President: David Pohorylo 35 Boot Shop Lane PARROT HEAD Monroe, CT 06468 (203)261-1381 [email protected] Executive PRESS Vice President: Lorraine Bosshard 6 Mountainview Court Metro Parrot Head Monthly Newsletter June 2012 Fort Salonga, NY 11768 NY, NJ, CT Vol. 20 No.6 (631) 757-4043 Treasurer: TH Peter Bosshard HAPPY 20 ANNIVERSERY!!! 6 Mountainview Court Fort Salonga, NY 11768 (631) 757-4043 Secretary: Marianne Straaik 25 Rhode Island Ave TALES FROM MY BANK OF BAD HABITS Massapequa, NY 11758 (516)795-4126 ------I have just a few things to cover this month. We are a week away from Metro & Parrot Press Morris, and I wanted to mention that on June 8th the Acoustic Café will open its doors Lorraine/Eric Rosen at 6PM. The Café will have a full bar and serve light food. The show will start around 737 Highview Ave 8PM. Sean Ries, which Friday night is a benefit for, was operated on a little over a Westbury, NY11590 516-807-8191 week ago, and so far so good. We are all awaiting news what his next steps will be. [email protected] Meantime we wish Sean, Brenda and Rich the best. Sue Leudesdorff [email protected] I want to remind anyone planning on taking the ferry to Bridgeport on Saturday June th LI Coordinators 9 that Metros will meet at the Ferry Dock at 11:30AM. Did you contact Joe Lombardi Ray Leudesdorff ([email protected]) yet to see if you too can get $10 round trip passes? Free boat Cell 516-768-9348 [email protected] slips are also available at Captain’s Cove for anyone sailing over. Carol & I are looking Ralph Wotruba forward to seeing you this year. 631-891-8006 [email protected] Our ticket liaison, Tom Dalton, is awaiting your request and checks for Jones Beach Eastern LI Joe Lombardi Tickets. They are now a very hot item, so don’t procrastinate, order your tickets today. th (631)324-9354 We will keep you updated, as we get closer to the August 30 concert, with all details [email protected] for our tailgate this year. NYC Coordinator Terri Amundsen (718)956-5658 The June Long Island Happy hour will be at Bosco and Nancy’s on June 23. Details are Upstate & Ct Coordinators Carol Pohorylo inside this newsletter. (203)261-1381 [email protected] July brings us Rock the Farm and the Soldier Ride Western Coordinators Linda Peter/Larry DeGennaro [email protected] August brings us Metro’s first Beach Party, Jim Morris at the Stephen Talkhouse, [email protected] Jimmy Buffet at Jones Beach and a new president for Metro. More details on that NJ Coordinator Tracey McGowan next month. [email protected] 732-668-1620 See you a Metro & Morris. Ticket Liaison Tom Dalton [email protected] Dave Pohorylo (631)-979-8337 Webmaster Larry "Squid" Kiewra [email protected]

THE METRO PARROT HEAD CLUB and CAPTAIN’S COVE SEAPORT present the 10th annual Metro & Morris fundraiser

THE STORYTELLER SHOW and the BIG BAMBOO BAND A benefit for a benefit for SEAN RIES SWIM ACROSS THE SOUND Friday June 8, 2012 CANCER CHARITY The Acoustic Café Saturday June 9, 2012 2629 Fairfield Avenue Captain’s Cove Seaport Bridgeport, Connecticut 1 Bostwick Avenue www.acousticafe.com Bridgeport, Connecticut Restaurant/Doors open at 6PM www.captainscoveseaport.com Show at 8PM Doors open at 12PM Tickets $40 in advance only Tickets $30 in advance, $35 at the door

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Here is the information you have been waiting for on this year’s Lounging at the Lagoon 2012 Tour. Jimmy will be playing Jones Beach on Thursday August 30th. Club ticket prices this year are $105.00.

If you are a Metro member in good standing, send your checks payable to “Metro PHC” along with a S.A.S.E., by June 10th to our ticket coordinator Tom Dalton at:

Tom Dalton 53 Valley Drive Smithtown, NY 11787 Further details on the tailgate will follow. JOIN US FOR SOLDIER RIDE THE HAMPTONS Saturday, July 21, 2012

The Metro Parrot Head Club has followed the lead of long time Soldier Ride supporter Jimmy Buffett by providing volunteers for this event for the past four years. Soldier Ride is a unique cycling opportunity for Wounded Warriors to use cycling and the bonds of service to overcome physical, mental, or emotional wounds. The rides are exhilarating and a great way to help warriors gain confidence and realize they can do this. Soldier Ride started in Amagansett. Hamptons Ride has grown to become the largest in the country. Last year around 1,200 cyclists participated including about 30 Wounded Warriors from the US. Soldiers Featuring from both the United Kingdom and Israel also cycled. This year 1,500 cyclists are expected including 50 Wounded Warriors from the US and larger contingents Steel Pulse from the UK and Israel. Weʼre looking for some volunteers to help with this event. Opportunities to help include: Saturday, July 21 '12 Early morning: Register riders, Organize parking and possibly help with the pre-ride breakfast. Gates 6:00PM open at 7AM. Yes, itʼs early, but you avoid traffic. Rain or Shine You also get to witness the spectacle of 1,500 riders lining up and riding off. Ocean View Farm Around noon, volunteers can staff a water stop in Amagansett, NY Napeague by Cyrilʼs. Weʼll distribute water, energy bars, etc to the riders. A platoon of Marines have signed up for the ride to honor their fallen comrade Open Bar Jordan Haerter of Sag Harbor. Great American BBQ Around 2 pm volunteers can help welcome riders Live Music back to Ocean View Farm by distributing water and sports drinks. We can also enjoy the community picnic. $125 per person

Later that night, volunteers are needed at the Rock the Farm concert (see ad on right) featuring Grammy Award winning reggae group Steel Pulse. Concert TICKETS - ONLINE organizers are working on “special guests”. Sell raffle ONLY!!! For details visit tickets, tend bar (that might be dangerous) and more. www.stephentalkhouse.com To volunteer and for additional information, contact Joe Lombardi at: [email protected] Last April, 24 METROs participated in the Spring Clean-up of our adopted highway. Thanks go out to all who came out for the clean-up and to everyone who has ever picked up a pointy stick and risked puncture wounds over the past 19 years that we have been picking up litter. The METRO Parrot Head Club was the first club in the nation to adopt a highway. It’s good to see that all these years later, our efforts are still going strong.

We’ll be having our annual Fall Clean-up on Saturday, September 29th, so save that date.

Like last year, the clean-up date coincides with the Sag Harbor American Music Festival. In 2011, the music festival featured all types of music at seventeen different venues. Organizers are trying to build on that. There’s sure to be something for everyone.

Unlike last year, no sunset cruise is being offered at this time. Some of those who attended the Spring Clean-up expressed interest in having a cruise again this year. In order to make chartering the boat financially viable for the Club, we’ll need 30 - 35 people to commit to the sunset cruise. If anyone is interested in the cruise, contact Joe Lombardi and [email protected]. If enough people want to go, we’ll give the cruise a try. If not, we’ll just clean the road and enjoy the music festival.

PARROT HEAD NEWS!!!! Long Island Happy Hour At Bosco & Nancy’s Sat June 23 See Flyer on last page

The Metro North Happy Hour Takes place on the second Tuesday of each month (with the exception of our summer months). 6:30 pm at the East Side Cafe in Norwalk, CT anyone planning on attending should RSVP to Carol a [email protected] so that table space can be reserved.

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Jimmy Buffett says he has tunes to the left and tunes to the right as he eyeballs his next studio album.

Buffett tells Billboard.com that he's "got a lot of songs and I'm gonna go in this year" to record a follow-up to 2009's "." "I'm happy with the material 'cause I've been working at it for a while," Buffett says, detailing songs such as "Useless and Important Information," which is "in the running for the album title," as well as "Einstein Was a Surfer," "I Want to Go Back to Cartagena" and "Clueless People in a 'Fraidy Cat World."

"I've got a couple of minor-key things," Buffett adds. "I'm excited about it, and (the material) is kinda piling up on us here, so I'm ready to go back in." Buffett says he's "written most of this stuff myself," though he's also worked with regular collaborators Mac McAnally and Will Kimbrough and has composed a song with Jerry Jeff Walker's son Django.

Buffett is considering a number of studios to work on the project, including his own Shrimp Boat facility in Key West, Fla., as well as EMI's Abbey Road studio and Mark Knopfler's British Grove Studios, both in West London, England. "I want to go in and do it together as a band," Buffett says. "We normally do that anyway, but then people are busy and have to go out and someone's usually phoning in a part from somewhere. This time I'd like to the whole thing all together... I started thinking, 'Do I really want to go in and make a record or do I want to just put a few (songs) out. I thought maybe I'd go in and do four or something, and then I said, 'Nah. I like going in the studio with my band, and it can be an experience."

Buffett, meanwhile, is already part of a No. 1 album this year, having joined Lionel Richie for "All Night Long" on the former Commodores member's "Tuskegee" set. "We go back to the Alabama days of playing colleges together, 'cause he was from Tuskegee and I was in Auburn," Buffett recalls. "I was playing frat parties and the Commodores were working colleges as well. We weren't friends or anything, but we certainly were crossing paths. So when I met him when we were working on ('Tuskegee') we kinda went back to some of those funnier times. He's a delightful guy. I think we got the song in like two takes, and it was so much fun doing it." Buffett and Richie will share the stage on June 28 at Detroit's Comerica Park. Buffett's Lounging at the Lagoon tour kicks off May 30 in Austin, Texas. He also returned to his roots recently to open a waterfront Casino and Restaurant in Biloxi, Miss. -- the city where, he notes, "was the first place I ever made a dollar professionally." "Actually growing up down there, it's a big part of my family history and musical history," Buffett explains. "And then you throw in a couple of hurricanes and an oil spill...I care enough about this place to have wanted to do something to help recover from those things, and that's how (the casino) came about."