[.ca] Live in Auburn, WA

sad exploitation:
A huge fan of Mr. Buffett for his whole career, having to hear this poor quality recording of his aging voice and overdone production was simply head-shakingly sad. I attended the concert in Auburn. The prices were extreme, the air was unpleasant, and the security did their best to subdue any and all celebration. Tragic. The man should settle down, live simply, and get off this money kick. Let us remember the good times and clean, clear heartfelt songs of earlier days. Perhaps these concert replays are a scheme to ripoff the free downloaders.

no a.j.,thankfully:
great buffett stuff as usual plus the added benefit of "five o'clock somewhere" without alan jackson slowing it down.

good:
This Cd is a great sample of songs. The wind cries mary and other popular songs are awesome. It gives you a great idea of what a Buffett concert is like. At the same time, the quality of sound is not the best. Still if you collect Buffett CD's this is a must.

Did Jimmy Pay Someone In the Audience To Tape This?:
I really appreciate artists who release "official bootlegs" of their live performances (are you listening, Bruce?!!!!). Jimmy Buffett is the perfect artist for such releases, given his enormous live following. Hopefully they'll realize that heavily edited and overdubbed live albums of the past are not as preferrable as complete, unedited concert recordings. That being said, I still expect a certain level of sound quality that is lacking on this release. Fans trade unofficial recordings all of the time (some artists sanction this, some don't), but the sound quality of such recordings is usually subpar to any official release. No matter how good your equipment, you're not going to pick up the clarity and crispness that you would if you're hooked up to the soundboard with professional equipment. Unfortunately, Jimmy's Auburn concert sounds at best like a decent audience recording- that's fine for a bootleg, but you want more from an official release. It's simply too muffled, which I think has more to do with the engineering and mastering of the sound than it does with how far Jimmy was standing from the microphone. I've heard other artists' offiical soundboard recordings, and they sound much better than this. So this recording captures the actual performance perfectly- it is literally a Jimmy Buffett concert from start to finish. That's a good thing. A very good thing. But the substandard sound quality really detracts from the listenability of the concert, and doesn't end up accomplishing anything more than tapers in the audience have been doing for years. Given that Jimmy hasn't seen fit to stop in St. Louis lately, and that I haven't been able to get tickets when he has, I was really looking forward to a high quality recording of a full concert. This one doesn't deliver. Let's hope for continued releases with improved sound quality.

A good cross section--:
I have always been shy to buy live recordings....I like classic music to be played in the classic style...but this album is pretty good. I love Jimmy...I was at the Camden show last summer! As far as sound quality...people just need to deal with it and take a little of Jimmy's words of wisdom and just relax! Spending 18 bucks is a hell of a lot cheaper than the $150 plus people pay for live concerts! We all know it is next to impossible to get tix to the concerts through conventional means, so at least we can get the recordings without being raped and scalped by the greedy and the connected. Just enjoy the "little songs", man! Besides, this album does give us a rare performance of Far Side of the World...one of my favs!

• Great Heart
• Saxophones
• Gypsies In The Palace
• In The Shelter
• Grapefruit Juicy Fruit
• Son Of A Son Of A Sailor
• Knees Of My Heart
• Burn That Bridge
• Come Monday
• Natives Are Restless
• 5 O'Clock Somewhere
• One Particular Harbor
• Cheeseburger In Paradise
• Tiki Bar
• Everybody's Talkin'
• Get Drunk And Screw
• I Still Miss You
• It's My Job
• Spiccoli's Song
• Pirate Looks At 40
• Changes In Latitudes
• Tampico Trauma
• Mexico
• Margaritaville
• Volcano
• Fins
• Far Side Of The World
• Wind Cries Mary