Alices Restaurant Song

The song is a deadpan protest against the vietnam war draft in the form of a comically exaggerated but essentially true story from.
Alices restaurant song. The song its full name is alice s restaurant massacree has its conception on thanksgiving day 1965 when guthrie then 18 and friend rick robbins 19 were clearing out the. Arlo performing alice s restaurant at the guthrie center. Directed by arthur penn. A majority of the attention directed at alice s restaurant focuses on the epic 18 plus minute title track which sprawled over the entire a side of the long player.
Filmed and produced by jackie guthrie. With arlo guthrie patricia quinn james broderick pete seeger. From arlo guthrie s same titled album released by reprise.