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Originally Posted by Dean Romig
Did Arlo sing the "Alice's Restaurant Massacree" or is that just a Thanksgiving tradition these days?
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=-- As Arlo was a war protester, I doubt if ALICE was a All-Purpose Lightweight Individual Carrying Equipment issue pack. I always wondered how those 1960's piss-heads managed to avoid the Draft, and except for Phil Ochs (who hung himself) and Joan Baez's husband David something went to jail for burning draft cards in D.C., both Dylan and apparently Guthrie are still around and doing OK for themselves-- what a time of turmoil in America. Alice's Restaurant is the random rambling of a fairly good guitar picker almost 20 minutes in duration- and it's not even about a real restaurant when you can get a BLT or ham and eggs and grits-- what da hey??
Now Arlo did a good job with the great train song "The City of New Orleans" which I once even thought he had composed. But it was written by the late Steve Goodman in 1958. Bob Dylan probably has written over 1000 songs and is in the Rock and Roll hall of Fame I hear. My favorite from that era is Kris Kristofferson- son of an Army General and Kris served in an Army Ranger unit- Not too shabby.