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RnffpttT BY DEB BIE CONRAD full. IN suff wnter arena ' and An empty liquor bottle in frienc the bathroom Sunday night since told the tale of wild-eyed not se island beauties, drunk on and v excitement and whatever dim. else, who would return the dim, next day to real life and the a gar regular games Columbia them guys and girls play. But cruis< Sunday, it was all straw Wh hats, flip-flops and glance- musii grabbing tropical shirts, all magi chosen with care by flask fastidious ians anxious iu mau* blend into the who-gives-a- was damn atmosphere. didn' They were just fans, not didn' groupies, and the Carolina He Coliseum was crowded, not hims mmmammmmaaammmn I Breakfast H Mori. thru i 6 'til 10:30 i Sunday: 7 'til 11 i.i.n.11 IWMBB?B?WW akes Coliseum billing in and out of the Coral Reefers and his funny- i , they bought t-shirts looking guitar before voices i cokes, screamed at that couldn't be heard began < Is they hadn't seen yelling requests that 1 yesterday and might couldn't be understood. Oh, : ? again until tomorrow but the fun of knowing that vaited for the lights to merely screaming your head i When the lights did off into the back of the head it was with the effect of in front of you is all it takes igplank lifting to carry to lose your voice and prove on an intoxicating that you were there for e to the Caribbean. Buffett. Well above status etner arunK on me quo. c, or drunk on the He ignored the muted c that came in via a demands and played the way concealed at the hip he'd rehearsed it. With the ; no difference. This first notes, he stole Jimmy Buffett. If he everyone's thoughts from t have to care, they the beach ball that had t have to either. minutes before been i'd barely settled bouncing from hand to hand elf on stage with the in the center sections. A lone flHMF r fljftWHH Bp- nP^WBBB ; "^Kr. ; m^pTI IE l jjKp "BFwgfiK*. ?;3S& ow/^s 31 </'^". ^ i *s^ uf. f.nn ^ ^ filA/ a,u. ' 'i'ti'u lOnCarribbe isher in garnet and black, daydreamers, sittin nostly garnet, continued to quietly just listening jye the beach ball as he did a them floating on the wonderful impression of a and calypso drum pal itick in the mud. "I can only do'em A chorus of envious Lime! "Buffett the aaaaaaahhh's was the only screamed, acknow retort Buffett provoked with the barrage of requc the poignant details of grew louder at each I having to spend the entire the sound. But he su< winter in the Caribbean, and at the first c nUinVi V-* n cUo rnH Kof Aro roliaunH r? rr\u; H WIllV^ii iiv ouai v/u v/ i v/iivvt-u vi v;y?u playing "It's My Job." though nowhere in Ambling through a repertoire "GOD'S OWN DRU> of good and real good hits, he . hammed with the Original Coral Reefer Band (which he Welcom compared traveling with to I being married for 70 years) I \ k and lapped up the applause I \J\ of manics, on their feet taken V \ by the rhythms, or 1 \ te ". 11 A Neiu ( - . f i Pron Ibhhbbs Iljj^ an Cruise C half- Several oldies and two ? all of curtain calls later (did you chords ^ink he'd leave without tterns sin8in8 "Dixie Diner?"), he one at a was on sta6e again, this time tenor ur,der suspended screens of led&ing black, one emblazoned with 'sts that curious figure they use break in 1U1 WU1US 111 ine uneni, ana numbed the other a 8orgeous, red 'hord a ^hinese dragon. He sang the yelled son& for his latest unison album. Somewhere Over IK!" China, and that was the last we saw of Jimmy Buffett. le Back From Spring Break! 1 I V" '/a price admission [A Jl with Foreigner ticket stub h ) J open til 4:00 a.m. j; I / Friday 6 Saturday I North Carolina's No. I Rock'n Roll Band h "SIDEWINDER" K# Saturday Night 25< Draft $1.50 Bourbon Drinks Come and Enjoy the .Casual Elegance ol 0(^3 Uiinor Qtroot i'V** I lU^VI ?/! VV? j. Concept in Live Entertainment j i eaturing the Very Best t j er Attire and I.D. Required I Xinrifl D(=^TQI IQQPiT I