Jimmy Buffett and the Coral Reefer Band’s “Welcome to Fin Land” tour got back underway last night with a show at the American Airlines Arena in Miami, FL. Buffett last performed at the venue back on February 13th, 2003 during the Far Side of the World Tour.
The Set List and Comments from those that listened to the show are now available.
Some changes to the set list included: “Everybody’s Got A Cousin In Miami” (last played 04-18-2006 Phoenix, AZ) , “We Are The People Our Parents Warned Us About” (last played 02-23-2010), and “Creola” featuring Nadirah was in honor of Ralph MacDonald. For the final encore Jimmy performed “Trying To Reason With Hurricane Season”
The Miami Herald has a review of the show: “Jimmy Buffett tailors Miami concert to South Florida”
Perhaps it was the Miami Heat’s victory over the New York Knicks the night before at the AmericanAirlines Arena but Heat fan Jimmy Buffett seemed in particularly good spirits and warm voice Saturday night at the AmericanAirlines before a sizable, but not quite sold-out, crowd for his first concert of 2012.
“This is as wild as the Heat game last night,” Buffett grinned before thousands of fans after the concert opening deep album cut, The Wino and I Know.
Just before he started his first encore song some two hours later, the evergreen Fins, a barefoot Buffett thanked Pat Riley for the spiffy black shirt the Heat coach supposedly offered him backstage. The spotlight fell on Riley in the stands and he apparently seemed ready to partake in, or at least observe, the Fins concert ritual that Parrot Heads the world over have turned into a kind of boomer aerobics since the tour staple’s release in the summer of 1979.
Buffett also took a cheerful jab at his history inside this particular bayfront venue. “I can say anything I want on this stage and not get thrown out,” he cracked, a reference to an incident in Feb. 2001 when he was ejected from his courtside seat by a referee during a Heat/Knicks game for reportedly engaging in language saltier than that found in some of his classics such as Why Don’t We Get Drunk.