- John Otto (drummer)
John Everett Otto (born
March 22 ,1977 inJacksonville, Florida ) is thedrummer and an original member of the bandLimp Bizkit .Limp Bizkit
Otto, along with his cousin Sam Rivers, and
Fred Durst , founded Limp Bizkit in 1994. What started as a small band fromJacksonville, Florida escalated into one of the most popularnu metal andrapcore bands in the world, selling over 45 million records worldwide.In November 2004, rumors on Limp Bizkit fan boards began to surface of the departure of John Otto from Limp Bizkit. These conclusions were derived from the fact that new pictures of John Otto had not shown up on Limp Bizkit's official site for several months. Also, some rumors arose that John Otto had become a
Benedictine monk. These rumors were addressed byFred Durst himself in a post on his official website entitled "People are Dumb". Fred did not address the topic directly; he chose to give subliminal "hints" that John was indeed still in the band. Pictures of John Otto later surfaced on Limp Bizkit's website, disproving the rumors altogether.John wrote and recorded drums for all of The Unquestionable Truth Part One but before he did this, producers and band members recorded with Sammy Siegler without John's knowledge. The other band members and producers made the final decision as to which drummer would be on the final recording. John does not want his work to be confused with Sammy Siegler's, who he believes to be a good punk style drummer. According to John, Sammy did not achieve the stylistic groove imprint that is unique to his (John's) sound and style which is the backbone of Limp Bizkit.
Today
Currently, Otto is clean from drugs. He lived in
Marina del Rey, California , and was giving drum lessons for Star Education [http://www.starinc.org] , but currently lives inHollywood, California . He keeps in touch with the other members of Limp Bizkit, and will be joining them for the band's next album.Recently, John has shown fans his interest in rapping. Going by the name 'Johnny Ottomatic' he's shown several songs on his
MySpace , along with his rap group known as Sun Zoo, with fellow rapper L.A. Jay. John states that he doesn't intend for it to get in the way of Limp Bizkit. [http://thepollution.net/pmc/index.php?showtopic=1580]On October 1, Otto stated that he is currently working on a solo album, and put a demo of the first song, "Apocalypse", on his MySpace. Otto later revealed that his new project was in the form of a new group known as
Stereochemix with the other members beingCeekay ,DJ Apokalypze , Fin and Norm. Http://www.myspace.com/stereochemix The group recently unveiled their first music video on the website.He is joining
Scooter Ward formerly ofCold to play drums on his new projectThe Killer and the Star .Trivia
* John is known to enjoy the sport
paintball . (cite web| last = | first = | title = limpbizkit.com| date =2004-05-20 | url = http://web.archive.org/web/20040520035709/http://www.limpbizkit.com/| accessdate = 2006-07-27 )
* Like his cousin Sam, he too was once in a Jazz band ( [http://www.mattbutlerquartet.com The Matt Butler Quartet] )
*Quotes
* "Success is not in never failing, but rising every time you fall!" [http://www.zildjian.com/EN-US/artists/artist_results.ad2?keyword=john+otto&x=0&y=0]
* "The cheese is nearly ready, Release the captives!"
External links
* [http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=55490536 John Otto's personal MySpace]
* [http://www.myspace.com/httpwwwmyspacecomottomatic John's 'Johnny Ottomatic' MySpace]
* [http://www.myspace.com/stereochemix Stereochemix main site]
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.