Call it tradition. Call it strange.

But here's everyone's annual reminder to play Arlo Guthrie's Alice's Restaraunt tomorrow on Thanksgiving.

Where I grew up in East TN, the local station, WQUT, would always play it at noon on Thanksgiving. It became a ritual for my brother and myself to plant ourselves in front of the floor-standers and listen to all 25 minutes worth. We still do this 20 years later, even though we are in different states. We'll cue it up, then give each other a call, and listen to the song.

You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaruant....'cept Alice of course.

JD

We have the same tradition in our family. Wherever we are my brother and I will put on the CD (original scratchy vinyl if we're at my house) and recite line for line the masacree. Meanwhile our four sisters will moan and groan the whole time! Glad to know we're not the only ones out there.:D

...27 8x10 colored glossy pictures, with a circle and an arrow and a paragraph on the back of each one expainin' how it was to be used against us...

Yep, it's a tradition here as well...and on Friday I always play Cold Turkey by John Lennon.

I'll make it a tradition here as well... thanks for the suggestion! :thmbsp:

Scott

We will be spinning Alice's Restaruant about 10:00am tomorrow. It wouldn't be Thanksgiving without it.

RC

fm station KQRS in minneapolis plays it at 9;30 by the way probably the best morning show ever 6;30 til 9;20 ,,92.5

It's a great tradition, isn't it? This will be my 37th year!

You can bet WQUT will be on at yer ol' Unca Sandy's place, too...

YES, this is a must-do item for the holiday! :thmbsp: And THIS year will be the first one in a long time that I listen on vinyl - Thanks, AK! (Which reminds me, I haven't cleaned that album since I got the new TT... better do it tonight :D )

I refound that album when I was going through my vinyl. However, I then placed it somewhere where I wouldn't misplace it. Guess what, I now can't remember where that was.:withstpd:

Great story in Wednesday's (11/22) Wall Street Journal that tells what's happened to Alice before and since -- yes, she's still alive and well.

A great piece of Americana, indeed.



dew.

Just found the CD last week. Probably play it rather than the LP since I haven't played it yet..

Terry

Meanwhile our four sisters will moan and groan the whole time! Glad to know we're not the only ones out there.:D

I may get flamed for this but Oh well, I call it like I see it. What is it with women by and large being musically closed minded? Sorry ladies, if any even care enough about music to be on an Arlo Guthrie (who's that?) thread, or on the music forum at all to read this. This is not a woman bashing, but frankly it seems like the ladies mostly like what SUCKS. Pop, Rap, Top 40, FM "hit" rock ect...

I mean I challenge anyone to try to get their lady to sit through "Alices Restaraunt", much less follow along, or maybe even like it. Now I know this isnt all the girls. Arlo's website has some very die hard ladies who follow every move he makes. Some even talk like he's a sex symbol.. Better him then the Backstreet Boys or whatever the latest fashon, dance, fru-fru trend is I guess. Most of these ladies are probably 45 and up. As far as the younger women I dont get it. To me if I havent heard an artist or a song then it is NEW. The women seem to be on auto burn out like they have heard something a zillion times that they have never heard. Its like if FM radio, or American Top 40, or the video channels don't play it, then it CANT be good.

Am I the only person who gets this vibe??

Anyway, Arlo is one of the most interesting and kind people you will ever meet, or see in concert if he comes around your town. He is a true working musician and tours like 9 or 10 months a year. Usually sold out the times I have gone, but yet so few seem to be aware of one of our national treasures, the Guthrie family music tradition.

A sex symbol, can't say because I'm not gay, but I doubt it. A FREAKing good time for an evening. Your life wont be complete without it. Go check him out.

NOW KID!!

Nothin' like gettin' arrested for litterin'... (Thanks for the reminder Jeff!)

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Around our house, "playing Alice's Restaurant", meant just that. I'd pick up the guitar, and tell the story of the massacree, will full orchestration and five-part harmony...

I've been playin' this song for forty-five minutes. I could play for ANOTHER forty-five minutes. I'm not proud...

...or tired.

( I shudder to think how I would sound, now.)

...and they allll moved away from me on the Group W bench...

Dang LV, I didn't know you picked and grinned... Learn sumpthin' new ever-day!If we ever do get some sit down and talk time, I'll bring the guitar:D.

Well, I couldn't wait until noon. I searched the cd rack and found 3 different versions of Alice's Restaraunt Masacree. I just listened to a live version from a few years back. I call it the Watergate version, as he meanders off into a Nixon discussion, and wonders if the missing 18 minutes on the Watergate Tapes was in fact his 18 minutes of "Alice's Restaraunt". Hilarious.

For fun I also listened to the Motorcycle Song.

JD

As a proud resident of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (and not all that far from Stockbridge, at least compared to some of y'all)... I am hoping to find it on the radio sometime today.

I do actually have the vinyl, but it was a dump find and I don't know if it's in playing condition.

I also have the live version which is the 30th anniversary special of the tune. It's a hoot.

Listened to it on WROR-FM outta Boston at 6PM tonight... just after Skype-ing with our daughter at Oxford. They DID have turkey tonight, amazingly enough.

KBCO Denver, every year at noon. I never miss it.

cubdog

Did anyone know that he re did this album sometime in the 90's I think, or early 2k's? I don't mean re-released, I mean he re did the whole album just like 1967 only as he is NOW, or recently that is.

I have never listened to the new version which is "Alices Restaurant Revisited" but I have seen the cover which has him still sitting there grinning with no shirt on, in exactly the same setting. I think he lost the hat and now has white hair. The rest is the same. Interesting contrast..

Once I saw a photo of him looking out a window with the fork, knife, and napkin (rigid) somehow standing on their own in front of him. Pretty cool.....