frozen marguerita notes and links -- by steve bergen --

this obsession/fascination with frozen margueritas started the first time I was asked to do a Summercore in Dallas (at Hockaday School) ... that Spring I listened to Truckin dozens of times and wondered what the soft machine might be ... IOU to TG 5/2002

• "truckin" by the grateful dead words by robert hunter (not jerry garcia) info that i posted when visiting greenhill school in dallas tx (scroll down on this page)
• dallas has a soft machine ... houston's too close to new orleans new york's got the ways and means just keep trucking on ... listen to a SOUND clip (scroll down)
• one possible answer
• autographed copy of the CD
• fascinating web page at ARTS.UCSC.EDU that contains interpretations of the "soft machine"
• Dennis from Kinkaid talked about police abuse in Dallas in the 60's and a book called Thin Blue Line
• Jim from Hockaday School told me in August 2007 that I was wrong about the interpretation of soft machine as frozen maurguerita machine and that the real essence involved the political culture of Dallas in the 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s ... see this page for the podcast by Jim