Article re: Paul's death

[Coey]

Cheers Temptress.. I agree

[Temptress]

thanks you Coey

[ZeldaFScott]

" I thought we were fans.......not critics...................I guess I was wrong. "

I don't think you are wrong Aba. We are fans of the group ... and that's why some of us object to one guy claiming to be entitled to whatever he wishes to be.

[Ivory Fair]

......... and that's why some of the rest of us are not too sympathetic to folks who's off-duty behaviour may have DESTROYED the group.

[ZeldaFScott]

"may have ..." these are the key words.

[Aba21]

AnnaKonda said:

" I thought we were fans.......not critics...................I guess I was wrong. "

I don't think you are wrong Aba. We are fans of the group ... and that's why some of us object to one guy claiming to be entitled to whatever he wishes to be.

That's where we differ.................I don't see him doing that at all....Others say it all the time about him and you read where somebody wrote it and he has said he was *a* founder of the group. I have never heard him say that all this is because of me............But to tell the truth, some here wish he had had nothing to do with the group and in their mind his contribution was minimal at best. Please qoute from a source where he said he was the end all be all for the group. This is all about what he wrote in his book about others you may well like more than Otis which is your right but there is no one more qualified to write about the Temptations than Otis Williams...................nobody! Not Dennis, not Richard, not anybody! Don't like what he wrote? Fine! Doesn't change who he is and what he has done over the years for the Temptations.

And if you are a fan, then find one thing positive to say about Otis Williams.................aman you have never met and only know through his book. Can he sing? Somebody thinks so cause they keep lining up to sing with him. You say don't trash Paul, Eddie and David and I say don't trash any of them.............a real fan of the Temptations can do that.

[ZeldaFScott]

"Doesn't change who he is and what he has done over the years for the Temptations."

I agree with you 100 %. It doesn't change who he is but it shows what he is ...

[ZeldaFScott]

I already said what positive thing I know about him ... He knows how to save his own hides ...

[kim]

I'm still trying to figure why did Eddie have to mention his boys problems in that article. If Paul was Eddie's boy there was no need to tell all of his business about Paul's drinking running around with other women etc., so soon after his death.

[EddiesLuv]

kim said:

I'm still trying to figure why did Eddie have to mention his boys problems in that article. If Paul was Eddie's boy there was no need to tell all of his business about Paul's drinking running around with other women etc., so soon after his death.

Sounds like he was trying to make sense of it all in his grief. It wasn't like he went into great detail about what Paul was doing. He also talked about how they met and the last time he talked to him before it happened. Maybe he was just being honest. He certainly had nothing to gain from what he said.

[Aba21]

At least we are now admitting he did say it and he said it before Otis wrote it in a book, which is all was in question in the first place. Has nothing to do with who has something to gain from it. Eddie was being honest and in reality Otis was repeating a story all ready told. Again, Why is it ok for Eddie and not for Otis to tell the story?

[MikeNYC]

Ivory said:

......... and that's why some of the rest of us are not too sympathetic to folks who's off-duty behaviour may have DESTROYED the group.

Like Otis' behavior? You can't be serious.The small fraction of y'all that compare Paul to a "wineo"? That have no respect for the ones that paved the way for this group to be talked about to begin with? Seems to the rest of US,who see through the :bs: and use common sense,that the bad business decisions and cutthroat tactics destroyed the group. The fact that the admitted "oversights" to support groupmates in things that they knew were right,but due to greed and ego kept quiet about did destroy the group more that anything else that you claim destroyed the group! We see it as no respect for them at all ! Cover Girl can't hide that. All this crap that you are referring to is no more than smokescreens and mirrors. ;D

[EddiesLuv]

Aba21 said:

At least we are now admitting he did say it and he said it before Otis wrote it in a book, which is all was in question in the first place. Has nothing to do with who has something to gain from it. Eddie was being honest and in reality Otis was repeating a story all ready told. Again, Why is it ok for Eddie and not for Otis to tell the story?

Was Otis a friend? Was he trying to make sense of his best friends death? JMHO but it is a big difference. You are right about one thing, Otis was just repeating a story a story he used to advance his own agenda. Thats the difference to me.

[kim]

Aba21 said:

At least we are now admitting he did say it and he said it before Otis wrote it in a book, which is all was in question in the first place. Has nothing to do with who has something to gain from it. Eddie was being honest and in reality Otis was repeating a story all ready told. Again, Why is it ok for Eddie and not for Otis to tell the story?

Its only okay if we favor one person over the other.

[kim]

EddiesLuv said:

Sounds like he was trying to make sense of it all in his grief. It wasn't like he went into great detail about what Paul was doing. He also talked about how they met and the last time he talked to him before it happened. Maybe he was just being honest. He certainly had nothing to gain from what he said.

I see no need for Eddie to run his friend down one day after his death. I don't see this as making sense of his death I see this as running off at the mouth. He had nothing to gain, then why say it in the first place?