Otto, along with his cousin Sam Rivers, and Fred Durst, founded Limp Bizkit in 1994. What started as a small band from Jacksonville, Florida escalated into one of the most popular nu metal and rapcore bands in the world, selling over 45 million records worldwide.
After a successful career, in November 2004, rumors began to surface of the departure of John Otto from the band. 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 by Fred 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 the tracks of The Unquestionable Truth (Part 1), 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.
Currently, Otto is clean from drugs. He lived in Marina del Rey, California, and was giving drum lessons for Star Education [1], but currently lives in Hollywood, California. He is currently performing again with Limp Bizkit in 2009 on their comeback world tour, with the band's original lineup. He will be playing on the band's next album, Gold Cobra.
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.[2]
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 being Ceekay, DJ Apokalypze, Fin and Norm. And Manager "Pureform". The group recently unveiled their first music video on the website
He also joined Scooter Ward of Cold to record drums for the upcoming debut from his band, The Killer and the Star.
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