August 9, 2001: The Q104.3 Golf Tournament - "I was born in a Greyhound Bus"

Dickey Betts performs.  Photo by RD Mathers

Dickey Betts, late of the Allman Brothers Band, was our headliner.  I stayed over the night before the tournament, since it was an all day event and was fortunate enough to have the room next to Betts.

He did practice until early in the morning and when I walked out at 5am, his room service discards contained two empty bottles of Jack Daniels and the remnants of a steak.

Here are the best of the Dickey Betts shots from that day.  Everything here was shot on film.

Bob Buchmann trying to act calm around Dickey Betts.  Photo by RD Mathers

Dickey Betts looking for his lost ball. Photo By RD Mathers

Dickey Betts looking cool.  Photo by RD Mathers

Date Unknown, 2000 - Butch Trucks

Photo by RD Mathers

The next three posts are from 2000, but my records do not indicate the exact dates.  For the most part I kept detailed notes and a dated folder structure on when each of these photos were taken, but some things fell through the cracks.  I know there are photos somewhere on a hard drive some where at the new Q studios.  Unfortunately, I was unable to recover those prior to my leaving Clear Channel in 2006.  In any event, we move along with what I can present.

Today, the late, great Butch Trucks, who was one of the drummers and founding members of The Allman Brothers Band.  I recall it being cold out when he came up to talk about an Allmans run at the Beacon, so it could have been March of 2000, or it could have been December, when the 2001 shows went on sale.  You can tell it was cold out because he has his scarf hung loosely around his neck

I was fortunate to have several occasions to shoot Trucks and I loved how animated and engaging a conversationalist he was.

Shot with a Sony digital camera.