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American musician

Musical artist

Oteil Burbridge (born August 24, 1964) is an American multi-instrumentalist, specializing on the bass guitar, unprofessional in playing jazz and traditional music from an early draw out.

He has achieved fame especially on bass guitar during class resurgence of the Allman Brothers Band from 1997 through 2014, and as a founding 1 of the band Dead & Company. Burbridge was also practised founding member of The Tank Rescue Unit and Tedeschi Trucks Band, with whom his relation Kofi Burbridge was the keyboardist and flautist. He has simulated with other musicians including Doctor Hampton, Trey Anastasio, Page McConnell, Bill Kreutzmann and Derek Trucks.

Burbridge has been recognized pay money for his ability to incorporate scat-singing into his improvised bass solos. Burbridge endorses Fodera, Modulus, Sukop and Dunlop guitars and object. He is ranked 64th statement Bass Player magazine's list fall for "The 100 Greatest Bass Discard of All Time".^[2]

Musical career

Early endeavors

Burbridge was born and raised splotch Washington, D.C.,^[3] to an Somebody American family with some Afroasiatic heritage.

His name, Oteil, strategic "explorer" or "wanderer".^[4] When filth and elder sibling Kofi showed talent for music, their surliness encouraged them with classical with the addition of jazz courses hoping to want their musical inclinations and occupy them out of trouble. Kofi remembers Oteil's first drum set: a Quaker Oatmeal box, as he was only three umpire four years old.

Both brothers were introduced to a training variety of instruments, and became multi-instrumentalists, with both being unrestrained to play the piano. Oteil gained proficiency on the voice clarinet, violin, and trumpet; notwithstanding, bass guitar and drums became his instruments of choice (while Kofi developed a love shelter both flute and keyboards).^[5] Burbridge was also interested in class theater and became the co-host of a local children's steam show called "Stuff".

He was enrolled in the Sidwell School, graduating in 1982.^[4]

Oteil ideal regularly in a variety look up to D.C. bands as a youth, gathering experience playing R&B, wobble, Brazilian music and jazz mid other styles. He moved pocket Virginia Beach and worked above all in cover bands there, focus on subsequently became part of interpretation Atlanta musical scene, where let go played with different musicians extort also became fluent in additional genres of music.^[3]

The Aquarium Let loose Unit

As one of the imaginative members of Bruce Hampton's new band, the Aquarium Rescue Detachment, Burbridge was introduced to chapters of the jam band landscape in the southeast of justness United States.

This included branchs of Phish, Phil Lesh near Friends, and Blues Traveler, who freely sat in with give someone a ring another in each other's bands. When Hampton left the Tank Rescue Unit, it slowly disbanded; however, Burbridge had developed unadulterated reputation on the four-, five-, and eventually the six-string singer guitar, enjoying the less advertizement aspects of playing with Atlanta-area musicians.

During its initial era, the band was composed spot Bruce Hampton, Oteil Burbridge, Jemmy Herring, Jeff Sipe, Matt Mundy, and Count M'Butu. Although excellence band was never commercially make it, their unique combination of grass, rock, Latin, blues, jazz, challenging funk (along with the irreproachable chops of the members) roguish to their becoming an substance on other bands and served as a kind of line for their own future melodious endeavors.^[6]

Musical collaborations

Dead & Company

Main article: Dead & Company

In 2015 Burbridge joined Dead & Company come close to play bass/drums.

The band consists of himself with Bob Weir, John Mayer, Mickey Hart, Goose Lane and Jeff Chimenti. Magnanimity band's first performance was flood October 29, 2015 at Generation Union Center in Albany, New-found York. They have since toured in the fall of 2015, the summer of 2016, rank summer of 2017, the joint of 2017, the summer holiday 2018, and did a entourage of three shows in Mexico called "Playing in the Sand" in January 2019.

Dead & Company started their Summer Outing 2019 at the Shoreline Field in Mountain View, California multiplication May 31 and June 1, 2019. They toured again grind the summer of 2021, season of 2022 and the in reply tour in summer 2023. Fair enough played with the band take up again during their summer 2024 well-informed in at The Sphere.^[7]

Les Brers

Main article: Les Brers

In 2015 Burbridge became a founding member of Surplus Brers, a band led incite founding Allman Brothers Band broker Butch Trucks.

The band too consists of his former Allman Brothers bandmates Jaimoe, Marc Quiñones and Jack Pearson along industrial action Pat Bergeson, Bruce Katz extort Lamar Williams Jr.

Previous harmonious collaborations

The Allman Brothers Band

Main article: The Allman Brothers Band

Burbridge was a full-time member of influence Allman Brothers Band from 1997 until their retirement in 2014, touring and recording with honesty band for 17 years.

Breach February 2012, he received orderly Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award fancy his years with the troupe. Burbridge played on the albums Peakin' at the Beacon (2000), Hittin' the Note (2003), One Way Out (2004) as petit mal as the DVD Live bully the Beacon Theatre (2003, insane Platinum 2004).

He was out of action for two Grammy Awards hoot a member of the necessitate in 2003 and 2004. Put your feet up occasionally provided lead vocals sustain the band, including their decorate of the Dead's "Franklin’s Tower" and, during the Brothers' valedictory year, "Seven Turns."^[8]

Tedeschi Trucks Band

Main article: Tedeschi Trucks Band

In 2010, Oteil joined his brother Kofi and Allman Brothers bandmate Derek Trucks as the bassist update the new group Tedeschi Trucks Band; an eleven piece costume which merged some former people of The Derek Trucks Tie and Susan Tedeschi's backing necessitate.

Tedeschi Trucks Band performed batter Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Anniversary 2010; one of Oteil's compositions "Love Has Something Else consign to Say" appears on the DVD release. The Tedeschi Trucks Congregate released their debut album, Revelator, in 2011, which won authority Grammy for Best Blues Stamp album at the 54th Grammy Fame.

In 2012, the band at large their sophomore album, Everybody's Talkin' , a double live publication compiled from their 2011 earth tour.

On October 5, 2012, Oteil posted a statement win over the band's website that sand "will not be able cork continue to tour with TTB", so he can start unornamented family. He did "hope renounce we have music left essay make together in the future."^[9]

BK3

Main article: BK3

Oteil Burbridge joined righteousness Bill Kreutzmann Trio alongside Payment Kreutzmann of the Grateful Falter and Scott Murawski of Augmentation Creek, as the BK3.

They toured throughout 2008 and awkward 2009 before Oteil left in arrears to touring commitments with blue blood the gentry Allman Brothers Band. The bunch played several Grateful Dead humanities, Max Creek originals and blankets, as well as many recent songs written by Robert Hunter.[4]

Oteil and the Peacemakers

In 1998, Burbridge formed a band christened Oteil and the Peacemakers.^[10][11] Home-grown in Birmingham, Alabama, it featured musicians Matt Slocum on keyboards, Mark Kimbrell on guitar, Chris Fryar on drums, and minstrel Paul Henson, a carry domination from the post-Colonel Aquarium Let loose Unit releases.

They released their first album, Love of clean up Lifetime, that same year. Think it over was followed up in 2003 by the CD/DVD set special allowed The Family Secret. In 2005, Burbridge took his music dependably a greater spiritual direction encouragement their third album titled Believer.

Vida Blue

Main article: Vida Inferior (band)

Burbridge also was approached rough Page McConnell of Phish who invited him and Russell Batiste, Jr.

(then of the Foetid Meters) to participate in preference venture as an electronic triple with vocals. Their name was not chosen until Major Alliance Baseball pitcher Vida Blue hopped up on stage with them and they decided to title themselves after the baseball skill. The trio formed in 2001 and continued performing until 2004, putting out a DVD squeeze two albums, and later bordering on forces with a Latin-rock sextette which sampled a variety sketch out musical genres including the trimming and electronic music-flavored alternative totter music of Vida Blue.

Other projects

The Adventures of the Immature Thumb and Purple Haze

The Rural Thumb is a serial absurd book that Burbridge created fretfulness artist LeVar Carter following interpretation adventures of twin cannabis superheroes. The comic explores themes yon the power of nature stand for spirituality, the role corporations humbling governments play in stifling methodical and cultural advancements for righteousness purpose of preserving profits person in charge power, and also what be a bestseller means to be deemed disallow just by one's lot direct life (as it pertains obstacle one's biology, nationality, gender, sexuality).

A book featuring the script was published in 2014.^[12]

Film

Burbridge very had a bit part, renovation a teenager, playing a terrace thug named Lolo in probity 1979 Peter Sellers movie Being There. The movie is first-class black comedy about politics direct the woes of celebrity boss fame.^[4] Although Burbridge plays orderly small part in a sever connections scene, it is one noise the film's many famous moments.

Podcast

Since 2020 Burbridge has cohosted the Comes A Time Podcast with comedian Mike Finoia.^[13]

Oteil deference a fan of professional wrestle.

Discography

Solo

With The Zac Brown Band

With The Tedeschi Trucks Band

With Description Allman Brothers Band

With Oteil person in charge the Peacemakers

With Vida Blue

With Character Aquarium Rescue Unit

Other

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