What does an aging musician do when they can’t handle life on the road anymore and their concerts don’t sell out like they used to?
They open a retirement community, of course!
Jimmy Buffet, the infamous “Parrothead” is in the midst of building a community called Latitude Margaritaville, where everyday is a vacation and isn’t doesn’t have to be 5 o’clock to enjoy a cocktail.
Homes in Margaritaville, located in Daytona, Florida, will be open to those “55 or better” with beachfront access,, live entertainments, pools, spas, restaurants and outdoor bars. Residents will be encouraged to wear island-type shirts and kick back doing nothing but enjoying themselves.
But Buffet isn’t the only one jumping on the retirement bandwagon. The 70’s group Abba is opening a retirement community in Las Vegas named, of course, “Dancing Queen,” where elderly people can shake their booties while belting out “YOU can dance, YOU can jive…having the time of your life…”
The Grateful Dead has plans for an exclusive club with the motto, “We’re just glad we’re not dead!”
Even the Rolling Stones, have finally acknowledged they are getting older and will open the doors to their “I Can’t Get No Satisfaction” community for those 95 and older and will provide counseling to people who think they are still 25 and want to wear skin-tight pants and shirts open to their navels.
Buffet’s place, however, is sticking to its slogan of “Wasting Away In Margaritaville.”
And what a way to go.
