Custom Peavey Oteil Burbridge Model?

I'm not that surprised. Based on the quality of their respective web sites, Peavey I suspect has a bigger ad budget than Modulus, and they've proven in recent years that they aren't lacking in the quality department. It's about time they got a name endorsee.

 

Yup. Peaveys are looking better every day.

Peavey semi-hollowbody 35" scale six string neck-through with piezos. Hmmm

Listing for $1500. Double Hmmm.

Suddenly, all the GAS I had for other things subsided.

 

I thought that Otiel likes graphite bolt-ons, not neck through wood necked instruments. Peavey has a history of making graphite necked basses (B-Quads, G-Bass), I would expect the Otiel signature bass to have the Cirrus body shape and Cirrus derived pickups/electronics, but with a graphite neck. Probably will be a killer instrument. Peavey doesn't mess around when it makes "artist signature" basses, and they never have. My Palaedium is 8 years old and still kicks ass bigtime.

 

Good point.

I'm still dreaming about it being a semi-hollowbody though.

Then again, Flea was playing wooden necked basses before he went to Modulus. No reason Oteil wouldn't go back to wood just because of what he had in the past, especially if they use some of the Genesis technology.

 

One thing's for sure.

Peavey is capable of building top notch basses for incredibly reasonable prices!!!

 

I hear more about the guys basses then about his music...to me, he's a typical Bass-day/Namm/Endorser guy with pretty pictures and all.
Someone please enlighten me...

 

Otiel has played with Derek Trucks (there is some killer bass on Trucks' albums), Phish, and more recently with the Allman Brothers band.

He's done alot of studio work...You often don't hear alot from the many talented studio cats out there. Like so many guys in the studio scene, you may have heard him and not even known it.

He's also got his own group and I think recently put out his own album.

I've never heard anything about "his" basses.

 

He's one of the most impressive guys around, I think. Besides his work with Aquarium Rescue Unit, The Stranger's Hand (with Steve Smith, Howard Levy, and Jerry Goodman), and of course, the Allman Brothers Band, he is all over the map. Victor Wooten says that if he could play like anybody, it'd be Oteil. I think there's a recent interview with Oteil at http://www.globalbass.com

I was a little disappointed when he went to Peavey, but it doesn't seem to have affected his amazing ability to adapt to any number of situations and kick ass no matter what.

 

Thats exactly what the G5 bass is, Cirrus electronics and pickups, graphite neck. The body is a tad different, but close. They sound great, but its not like a Modulus....

Hey, Philbiker, we live in the same city!!!!

 

What does that mean???

 

I was half-joking.

Also, what WAS Oteil playing before Modulus? As far as I know, he had a Modulus back in the Col. Hampton era ARU. I know that he has a Yamaha BB series bass, but other than that, it's always been graphite.

 

He might show up in the adds with a Peavey of some sort but I doubt he'll play it. I saw him less than a month ago and there was no peavey in sight. I've seen the ads with him and a Peavey preamp and power amp but live he uses an Ampeg SVT head and 810 cabinet. Oteil like a lot of other guys is a money whore. He'll endorse whatever if you pay him. You might see him play a Peavey bass at some point but probably not an amp.
He's a great player but he hasn't played on any Dereck Trucks albums. His solo album was better than any of Wooten's solo albums.

 

what bass was he playing when you saw him? isnt he on the fodera user list too?

 

Hey, Joe. He was playing his Modulus. He also had an old Gibson of some sort off stage but he never played it.