| Concert Review of Jimmy Buffett at First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre on Sat Jul 21, 2007 |
| Event Date |
| Sat Jul 21, 2007 |
| Source |
| Daily Southtown |
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| Jimmy Buffett entertains Southland crowd July 23, 2007 By John O'Brien Staff writer With clear skies and a light breeze, Saturday night was all right for a visit from Jimmy Buffett and the Coral Reefer Band, and the Parrotheads in the sellout crowd at First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre were more than ready. Buffett joked at one point that he'd run into some fans earlier in the day drinking cosmopolitans and "getting kranked up at the lunch hour." Judging by some of the folks around us, those fans must have been getting a late start. Oh well, if there's a lesson to be learned it's that attending a Buffett show without a drop of alcohol in your system can be trying for the soul. But Buffett and the dozen-strong Reefer Band showed they can still deliver the tunes to satisfy even the most sober of fans. The script for their annual visit to Tinley Park called for a healthy dose of the Buffett classics, and they complied with "Volcano," "Margaritaville," "One Particular Harbor," "Son of a Son of a Sailor," "A Pirate Looks at Forty," "Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes," "Cheeseburger in Paradise" and -- of course -- "Fins." Watching the sea of humanity teeter back and forth making shark fins was, and always will be, worth the price of admission by itself. Buffett dedicated "Come Monday" to all the fans who were conceived to the ballad.. |
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| Sounds system very bad. No security Lack of facilities Set list sucked who wants to hear On THE Road Again? |
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