Disgraceland is a production of Double Elvis.

The stories about Otis Redding are insane.

He was nearly shot by James Brown while performing at an after-hours club.

He played sweet soul music in frathouses full of KKK sympathizers,

where one wrong move could accost him his life.

He took the stage in his hometown,

despite a threat to his life,

scared to death that he would be murdered in front of thousands.

But Otis Redding was,

to quote the former vice president of his record label,

an overcomer.

He overcame danger, violence, and fear in order to focus his sights on the top of the charts, and not just

the R&B charts, the pop charts. He did this at a time of great social upheaval and change,

and he did it with great music. Some of the most definitive music of the 1960s, music that

endures, satisfies, and still demands R-E-S-P-E-C-T.

Unlike that clip I played for you at the top of the show, that wasn't great music.

That was a preset loop from my Melotron called Interstitial Elevator M-K-1.

I played you that loop because I can't afford the rights to daydream believer by the

monkeys and why would i play you that specific slice of sleepy gene cheese could i afford it because that

was the number one song in america on december 10th 1967 and that was the day that od in America on December 10th, 1967.

And that was the day that Otis Redding's Beach 18 airplane crashed into the frigid waters of

Wisconsin's Lake Manona, before he was able to reach his destination and realize his dreams.

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