{"id":807927,"date":"2020-05-29T15:12:57","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T21:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=1007548"},"modified":"2020-05-29T15:12:57","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T21:12:57","slug":"jimmy-buffett-on-that-time-he-hung-out-on-bob-dylans-boat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/jimmy-buffett-on-that-time-he-hung-out-on-bob-dylans-boat\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Buffett on That Time He Hung Out on Bob Dylan\u2019s Boat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/jimmy-buffett-bob-dylan.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Well before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/jimmy-buffett\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jimmy-buffett\" data-tag=\"jimmy-buffett\">Jimmy Buffett<\/a> became king of the Parrotheads, he was a highly regarded singer-songwriter with an obvious gift for storytelling \u2014 and among his admirers was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/bob-dylan\/\" id=\"auto-tag_bob-dylan\" data-tag=\"bob-dylan\">Bob Dylan<\/a>. Dylan first made his fandom known in 1982, when he rendered a surprise appearance with Joan Baez even more shocking by launching into Buffett\u2019s \u201cA Pirate Looks at 40.\u201d Then, in a 2009 interview with Bill Flanagan, Dylan named Buffett as one of his favorite songwriters (along with Gordon Lightfoot, Warren Zevon, Randy Newman, John Prine, and Guy Clark). As Buffett discusses in the new episode of <em>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/rolling-stone-interview-special-edition\/\" id=\"auto-tag_rolling-stone-interview-special-edition\" data-tag=\"rolling-stone-interview-special-edition\">Rolling Stone Interview: Special Edition<\/a>,<\/em> the two men also spent some time together \u2014 and as with most Dylan stories, there\u2019s a twist. The meeting took place not long after Dylan\u2019s duet with Baez, on a harbor off the island of St. Bart\u2019s, where Dylan had a schooner named Water Pearl.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was walking by the marine-supply store,\u201d Buffett recalls, \u201cand I heard a voice say, \u2018Hey, Jimmy, that\u2019s a nice-looking pair of shoes. And it was Bob Dylan! He was seeing a girl that I knew on the island, and I knew a couple of guys that worked for him on the road. And he invited me out on the boat, and we sat there and talked. We got stoned all day long.\u201d Buffett came away convinced he\u2019d made a deep connection with Dylan: \u201cI\u2019m thinking, man, we have a bond here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Five years later, he went to see Dylan perform with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers in Paris, and a mutual friend who worked security told Buffett that Dylan would be excited to see him backstage. \u201cAnd I go backstage,\u201d says Buffett, \u201cand Dylan was sitting there. He had these gloves on. He\u2019s got his hoodie on. I said, \u2018Bob, how doin\u2019?&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dylan responded with just a grunted \u201c<em>eh<\/em>.\u201d &nbsp;\u201cHe never said a word,\u201d says Buffett. \u201cI sat there, ate my meal and said, \u2018Well, have a good show. See you later.\u2019 That was it. I haven\u2019t seen him since!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jimmy Buffett\u2019s new album, <em>Life on the Flip Side<\/em>, is out now.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/jimmy-buffett-bob-dylan-boat-1007548\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well before Jimmy Buffett became king of the Parrotheads, he was a highly regarded singer-songwriter with an obvious gift for storytelling \u2014 and among his admirers was Bob Dylan. Dylan first made his fandom known in 1982, when he rendered a surprise appearance with Joan Baez even more shocking by launching into Buffett\u2019s \u201cA Pirate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-807927","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-09 21:36:23","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}