'Alice's Restaurant' Namesake Dies at 83

Sunday, November 24, 2024

On Thanksgiving Day in 1965, two young guests visiting Alice Brock and her husband, Ray, repaid the hospitality by helping clean up an old church that the couple had converted into their home in western Massachusetts.

Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 01:33 PM | 19 COMMENTS | permalink

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You can get anything you want, at Alice's Restaurant
Excepting Alice
You can get anything you want, at Alice's Restaurant
Walk right in it's around the back
Just a half a mile from the railroad track
You can get anything you want, at Alice's Restaurant
youtu.be

#1 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2024-11-24 05:29 AM

"It's a lot of fun," Alice Brock was quoted as saying of Arlo Guthrie's 1967 album. According to the obit, Brock, who died Nov. 21, saw in the song "a message of all the right things: of hope and music."

#2 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2024-11-24 05:36 AM

Almost time for the traditional annual playing of Alice's Restaurant on T-Day.

Had the good fortune to stop in at the "Alice's Restaurant" in Stockbridge during a road trip from Wisconsin to Boston (in 1972?).

Thanx for all the good vibes and memories, Alice.

RIP

#3 | Posted by TrueBlue at 2024-11-24 06:24 AM

For over a half century, they've played that song over and over and over again on radio stations all over the country during Thanksgiving-time yet it seems that the message still hasn't really sunk into the average American's thick skull. We continue to support all kinds of mean, nasty, ugly looking people and give billions in weapons to mother rapers and father stabbers (and even father rapers) and jump up and down en-masse like raging apes yelling "KILL! KILL! KILL! whenever some geostrategic power-grab is exposed or doesn't go our way.

#4 | Posted by NerfHerder at 2024-11-24 10:43 AM

"the message still hasn't really sunk into the average American's thick skull"

Sure. They got the message.

Make sure that when you plan to dump your garbage on the side of the road to take out any incriminating evidence first.

#5 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-11-24 01:44 PM

veins in muh teeth!

RIP

#6 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2024-11-24 01:48 PM

I've never heard this song before today.

#7 | Posted by chuffy at 2024-11-24 03:22 PM

@#3 ... Almost time for the traditional annual playing of Alice's Restaurant on T-Day. ...

The station I listen to mainly ( www.1071thepeak.com ) says they will be playing it at noon and 6PM.

Also, I've seen floating around a most excellent interview of Ms Brock by a DJ on the local college station WXCI.

Well worth a listen if you can find it. Quite the informative low-key interview where two people from the 60/70's sit and talk for an hour or so.

Thank-you for the fun memories.

R.I.P Alice May Brock.

#8 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-11-24 05:58 PM

I hate litter but some Monday morbibgs when I waslk my little dog it seems overwhelming. I have a tool to pick it up without havind to bend down which I usually fotget to bring but in honor of that song I think I may do a little neighborhood clean-up!

#9 | Posted by danni at 2024-11-25 04:09 AM

Going into this thread, I had already heard that Chuck Woolery died at the age of 83. A little disappointed that he wasn't the inspiration for the song.

#10 | Posted by sentinel at 2024-11-25 08:11 AM

I wonder if this song has been bowdlerized already, like "Money for Nothing" and "Jenna Bush Army". There's certainly a couple of lines in the military section that would never make the cut today.

#11 | Posted by sentinel at 2024-11-25 08:14 AM

"You can get anything you want, at Alice's Restaurant
Walk right in it's around the back"

I loved how Guthrie used innuendo in a way that was almost subliminal, instead of hitting you over the head with it. Another example is from The Motorcycle song.

I don't want a pickle
I just wanna ride my motor-sickle.
And I don't wanna die
I just wanna ride my motorcy- kill

#12 | Posted by sentinel at 2024-11-25 08:23 AM

#9 Makes it much harder to sell your condo in a GD red state if it appears you live in a low rent trashy neighborhood. You should be picking up after your neighbors hourly until the sale is completed and you move to CA. Happy Thanksgiving and Merry Christmas.

#13 | Posted by gracieamazed at 2024-11-25 09:12 AM

youre a ----. im full of hate! Merry Christmas!

-gracie

#14 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2024-11-25 09:41 AM

#14 Tisk, tisk. Maybe you should C&P 'that' thing again from the front page! Alex_Hoilday, you must have missed ALL of Danni's late-night posts. Happy Thanksgiving and merry Christmas to you too! Bless your heart.

#15 | Posted by gracieamazed at 2024-11-25 09:48 AM

Yes, 'Alice's Restaurant' has been on my iPod Plus (which is connected to my SUV's entertainment system) for years and whenever we take a long road-trip, it invariably comes up at least once or twice, all 18+ minutes of it.

OCU

#16 | Posted by OCUser at 2024-11-25 02:30 PM

The last time I listened to the song in an automobile, it was on a cassette recorded from a crackly vinyl record.

#17 | Posted by sentinel at 2024-11-25 02:58 PM

#15

Maybe you should tie a plastic bag around your head, you ------- MAGAT ----.

#18 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-11-25 06:17 PM

@#8 ... Also, I've seen floating around a most excellent interview of Ms Brock by a DJ on the local college station WXCI. ...

Found the interview again ...

2010 Interview with Alice Brock, of Alice's Restaurant (1 hour)
www.youtube.com

#19 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-11-26 06:42 PM

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