On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 18:19:38 -0800, Paul K Brandon >As I recall from the day (and I won't cheat by looking it up on the record >cover) the song by that name was based on a real event at a real restaurant, >but not by that name.
Just goes to show how faulty memory can be. Quoting from Wikipedia: |Though the song's official title, as printed on the album, is "Alice's |Restaurant Massacree" (pronounced mass-a-cree, not massacre), |Guthrie states in the opening line of the song that "This song's called |'Alice's Restaurant'" and that "'Alice's Restaurant'... is just the name |of the song;" as such, the shortened title is the one most commonly |used for the song today. In an interview for All Things Considered, |Guthrie said the song points out that any American citizen who was |convicted of a crime, no matter how minor (in his case, it was littering), |could avoid being conscripted to fight in the Vietnam War.[1] The |Alice in the song was restaurant-owner Alice M. Brock, who in 1964 |used $2,000 supplied by her mother to purchase a deconsecrated |church in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, where Alice and her husband |Ray would live. It was here rather than at the restaurant—which |came later—where the song's Thanksgiving dinners were actually held. And it was the garbage from a Thanksgiving dinner that Arlo & Co illegally dumped in the town dump (blind justice and all that) that resulted in him having a criminal record and which caused the Army recruiters to reject him along with father rapers, etc. See the Wikipedia entry for information about the restaurant: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice%27s_Restaurant#The_restaurant -Mike Palij New York University [email protected] On Nov 28, 2011, at 3:55 PM, Michael Palij wrote: > On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 12:28:45 -0800, Michael Sylvester wrote: >> >> TRUE OR FALSE >> >> Alice's restaurant is not a restaurant but the name of a song. > > Well, it depends upon what your meaning of "is" is. > > On the other hand, check out the Wikipedia entry (yadda-yadda): > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice%27s_Restaurant > > So, the answer is it's both. > > Or neither. > > Or, in a Zen sense, it is both and neither, depending upon your > definition of "is". --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=14478 or send a blank email to leave-14478-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
