{"id":245,"date":"2023-09-03T18:20:30","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T18:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billwalton.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=245"},"modified":"2024-11-14T17:36:34","modified_gmt":"2024-11-14T17:36:34","slug":"best-of-recently","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/billwalton.com\/?page_id=245","title":{"rendered":"Best of"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px; text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><strong>To be pondered, reflected upon and consumed while experiencing Bob Dylan\u2019s \u201cSeries of Dreams\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bob Dylan - Series Of Dreams (Official HD Video)\" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AgqGUBP3Cx0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px; text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billwalton.com\/images\/stories\/pic1a.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\">\u00a0<\/p><p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><strong>Albums<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Neil Young &#8212; Earth<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Neil Young &#8212; Peace Trail<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Bob Dylan &#8212; Fallen Angles<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">EVERY Grateful Dead release <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">The Re-release of the Traveling Wilburys Collection<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Mo Ostin Tribute Collection&#8212;Mo\u2019s Songs<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Rolling Stones&#8212;Blue &amp; Lonesome<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Bob Weir &#8212;Blue Mountain<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Still waiting for Desert Trip soundtrack<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><strong>Books, Writings<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Phil Knight &#8212; Shoe Dog<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Alive with the Dead &#8212; Susana Millman<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Jane Mayer &#8212; Dark Money<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Shep Gordon &#8212; Supermensch<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Robert Greenfield &#8212; Bill Graham Presents: My Life Inside Rock<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">and Out<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Robert Greenfield &#8212; BEAR<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">John Fogarty &#8212; Fortunate Son<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Mick Fleetwood &#8212; Play On<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Paul Krugman, Timothy Egan, Robert Reich &#8212; everything they<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">publish<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">John Williams &#8212; Butcher\u2019s Crossing<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">The History of the Traveling Wilburys &#8212; Mo Ostin, Anthony<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">DeCurtis<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">The True History of the Traveling Wilburys &#8212; Ted Ashenbecker,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Hugh Jampton, Professor Tiny Hampton<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Michael Ward &#8212; Ghost Riders in the Sky<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Eric Weiner &#8212; The Geography of Genius<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">David Maraniss &#8212; Once in a Great City<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Bruce Springsteen &#8212; Born to Run<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Viet Thanh Nguyen &#8212; The Sympathizer<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">San Diego Business Journal &#8212; San Diego\u2019s 500 Influential<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Business Leaders<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Robbie Robertson &#8212; Testimony<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Steven G. Mandis &#8212; The Real Madrid Way<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Rinker Buck &#8212; The Oregon Trail<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Rus Bradburd &#8212; Forty Minutes of Hell: The Life of Nolan<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Richardson <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">LIFE Magazine Tribute Issue &#8212; Bob Dylan<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Bicycling Magazine &#8212; every issue<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Bonner Paddock &#8212; One More Step<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Robert Kuhn&#8212;How China\u2019s Leaders Think<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Jeffery Wasserstrom &#8212; China in the 21st Century<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Thomas Buergenthal &#8212; A Lucky Child<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Bill Browder &#8212; Red Notice<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Adam Grant &#8212; Originals<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Elvis Costello &#8212; Unfaithful Music<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Mick Ebeling &#8212; Not Impossible <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">David Meerman Scott &#8212; The New Rules of Marketing &amp; PR<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Walter Isaacson &#8212; Einstein<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Erik Larson&#8212;In the Garden of Beasts<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Betty Edwards &#8212; Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Kevin Fedarko &#8212; The Emerald Mile<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Alonzo Mourning &#8212; Resilience <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Craig Childs &#8212; Apocalyptic Planet <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Richard Flanagan &#8212; The Narrow Road to the Deep North<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Malin Burnham &#8212; Community Before Self<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Erling Norrby &#8212; Notable Prizes and Notable Discoveries <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Mark Bowden &#8212; Killing Pablo<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Alison Brown &#8212; Bronze Sculpture Creation<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Bob Minkin &#8212;Live Dead<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Steve Cohen &#8212; Faces + Figures <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">The Rolling Stones &#8212; Zip Code<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Visions of UCLA<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><strong>Concerts<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Bruce Springsteen<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Elvis Costello<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Elvis Costello again<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">The Who<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Leon Russell<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Steven Stills<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Bob Dylan, The Tour &#8212; a lot, but never enough<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Grateful Dead, The Tour &#8212; again and again, but never enough<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Smokey Robinson<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Electric Waste Band<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Brian Wilson<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Ringo<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">More Grateful Dead &#8212; never enough<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Happy Together Tour, with Spencer Davis<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">More Grateful Dead &#8212; never enough<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Boz Scaggs<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Kansas<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">America<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">The Fab Four<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Ben Harper<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Jackson Browne<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Huey Lewis<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">John Fogarty \u2013 a lot, but never enough<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Desert Trip<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">More Bob Dylan &#8212; but still never enough<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Maui Jim Festival Express &#8212; Mick Fleetwood, Sammy Hagar,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Steven Tyler, Willie K, and many others<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Maui Jim Festival Express Day 2 &#8212; add Shep Gordon and Lukas<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Nelson; then shake, stir and consume<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><strong>New Stuff and Happenings<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">New Beam &#8212; More flesh-eating low end than ever<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">New movie &#8212; On the Map<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">San Diego Sport Innovators<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Mike DuBois\u2019 Artwork <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Bill Walton Audio Book<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Bill Walton Book Tour<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Cortez passes<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">NCAA Final 4&#8212;GREAT title game and finish<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Celtics 86\u2019 Championship Reunion<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Bill Walton Statue <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">AMGEN Tour of California<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Chauffeurs by Sean Expands to HR, Global Media Productions,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">e-sports, Philanthropy, Insurance\/Financial Services, and<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Human Rights, <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Bob Dylan\u2019s Never Ending World Tour comes to California for a<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">week<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">NBA Finals<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Grateful Dead Tour<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Tour de France<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">CNBC &amp; Jim Kramer<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Azunia Tequila Intergalactic Tour<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">California Sports Hall of Fame<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Brad Fowler Memorial Scholarship Luncheon<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">La Mesa Boys &amp; Girls Club Capital Campaign<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Sirius XM Satellite Radio&#8212;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/dyon0wucanc0k95\/160703_walton.wav?dl=0\" title=\"Listen to Sirius XM Clip\" style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Walton on XM\/Sirius<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Humphrey\u2019s 35th Anniversary Celebration<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Balboa Park Plaza de Panama Project<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">ESPN &amp; e-sports, Las Vegas, and beyond<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">USA Paralympics Rugby Team<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Rio Olympics and Paralympics<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">The Grateful Dead in George, Washington at the Gorge<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Playing in the Band at Shoreline with the GD<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Bill Schonley Tribute Celebration<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">San Francisco Giants Honor the Grateful Dead<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">San Francisco Giants honor Bill Graham<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">CAF NorCal<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Summit for Stem Cell campaign to cure Parkinson\u2019s <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Basketball HOF for Yao Ming<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">John Fogarty residency in Las Vegas &#8212; with my bike<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Maurice Lucas Foundation Portland, Oregon<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Rex Foundation celebrations of life<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Bill Walton\u2019s Sportsman of the Year Award &#8212; San Diego Petco<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Park with accompanying bobble-head <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Desert Trip &#8212; I love trippin\u2019 in the desert<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Bob Dylan Nobel Prize for Literature<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">CAF Million Dollar Challenge<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Eric Northbrook&#8212;CAF MDC, ride, effort and picture of a lifetime<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Lance Weir and CCI Dog Fest Walk\u2019nRoll<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">More John Fogarty <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Lakers restart makes for a really proud dad<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">St. John\u2019s &amp; Chris Mullin New York celebration at the<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Metropolitan Club<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Pac-12 China Initiative Shanghai, Hangzhou, Alibaba<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Joe Tsai<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Jim Wilkinson<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Maui Jim on Maui &#8212; and things were never the same again<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Shep Gordon<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">K2 Insurance Services<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">San Diego Sports Arena 50th Anniversary Celebration<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Warner Brothers Rhino ongoing celebration of all things Dead<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Gates by Carl @ Lakeside Sculpture <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: 8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Cali Strong &#8212; 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