Jimmy Buffett wound up in the hospital in late September and on doctor’s advice, canceled/postponed his scheduled fall tour.
It’s of concern to him and all this fans – who proudly call themselves Parrotheads – but it’s not the first heath scare Buffett has had in his life.
In 2011, he famously walked off the stage in Sydney, Australia. It was his good fortune a doctor was in the front row at that concert, tended to him and accompanied him to the hospital. It slowed Buffett but did not stop him from recording and touring. He even poked a little fun at himself by adding a few lyrics to a song, “there’s been a lot of discussion…about my concussion…
That was one “whew!,” moment for Buffett and Parrotheads.
Another Buffett scare happened in 1994. He was taking off in his seaplane from Nantucket, Massachusetts, when a rogue wave caught the wing and sent his Grumman G-44 Widgeon, N1471N and Buffett into the sea. Buffett found himself upside down and would likely have drowned were it not for some good fortune.
He was invited to take some survival training from the U.S. Navy, and he quickly applied that to orientate himself, escape and rise to the surface. Buffett had only minor injuries. “Bubbles up,” he has said several times in describing how he made it out of the plane while upside down.
In 1966 his plane was famously shot at by police thinking he was running drugs in Jamaica when “we had only come for chicken we were not a ganja plane” as he sings in a very popular song he got out of the incident, Jamaica Mistaica. Lot of not a people know that his passenger that day was U2’s Bono
Buffett is one cool cat and she sure has some of a real cat’s nine lives.
So this latest incident is indeed a heath scare and maybe the scariest. But he’s been through a couple of incidents in the past and the expectation is that this will have the same outcome.
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