The Band's road manager Butch Dener and Richard Bell.
Photo courtesy of Butch Dener.

"That shot was taken @ 6:30 a.m. We were doing the TODAY Show's Christmas Show. No one had slept cause they put us up @ some Times Square hipster hotel, very "hip" & oriental chic type <g>, about 1995 i think, cant really pinpoint it, & that was really coffee in Richard's cup (rare <g>). The fellas played great & we got the hell outta Dodge, back to Woodstock as fast as the bus could go."
--Butch Dener, June 2007

Richard Bell, with Levon Helm, Ronnie Hawkins, Colin Linden.
Photo courtesy of Butch Dener.