everyone else on the bill has said, this was a great man.”

The night was also a celebration of the bond between Buffett and his legions of festively festooned fans, affectionately known as “Parrot Heads,” forged over countless bacchanalian summer tours. “Jimmy liked it best when everybody had a good time,” James Taylor told the crowd in a video he sent from Perth, Australia. “That was his gift.”

But what about the music, you ask? Stunning. Highlight followed highlight over nearly three and a half hours. Again, things you don’t normally see or hear.

• Brandi Carlile pouring her full passion into “Tin Cup Chalice” and “Come Monday,” two of Buffett’s most introspective ballads.
• Jackson Browne delivering a tender reading of “He Went to Paris,” which actor Will Arnett introduced as “Bob Dylan’s favorite Jimmy Buffett song.”
• Ukulele virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro shredding through a medley of “We Will Rock You” and “My Guitar Gently Weeps,” using distortion and delay to great effect.
• Dave Grohl climbing behind the drum kit to power a Zac Brown-led version of Van Morrison’s “Brown-Eyed Girl,” a staple cover in Buffett’s set lists.
• Snoop Dogg getting a largely AARP-aged audience on its feet and singing along with “Gin & Juice.”
• McCartney teaming up with the Eagles for an elegiac version of “Let It Be,” a song the Beatle said he personally sang to Buffett days before his death.

Those weren’t the only strong turns. Kenny Chesney, whose “no shoes” vibe is a direct descendent of Buffett’s Caribbean country style, tore through “Changes in Latitude, Changes in Attitude.” Eagles bassist Timothy B. Schmit — credited with coining the term “Parrot Head” during his stint with Buffett’s Coral Reefer Band — did a cheeky rendition of “Volcano,” changing a lyric to add political commentary. J.D. Souther’s scorching take on “Southern Cross” had the entire venue standing.

Sheryl Crow, who was a back-up singer for Buffett early in her career, had fun with “Fins,” leading fans in the well-known choreography.

Through it all, the Coral Reefer Band provided tight backing, playing with purpose. The band’s singer-guitarist Mac McAnally served as the evening’s amiable MC and kicked things off by singing “It’s 5 O’Clock Somewhere.”

The show cooked along through most of its first three hours until the Coral Reefer Band left the stage. After a video played of an absent Dave Matthews singing “Lonely Cruise,” the Eagles came on to do “Boys of Summer,” “Take It to the Limit” and “In the City” — a polished performance that seemed disconnected from the rest of the show and its intent. The transition time to set up for the Eagles’ mini-set also sapped the night’s brisk pace.

The tribute ended with the expected group sing-along of the Parrot Heads’ national anthem,”Margaritaville,” which sent fans out in an upbeat spirit.

Earlier in the show, before he sang “Son of a Son of a Sailor,” country singer Eric Church recalled a conversation with Buffett where the topic turned to mortality and legacy.

“He said, ‘You know, Eric, guys like us never really die. Because the songs live forever.’”

Keep the Party Going: A Tribute to Jimmy Buffett

Where: Hollywood Bowl

When: April 11

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Paul McCartney toasts Jimmy Buffett with margarita at tribute concert with all-star lineup

LOS ANGELES − In a night filled with wildly eclectic musicians honoring Jimmy Buffett at the Hollywood Bowl Thursday, Paul McCartney captured the range of the "Margaritaville" bard's impossibly wide web of global friendships and joy of living.

Entering the stage late in the "Keep The Party Going" tribute concert, McCartney, 81, spoke about being invited to Buffett's home a week before the party-loving singer/songwriter died of skin cancer in September at age 76.

"He was in a pretty bad way, but he still had a twinkle in his eye," said McCartney, who sat behind the piano to perform the song he had played for his dying friend − the classic ballad "Let It Be." In Thursday's performance, McCartney jammed along with the Eagles and Don Henley .

For the next and final song, McCartney joined music stars − as diverse as Sheryl Crow and Pitbull − for Buffett's signature "Margaritaville," with Sir Paul proudly hoisting a Las Vegas-sized margarita onstage.

"This is a man with a margarita right here," said Mac McAnally, the longtime guitarist from Buffett's Coral Reefer Band, who served as "musical captain" for the evening.

Here's who else kept the Buffett party going in the star-studded concert attended by fans including Al Pacino, Courteney Cox, Larry David and Sean Penn.

Honorary Coral Reefer Sheryl Crow and Brandi Carlile rocked

Crow said she was "an absolute nobody" when Buffett hired her in 1989 to join his Coral Reefer Band.

"I know Jimmy is laughing his ass off," the singer said before breaking into "Fins."

"I need to see some fins!" Crow said, instructing the crowd to put up their “land shark” fins during the song. There were fins on stage, fins to the left and fins to the right.

Carlile spoke of bonding with Buffett over their mutual love of fishing ("that was our language") before belting soulful versions of two classics, "Tin Cup Chalice" and "Come Monday."

Snoop Dogg blows smoke at 'My main man Jimmy B' with 'Doggystyle' classic

Stage presenter Judd Apatow thought it might have been the suspicious smoking going on backstage that was making him hallucinate what he had seen on stage.

"I swear to God I just saw Snoop Dogg sing 'Gin and Juice' with the Coral Reefer Band," Apatow said.

It's true. The rapper and Buffett friend Snoop Dogg performed the classic song from his 1993 "Doggystyle" album in tribute to "my main man Jimmy B," singing the familiar words with the audience in between onstage puffs.

"Last time I saw you we smoked like there was no tomorrow," Snoop Dogg said from the stage before clearing out, leaving a cloud of smoke.

During the wide-ranging musical section that followed, ukulele virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro wowed with a solo version of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" and rapper Pitbull performed his classic "Don't Stop the Party" with four backup dancers.

"He’s the definition of what it means to unite, not divide," Pitbull said of his friend before belting the song he wrote, "Thank God & Jimmy Buffett," along with Jon Bon Jovi.

"He gave me fashion advice and hair tips," Bon Jovi said. “We all think we’re rock stars, but he flew his own plane to his own show. That’s a rock star.”

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Friends who were not able to make the concert paid tribute over video, including Dolly Parton, Alan Jackson, James Taylor and surfer Kelly Slater. NBA coaching legend Pat Riley laughingly recalled when Buffett was ejected from a Miami Heat game for calling a referee "a Parrothead."

Many friends spoke in person from the stage, including tennis legend John McEnroe, who talked about Buffett watching him play during his hotheaded prime.

"He told me, 'Relax, man,'" McEnroe said. "Of course he was right."

Harrison Ford spoke about "long boozy lunch" with Buffett and "60 Minutes" newsman Ed Bradley.

"I saw both of them had earrings, so right after lunch I got my ear pierced," Ford said. "That's how infectious Jimmy's coolness was. Enough for a then 40-year-old man to get his ear pierced spontaneously and infectious enough to create this world around his music. There's no other way to say it, there will never be another Jimmy."

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Naturally, the night's final song brought the entire cast onstage to sing Buffett's national anthem of "Margaritaville."

"Jimmy Buffett would get a big kick out of this deal," McAnally said as the sprawling crew of musicians, friends and Hollywood stars took spots at various microphones. It was like a superstar karaoke, with Crow, Bon Jovi and Henley sharing the microphone for one of the signature "wasted away again in Margaritaville" verses.

By the end of the song, McCartney's margarita was nearly drained. But he was in no hurry to put down the glass as he walked offstage with a smile.

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Paul McCartney Reveals He Sang 'Let It Be' for Jimmy Buffett in the 'Last Week of His Life'

"He still had that twinkle in his eye," The Beatles singer said of Buffett at Keep the Party Going: A Tribute to Jimmy Buffett at the Hollywood Bowl on April 11

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Paul McCartney is sharing a touching insight into the final weeks of his friend Jimmy Buffett ’s life. 

Speaking at a tribute concert to honor the late folk rock artist, who died at age 76 last September, at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles on April 11, McCartney, 81, recalled how he was invited to sing for Buffett at his home by his wife Jane Slagsvol . 

“Just in the last week of his life, I was invited up to his house by Janie,” McCartney said on stage at Keep the Party Going: A Tribute to Jimmy Buffett ahead of his performance. “And I was invited up there to sing a couple of songs for Jimmy, and he was in a pretty bad way, but he still had that twinkle in his eye. So I thought I'll sing one of those songs that I sang to him tonight.”

McCartney then took to the piano to perform “Let It Be” with little accompaniment for the iconic musician.

The Beatles bassist/singer also shared a sweet anecdote about Buffett, whom he called “one great man," and a vacation the two took together.

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“He was generous. He was funny. He'd done just about everything in his life,” said McCartney. “And I say he was so generous. I was on holiday with him and I forgot to bring my guitar. So he had his own guitar strung left-handed for me … And then the next time I saw him, he'd had one custom made left-handed for me. So I love Jimmy.”

Along with McCartney, others honoring Buffett and celebrating his life and musical legacy at the one-night only show included the Eagles, Jon Bon Jovi , Sheryl Crow and Snoop Dogg .

Crow, 62, recalled how she was hired by Buffett as a backup singer before she got famous — and she made quite the arrival for their first performance together. 

“I was hired by Jimmy Buffett …I was absolutely a nobody. And I got to sing backup on 'Off to See the Lizard' with Timothy B. Schmidt,” explained Crow. “But I have to preface the story by saying I came from St. Louis. I flew to Miami. I got on a small commuter jet. We had a bomb scare. They flew us in a hundred yards above the water. They foam landed us, and then the FBI showed up. And then forevermore, Jimmy would say, ‘This girl knows how to show up to a party.’ "

She concluded, "I will tell you, he is for me the most beautiful illustration of what it means to be alive and awake and absolutely present in every moment.”

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Meanwhile, Dolly Parton appeared at the tribute concert in a pre-taped message as she shared her own words of kindness for the “Margaritaville” singer. 

“Jimmy Buffet was a dear, dear friend of mine,” began Parton, 78. “I know he is looking down thinking, ‘What are you people doing? Did y'all have a margarita?’ And I'm sure we did. Most of us right? Anyway, I just wanted to say that I love Jimmy like all of you do. What a great human being he was. What a great talent he was. What a sweet, sweet soul.”

The late singer’s longtime touring band The Coral Reefer Band also played at the event and were introduced to the stage one by one by McCartney after his own performance. 

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Following Buffett’s death, McCartney — who played bass on “My Gummie Just Kicked In” on Buffett's final album, Equal Strain on All Parts — paid tribute to the Grammy-nominated star on social media. 

“It seems that so many wonderful people are leaving this world, and now Jimmy Buffett is one of them. I’ve known Jimmy for some time and found him to be one of the kindest and most generous people,” wrote McCartney on X (formerly known as Twitter).

“He had a most amazing lust for life and a beautiful sense of humour. When we swapped tales about the past his were so exotic and lush and involved sailing trips and surfing and so many exciting stories that it was hard for me to keep up with him,” he continued, adding, “So many of us will miss Jimmy and his tremendous personality. His love for us all, and for mankind as a whole.”

McCartney concluded his post, which featured a photo of the duo laughing and holding hands, “So long, Jim. You are a very special man and friend and it was a great privilege to get to know you and love you. Bubbles up, my friend. Love, Paul.”

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Buffett died from Merkel cell carcinoma a rare and aggressive skin cancer, just over eight months ago.

His death was announced in a statement posted on his social media and website .

“Jimmy passed away peacefully on the night of September 1st surrounded by his family, friends, music and dogs," the statement — which was accompanied by a touching photograph of Buffett sitting on a boat — read. "He lived his life like a song till the very last breath and will be missed beyond measure by so many."

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