Oteil Burbidge is a bass guitarist. He was formerly a member of Aquarium Rescue Unit and currently is a member of The Allman Brothers Band. He has worked with Bruce Hampton, Trey Anastasio, God Street Wine, and others. Bass guitars typically have four strings instead of six as found on regular guitars. ... Aquarium Rescue Unit is a jam band, originally founded as a backup band for Col. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Bruce Hampton is an American musician, originally a member of the Hampton Grease Band and later forming Aquarium Rescue Unit. ... Trey Anastasio Ernest Joseph Trey Anastasio III, born September 30, 1964, is an American guitarist, composer and vocalist most noted for his work with the legendary rock band Phish. ...

Oteil's trademarks include playing barefoot, wearing tie-dyed shirts, and performing the acoustic guitar classic "Little Martha" from Eat a Peach on his six-stringed bass guitar. Oteil is most notably recognized for his ability to incorporate scat-singing into his improvised bass solos. Categories: Stub ... Little Martha, the ninth and final track on the Allman Brothers Bands fourth album, Eat A Peach, was the first and only track written solely by group leader and partial namesake Duane Allman, who would die on October 29, 1971, shortly after the recording sessions that produced it. ... Eat a Peach is a 1972 album by the American rock music group The Allman Brothers Band; it was the last to include founder member and lead slide guitar player Duane Allman, who was killed in a motorcycle accident while the album was being recorded. ... Scat singing is vocalizing either wordlessly or with nonsense words and syllables as employed by jazz singers who create the equivalent of an instrumental solo using only the voice. ...

In 2000, Oteil formed a solo band called Oteil and the Peacemakers. They released their first album, Love of a Lifetime, that same year. That was followed up in 2003 by the CD/DVD set entitled "The Family Secret". In 2005 Oteil and the Peacemakers took an entirely more spiritual direction for their third album entitled Believer.

Burbridge also had a bit part, as a teenager, as a street thug in the 1979 movie Being There; although it's a short scene, it is arguably one of the film's most famous moments. Being There is a political, satirical 1971 novel by Jerzy Kosiński and a 1979 film directed by Hal Ashby. ...

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