Alice’s Restaurant Massacree revisited

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The true story behind Arlo Guthrie’s Thanksgiving staple, “Alice’s Restaurant”

Thanksgiving is here: a time for family, friends, gravy, and Arlo Guthrie talk-singing his way through an 18-minute-long anti-war song about littering. A natural fit, no? ....

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The Arlo Guthrie song “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree” tells what appears to be an impossible story about the stupidity of authority. Yet, the absurdity of the words in “Alice’s Restaurant” are for the most part, true. Alice, Officer Obie, and even Judge Hannon, were all real people, and the heinous crime of littering actually took place that fateful November Day.

Arlo Guthrie Gets Busted For “Litterin’”

In November of 1965, Arlo and his friend Rick Robbins drove to Great Barrington, Massachusetts to have Thanksgiving dinner with their friends Alice and Ray Brock. The Brocks were both teachers at the nearby Stockbridge School of Stockbridge, Mass, where Arlo was a recent graduate.

The couple lived in a deconsecrated church, and often had young people and itinerants staying with them. Alice owned a small luncheonette nearby, about half a mile from the railroad track. This restaurant would soon be immortalized by the song’s chorus, even though it plays no role in the song’s events....

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So no one wants to discuss; no one has more info.
I guess I can put some songs on here then to listen to while I do some work.

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That's like that nom guy who just keeps chewing, so mesmerizing.

I met Arlo back in the mid 90's in nashville at my uncles house.My uncle was a guitarist, songwriter as well as a studio engineer. I was young & had only briefly heard the song. He played it on acoustic guitar for me & my wife. Man, only if we had cell phones with video back then. I would ve captured a rare occurrence.

Alice's Restaurant / 1969




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Very cool. This is exactly the kind of response I was hoping for.

Thanks.

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