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

January 17, 2001 - Peter Frampton

Photo By RD Mathers

Q104.3 was the New York affiliate for a syndicated radio show called Rockline.  When the subject of Bob Coburn's interview could not be in Los Angeles, they would come to Q and do the interview from there.  From a local station perspective, we would try and get at least 10 minutes with the artist for our purposes, or just linger a bit. 

At the start of 2001, Peter Frampton came in to do his Rockline interview on the release of a deluxe 25th Anniversary edition of his groundbreaking album, Frampton Comes Alive! While waiting for the show to start, Frampton hung out with Marc "The Cope" Coppola in the Q kitchen/green room.  

I had asked Frampton's wife, who was along, what the rest of their press tour for was like.  The shot below is at the moment when Frampton's wife said, "Well, you guys were a class act.  We have a bet going on how many morning shows are going to make stupid 'How many times does Frampton come alive?' jokes to me."  Fortunately I already had the camera to my eye.

Photo by RD Mathers

Shot with a Nikon 5mps digital camera.