Luyện nghe bài hát Sgt. Pepper In the Gumbo Pot (narration)

Now I remember when I wrote that song. I was imagining being in
though I'd been
I don't know if there is a street named Rickety in London
but it sounded to me at the time
In those early of my songwriting
I was feeling the effects of the british invasion
Which was the music to the mid-60's rise in
counter culture had crossed the
and even worked it's way to
the mouth of the River

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

Rick was my roommate in college,
the bass in my band and a life-long friend
He is now Chair of the film school and has
in the film and commercial world,
ever since leaving the band and
He directed the: Who's the blonde stranger video
we filmed in Key West
We've stayed in touch over the and
I always RB when we play Toronto as we did this summer

When we had finished putting together the in storage
for this
I sent it to Ricky to fact check as this stuff happened a long
ago and sure enough he up with a few
bits of treasure I had forgotten about
and that's when I thought it would be cool to have him read start
Hell he a major part of it and since then
he's made a pretty good
as an actor, director, producer and voice-over
relying on that husky Canadian of his
So, without adieu here's Mr. Rick Bennett reading
Sgt. Pepper in the pot
it away Ricky

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

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

The Beatles the album
Sergeant Lonely Hearts Club Band
That album blew us away, we had to be part of
It was time to go
JB in his Martin D acoustic for the electric version
I the stand-up Bass for a Fender Jazz Master
And Benny, well she kept her old
as fate would have it, the bar to the Bayou Room
was the Gunga Den, the hottest Rock 'n Roll bar on Street
The kinda liked our electric sound
and figured our next should be with his bar

So he us a gig, and for more money as well
It was a no-brainer, we we might surprise him
by opening with Sergeant
Now boys didn't always take surprises well
Back on the campus we made
an after hours to the theatre costume department
and 'borrowed' some outrageous Sgt, Pepper costumes

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

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

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

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

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