Ripples of Bob Weir’s death are still reverberating, and as Deadheads keep truckin’ there are still songs to help them find home. Expect Oteil Burbridge to play quite a few of them when he does an intimate gig in Dunedin next month.
Undisputed royalty in the jam band world, the 61-year-old bassist is a founding member of Dead & Co., The Aquarium Rescue Unit, and Tedeschi Trucks Band (the latter included his late brother Kofi Burbridge). He also spent 17 years in the Allman Brothers Band.
While Burbridge is known to Dead fans as a guy whose improvisational skill re-invented classics like “China Doll” and “High Time,” he arrives at Dunedin’s four-day Spring Beer Jam alongside his Aquarium Rescue Unit bandmate Rev. Jeff Mosier, the Blueground Undergrass banjo player and founder who is a jam scene legend himself for the work he’s done with Phish (the crowd will likely lose it if “Good Times Bad Times” makes the setlist)…