I played a St. Paddy's party on Thursday with a band who, earlier in the day, had had a private jam session with Jeff Bridges. A long Complex series of events which led up to that...
Picture: The SF Complex -- wine, beer, and cocktails being served by deferential staff, and deadhead music! Sounds like enough of a Santa Fe Complexity-flavored event to not necessarily require an explicit scientific tie-in. Of course, I suppose we could have a spinning disco ball and laser lights... Shoot, charge a $10 cover. Let the social complexities commence! --Doug On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 8:51 PM, Tom Carter <[email protected]> wrote: > All - > > David Gans did a "back yard party" in the back yard of my radio-show > colleague (chair of the Philosophy department) a year or so ago. Very good > show -- definitely appropriate for the Complex. His style tends to be a bit > more laid back than Cowgirls -- he's somewhat more of a "sit and listen" > than a "get up and dance" performer. The Pub and Grill at SF Brewing, or > the San Francisco Street Bar and Grill also come to mind . . . > > I probably should work up a "social networking among deadheads" project > for the Summer School :-) . . . some years ago, I had a grad student (went > on for her Ph.D. in neurophysiology) who studied the "flashback" phenomenon > among deadheads -- we found that it was mostly a myth (and also published > some work deconstructing some of DSM IV, for those of you who might be > familiar). > > tom > > p.s. If you haven't seen it yet, Crazy Heart (the Jeff Bridges movie) is > at least amusing, and is largely set in / filmed in Santa Fe -- I enjoyed > it . . . and there are some "venues" in it that looked about right for David > Gans :-) > > On Mar 20, 2010, at 5:54 PM, Stephen Guerin wrote: > > > Pamela, > > > > The Complex could be a good venue. It would be cool if you could couple > it with an opening event to make it strongly mission related: eg couple it > with a 30 minute Jack Cowan-like lecture on Geometric Structures of Visual > Hallucinations <http://tinyurl.com/ygaa4fj> or maybe getting some novel > interactive light show to accompany the concert. or maybe a lecture on video > feedback leading to chaos, maybe Rob Shaw has some ideas, or sociology of > deadheads: > > http://www.amazon.com/Deadhead-Social-Science-Gonna-Learn/dp/0742502511 > > > > BTW, Tom Carter should be out in June to teach at the SFI CSSS. He does a > Dead Radio show, himself. He might have some good ideas how we might merge > the Dead with Complexity. > > > > -Stephen > > _____________________________________________________________ > > [email protected] > > (m) 505-577-5828 (o) 505-995-0206 > > sfcomplex.org | simtable.com | ambientpixel.com | redfish.com > > > > On Mar 20, 2010, at 5:53 PM, Pamela McCorduck wrote: > > > >> Friends in Santa Fe: > >> > >> Forgive this mass email, but I need some help. > >> > >> Some of you know David Gans as the host of The Grateful Dead Hour; some > of you know David as a musician in his own right. He's asked me about good > venues in Santa Fe for him to do a gig in May. This is my kind of music, but > I don't do the clubs, and have no idea of the scene. Can you suggest good > places? > >> > >> Thanks in advance, > >> > >> Pamela > >> > > >
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