Jimmy Buffett 2011 "Jiffy Lube Live"

The Jimmy Buffett show scheduled this past Saturday was cancelled due to
Hurricane Irene and rescheduled for last night at the Jiffy Lube Live in
Manassas Virginia. TicketMaster offered to refund money but since I had no power
until Wednesday we did not receive that notice. So with four days notice we had
to prepare and rearrange our schedules for a weekday Buffett show. I got up at
2:30AM went to work and returned home around 10:30AM took a short nap go the car
packed and off we went. We arrived in Manasses around 2PM and meet a group of
our friends at the Quality Inn and Partied there until 6:45 when we caught a cab
over tot he venue. Jiffy Lube has instituted a no tolerance policy to tailgating
and this possibly will be the last year Buffett performs there. The entire
atmosphere is changed and it is nothing like a Buffett show should be. Once
inside there was plenty of beverage available at the tune of $11 a beer, $10 for
a glass of wine or you could buy the whole bottle for $32. What a deal.

Anyway, the show was awesome. We left before the final encore to catch a cab
back to the Hotel and Maureen got us home before Midnight. I got a few winks and
was back to work by 5AM Friday. What a week.

Here is the Set list. Note "Surfing in a Hurricnae" Was rewritten especially for this event and was last performed back in January of 2011 in Sydney Australia.

1. The Wino I know
2. Brown Eyed Girl
3. Surfing in a Hurricane
4. Off to See the Lizard
5. Grapefruit - Juicy Fruit
6. It's Five O'Clock Somewhere
7. Life is JUst a Tire Swing
8. Son of a Son of a Sailor
9. Come Monday
10. We Don't We Get Drunk
11. Volcano
12. Cheeseburger in Paradise
13. One Particular Harbour
14. Use Me
15. The Weather is Here
16. Jolly Man
17. Knee Deep
18. Margaritavilla
19. Changes in Latitudes
20. A Pirate Looks at Forty
21. The City
22. School Boy Heart
23. Encore: Southern Cross
24. The Great Filling Station
25. Tin Cup Chalice

 A Great Video Of Buffet and Zac Brown Performing "Pirate Looks at
Forty" with Zac Brown "CMT Crossroads" Mac and Jimmy did great rendition last night.

By: Joe Conroy

Published: September 01, 2011

It’s been more than three months since the announcement, but concert-goers
are still pretty steamed about Jiffy Lube Live’s no tailgating policy.
Signs explicitly stating that “It is unlawful to possess or consume alcoholic
beverages on this premises” are posted throughout the parking lot and Prince
William Ciounty police cruisers and motorcycles patrolled the area Thursday
evening.
An electronic sign at the parking lot entrance reminded attendees that there
is “Zero Tolerance for alcohol” in the lot.
Squad cars — with their lights flashing as early as 4 p.m. — were also
stationed at various intersections on Wellington Road as far east of the
pavilion as Freedom Center Boulevard.
Before Thursday night’s Jimmy Buffett and the Coral Reefer concert —
rescheduled from last week when Hurricane Irene hit the area — the “Parrotheads”
trickled into the venue’s parking lot and few were happy given the
circumstances.
Bill Barnhart, dressed in a grass skirt and a coconut bra, said he won’t be
returning to Jiffy Lube Live under the new restrictions.
“We’ve been coming here to Buffett shows for, what, six, seven years?” said
the Fairfax County resident. “I’ve never seen anything like this where there
there’s nobody here. It used to be a festival. There’d be a party, a good crowd,
a friendly crowd. Now you’ve got a bunch of people that are angry coming in.
“It’s nothing like it used to be. Nothing like it should be.”
Barnhart’s ride, the Fiore family, agreed, with their white minivan sporting
messages on its windows like “Jimmy... Next year, anyplace but here!” and “JLL
sucks... You can’t keep a good parrot down!”
Jim Fiore, a Maryland resident wearing an outfit matching Barnhart’s, said
Buffett himself wasn’t happy with the new rules.
“I know we’re never going to come back to Jiffy Lube [Live] again,” Fiore
said. “We’ve been coming for years to the country music concerts, Buffett — this
is our last concert [here].
“It’s half — it’s more than half, like 80 percent of the experience,” he
said.
Barnhart and the Fiores — Jim, Pat and Jenny — purchased their tickets in
March, well before Jiffy Lube Live outlawed tailgating.
 “We also bought the Mega Ticket, the country ticket,” Pat Fiore said.
“If we had any idea, we wouldn’t have come,” Barnhart said. “I had six other
friends who were going to come and they said to trade in their tickets.”
Jiffy Lube Live organizers originally said ticket holders wouldn’t be allowed
into the parking lot until an hour or so before the start of concerts — in
Thursday night’s case, 8 o’clock — but something changed.
“They opened the parking lot at 4,” Barnhart said. “They’re telling us
they’ll force us [through] the gates at 5. That’s what the Jiffy Lube guy told
us: 5 o’clock we’re forcing you guys to go into the gates.”
Back in May, when the Bristow venue’s owner Live Nation announced that
tailgating and especially alcohol are banned from the parking lot before and
after concerts, music fans railed about the policy.
A post on the Jiffy Lube Live Facebook page cited safety and Virginia’s law
against public alcohol consumption for the change.
Jiffy Lube Live is still selling alcoholic beverages inside the pavilion
during concerts.
Since 2009, four people have died in drunken driving crashes following
concerts at Jiffy Lube Live, including two teenagers in August last year.
“My worry,” Barnhart said, “is that they’re going to have a bunch of people
who decided to get drunk someplace [else] before the show, drive in drunk and
someone gets hurt. ... Now you’re going to have drunk angry people trying to get
here instead of happy people who have sobered up over the course of a three-hour
show.”
A group page named “Boycott Jiffy Lube Live Tailgating Policy” quickly sprung
up on Facebook, protesting the change. That page was created by and is comprised
of mostly Buffett fans who haven’t taken too kindly to the decision.
Underscoring how upset fans are with the policy, Alan Rickert made his
displeasure known, falling just short of saying he’d return to the pavilion only
when it’s a cold day in the underworld.