What's the story behind Arlo Guthrie's 'Alice's Restaurant'? Read on to learn more about the out-there Thanksgiving classic
Did you ever think “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree” would be your most beloved song?
Well, you have to remember that back in ’65, all the way into the early Seventies, nobody in their right mind would have written an 18-minute monologue. I mean if it was 2:31, stations wouldn’t play it. So I never expected it to even be on a record, let alone get airplay, let alone have it made into a movie. I mean, that was all like a whirlwind of events that were way beyond my control.I did take the war in Vietnam seriously, and I was in college.
To have what happened to me actually happen and not be a work of fiction still remains amazing. It’s an amazing set of crazy circumstances that reminds me of an old Charlie Chaplin movie. It’s slapstick.
Well, I never thought of it as being particularly anti-war, because there may be times when the war is appropriate. I can’t think of many times, but there are times. And so I’m not an idealist in that sense. There are times when you have to do stuff even if it cuts against the grain of who you are. So I never thought of “Alice’s Restaurant” as being an anti-war song, but you can’t run a war being that stupid. You won’t succeed in the war and you won’t succeed in other things either.
I don’t know if they do or not, I can tell you that that wouldn’t be a decision I would make, but the shows are doing very well.I made a commitment decades ago that I would do it on these anniversaries, so whether there’s 50,000 people that show up or 50 people show up, I’m gonna do it anyhow because I said I would.No. And no one in my family does either. There are better things to do for us and I’ve got grandkids now.
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