Dean has been a great friend to so many people and an even better care taker to us, Blanks '77.

Touring with us for many years, Dean has loaded in, loaded out, driven, picked Renee up when she has fallen down, zapped the crowd with supersoakers during hot midsummer tours, thrown candy to our fans, and so many other things.

He recently had have emergency surgery done: Spinal cage fusion. They put a metal cage between 2 vertebrae to fuse them.

Dean had to cancel his physical therapy since they needed money up front. Put that on top of the medical bills coming in and you could say that he is in a bit of a jam.