Why so many people don't like otis?

[keres]

Can`t say for sure if that`s actually all true, but in the movie David several times showed a great deal of disrespect to his "friends" in the group ... And yet, David is your man to admire, isn`t he, Anna?

[MissTara]

ThaFunkyFakeTation said:

Oh, my sides hurt....ROFL!!!!

Ed

[Aba21]

That's very well said, Ed. I am not nor have I ever made Otis out to be a saint. None of them were though. And when you assume the role of leader you have to deal with the slings and arrows that come with it. David and the powers that be made him a star in this group but it was still a group. He deserved, in my opinion, no special treatment because of it. Paul didn't ask for any,nor did Eddie. And even when Eddie was not happy with all the things going on in the group. He still came to work each night. To me that's called being professional. If you sign a contract............you fulfill the obligations of that contract and when it is done you negotiate another one......period. It was not guaranteed that when David joined they would be hitmakers, so the contract he signed was based on what was the going rate at that time.

I traveled with a man who was like a rock star in his day. Dr. J.. He asked no favors. We waited sometimes for two hours after games for him to be finished his interviews. Everywhere he went he was mobbed. He got all the attention, all the adulation, and well derserved I might add. But each morning at 10 am when we had practice, no matter whether he scored 50 points or 5(never happened ;D) He was there. He showed up for every performance, sometimes sick as a dog. He knew that if he showed up the other team didn't know he was sick and would plan their defensive strategy around stopping him, thereby making my night a much easier one.

Once again, I don't hold to all Otis Willams has done. But after they left Motown, that group for all intents and purposes became his. He may have been the so called leader before that time, but he became the unquestioned leader at that point.

Dennis Edwards was my favorite Temptation at that time and even he fell under the spell that Ed talks about. People change in these situations.........you can't help it. The crowd can make you think you are invincible. There is something about the applause of the the crowd that can be mind boggling. I once felt the applause of 55,000 fans at Yankee Stadium, during a Red Sox game for a job well done and as I told a friend of mine recently, it was better than sex!!! ;D ;D Almost! It was breathtaking to look up at all those people and realize they were all clapping for me.

It is a story that needed to be told and no one else had the right to tell it but him, that was not a memeber of the group. The others chose not to tell. And you can applaud them for their convictions. He could have said much more worse things than what he did, for sure. But for him to write a book and pretend that nothing happened would be a farce. How much he said or how he said it is not the question to me. I am just glad we have "A" story at all to discuss.

[joeszulczewski]

Just an observation about Otis..............seems like there are several personna at play here, and the one I saw last night at their New Brunswick show made me an admirer........as they were leaving the stage to "Losing You," Otis came back to sign a program for a young fan who was reaching onto the stage for an autograph, gave her the program and pen back, and got right back into place. He didn't have to do that, but that gesture on his part sure made that young girl's day.