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In a message dated 11/17/2002 9:20:39 AM Eastern Standard Time,
fetteroll@... writes:
> (Speaking of ballads -- though maybe it's just a story with musical
> accompaniment -- ironically I happened to pick up Arlo Guthrie's Greatest
> Hits CD at the library with Alice's Restaurant on it last week. And even
> more ironically, we serendipitously (though unfortunately before I'd gotten
> around to playing the CD for Kathryn) ended up in Stockbridge a couple days
> later where "Alice's restaurant" was. Had I known we'd be there and had
> looked up the trivia about the song we could have seen the church (now
> Guthrie Center) and the 8x10 color glossies (that were actually black and
> white). And I can't figure out if the restaurant in the center that was
> "formerly Alice's Restaurant" (closed either for the season or permanently
> wasn't clear) was Alice's restaurant. (Alice's restaurant refered to in the
> song was called The Wooden Spoon I think.) It's down an alley and not
> "around the back" as in the song. Perhaps she moved it to the present
> location later and renamed it Alice's Restaurant.)

I used to know Alice's Restaurant Massacree by heart! I still quote parts,
and folks look at me as if I'm crazy! Arlo's coming to the Newberry Opera
House (just outside Columbia) early next year. I already have my
tickets---and I'm taking Cameron. So that when he's asked, "Whatdya get?" he
can answer, "I didn't GET anything. I had to pay $25 and pick up the trash!" <
G>

I need to get the CD!

~Kelly, father-stabber, mother-raper, FATHER-raper


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In a message dated 11/17/02 7:46:02 AM, kbcdlovejo@... writes:

<< I used to know Alice's Restaurant Massacree by heart! I still quote parts,
and folks look at me as if I'm crazy! Arlo's coming to the Newberry Opera
House (just outside Columbia) early next year. I already have my
tickets---and I'm taking Cameron. >>

There's a newer version of it in which Arlo suggests that the length of the
original Alice's Restaurant recording is EXACTLY the length of the hole in
Nixon's tapes. I guess the suggestion is he accidently recorded Alice's
Restaurant in there and then erased it. <g>

As featured in a newspaper article that's only available by subscription now
8-/
Holly, a few years back, had a "hippie van" in the back yard. It was really
a non-running 15-passenger Ford with most of the back seats out. She had
decorated it with Grateful Dead stuff, Mexican pottery art, fringe, beads,
and had a (non-period) CD player and used to listen to Alice's Restaurant,
Joni Mitchell, and such. She painted the outside of it with peace signs and
rainbows. It was described in the Albuquerque Journal when reporters came to
our unschooling meetings, twice, and wrote an article. <g>

I should just scan that article in somewhere, and see if the Albuquerque
Journal bothers to sue me.

Sandra