You’ve moved on to much nicer beaches, Jimmy. But we’ll keep the booze in the blender down here and keep your spirit alive through songs like these. Thank you for everything!
This was shot in Mississippi after Hurricane Katrina and my church was there cleaning up and as a treat they took us to the site and let us watch them shoot some of it. It was amazing.
That was the old Firedog Saloon. It used to be one of our favorite places before Katrina. They never built it back. There is a parking lot there now. We live about six blocks from there. But, there are a lot of new bar/grill/restaurants there now.
@@ralphholiman7401 BSL is not the same, remember the Good Life??? I will take the before katrina BSL, I used to work camp Stanislaus those hypocrite caltholic bastards
Most of us have some sort of “bama breeze” type place in our lives. So many relatable things in the song. What is mentioned in the song touches us on a deeper level and puts us in a mindset we can recall. Brings a little tear to the eye.
In the 80s in rock hill, sc it was glory days. Great house band, great days, great memories. Just like the song, ''good GOD, I feel at home down there."
About the FloraBama, but made at the remains of the Firedog Saloon in Bay St Louis, MS after Hurricane Katrina. It is 4 years later and we are still recovering from that storm...
This song brings it all back. Left home in shorts and tshirt, with a guitar, $2 and 3 pair of underwear. Rode my thumb to Pass-A-Grille Beach, FLA in 1971. Lived on the beach for a while then with the Crazy Girls. Somehow drank for free and played air hockey all day in Shadracks on 8th Avenue. Got a house across from the Don CeSar and Hubbards Pier. Did my share of smugglin. And then this guy from Key West way comes along and puts it all to music. Ah The Stories We Could Tell. Thanks Jimmy
Might be the same reason it brings a tear to my eye...I recall that as the Firedog Saloon and had many a good time there with my husband who is now also gone forever.
I lived on the gulf coast for 5 years and it was amazing. People from the upper states ask "How do you live with gators and hurricanes?" It's the price you pay for living in the greatest place in the greatest country on earth. It was a small price. I miss Naples-Fort Myers like someone else misses their family. It was paradise.
Unfortunately the new generation has turned it all to shite my friend. I left when the wannabe gangsters started rapping and shooting and nothing even felt the same anymore. If you ain't heard of the Island Boys then you're a lucky duck! 😂❤ but I'll raise a beer for you and me and Ole Jimbo and what it used to be like. My cousin in his younger days is even in this very video!! ❤
I grew up in Gulf Shores, Alabama, and this song hits the nail on the head on exactly what it was like growing up down there, especially pre-ivan, gives me chills every time i hear it.!
I’m a long ago veteran of Gulf Shores too (1965-05). Man has that place changed! I’d have to say Frederic, in 1979, was a major turning point. That’s when the real commercial development, high rise condos etc, started. Sure miss our little fishing village with one gas station, 3 restaurants, and a semi functional draw bridge that could leave you stranded on the island.
@@tommathews3964 Yessir. I am a veteran of Gulf Shores too. Remember when you could pull you car off to the side of the road on the main road and go jump in the gulf. There was a Holiday inn and few gas stations. Most residents were fishermen or oil workers. I remember the old draw bridge just to the west of hwy 59 that would handle all 50 cars that would pass over in a day. After Hurricane Frederick I saw the changes happening to our secret paradise. I have been to beaches all over the world but we still go to Gulf Shores every year and as long as I'm alive I will take it over any beaches I've ever seen. We still go down and stay at Ft Morgan rd where although it has changed it really hasn't. The small fishing houses have now become 6 bedroom mansions but its still the secluded, off the beaten path place that I remember from my youth.
JBs music is not a music to lke or dislike, its a lifestyle to either like or dislike. If you didnt grow up on the beach you just wouldnt understand really. Especially the Gulf Coast beaches which are the prettiest in the US in my opinion and theyre very laid back beaches to say the least. The Keys are a lot like the Gulf Coast really as its very laid back too. I just achieved my dream of buying a place in the Keys this past month and I am now living in Islamorada!
Texas native, but we owned a summer home in Gulf Shores till my sernior year of highschool, Love the Flora-Bama and the gulf coast! PS thats JB's sister LuLu who gets in the stage : )
The Fire Dog, where this video is filmed, is in Bay St. Louis, MS. It was across the street from the beach and was a great place to hangout before that damn storm. Just up the road from it on the beach was a dive called The Good Life or as we called it the "low life". It had a downstairs open air bar that opened right out onto the beach and was about 20 yards from the water. Good times, good times. Thats what this song is about, Good Times.
god bless you for your tour and sacrifice... I am from Canada and want you to know that we Canadians support ALL the troop over there... god bless, and thank you for fighting for my freedom.
spent many a night @ the "Bama"... after the Hurricane...never the same [sigh] Jimmy sure brings back many memories [some I don't remember if I forgot, or forgot to remember...but it's all good :D
it doesnt matter what Jimmy does... everything that comes from his music touches every one of us in some way .... I used his music alot when i was in Afghanistan...... brings you back to "that state of mind"...
Jimmy wrote this song as a tribute to all of the local beach bars and dives that were destroyed in the tragic hurricane seasons of 2004-05. The video was shot in the ruins of the Firedog Saloon right off South Beach Blvd in Bay Saint Louis, Mississippi. This area was one of the worst hit during Katrina and the people of the Mississippi still need our help to restore the infrastructure and get the ball rolling to rebuild better and stronger than before.
Hate to tell you this but this video was not filmed at the FloraBama...it was filmed at the Fire Dog Saloon in MS. It is still a great video and song. Being from Pcola, the Bama is back and in full swing! (just that ugly condo next door!) I remember when Jimmy would stop by just to hang out and play a few! Those were the days!
I grew up in Gulf Shores Alabama, and this song pretty much sums up what it was like growing up on Alabama's beautiful Gulf Coast...this song always gives me chills...love it!
As a veteran, I have spent a lot of time in some great towns by the Gulf from Tampa Fla. to Brownsville Tx. I even lived in Galveston for years. There is no other place like the Gulf coast! The people, the food, the ease of living in paradise...thats where I want to be! Ive seen many great coastal bars and clubs disappear from the earth after our hurricanes and storms, but somehow...they get rebuilt. It is heartbreaking to see something around so long and then its gone. Thats how we feel after the storms. We call it a small price you have to be willing to pay to live in paradise. This song takes me back! Fins up!!!
When I first heard this song I was at Patrick AF Base for training. I fell in love with it and did get a little sentimental and did a little research. I learned why it was so important to the local people as well as Jimmy Buffett. One day I would like to go down to the gulf coast and see some of this wonderful watering hole. FINS UP!!!!
The place they filmed it at, the old Firedog Saloon in Bay Saint Louis, MS, is gone. But, the FloraBama, which is probably the place the song was based on, is still there. Although it has taken a beating or two from hurricanes over the years. We used to go the FloraBama when it was just a shack on the beach back in the early 80's. It's so big now, I don't even know where the old part actually was.
Seeing Jimmy live is one thing every person should be able to experience at least once before they die. A Buffett concert is like no where else on earth, for a few short hours, all the world seems right!
I had recently retired from the Navy and had just obtained my civilian mariners license when Katrina hit. I'm from Slidell, La. I went to work out of Houma La between Katrina and Rita. I rode Rita out on a 180' DSV in Houma, La. I saw the damage up front and personal... I spent about the next 14 years working out of south Louisiana, and weathered many more, though none as bad. I understand this song, I grew up in that special part of the world too...
My mom loved JB; I've heard his music all my life. A few yrs ago I wrote to ask for his autograph for my mother's b-day, explaining how much she enjoyed his music & him. The day prior to her b/day, an photo came in her mail w/personalized happy b-day & a little note about my request. I can't recall the last time my mom cried out of sheer happiness over a b-day gift. You just can't grow up in the bayous or on the delta w/o knowing Jimmy Buffett & his music. Cheers to Jimmy from 2 grateful fans.
Pure Excellent! This artist has been able to do what very few have done, cross many lines of music styles. Hes heard on classic rock, easy listening, oldies, country, and on and on. And his music is about real life!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
He just dedicated it to all the little dive bars along the coast he grew up playing in from Texas to the Keys. Now they're just about gone. It's all casinos and high rise condo developments. Not like it was even in the 80's much less the 70's when he was coming up.
Its was filmed in Bay St. Louis at the Fire Dog Saloon....I came across it while on Crusin the Coast. Wish I had made it to the Saloon before the strom.....it would have been a cool place.
Reminds me of old Key West, stationed down there in the USN, 72-74... No Mallory Sq., just shrimp boats, run-away hippies, shrimpers, artie-craftie types and Buffett at Capt. Tonys...
Just went to key west last week it was very disappointing with the amount of trash and disrespectful ppl visiting there it’s said what has happened to it
FYR...this song was written and the video produced to raise funds for Mississippi after Hurricane Katrina devastated the coast. No, New Orleans wasn't the only area affected by Katrina, it was the squeaky wheel as other poorer states like Mississippi suffered in silence, wiped out in catastrophic proportion. To all the sheeple trying to spread the hate on this board, God help you out of your darkness. Long live Jimmy Buffet and the blissful state of mind his music puts a b'zillion folks on the planet in. Peace.
Spent summers down there. Pensacola, Gulf Shores, Destin, Panama City all over really. As for the latter I hear The Strip is gone now. 80's growing up that was the place to be. For a while I lived in Pearl River after the storm. Seems outside of NOLA nobody cared but also outside of the city was another mentality. You can still see traces of the storm 10 years later but also see people who put their heads down, got through it and rebuilt. There was a bar in Slidell that got destroyed in the storm, rebuilt, burned down just before reopening and rebuilt again. Southside I wanna say. Real easy to spend a Sunday there drinking.
Hits differently knowing youre not here. Bet your ass its 5oclock somewhere and you are on some beach sunbathing! Im so happy i seen you last year! My favorite memories are jimmy buffet cleaning up the bar after close ❤❤❤
I myself grew up listening to a lot of JB as we grew up in the same area of LA (lower Alabama) ;) I used to go down to the Judge Roy Beans bar to see JB play or Wet Willie play after a day on the beach at Gulf Shores. I take my user name from my old home away from home the Flora-Bama Lounge. This is why I have always related to JB as he is 11 years older than I am as I am now 52. JB went to the Univ. of Southern Miss. For a couple of years with my older brother.
NIce Video of one of my favorite Sings. Nice to See Jimmy's sister Lulu playing the Bar owner and getting up and singing with the band with a beer in her hand. While it's based on the Flora Bama he always says it's about most any bar that is on the water and the fu time people have had there.
Makes me wanna move back down south and start a bar on the beach and call it the "Bama Breeze"... Don't know what ever possessed me to make me leave Bama. I was born and raised in the south and spent many-a-day/night on those beaches and miss em. Never heard that song till tonight and it took me back (as allota Jim's songs do).. Thanks Jimmy, say hi to Lulu for me.
There really was a Bama Breeze, on the coastal highway outside of St. Georges Island, Florida. And then the storm took it and turned it into kindling. I know its not the one Jimmy's really singing about, but I can close my eyes and pretend it is, anyway.
I know what is is to miss home, I'm from mississippi, we moved to charlotte after Katrina for 5 years. This song brings back a lifetime of memories, the bar I turned 21 in was "the DOCK in ridgeland MS....stumbled out with the sun there so many wonderful times...
I have lived on the Gulf side of Florida for over twenty years. It’s paradise and Jimmy Buffett brought that feeling to everyone and anyone who loved him RIP.
Nice I never heard this one before.I used to play in a JB tribute band.I have been a fan since oh hell the 1970's! JB was a big influence on my playing and songwriting.Thanks for the good times Jimmy!
Lots of places at Galveston, Texas that held cherished memories of friends and family long gone, and a time of my life I can never return to, are now long gone. I know the feeling.
i thought that was the firedog. My ex and I lived there back in '94-'98. Best years of my life. I was a cop in the Bay and it breaks my heart to see the damage after all these years.
Thanks Jimmy for all the great tunes. I remember, sitting and talking all night long with Frank Brown. Had my purse stolen & he found it. The warm fireplace in the back was cozy in the wintertime albeit a little lonesome with most folks gone for the winter. Just a few of us regulars. You sounded great even then with your acoustic guitar, just a couple of us sittin' around having a few......Thanks for remembering Joe & the Gang....
I wanted to comment on this video because this is an awesome song but, I lived in GS for several years and loved every second of it. In September of 2004 when hurricane Ivan hit, I found out what ppl there have lived like for decades. I cried a lot for leaving and what we went through but more for what the Islanders there went through. God Bless you guys and I hope you are enjoying what I am missing out on just being an Islander for a short period of time.
Being sober now for almost 20 years, this song gives me a bittersweet feeling...I miss the old days. That being said, a great song and video. "What the hell could it hurt?"
@FloraBama Even those of us who did not grow up near the beach but have visited there several times as children can identify with this. I love the ocean and the beach. Brings such good memories back.
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Rest in peace Jimmy Buffett. You'll be missed!
I've been listening to his songs on loop ever since i found out he passed.
Damn, This is hitting me hard. 💔
I miss my Margarita Man daily❤❤😢
@@WishesofShelleme too man..ima getting waisted in.honor of jimmy❤
Everyone needs a Bama Breeze
I've found a couple on my travels, but they are a dying breed.
You’ve moved on to much nicer beaches, Jimmy. But we’ll keep the booze in the blender down here and keep your spirit alive through songs like these. Thank you for everything!
This was shot in Mississippi after Hurricane Katrina and my church was there cleaning up and as a treat they took us to the site and let us watch them shoot some of it. It was amazing.
That was the old Firedog Saloon. It used to be one of our favorite places before Katrina. They never built it back. There is a parking lot there now. We live about six blocks from there. But, there are a lot of new bar/grill/restaurants there now.
@@ralphholiman7401 BSL is not the same, remember the Good Life??? I will take the before katrina BSL, I used to work camp Stanislaus those hypocrite caltholic bastards
I was thinking it was about florabama now I know thanks
@@ralphholiman7401 You answered my question. The bridge and building look very familiar. Had some great times there.
@@vernholmes7940 , a new bar just opened on the old Firedog site called Rags to Ritches.
everytime I go to Key West... I hear JB music ..I am so afraid that this genre of music will be lost..
Most of us have some sort of “bama breeze” type place in our lives. So many relatable things in the song. What is mentioned in the song touches us on a deeper level and puts us in a mindset we can recall. Brings a little tear to the eye.
In the 80s in rock hill, sc it was glory days. Great house band, great days, great memories. Just like the song, ''good GOD, I feel at home down there."
I've been a "Parrot Head" for about 45 years now. This is one of my favorites...
About the FloraBama, but made at the remains of the Firedog Saloon in Bay St Louis, MS after Hurricane Katrina. It is 4 years later and we are still recovering from that storm...
I spent a lot of time at the Flora Bama and the Fire Dog! I now live in Bay St. Louis and I used to live in Orange Beach!
Rest in Paradise, Jimmy. Thank you for the great tunes and lovely memories ❤
This song brings it all back. Left home in shorts and tshirt, with a guitar, $2 and 3 pair of underwear. Rode my thumb to Pass-A-Grille Beach, FLA in 1971. Lived on the beach for a while then with the Crazy Girls. Somehow drank for free and played air hockey all day in Shadracks on 8th Avenue. Got a house across from the Don CeSar and Hubbards Pier. Did my share of smugglin. And then this guy from Key West way comes along and puts it all to music. Ah The Stories We Could Tell. Thanks Jimmy
Might be the same reason it brings a tear to my eye...I recall that as the Firedog Saloon and had many a good time there with my husband who is now also gone forever.
I lived on the gulf coast for 5 years and it was amazing. People from the upper states ask "How do you live with gators and hurricanes?" It's the price you pay for living in the greatest place in the greatest country on earth. It was a small price. I miss Naples-Fort Myers like someone else misses their family. It was paradise.
Unfortunately the new generation has turned it all to shite my friend. I left when the wannabe gangsters started rapping and shooting and nothing even felt the same anymore. If you ain't heard of the Island Boys then you're a lucky duck! 😂❤ but I'll raise a beer for you and me and Ole Jimbo and what it used to be like. My cousin in his younger days is even in this very video!! ❤
RIP Mr Buffett!
I grew up in Gulf Shores, Alabama, and this song hits the nail on the head on exactly what it was like growing up down there, especially pre-ivan, gives me chills every time i hear it.!
I grew up in Baldwin County too❤
Is there a bar called that or is he singing about the florabama?
Oh the firedog in bay St. Louis after Katrina ok
I’m a long ago veteran of Gulf Shores too (1965-05). Man has that place changed! I’d have to say Frederic, in 1979, was a major turning point. That’s when the real commercial development, high rise condos etc, started. Sure miss our little fishing village with one gas station, 3 restaurants, and a semi functional draw bridge that could leave you stranded on the island.
@@tommathews3964 Yessir. I am a veteran of Gulf Shores too. Remember when you could pull you car off to the side of the road on the main road and go jump in the gulf. There was a Holiday inn and few gas stations. Most residents were fishermen or oil workers. I remember the old draw bridge just to the west of hwy 59 that would handle all 50 cars that would pass over in a day. After Hurricane Frederick I saw the changes happening to our secret paradise. I have been to beaches all over the world but we still go to Gulf Shores every year and as long as I'm alive I will take it over any beaches I've ever seen. We still go down and stay at Ft Morgan rd where although it has changed it really hasn't. The small fishing houses have now become 6 bedroom mansions but its still the secluded, off the beaten path place that I remember from my youth.
My brother died at the age of 24 one of the many memories he left with me at the age of 13 was this song R.I.P. Shotty
JBs music is not a music to lke or dislike, its a lifestyle to either like or dislike. If you didnt grow up on the beach you just wouldnt understand really. Especially the Gulf Coast beaches which are the prettiest in the US in my opinion and theyre very laid back beaches to say the least. The Keys are a lot like the Gulf Coast really as its very laid back too.
I just achieved my dream of buying a place in the Keys this past month and I am now living in Islamorada!
Makes me want to pack a bag and head down to the gulf. Stay a while...
Texas native, but we owned a summer home in Gulf Shores till my sernior year of highschool, Love the Flora-Bama and the gulf coast! PS thats JB's sister LuLu who gets in the stage : )
We all have our "Bama Breeze" we lost somewhere. The good memories keep it alive!
One thing we gotta have while on the boat is Margaritaville on Sirius Radio. Love every Buffet song!
LBFT
God Damn..
This brings tears to my eyes in a BIG way.
Places like this are super rare these days. I hung out in a ton of them.
Eat a cheeseburger for us, Jimmy. We will miss you.
This is Jimmy at his best. Love this video.
The Fire Dog, where this video is filmed, is in Bay St. Louis, MS. It was across the street from the beach and was a great place to hangout before that damn storm. Just up the road from it on the beach was a dive called The Good Life or as we called it the "low life". It had a downstairs open air bar that opened right out onto the beach and was about 20 yards from the water. Good times, good times. Thats what this song is about, Good Times.
My brother lived in Semmes Alabama a suburb of Mobile.Beautiful place.Gulf Shores,Floribama.Great memories
god bless you for your tour and sacrifice... I am from Canada and want you to know that we Canadians support ALL the troop over there... god bless, and thank you for fighting for my freedom.
spent many a night @ the "Bama"... after the Hurricane...never the same [sigh] Jimmy sure brings back many memories [some I don't remember if I forgot, or forgot to remember...but it's all good :D
it doesnt matter what Jimmy does... everything that comes from his music touches every one of us in some way .... I used his music alot when i was in Afghanistan...... brings you back to "that state of mind"...
Jimmy wrote this song as a tribute to all of the local beach bars and dives that were destroyed in the tragic hurricane seasons of 2004-05. The video was shot in the ruins of the Firedog Saloon right off South Beach Blvd in Bay Saint Louis, Mississippi. This area was one of the worst hit during Katrina and the people of the Mississippi still need our help to restore the infrastructure and get the ball rolling to rebuild better and stronger than before.
Went to the Firedog Saloon many times. Jimmy never forgot that he was from Mississippi.
My cousin is in the video❤
This song came out at a tough time in my life - Helped me through... Buffett ROCKS!!!!!!
Hate to tell you this but this video was not filmed at the FloraBama...it was filmed at the Fire Dog Saloon in MS. It is still a great video and song. Being from Pcola, the Bama is back and in full swing! (just that ugly condo next door!) I remember when Jimmy would stop by just to hang out and play a few! Those were the days!
How the hell this song did not get more radio play and go to the top of the charts is beyond me! Anybody over 30 can totally relate to this song!
I here yah.
R.I.P. Jimmy heaven better watch out cause they have a cool mutha in there now
I grew up in Gulf Shores Alabama, and this song pretty much sums up what it was like growing up on Alabama's beautiful Gulf Coast...this song always gives me chills...love it!
As a veteran, I have spent a lot of time in some great towns by the Gulf from Tampa Fla. to Brownsville Tx. I even lived in Galveston for years. There is no other place like the Gulf coast! The people, the food, the ease of living in paradise...thats where I want to be! Ive seen many great coastal bars and clubs disappear from the earth after our hurricanes and storms, but somehow...they get rebuilt. It is heartbreaking to see something around so long and then its gone. Thats how we feel after the storms. We call it a small price you have to be willing to pay to live in paradise. This song takes me back! Fins up!!!
When I first heard this song I was at Patrick AF Base for training. I fell in love with it and did get a little sentimental and did a little research. I learned why it was so important to the local people as well as Jimmy Buffett. One day I would like to go down to the gulf coast and see some of this wonderful watering hole. FINS UP!!!!
The place they filmed it at, the old Firedog Saloon in Bay Saint Louis, MS, is gone. But, the FloraBama, which is probably the place the song was based on, is still there. Although it has taken a beating or two from hurricanes over the years. We used to go the FloraBama when it was just a shack on the beach back in the early 80's. It's so big now, I don't even know where the old part actually was.
Thank God for Jimmy Buffett
Seeing Jimmy live is one thing every person should be able to experience at least once before they die. A Buffett concert is like no where else on earth, for a few short hours, all the world seems right!
2/25/97 Orlando O-Rena. RIP Jimmy
That's for sure!!!❤ I had the pleasure of seeing him a handful of times and I'll never forget each one!❤ rip Jimmy! 😢
I had recently retired from the Navy and had just obtained my civilian mariners license when Katrina hit. I'm from Slidell, La. I went to work out of Houma La between Katrina and Rita. I rode Rita out on a 180' DSV in Houma, La. I saw the damage up front and personal... I spent about the next 14 years working out of south Louisiana, and weathered many more, though none as bad. I understand this song, I grew up in that special part of the world too...
All my heroes are dropping... Save me a seat boys
as long as we remeber those times and places they will never be truly lost...
i am 13 years old, ive been listening to JB for such a long time. hes a legend and my biggest hero FINS UP
My mom loved JB; I've heard his music all my life. A few yrs ago I wrote to ask for his autograph for my mother's b-day, explaining how much she enjoyed his music & him. The day prior to her b/day, an photo came in her mail w/personalized happy b-day & a little note about my request. I can't recall the last time my mom cried out of sheer happiness over a b-day gift. You just can't grow up in the bayous or on the delta w/o knowing Jimmy Buffett & his music. Cheers to Jimmy from 2 grateful fans.
Pure Excellent! This artist has been able to do what very few have done, cross many lines of music styles. Hes heard on classic rock, easy listening, oldies, country, and on and on. And his music is about real life!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Takes me back to living on Perdido Key, going to the Florabama all the time. Hope to get back there one day.
My favorite JB song. Was listening to it on the island Saturday just before he passed
Man I miss you Jimmy - already!!!!!!!!! Thanks man!!!!
I’m missing my man right now. His concerts made me so happy. Jimmy created a lifestyle. And was such a happy vibe. Thanks for all the memories!!
He just dedicated it to all the little dive bars along the coast he grew up playing in from Texas to the Keys. Now they're just about gone. It's all casinos and high rise condo developments. Not like it was even in the 80's much less the 70's when he was coming up.
That's where I spent my 21st birthday. I remember that place like it was. Not like it is now.
The old Flora-Bama. They say it just aint the same since it was rebuilt.Guess nothin stays the same. Some things should never change..
Kickin my butt, straight into no particular harbor. Much love, rest in paradise. ❤❤❤
True. The Florabama's a legendary spot. This song reminds me of it, actually.
Its was filmed in Bay St. Louis at the Fire Dog Saloon....I came across it while on Crusin the Coast. Wish I had made it to the Saloon before the strom.....it would have been a cool place.
jimmy buffett is a pirate 200 years to late,he is the man!! lives the life he sings about.
Reminds me of old Key West, stationed down there in the USN, 72-74... No Mallory Sq., just shrimp boats, run-away hippies, shrimpers, artie-craftie types and Buffett at Capt. Tonys...
George Gilkenson thanks for sharing:)
Thank you for you service!
Just went to key west last week it was very disappointing with the amount of trash and disrespectful ppl visiting there it’s said what has happened to it
Key Largo, now CentFla..still visit...Met the Capn couple times early 80s
FYR...this song was written and the video produced to raise funds for Mississippi after Hurricane Katrina devastated the coast. No, New Orleans wasn't the only area affected by Katrina, it was the squeaky wheel as other poorer states like Mississippi suffered in silence, wiped out in catastrophic proportion. To all the sheeple trying to spread the hate on this board, God help you out of your darkness. Long live Jimmy Buffet and the blissful state of mind his music puts a b'zillion folks on the planet in. Peace.
Well put.
+Isla de Milagros Wow, Isla, such deep and great musings. I feel the same. Thanks for your posting, Andy.
+Isla de Milagros SORRY YOU THE WRONG COLOR WRONG VOTER DEMOGRAPHIC
Spent summers down there. Pensacola, Gulf Shores, Destin, Panama City all over really. As for the latter I hear The Strip is gone now. 80's growing up that was the place to be. For a while I lived in Pearl River after the storm. Seems outside of NOLA nobody cared but also outside of the city was another mentality. You can still see traces of the storm 10 years later but also see people who put their heads down, got through it and rebuilt. There was a bar in Slidell that got destroyed in the storm, rebuilt, burned down just before reopening and rebuilt again. Southside I wanna say. Real easy to spend a Sunday there drinking.
I'm from Slidell and I approve this message, although not a fan of Southside Café, too expensive.
Classic Buffett...awesome stuff as usual!!
Rip jimmy 😇😇😥😥🐐🐐🌅. Probably my favorite song of his
Hits differently knowing youre not here. Bet your ass its 5oclock somewhere and you are on some beach sunbathing! Im so happy i seen you last year! My favorite memories are jimmy buffet cleaning up the bar after close ❤❤❤
I myself grew up listening to a lot of JB as we grew up in the same area of LA (lower Alabama) ;) I used to go down to the Judge Roy Beans bar to see JB play or Wet Willie play after a day on the beach at Gulf Shores. I take my user name from my old home away from home the Flora-Bama Lounge. This is why I have always related to JB as he is 11 years older than I am as I am now 52. JB went to the Univ. of Southern Miss. For a couple of years with my older brother.
NIce Video of one of my favorite Sings. Nice to See Jimmy's sister Lulu playing the Bar owner and getting up and singing with the band with a beer in her hand.
While it's based on the Flora Bama he always says it's about most any bar that is on the water and the fu time people have had there.
I've been known to "ballet dance" out of the Flora Bama couple of times....back in the 70s and 80s. Gosh I'm old. A parrothead looks at 50!
Jimmy's best video...
Never get tired of watching this...
Celestino...
Its cool to know theres still awesome people like you n your church members..one love❤
Makes me wanna move back down south and start a bar on the beach and call it the "Bama Breeze"... Don't know what ever possessed me to make me leave Bama. I was born and raised in the south and spent many-a-day/night on those beaches and miss em. Never heard that song till tonight and it took me back (as allota Jim's songs do).. Thanks Jimmy, say hi to Lulu for me.
There really was a Bama Breeze, on the coastal highway outside of St. Georges Island, Florida. And then the storm took it and turned it into kindling. I know its not the one Jimmy's really singing about, but I can close my eyes and pretend it is, anyway.
LOVE living in FL. There is nothing like it. Stay up north Northerners....just come visit from time to time.
I met Jimmy years ago. He's one rock and roller that didn't turn out to be a real SAP! He's the real deal.
Yep, that's Bay St Louis, Mississippi, wrecked and ravaged by Katrina and looking really damn good these days!
RIP Jimmy!
The old Fire Dog Saloon.
immer wieder super
best regards from vienna-austria-europe
The song Bama breeze was filmed in Bay St Louis Mississippi after hurricane Katrina. The building where it was filmed at was the fire dog saloon
this video and song reminds me of when i used to live in galveston. god damn those were good times. i would give anything to go back.
Im not from galveston. Im from old Florida but i know how you feel
I know what is is to miss home, I'm from mississippi, we moved to charlotte after Katrina for 5 years. This song brings back a lifetime of memories, the bar I turned 21 in was "the DOCK in ridgeland MS....stumbled out with the sun there so many wonderful times...
most amazing performer of any era thank you Jimmy
There’s so much emotion on n this song from the lyrics to Jimmy’s vocals and the guitar solo, I choke up every time I hear it.
Seen Jimmy in St. Louis last night what a wonderful time! All his concerts are all about fun, even Jimmy had no shoes on!
I have lived on the Gulf side of Florida for over twenty years. It’s paradise and Jimmy Buffett brought that feeling to everyone and anyone who loved him RIP.
Nice I never heard this one before.I used to play in a JB tribute band.I have been a fan since oh hell the 1970's! JB was a big influence on my playing and songwriting.Thanks for the good times Jimmy!
Just saw this guy in concert at Nissan Pavilion in Manassas, Va and when this song played everyone was cheering and screaming. He is great in concert
Lots of places at Galveston, Texas that held cherished memories of friends and family long gone, and a time of my life I can never return to, are now long gone. I know the feeling.
WOOT WOOT!!! Im from the boarder of Florida && Alabama!!!
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i thought that was the firedog. My ex and I lived there back in '94-'98. Best years of my life. I was a cop in the Bay and it breaks my heart to see the damage after all these years.
Thanks Jimmy for all the great tunes. I remember, sitting and talking all night long with Frank Brown. Had my purse stolen & he found it. The warm fireplace in the back was cozy in the wintertime albeit a little lonesome with most folks gone for the winter. Just a few of us regulars. You sounded great even then with your acoustic guitar, just a couple of us sittin' around having a few......Thanks for remembering Joe & the Gang....
I had some good times at a bar called Florida-Bama right outside of Pensacola.
I was stationed at the Naval air station for over a year.
I wanted to comment on this video because this is an awesome song but, I lived in GS for several years and loved every second of it. In September of 2004 when hurricane Ivan hit, I found out what ppl there have lived like for decades. I cried a lot for leaving and what we went through but more for what the Islanders there went through. God Bless you guys and I hope you are enjoying what I am missing out on just being an Islander for a short period of time.
Being sober now for almost 20 years, this song gives me a bittersweet feeling...I miss the old days. That being said, a great song and video. "What the hell could it hurt?"
What a story teller Mr. Buffett is! I want to live in the world shown in this video.
❤❤. Rest In Peace 🕊️🕊️. Jimmy Buffett ❤❤❤❤
Thanks for the info about BamaBreeze... Next time I'm in FLA/ALA I will make it a point to check out the bar...
Gulf Shores of Alabama I miss it and can't wait to get back there.
I truly understand.
God, this went somewhere I really didn't think it was going. I legit started crying at that last scene.
This is already a good song, but the video makes it so much more intense, & truly makes me wish I had a place I could reflect on like this.
A great song that reminds us all of our days... Thanx Jimmy...
@FloraBama Even those of us who did not grow up near the beach but have visited there several times as children can identify with this. I love the ocean and the beach. Brings such good memories back.
'Here's to Ronnie and the boys'.
Thank you JB, you were many things to many people, RIP.
that is a GREAT VIDEO and SONG
Wow the lyrics actually make sense and not a lot of repeating of the same words over and over like most music!!!!! This one's a winner
Jimmy at his absolute best
Jimmy you're a true Country Singer. I love ya man. You're he best. Btw this is just a very big and onverly-emotional fan lol