Excerpt from an interview with the "West Indies Herald," 2005"It must have been a good while ago" muses singer Lord Mouse from his lounge chair on the shore. " I was singing for the big cruise ships, the luxury ones. Well, I got work on one of them that was going to the Carribean. That was back before all these crazy hurricanes. Anyways, thats were I met the rest of the band, we were all working there together. Well, anyhow, We docked in the Port of Spain, thats in Trinidad. It was a fun night and we were testing the local drinks. I honestly don..t know what happened after that, just that I woke up the next morning with a pounding hangover. Then I realize that I..m still in the bar. I start to panic, because I was supposed to have been back to the ship before midnight, and It..s now sometime in the morning. Well, I get off the bar stool, and rush to the door, and guess what? I trip right over the bass player.
Turns out that one of the locals had given us some booze that..s so strong even the local drunks won..t touch it. Well, I go out side, up to the port, and sure enough, the ship was long gone. Nothing there, just some fishermen, pelicans, and.... Who ..s that group of people there? Well, turns out the whole band missed the ship, except one guy, the marimba player, but nobody really liked him much anyways. Well, we were stuck, not much money, We..d all left our stuff in our cabins. We were in real trouble. Well, We..d never played Calypso, not even really heard of it, except for that Belefonte character. But we learned and learned fast. After about 5 months of playing on the street corners and little cafès, We finally had our money to get home. Well I aint no European, but I liked these folks, We were like a family, so I decided to head on over to Europe and here We are today."
-As told by interviewer Richard Flick
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