March 25, 2001 - Otil Burbridge, Derek Trucks, Butch Trucks and Marc Quinones of The Allman Brothers Band

Photo by RD Mathers

In the middle of their 2001 Peakin' At The Beacon run, these four members of The Allman Brothers band stopped by Q104.3 to for their appearance on the syndicated radio show Rockline, with Bob Coburn.

The shot below is a personal favorite; Butch Trucks had just placed his phone down on the "kitchen" table after seeing mine.  We had the same phone and he'd turned to tell his nephew Derek, that he thought it was cool.  In my 28 year old brain I was screaming, "YOU think it's cool? A founding member of the Allmans thinks it's cool that we have the same Nokia phone?" 

I was able to keep my composure and get the shot.

Photo by RD Mathers

Both shots: Nikon E950

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.