Wirepony onstage at the Casbah, San Diego, March 2009. Photo by Andy King
Squier Buzz is delighted to see old friend Otis “O” Barthoulameu hitting the stage with the all-new, kind of blue, tried and true, déjà vu four-string implement we affectionately call the Squier Classic Vibe Precision Bass® ’50s.
Here we see the O-man himself donning said CV Precision onstage at San Diego’s Casbah nightclub on the night of March 4, 2009, with Los Angeles-based alt-indie-Briticana trio Wirepony. Incidentally, noted guitarist/vocalist Patrick Dennis on the group’s MySpace page, that night’s performance was Wirepony’s first with new drummer Eddie Glass, who also played with O in Olivelawn and is guitarist and lead vocalist for L.A. hard rock trio Nebula and who, bless him, totally smoked the whole set list after only one rehearsal. If that ain’t rock ‘n’ roll, we don’t know what is.
Anyway, you guys all know O—he may just be the busiest bass player in Southern California. Gosh, maybe even the whole world. In addition to Wirepony, we know him from Fluf, Reeve Oliver, Olivelawn, and that one time when he roadied for the Muffs. The guy is a superlative bass player, and we’re stoked to see him playing the Classic Vibe Precision.
Anyway anyway, Wirepony is making a busy go of it this year. For a group that made its live debut only last January in San Diego, there’s already a disc available—seven-song EP Home On the Strange—a mid-March stint in Austin for SXSW 2009, and a summer tour that’ll take ’em from San Diego to Minneapolis.
