Alice's Restaurant - Arlo Guthrie (Original 1967 Recording)

[SCantiGOP]

4. Two observations:

One that is usually not mentioned is that drug paraphernalia was found in the garbage (i.e., needles). That and the fact that police despised hippies at that time accounts for the arrests instead of a simple citation.

I saw Arlo at a music club in Columbia SC in the early 80s. He improvised in the middle of the monologue about how hard it was to get playing time for a song that was 18 minutes long. Then he mentioned that the missing gap in the Nixon tapes was about 18 minutes, and said, “Now, what could Nixon have had on that tape that was 18 minutes long that he just couldn’t let anybody know about?”