Timmy84 said:

I know I wanted to cry with him...I can only imagine the horror he had to endure.

DesireeNevermind said:

Also somebody mentioned earlier Joe Tex and what about King Curtis???

How that man found the courage to go on after the crash-did they ever say why the plane went down?

scriptgirl said:

Som'n bout a low battery

And they knew this before the plane took off

See, that's what I get, either. You know it's a low battery? My ass would not be on that plance. Did Otis' family sue?

scriptgirl said:

What the hell!!!!!???? If they knew this, then why???!!!!!
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That's what I want to know.

Otis and the original BarKays


simply amazing watching this

NastradumasKid said:

Because it probably was a thing of "dang did you hear what I heard him say...low battery???"...they wondered about it but then thought about how they needed to get the next tour stop so they boarded the plane anyway despite their instincts that something was terribly wrong and that THEY PROBABLY SHOULD HAVE NEVER STEPPED FOOT ON THE PLANE. Then two, let's say for instance they did get off of the the plane, wouldn't they had heard an earful from the record company? "YOU DID WHAT!!!! YA'LL BETTER GET YA'LL ASSES ON A ROCKET TO GET TO THAT NEXT STOP!!!" Who wants to hear that when you are tired and sleepy? I bet you this was the case, and yes I know, it sure would had been a whole lot easier to hear an earful than to lose your life in a plane crash, but that's life, it's all about decisions.

funkpill said:

but it was never explained what this "low battery" was from...?

phunkdaddy said:

This was the last performance before he died I think.....

Graycap23 said:

Correcto.

missfee said:

I want 2 say that was what Otis had on when he died. I think that's what it looked like in that photo.

daPrettyman said:

Also this photo:



Possibly one of the last James Alexander and Ben Cauley took with the original members.
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Timmy84 said:

I didn't know until recently they had a white guy in the original group, what's his name, Ronnie?
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NastradumasKid said:

I didn't know that either. I did learn a lot at the beginning of the Unsung episode.

NastradumasKid said:

Yeah Ronnie Caldwell. According to James, no one black bothered him because he openly dated black chicks and he acted as similar to them so he was a "brother" to them.

Timmy84 said:

Awww...that's sweet. He was a nice looking young man.

for those who haven't seen it yet

heah ya go


http://www.zshare.net/vid...351066f21b

Did y'all know Otis bought that plane from James Brown.

LittleBLUECorvette said:

I read about that a while ago when reading about Otis' and James' friendship.

Timmy84 said:

AAHHH!!!!! So James Brown killed him, that bastard! I'm kiddint That's really interesting though.

NastradumasKid said:

I was ready to throw you a brick lol

Timmy84 said:

NastradumasKid said:

I know before they got together on stage again in Soul Heaven, Otis was like "JB man."

Naw, but I do believe that JB told him it was a faulty plane, I gotta look up on it again.

LittleBLUECorvette said:

Interesting. If James told Otis it was faulty why did Otis go along with the plane anyway?

Timmy84 said:

Otis wasn't thinking!!!!!

missfee said:

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