To be pondered, reflected upon and consumed while experiencing Bob Dylan’s “Series of Dreams”
Albums
Neil Young — Earth
Neil Young — Peace Trail
Bob Dylan — Fallen Angles
EVERY Grateful Dead release
The Re-release of the Traveling Wilburys Collection
Mo Ostin Tribute Collection—Mo’s Songs
Rolling Stones—Blue & Lonesome
Bob Weir —Blue Mountain
Still waiting for Desert Trip soundtrack
Books, Writings
Phil Knight — Shoe Dog
Alive with the Dead — Susana Millman
Jane Mayer — Dark Money
Shep Gordon — Supermensch
Robert Greenfield — Bill Graham Presents: My Life Inside Rock
and Out
Robert Greenfield — BEAR
John Fogarty — Fortunate Son
Mick Fleetwood — Play On
Paul Krugman, Timothy Egan, Robert Reich — everything they
publish
John Williams — Butcher’s Crossing
The History of the Traveling Wilburys — Mo Ostin, Anthony
DeCurtis
The True History of the Traveling Wilburys — Ted Ashenbecker,
Hugh Jampton, Professor Tiny Hampton
Michael Ward — Ghost Riders in the Sky
Eric Weiner — The Geography of Genius
David Maraniss — Once in a Great City
Bruce Springsteen — Born to Run
Viet Thanh Nguyen — The Sympathizer
San Diego Business Journal — San Diego’s 500 Influential
Business Leaders
Robbie Robertson — Testimony
Steven G. Mandis — The Real Madrid Way
Rinker Buck — The Oregon Trail
Rus Bradburd — Forty Minutes of Hell: The Life of Nolan
Richardson
LIFE Magazine Tribute Issue — Bob Dylan
Bicycling Magazine — every issue
Bonner Paddock — One More Step
Robert Kuhn—How China’s Leaders Think
Jeffery Wasserstrom — China in the 21st Century
Thomas Buergenthal — A Lucky Child
Bill Browder — Red Notice
Adam Grant — Originals
Elvis Costello — Unfaithful Music
Mick Ebeling — Not Impossible
David Meerman Scott — The New Rules of Marketing & PR
Walter Isaacson — Einstein
Erik Larson—In the Garden of Beasts
Betty Edwards — Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
Kevin Fedarko — The Emerald Mile
Alonzo Mourning — Resilience
Craig Childs — Apocalyptic Planet
Richard Flanagan — The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Malin Burnham — Community Before Self
Erling Norrby — Notable Prizes and Notable Discoveries
Mark Bowden — Killing Pablo
Alison Brown — Bronze Sculpture Creation
Bob Minkin —Live Dead
Steve Cohen — Faces + Figures
The Rolling Stones — Zip Code
Visions of UCLA
Concerts
Bruce Springsteen
Elvis Costello
Elvis Costello again
The Who
Leon Russell
Steven Stills
Bob Dylan, The Tour — a lot, but never enough
Grateful Dead, The Tour — again and again, but never enough
Smokey Robinson
Electric Waste Band
Brian Wilson
Ringo
More Grateful Dead — never enough
Happy Together Tour, with Spencer Davis
More Grateful Dead — never enough
Boz Scaggs
Kansas
America
The Fab Four
Ben Harper
Jackson Browne
Huey Lewis
John Fogarty – a lot, but never enough
Desert Trip
More Bob Dylan — but still never enough
Maui Jim Festival Express — Mick Fleetwood, Sammy Hagar,
Steven Tyler, Willie K, and many others
Maui Jim Festival Express Day 2 — add Shep Gordon and Lukas
Nelson; then shake, stir and consume
New Stuff and Happenings
New Beam — More flesh-eating low end than ever
New movie — On the Map
San Diego Sport Innovators
Mike DuBois’ Artwork
Bill Walton Audio Book
Bill Walton Book Tour
Cortez passes
NCAA Final 4—GREAT title game and finish
Celtics 86’ Championship Reunion
Bill Walton Statue
AMGEN Tour of California
Chauffeurs by Sean Expands to HR, Global Media Productions,
e-sports, Philanthropy, Insurance/Financial Services, and
Human Rights,
Bob Dylan’s Never Ending World Tour comes to California for a
week
NBA Finals
Grateful Dead Tour
Tour de France
CNBC & Jim Kramer
Azunia Tequila Intergalactic Tour
California Sports Hall of Fame
Brad Fowler Memorial Scholarship Luncheon
La Mesa Boys & Girls Club Capital Campaign
Sirius XM Satellite Radio—Walton on XM/Sirius
Humphrey’s 35th Anniversary Celebration
Balboa Park Plaza de Panama Project
ESPN & e-sports, Las Vegas, and beyond
USA Paralympics Rugby Team
Rio Olympics and Paralympics
The Grateful Dead in George, Washington at the Gorge
Playing in the Band at Shoreline with the GD
Bill Schonley Tribute Celebration
San Francisco Giants Honor the Grateful Dead
San Francisco Giants honor Bill Graham
CAF NorCal
Summit for Stem Cell campaign to cure Parkinson’s
Basketball HOF for Yao Ming
John Fogarty residency in Las Vegas — with my bike
Maurice Lucas Foundation Portland, Oregon
Rex Foundation celebrations of life
Bill Walton’s Sportsman of the Year Award — San Diego Petco
Park with accompanying bobble-head
Desert Trip — I love trippin’ in the desert
Bob Dylan Nobel Prize for Literature
CAF Million Dollar Challenge
Eric Northbrook—CAF MDC, ride, effort and picture of a lifetime
Lance Weir and CCI Dog Fest Walk’nRoll
More John Fogarty
Lakers restart makes for a really proud dad
St. John’s & Chris Mullin New York celebration at the
Metropolitan Club
Pac-12 China Initiative Shanghai, Hangzhou, Alibaba
Joe Tsai
Jim Wilkinson
Maui Jim on Maui — and things were never the same again
Shep Gordon
K2 Insurance Services
San Diego Sports Arena 50th Anniversary Celebration
Warner Brothers Rhino ongoing celebration of all things Dead
Gates by Carl @ Lakeside Sculpture
Cali Strong — I’m a patriot
The Luskin Conference Center and Hotel at UCLA
UCLA Basketball — Lives again, I’m obnoxiously proud and
happy
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