Arlo Guthrie- Alice's Restaurant
May 22, 2023 13:34:16 #
Alice's Restaurant was Guthrie's break and got him a recording contract. Google him and you can read the story behind it and how cleaning out his friend Alice's (and husband's) house and dumping the litter, because the landfill was closed, resulting in a $50 dollar fine, kept him from going to Vietnam. It's also the basis for the movie Alice's Restaurant.
https://video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?fr=yhs-iba-3&ei=UTF-8&hsimp=yhs-3&hspart=iba&p=alice%27s+restaurant+youtube&type=sdff_9527_FFW_ZZ#id=2&vid=1d9972ef3c8de421b197636694c70b4d&action=click
https://video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?fr=yhs-iba-3&ei=UTF-8&hsimp=yhs-3&hspart=iba&p=alice%27s+restaurant+youtube&type=sdff_9527_FFW_ZZ#id=2&vid=1d9972ef3c8de421b197636694c70b4d&action=click
May 22, 2023 14:20:49 #
I’m familiar….. love the song….. did t know there was a movie….. much better free on you tube. I will be watching it soon
Thanks for the link
Thanks for the link
May 22, 2023 14:36:05 #
Not the best movie ever made, but I've seen worse. LOL
The song holds a place near and dear to my heart. When it first came out, one of the local radio stations played it each night at 10:00 pm. (I think that was the DJ's smoke break). I would pull the covers over my head with the radio underneath turned down low and listen while I drifted off to sleep. Even to this day, whenever I hear it I get drowsy.
The song holds a place near and dear to my heart. When it first came out, one of the local radio stations played it each night at 10:00 pm. (I think that was the DJ's smoke break). I would pull the covers over my head with the radio underneath turned down low and listen while I drifted off to sleep. Even to this day, whenever I hear it I get drowsy.
May 22, 2023 14:37:58 #
The movie is great & so is the music on it -- Have it on DVD -- Still have most of his LP's --
Just get to look at them now --
got rid of the turntable yrs. ago
Just get to look at them now --
got rid of the turntable yrs. ago
May 23, 2023 02:48:42 #
What did you get?
Nothin' I had to pay $50 and pick up the garbage.
What were you in for?
Littering...and they all moved away from me on the group W bench...until I said, "and creating a nuisance"...and they all moved back next to me on the group W bench.
Nothin' I had to pay $50 and pick up the garbage.
What were you in for?
Littering...and they all moved away from me on the group W bench...until I said, "and creating a nuisance"...and they all moved back next to me on the group W bench.
May 23, 2023 06:24:47 #
I still have the Alice's Restuarant cookbook. An insert has a punch out recording, never played it, but I think it's Arlo talking about the song.
May 23, 2023 06:32:48 #
May 23, 2023 08:31:38 #
When I was a young man, my Buddy Phil would do the vocal part of that song while I played the guitar. He knew the song by heart. Rest in peace Phil.
May 23, 2023 08:48:32 #
Absolutely mandatory listening back in '69 when the draft was in full swing and we were all hoping to find a reasonably legal way to avoid going to Viet Nam. I saw Arlo a couple of times in concert and he would usually sing the entire 22 minute's worth at some point. He had a couple of other "story songs" but none as good as Alice's Restaurant.
May 23, 2023 09:05:35 #
OhioJoe
Loc: Columbia Station
If you are ever in Stockbridge Ma there is a restaurant that has a sign saying it was formerly Alices restaurant there is also lots of things in the song that are there.
May 23, 2023 09:10:46 #
OhioJoe wrote:
If you are ever in Stockbridge Ma there is a restaurant that has a sign saying it was formerly Alices restaurant there is also lots of things in the song that are there.
Alice's restauraunt was not called Alice's Restaurant. It was just hers. I have no idea, though, what the name was.
May 23, 2023 09:39:51 #
TonyF
Loc: Bradenton, FL
flip1948 wrote:
What did you get?
Nothin' I had to pay $50 and pick up the garbage.
What were you in for?
Littering...and they all moved away from me on the group W bench...until I said, "and creating a nuisance"...and they all moved back next to me on the group W bench.
Nothin' I had to pay $50 and pick up the garbage.
What were you in for?
Littering...and they all moved away from me on the group W bench...until I said, "and creating a nuisance"...and they all moved back next to me on the group W bench.
May 23, 2023 09:48:59 #
OhioJoe
Loc: Columbia Station
SteveR wrote:
Alice's restauraunt was not called Alice's Restaurant. It was just hers. I have no idea, though, what the name was.
I don’t remember the name now but the sign says it was Alice’s restaurant and we talked to people there who said Arlo goes there occasionally I have a picture of it that I will have to dig up to show you
May 23, 2023 10:24:00 #
OhioJoe wrote:
I don’t remember the name now but the sign says it was Alice’s restaurant and we talked to people there who said Arlo goes there occasionally I have a picture of it that I will have to dig up to show you
Alice was the owner, so it WAS Alice's restaurant, but not the name of the business. Read the "prologue" in the link below. Read further and you'll find that the restaurant was actually named "The Back Room."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice%27s_Restaurant
May 23, 2023 13:14:54 #
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