May 2, 2001 - Dave Mason

Photo by RD Mathers

Traffic Co-Founder Dave Mason came up to talk to Ken Dashow and play a little. He was pushing some dates in Jersey.

We also had some audio from this session and posted the interview and song to Q1043.com then.  The phrase "podcast" wasn't invented yet (because the iPod was still an idea in a notebook in Northern California), and not too many stations were posting this kind of stuff.  We'd like to think we were pioneer-ish.

If you are wondering, this image was shot during Dave's performance of his 70s hit "We Just Disagree."  

Shot with a Nikon E950.

April 30, 2001 - Ian Hunter & James Mastro

Photo by RD Mathers

This one is cool for a few very personal reasons.  

First, legendary British rocker Ian Hunter stopped by to play and do an interview with Bob Buchmann on his morning show.  This picture was taken during the performance of "All The Young Dudes."

Second, and I didn't put this together for another ten years, Jim Mastro, the guitar player with Ian, owns a sweet guitar shop in Hoboken.  In November of 2011, while dealing with a particularly painful life event, I was nudged to chase a small dream and learn the bass guitar.  I bought my first bass from Jim and realized that I'd seen him somewhere before... outside Hoboken.  

Jim is a great session player and all around awesome guy.

Shot on a Nikon E950

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

February 7, 2001 - Southside Johnny

By 2001 Q104.3 began taking up the mantle as the only rock station in New York City, following the demise of the legendary WNEW-FM.  In fact many former K-Rock and WNEW personalities made up the station's prime time air talent.  

As a result of this melding, some of the old WNEW-FM artist standbys started coming around.  Little Steven was basically a fixture when he wasn't filming "The Sopranos" and in February of 2001 that other band from Asbury Park, NJ, Southside Johnny stopped by for a chat with Ken Dashow.

Photo by RD Mathers

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.