Oteil Burbridge Performing with LaMP

Two-time Grammy winning bassist Oteil Burbridge has been in the music business touring and recording for over three decades. His first step into the national spotlight came in 1991 when he became a founding member of the Aquarium Rescue Unit featuring Col. Bruce Hampton, a cult classic that has stood the test of time.

That led to his membership in the classic rock group The Allman Brothers Band. Since 1997, his work with the band has earned him two Grammy nominations for best rock instrumental, in 2003 and in 2004.

 

Following his 17-year stint in the Allman Brothers Band, Oteil spent ten years holding down the low end of Dead & Company, a band formed by the surviving members of the Grateful Dead (Bob Weir, Bill Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart) and John Mayer, along with keyboardist Jeff Chimenti. Dead & Company completed ten US tours, performing to over four million fans across 235 shows. Dead & Company headlined iconic stadiums across the country including Folsom Field, Oracle Park, Citi Field, Fenway Park and Dodger Stadium and broke Wrigley Field's all-time concert attendance record. In between tours, the band hosted their annual all-inclusive Caribbean concert series in Mexico called "Playing in the Sand." Dead & Company was one of the first bands to play the Sphere in Las Vegas, completing two residencies there in 2024 and 2025.

Over the years, Oteil has shared the stage with rock and blues legends such as Eric Clapton, Carlos Santana, Levon Helm, Taj Mahal, Buddy Guy, Pinetop Perkins, Hubert Sumlin, Billy Gibbons, Chuck Leavell, Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Johnny Winter, Bonnie Raitt, Sheryl Crow and Trey Anastasio. In 2012, Oteil received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award for his 17 year contribution to the Allman Brothers Band as the longest running bassist in the band’s history.

LaMP — the project featuring Trey Anastasio Band/Soule Monde band mates, keyboardist Ray Paczkowski and drummer Russ Lawton, and Joe Russo’s Almost Dead guitarist Scott Metzger. In case it’s not obvious, the band takes its name from the first letters of each members’ surname.

The trio debuted at a show in December 2018 at Nectar’s in Burlington, Vermont. They then reconvened last summer and held recording sessions with Roger Stauss at Sugarhouse Soundworks in Burlington.

Quote from Jambase from Metzger:

"With Russ and Ray being so much of a team as they are they’ve done who knows how many gigs together? It’s been a good challenge to join them to try and add something to their Vulcan mind-meld level of music-making while adding something to the foundation they’ve built.

I’m in Brooklyn, and Russ and Ray are up in Vermont. We wrote everything via the internet. We figured out telecommuting and working from home before it was fashionable [laughs]. We’d usually start with Russ sending around a drumbeat he was working on, then Ray and I would put down ideas and we’d send them back and forth, editing everything as we went along. When we finally found some time to record, I drove up to Vermont, we took a day to flush everything out and rehearse, then spent two days recording."