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
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> >
> > 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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