Gary stopped by the Fender 2010 Showcase currently underway in Anaheim, CA and chatted with Tony Franklin:

Follow the Fender Showcase via their blog here.

In October 2009, Gary was honored by the Iraq Star Foundation, at their Night for Stars benefit.  The foundation is a non-profit organization that provides reconstructive surgery to American soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan wars and is funded entirely by public donations.   

In conjunction with the event, TLC’s American Chopper:OCC  was asked to build a bike to benefit the foundation.  The video just below includes comments from Gary, a few scenes from the show and clips from the charity event! Watch to see Gary (and Moira) and pay close attention — sale of the bike raised $100K for the foundation!

The entire American Chopper episode (which aired in December 2009) is available at Amazon.com.

For anyone in the New York City area this week, a reliable source shares that CSI:NY is shooting at the Battery Park Heliport on Tuesday.  The time is unknown but probably a.m.  Gary should be there, but please keep in mind things like this are always subject to change.

On June 10th Gary joined the Operation Gratitude volunteers at the National Guard Armory in Van Nuys to assemble care packages and send greetings of love and respect to U.S. service members deployed overseas.

Operation Gratitude is the California-based 501(c)(3) non-profit, volunteer organization that annually sends 100,000+ care packages of snacks, entertainment items and personal letters of appreciation addressed to individually named U.S. Service Members deployed in hostile regions such as Iraq and Afghanistan and on Naval ships at sea.   Its mission is to lift morale, bring a smile to a service member’s face and to express the appreciation and support of the American people.  Since its inception in March 2003, Operation Gratitude has shipped more than 450,000 packages to American military deployed overseas.

Below are a few photographs of Gary with volunteers and service members taken during his visit (click on photos to enlarge).

To see all the photographs of Gary’s visit and to learn more about the efforts of Operation Gratitude, please visit their website: click here,

Gary was on location in New York City last week and thanks to the generosity of ny_odyssey over at LiveJournal, we have permission to share these excellent photos:

Thanks again to ny_odyssey!

Just some links to photos that TGFs will enjoy.

Gary golfing at Thousand Oaks Golf Tournament in June. Click for pics

Gary visiting the USS Ronald Reagan July 6th: Click for pics

According to Bill Zweker’s column in the Sun Times, Gary and the Lt. Dan Band grabbed dinner and a few wardrobe accessories at Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. at the Navy Pier Saturday, October 14th before their concert later that evening at the USO gala. (If anyone was fortunate enough to attend the gala, we would love to hear about it.)

If you haven’t been to a concert yet or you just gotta have more, the band starts November with two shows in California and another in Missouri. On Saturday, November 4th, they perform at the Crystal Palace in Bakersfield, and the following night, November 5th, they play the Coach House in San Juan Capistrano.

Later that week, the band travels to Kansas City, Missouri for a Friday night show at the Uptown Theatre to raise funds for Operation Iraqi Children. For more information see Benefit Concert

For further details about the upcoming concerts and other Lt. Dan Band news, check out the fresh new look of the band’s website here. Don’t miss the Galllery with teriffic photos from recent shows!