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sl8

(16,992 posts) Mon Dec 22, 2025, 09:27 AM Dec 22

SHOCKING NEW REVELATION from "Alice's Restaurant" songwriter !!!

At long last the songwriter admits to embellishments in his famous song. It turns out that the photographs weren't really color, after all.

I always suspected as much.

2:25 min.

Arlo Guthrie ("Alice's Restaurant" Songwriter) Sending You A Merry Christmas

Mango Jam Music (Hum of the Earth Studios)

Dec 24 2024

Arlo Guthrie ("Alice's Restaurant" Songwriter) Sending You A Merry Christmas

A quick behind-the-scenes teaser of American activist, protester, storyteller, and folk singer-songwriter Arlo Guthrie's appearance in an upcoming, soon-to-be-released documentary about The Mango Jam band from Rochester, NY.

Thank you so much, Arlo Davy Guthrie, for spreading some holiday cheer! 🙏🏽

MANGO JAM OFFICIAL MUSIC
🥭 it’s that mango marmalade - the juiciest jam - funky jelly;
pulsing from your ears to the core of your belly 🎶

🧠 DR Castillejo
👨‍💻 DR Castillejo
🎙️ Arlo Davy Guthrie
🎥 C. Argenna

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SHOCKING NEW REVELATION from "Alice's Restaurant" songwriter !!! (Original Post) sl8 Dec 22 OP

OMG! I remember HOURS and HOURS of listening to that album... Trueblue Texan Dec 22 #1

Gosh, we're all getting old. Liberal In Texas Dec 22 #2

Small venues are the best TexLaProgressive Dec 22 #3

That sounds great. Much better than the auditorium with huge crowds. Liberal In Texas Dec 22 #5

You can get anything you want ... lpbk2713 Dec 22 #4

... with the circles and arrows, and a paragraph on the back of each one ... surrealAmerican Dec 22 #6

Trueblue Texan

(4,187 posts)

1. OMG! I remember HOURS and HOURS of listening to that album...

Reply to sl8 (Original post)

Mon Dec 22, 2025, 09:36 AM

Dec 22

...sitting around my trailer house drinking coffee, smoking weed listening to Alice's Restaurant...can't even remember what was on the rest of the album, but I remember one of the guys we hung out with could recite the entire story word for word as we listened. I can't say those were the good old days, but there were some fun times in there.

Liberal In Texas

(15,983 posts)

2. Gosh, we're all getting old.

Reply to sl8 (Original post)

Mon Dec 22, 2025, 09:43 AM

Dec 22

I remember seeing him perform live in a small local pub (a place called Poor David's) back in the early 90s. His son was with him playing drums. At that time when you bought the tickets one was informed that he absolutely would not be playing "Alices Restaurant." I suppose he was burned out doing it.
It was a small bar and I recall standing right next to him in the men's during a break.

TexLaProgressive

(12,670 posts)

3. Small venues are the best

Reply to Liberal In Texas (Reply #2)

Mon Dec 22, 2025, 10:19 AM

Dec 22

I got to hear and see Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clark, Lightin’ Hopkins, Johnny Winter, Don Sanders, and more at Sand Mountain Coffee House in Houston. I actually got to have a sit down with several of them between sets. I would’ve love to had the same exxperience with Arlo, P P & M, Tom Paxton…

Liberal In Texas

(15,983 posts)

5. That sounds great. Much better than the auditorium with huge crowds.

Reply to TexLaProgressive (Reply #3)

Mon Dec 22, 2025, 07:06 PM

Dec 22

It brings to mind seeing BJ Thomas in Omaha in 1974 at a small lounge underneath a motel. Ironically called The Observatory. I don't believe there was even a cover, just a drink minimum.
Nice intimate place destroyed in 1975 by the massive tornado that tore through the center of Omaha.