Mac Parrot Head Corner - Ode to Jimmy Buffett
Jimmy Buffett (jim-e buf-it) n -
accomplished musician, prolific songwriter, best-selling author, husband, father, patriarch of Parrot Heads. Jimmy Buffett is much like a 21st century troubador. His trademark "Trop-rock" musical style insightfully delightful song lyrics in a Calypsonian-like language of rythm and wrym :-b Both witty and sublimely profound, it would seem that Jimmy Buffett's unique brand of music sends out a primordial "call-of-the-wild" that has the ability to strike a resonant chord in such a vast array of people that his fan-base, called Parrot Heads, ranges all the way from workaday weary Americans to African chieftans.
"Maybe it [really is] too simple for the big brains to figure it out. What if the Hokey Pokey is really what it's all about?" ~J.Buffett
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Parrot Head (par' et heed) n -
a devoted Jimmy Buffett fan, one who answers the Call of Bubba. The word "parrothead" was coined by Timothy B Schmidt of Eagles' fame who toured with Buffett a number of years ago.
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During a Cincinnati, OH performance with Jimmy & The Coral Reefer Band, a bemused Schmidt, noticing the colorful spectacle of a huge sea of people sporting Hawaiian prints, grass skirts, inflatable critters and other fruited and feathered finery, remarked to Buffett that "They look[ed] like Dead Heads in suits ...like parrot heads!" Jimmy passed this on to the crowd, history was made and his fans have been called Parrot Heads ever since. A more fitting title for such a gregarious group of devoted fans would truly be hard to come by!