Interviewing The Legendary Peter Frampton At The Old MMR Studios, Plus Your Chance To Win Some Tickets

Let’s take a trip down memory lane to a time when Pierre Robert, Earl Bailey, and I all posed for a picture with the legendary Peter Frampton.

Of course, everybody knows Peter Frampton and most music lovers in the city know Pierre Robert, but Ealt Bailey is another great name to know.

Earl was a former news anchor at MMR. In fact, he was actually my news guy when I hosted mornings on MMR from 1997-1998 with the great Kevin Gunn producing.

Anyway, this picture was captured years ago at the old MMR studios at 5th and Market in Philly.

We actually shared this building with KYW 1060am and Channel 3 News on television.

On this day in particular, Pierre and I co-interviewed Peter Frampton, and he was the best!

I brought up the time I saw him perform in concert with Yes, Gary Wright, and the Pousette-Dart Band.

Come to think of it, I can’t believe it was nearly 50 years ago back on June 12th, 1976!

The show took place at the great JFK Stadium, and you’ll never guess how much tickets cost to this show.

Tickets that day were $9.52 with a city tax of 48 cents to bring that total up to a whopping $10 even.

I’m still not sure how I afforded it, to this day.

Funnily enough, the show was promoted as five bands at JFK, but, as I mentioned, only four prominent bands were actually booked.

So, naturally being in Philly, they brought out some members of the Mummers to play in between Pousette-Dart Band and Gary Wright to make it five bands.

I actually felt bad for the Mummers that day as they got coolers and shoes thrown at them for not quite being the fifth band concertgoers envisioned when they purchased their tickets.

Anyway, I bring up this whole story to tell you about a chance you have to win some tickets to see Peter Frampton in concert yourself!

Yes, all week, I will be giving away tickets to see Peter Frampton during my Connect 3 contest at 9 a.m.

The show will be on September 29th at The Met.

So, please tune in if you can, and maybe you could be the lucky winner!

As many of you know after reading my post about the Stanley Cup from yesterday, I spent the last week on vacation down the Jersey shore.

And from many of my other posts before that, you know I enjoy going for some long bike rides — especially down the shore!

So what could be better than squeezing in a nice bike ride on a week's long vacation? Squeezing in a nice bike ride on a week’s long vacation with a great friend of mine, of course!

I got to go on a great ride with my buddy Casey Boy from The Preston and Steve Show on our sister station, WMMR.

We rode through multiple shore towns as we got in a practice ride in preparation for this Sunday’s Ben To The Shore ride! For those that don’t know, the Ben To The Shore Bike Tour is a charity event that raises funds for Families Behind the Badge Children’s Foundation, which is for the families of fallen first responders and police officers.

It is always a lot of fun and something I look forward to each year!

During our practice route, Casey Boy and I rode about 25.81 miles from Wildwood to Town Bank to Cape May Point to Cape May then all the way back to Wildwood where we started.

It was a great time and has me ready to conquer the 65-mile Ben To The Shore ride! This will actually be my tenth year riding in the event and each year it gets better and better.

If you are interested in donating, visit fbbcf.org or visit the Team WMMR Rock and Rollers page.

I can’t wait for Sunday and hopefully, the weather holds up for the ride! I’m sure there will be a lot of people on the ride for this great cause!

Who do you think will cross the finish line first, me or Casey Boy?

Here's a selfie Casey Boy took on our ride. It is of Casey, Pattyann, and myself. What a great crew.

I took this during our ride. I'm not sure how I kept my balance! Just ahead of my leading the way are Casey and Pattyann.

Like I mentioned in the photo above, there they are leading the way. It's a tight bridge like many down the shore. Luckily, we all managed to make it across.

The first sign you see in Town Bank. Apparently, it is the birthplace of the South Jersey. I wonder what it was like in 1635?

Outside the beautiful Willow Creek Winery. What a cool sign. We definitely needed to check this place out on the ride.

The land the winery was on was beautiful. Look at those flowers! The property was huge.

You know we had to make our way into the winery! Riding on the bricks was not as hard as you would think. It was even cooler on the inside.

You know I had to grab a group picture inside the winery! I am actually wearing a jersey from a previous Ben To The Shore ride! I wonder what this year's will look like?

Just a group of people that love a good bike ride. I know we all can't wait for Sunday's ride. Hopefully, the weather is as nice as it was on this day!

The map of our 25-mile ride. We covered so much ground. It is nuts looking at it in map form!