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Now I remember when I wrote that song. I was imagining being in
I'd never been
I don't if there is a street named Rickety Lane in London
but it good to me at the time
In those early of my songwriting
I was certainly feeling the effects of the british
was the background music to the mid-60's rise in
counter that had crossed the
Atlantic and even it's way to
the of the Mississippi River

The repetoire of the upstairs alliance was with songs by the
Clark Five. The Kicks,
The Stones, Hermits, The Animals and
of The Beatles,
We all wanted to look, and act British
But the closest we really
could get to being an international
was having a member

Rick Bennett was my in college,
the bass player in my band and a friend
He is now Chair of the Toronto school and has
worked in the and commercial world,
ever since leaving the and school
He also directed the: the blonde stranger video
Which we in Key West
We've stayed in touch the years and
I visit RB when we play Toronto as we did this summer

When we had finished putting the tracks in storage
for this
I sent it to Ricky to fact as this stuff happened a long time
ago and sure enough he came up a few
bits of treasure that I had forgotten
and when I thought it would be cool to have him read this start
he lived a major part of it and since then
he's made a good living
as an actor, director, and voice-over specialist
relying on that husky voice of his
So, further adieu here's Mr. Rick Bennett reading
Sgt. in the gumbo pot
Take it away

Hi I'm Rick Bennett, Jimmy's roommate and
the bass player in our first band, The Upstairs
JImmy Buffett, The and Bourbon Street
what a combination and in the of 1967,
was the combination, the stars were lining up
In the Spring of 1967, Jimmy, myself and
formed a band called The Upstairs Alliance

And on insistence, we auditioned for and got the
gig at a club called The Bayou Room on Bourbon Street
in New
And I'm thinking, it get any better than that?
We our folk and pop tunes
adding a few new ballads as they came along
and usually played to pretty crowds, then in June of '67
the music landscape

The Beatles released the
Sergeant Pepper's Hearts Club Band
That blew us away, we had to be part of that
It was to go electric
JB in his Martin D acoustic for the electric version
I traded the stand-up for a Fender Jazz Master
And Benny, she kept her old tambourine
as fate would have it, the bar next to the Bayou
was the Den, the hottest Rock 'n Roll bar on Bourbon Street
The owner kinda liked our electric
and figured our progression should be with his bar

So he offered us a gig, and for more money as
It was a no-brainer, we we might surprise him
by opening with Sergeant
Now these boys always take surprises well
on the College campus we made
an after hours to the theatre costume department
and 'borrowed' some outrageous Sgt, style costumes

Now let it be noted that it was our intent to return
generous gifts
We recruited a drummer and a lead guitar to add to our
electric circus band
We stayed up nights learning the lyrics and to Sgt, Pepper
Jimmy the load, while Bennie and I did the harmonies
We were getting ready to the Gunga Den a new audience
With the new version of the Upstairs Alliance

On Sunday we played our last folk set at the Room
and with a change of wardrobe we walked the Gunga Den
with strobe lights flailing, electric prevailing,
and Peppers Lonely Hearts Band ready to go
Top quote the Beatles, it was to be there
it was a thrill

The was a hit
the bar made money and we were getting some pretty press
The upstairs alliance became the Sergeant Peppers
cover band in New
There was no going
we would be discovered here and the road to success
would start Bourbon Street

But this is the business, fickle at best
and there are a lot of out there
Like Jimmy, New Orleans was one of the great of my life
We didn't make it, but way back then we
was going to make it

Because he never a plan b and as fate would have it
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