Alice's Restaurant

[TBF]

Thanksgiving is my least favorite holiday. Land grab by imperialistic europeans - slaughtered our indigenous people and then celebrated over dinner. So I will skip the holiday greeting on this one and instead give you the best part of the season - the tradition of listening to Alice's Restaurant. Enjoy --

[liberal N proud]

1. You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant

[johnp3907]

10. Exceptin' Alice.

[FiveGoodMen]

2. "I mean I'm sittin' here on the Group W bench

cause you wanna know if I'm moral enough to join the army, burn women, kids, houses and villages after being a litterbug?!"

[Lindsay]

3. My first exposure to this

was a live-in-studio radio performance before the album was released. One of my favorite memories. Thanks for the reminder.

[TBF]

6. That sounds amazing :) nt

[Vox Moi]

4. Sometimes a guy just nails it

Thanks, Arlo.
Thanks TBF.

[madamesilverspurs]

5. This was introduced to us

when my brother brought it home following his last of three tours in Viet Nam. I always think of him when I hear it. Appropriately, his birthday sometimes falls on Thanksgiving.

[TBF]

7. Cool - respect for your bro.

[Laffy Kat]

8. Priceless. Too bad Arlo is a republican now.

[TBF]

9. Yeah - that's a damned shame.

I read that he's libertarian & a registered member of the repug party. There's an argument right there against inherited $$$ ...

[DemocraticWing]

11. Sort of

He's a registered Republican, but he's hinted a few times on his website (which has something resembling a blog/forum section) that he doesn't support Republican policies. For one thing, he's made numerous statements in support of unions and refuted a rumor that he refused to join one. He also posted a pretty lengthy defense of the Occupy movement a couple years ago that attacked the idea that government should be privatized.

That being said, he's said some pretty odd/conflicting things in the past. My suspicion is that he may be closer to our side than the others, but has nowhere near the political knowledge of Woody.

[CountAllVotes]

12. Off to the Greatest Page for you!

& Happy Thanksgiving to you if you are still around !!!

More here btw: http://www.gratefulweb.com/articles/pbs-premieres-alices-restaurant-50th-anniversary-concert-arlo-guthrie-thanksgiving-day-2015

& recommend.