 In 1989 Quiñones joined the jazz fusion band Spyro Gyra where he played for two years.After a chance meeting with Butch Trucks in 1991, he was recruited to join The Allman Brothers Band.There he played alongside original drummers Trucks and Jai Johanny "Jaimoe" Johanson; the general pattern was that Trucks was the timekeeper, Johanson added colors, and Quiñones established rhythms that the guitarists played against.