Saw Arlo recently at The Coach House in San Juan Capistrano. I had been waiting nearly 50 years to see him. He was absolutely incredible. His concert was so much fun. I love him as much now as I did when I was 14.
I been a Mensa man since 1960, got made by the one and only Margot Seitelman herself on Feb. 11th, 1960. Arlo and I have been close friends since 1971.
Wow, his comment about remembering....My dad always listened to Alice's restaurant at thanksgiving, he is gone now but it damn near makes me cry to listen to it. Thank you Arlo!
An Arlo Guthrie concert is like going home. You know you’re going to feel nostalgic, yet current at the same time. It’s a wonderful safe & happy place to be.
His explanations are so logical, so analytical, so obvious and I don't feel like the only person who thinks as I do after listening to him on this as well as his 10 min. comedy routine from 1987 which I've watched like 5 times and it's still funny. I truly enjoy listening to him express and explain how music is continuously intertwined in our lives. He's truly a modern day philosopher and I'm sure he even knows it himself. Thank you so much. Thank Arlo so much for me.
I was blessed to see Arlo in concert in Sarasota Florida about 20 years ago or a little more and it was the best thing I've ever seen he is fantastic. I had just finished reading the book about his father called a life. If you haven't read it you should.. someday I will get ahold of that book and read it again.
Many thanks for this. I have been watching the film Alice's Restaurant by tradition every year on the evening before Thanksgiving for the last 30+ years. I am from New York City and being in high school during the height of the Vietnam War the film has special relevance to me and is pure autumn. By the way... from 1970 to 1975 I worked at a Bohacks Supermarket in Bayside Queens, NYC. The name of my store manager was Barney Vitrano and we were very close. The day he was transferred we both had a good cry. He lived in Valley Stream, Long Island New York. If you Mr. Vitrano are related to him with even one drop of blood your a good good man!
Old school technological misfunction.Still talking to Arlo Guthrie,very possibly the sanest guy on the planet right now;can't help but admire your integrity and strength despite misfortune.Sorry for your losses,truly.Truly.Thank you and yours again...
🐾 Arlo singing and narrating the song at Woodstock "Walking Down the Line", still cracks me up. I've seen him live several times in the early 1970's and have always enjoyed all of his shows. He's a great story teller as well.
Thanks for sharing..... He's so right--- the song that plays on the day you fell in love becomes a part of your soundtrack the rest of your life... Always a memory.
Great recent interview. Arlo and Jackie raised their family just outside Stockbridge, MA. They also bought the church from Alice's Restaurant. He does a concert every other year in Keene, NH and sometimes Brattleboro, VT. He was the first concert that I brought each of daughters to, and my 9 year granddaughter has been to 4. I love the small venues. We need Arlo this year in full fledged mode aw well as everyone else who respects the US Constitution.
I wanted and failed to express how much I have relied on Arlo as my hero- since the early 70's.Now I am approaching(very soon) the time of wisdom.It is time toacknowedgeu
thank you for leading me to a place where i identify with the songs that you and many others have lead me. thank you also for your show at the rat palace honolulu in the 70s.
My brother brought the album home from his 4 year hitch in 1970, along with Pearl, The Stone Poneys, and several other comedy albums and folk albums. At one time I could word-for-word the Thanksgiving Day Massacree.
I went to see Alice's Restaurant at the theater in 1968 or whenever it came out....at 10 years old.....have been a fan since and became a fingerpicker as a result....thanks Arlo for a lifetime of music!
In 1967, my mother died. I was totally depressed... then I heard Arlo Guthrie's song, Alice's Restaurant. Thanks for the good memory that year! And thanks for sharing it with successive generations.
Hey Arlo, long ago I met a Canadian kid who used the name "Arlo" because he looked a little like you, He was the sweetest most innocent thing I ever saw. I was wondering all my life if he ever contacted you and maybe talked about Winnipeg and or Vancouver and the power of music..?? Please do tell. I know famous people meet a million fans but still I wish..... TY forever for your gifts!
Alice was the first album I bought from my first pay packet from my first job. I still have the album which in my will is left to my nephew. I would love to see an audience with Arlo Guthrie here in Adelaide, South Australia.
I saw Arlo in Nottingham, a small venue in a pub. Must of been late 80's. Apparently he was a bit put out as the previous gig had been the Fairfield Hall in Croyden. Non the less the evening rocked and we had such a good time.
My wife and her best friend saw this wonderful human being in the wealthy city of Naples Florida. THE BARBARA B . MANN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER . They were in her friends orange and white micro bus . Having donned thier Tie - Dies (Every day wear for them ) and parked amongst all the Porsches , and BMWs , and Mercedes Benz . The other attendees wore suits and posh high fashion modern dresses . Well after the show our man Arlo politely made his way through the nice normal folks , and in the parking lot he landed on our 2 real deal hippie movement rejects . Ha ha . He ended up shooting the breeze with them for awhile and even autographed my lady's big green clog/heel phsycodelic shoe !!! Some weeks later we recieved a letter in the mail . It was an invitation to go to that wonderful church in Massachusetts . Yes ! We were invited to share Thanksgiving dinner with his family !!! 100 % Gods honest truth !!! Well , we were just about at the bottom of the state of Florida . We had 3 amazing young children and were living off of my lifelong occupation in bartending . Our old van (not the micro - bus ) would have been a crap - shoot at best to make the trip to Massachusetts and back . It takes almost a darn day of driving , just to get outta Florida from here . We wanted to go soooooooooo badly we could taste it !!! Wewanted our family to experience the love and good times of such beautiful people and culture . We raised our children with that kind of love and freedom and actually lived that way back when they were born and raised in the early 90s . We were 60s born and saw things were in need of good things all around . Well ... To this very day , every time something makes me think about all of the stupendous things about this man and those delightful days , I regret it deeply and ever so sadly , that we missed an opportunity for that thanksgiving with the family (All his people are surely family ) of A . G . Although to this very day my children have grown up and had children . Yup I'm a grandpa now . And I think the coolest thing in the world was while sitting on the back porch of my wife's hippie - hand - made - peace - shop . 3 (three) generations of my family and especially the grand kids , were all tapping their feet , lightly , easily bobbing thier heads , and trying to sing along with Alice's Restaurant !!!! Tears of joy ? And happiness , and a perfect peace in knowing , that if and when life hurls misfortunes and disasters our way , we all have the love and passion to give them a helluva good fight. Thanks for reading my rambling on about this . And remember ... 3 generations touched and influenced by this music !!! Fondest regards . Matthew .
What an inspirational post! Thank you. When you mentioned three generations of your family, all touched by one experience, it struck me hard. My family never managed harmony as a kid. Long story short, I never even experienced two generations together in harmony. Well, half a century, my wife & I, both lost souls as tiny children, found ourselves together & with our children & their children. Three generations in harmony. And these globalist bastards have broken everything, forcing us apart just as effectively as a military draft. Assuming any of those following generations survive to converse in the distant future when I’ll be gone, I hope they’ll recall they were blessed to be part of a multi generational family in harmony, albeit so briefly.
Folk music IS social media, so true. I found Alice's Restaurant in a second hand music store when it was 15 years old, seemed along time ago then.... funny to think it is 53 years old now.
What an icon! People like this are getting less and less. All music was experiments with the public at that time. Those times are nos gone. Just turn on the radio!
1968 or 69. The Second Fret Coffee House in Philadelphia. My girlfriend and I drop-in out of curiosity because this evening’s performer is Woody Guthrie’s son. As we enter, I immediately head to the men’s room because I am in my prime-time beer-drinking days. Inside the graffiti-adorned john, a tall, skinny, scraggly-dressed dude offers me a hit on his massive blunt, the size of a Cuban cigar. I politely decline since I am a devout, Midwestern beer-drinker and I do not want anything interfering with my religious pilgrimage thus far that day. I return to my girl at our table when this very same, generous bong-head shyly takes the stage. After a few tunes, he performs Alice’s Restaurant before it has yet to reach the airways and make him famous. Good times.
I truly hope that Arlo will post those live recordings of his father, that he & his sister listened to back then!! Does anyone know if they've done this?? Thank you Arlo for all of the precious memories!
Magic is overlooked with "star" performances as a valid aspect. My feeling is, what your intent is toward the audience is the key. When it comes from the heart. People know and respond. A selfish performer doesn't last long.
My daughter ( Marion Sosa) is a new generation and you tube put her in new ‘indie folk music’ she just realest yesterday (9/18/2020 ), her first single “ deportee” (aka) Plane wreck at Los Gatos), words by Woody’s Guthrie, music by Martin Hoffman.
Oh... absolutely right. He didn't want to do it at the venue... which would have been awesome... so the hotel gave us this dank conference room. Guess it doesn't matter anyway... it's about the stories.
I wish I knew why his bottom teeth are glowing white. His top teeth are normal white..but those bottom babies are really aglow. I do LOVE Arlo though!!
It doesn't matter what age, this man's hair is always epic.
"It fills the part of your heart that your mind can't go to" That says it all, Arlo. That's why you're the greatest!
Saw Arlo recently at The Coach House in San Juan Capistrano. I had been waiting nearly 50 years to see him. He was absolutely incredible. His concert was so much fun. I love him as much now as I did when I was 14.
Arlo, I am 82 and only discovered you about a couple months ago! You are amazing and my favorite entertainer.
A great man with a story to tell. God Bless you Arlo
I been a Mensa man since 1960, got made by the one and only Margot Seitelman herself on Feb. 11th, 1960. Arlo and I have been close friends since 1971.
I love this man 🌹
Just a good person
Legend
Wow, his comment about remembering....My dad always listened to Alice's restaurant at thanksgiving, he is gone now but it damn near makes me cry to listen to it.
Thank you Arlo!
An Arlo Guthrie concert is like going home. You know you’re going to feel nostalgic, yet current at the same time. It’s a wonderful safe & happy place to be.
I could listen to Arlo for hours.
His explanations are so logical, so analytical, so obvious and I don't feel like the only person who thinks as I do after listening to him on this as well as his 10 min. comedy routine from 1987 which I've watched like 5 times and it's still funny. I truly enjoy listening to him express and explain how music is continuously intertwined in our lives. He's truly a modern day philosopher and I'm sure he even knows it himself. Thank you so much. Thank Arlo so much for me.
I was blessed to see Arlo in concert in Sarasota Florida about 20 years ago or a little more and it was the best thing I've ever seen he is fantastic. I had just finished reading the book about his father called a life. If you haven't read it you should.. someday I will get ahold of that book and read it again.
Many thanks for this. I have been watching the film Alice's Restaurant by tradition every year on the evening before Thanksgiving for the last 30+ years. I am from New York City and being in high school during the height of the Vietnam War the film has special relevance to me and is pure autumn. By the way... from 1970 to 1975 I worked at a Bohacks Supermarket in Bayside Queens, NYC. The name of my store manager was Barney Vitrano and we were very close. The day he was transferred we both had a good cry. He lived in Valley Stream, Long Island New York. If you Mr. Vitrano are related to him with even one drop of blood your a good good man!
Such a philosopher ,fantastic !
Old school technological misfunction.Still talking to Arlo Guthrie,very possibly the sanest guy on the planet right now;can't help but admire your integrity and strength despite misfortune.Sorry for your losses,truly.Truly.Thank you and yours again...
How grateful I am to have been able to see him live four different times... truly an American treasure. Thanks for the music and the memories Arlo.
🐾 Arlo singing and narrating the song at Woodstock "Walking Down the Line", still cracks me up. I've seen him live several times in the early 1970's and have always enjoyed all of his shows. He's a great story teller as well.
Music was the way stories were handed down over the age .
Thanks for sharing..... He's so right--- the song that plays on the day you fell in love becomes a part of your soundtrack the rest of your life... Always a memory.
Great recent interview. Arlo and Jackie raised their family just outside Stockbridge, MA. They also bought the church from Alice's Restaurant. He does a concert every other year in Keene, NH and sometimes Brattleboro, VT. He was the first concert that I brought each of daughters to, and my 9 year granddaughter has been to 4. I love the small venues.
We need Arlo this year in full fledged mode aw well as everyone else who respects the US Constitution.
LizAKindercare couldn't agree with you more.
"Alice's Restaurant" was a distinct song & the longer I live/the more it proves to be all that much more true...
“It fills that part of your heart that your mind can’t really go to”. I loved that line.
wonderful man. with the same woman for 47 years
going to see him in Feb in Louisville. can not wait. a dream come true.
The thing is You would be the Greatest Bar Tender ever - always a story to tell - love it. Thanks Arlo - from Ian In UK
Great interview Vince, you let him talk. Awesome!
I love Arlo.
Got me through some hard times when I was in the Navy. Thank You Arlo and God Bless You.
I wanted and failed to express how much I have relied on Arlo as my hero- since the early 70's.Now I am approaching(very soon) the time of wisdom.It is time toacknowedgeu
That’s profound. Thank you, wherever you are.
thank you for leading me to a place where i identify with the songs that you and many others have lead me. thank you also for your show at the rat palace honolulu in the 70s.
Grace is yours dear friend-and Magic too.Thank you for all that you are and all that you are becoming.always,forever...
Saw Arlo in White Springs Florida, many many years ago. He made me aware of Pickles, and motorsickles. 😁👍🏼
My brother brought the album home from his 4 year hitch in 1970, along with Pearl, The Stone Poneys, and several other comedy albums and folk albums. At one time I could word-for-word the Thanksgiving Day Massacree.
I went to see Alice's Restaurant at the theater in 1968 or whenever it came out....at 10 years old.....have been a fan since and became a fingerpicker as a result....thanks Arlo for a lifetime of music!
In 1967, my mother died. I was totally depressed... then I heard Arlo Guthrie's song, Alice's Restaurant. Thanks for the good memory that year! And thanks for sharing it with successive generations.
As we say in Wales, Arlo's really lush!
Hey Arlo, long ago I met a Canadian kid who used the name "Arlo" because he looked a little like you, He was the sweetest most innocent thing I ever saw. I was wondering all my life if he ever contacted you and maybe talked about Winnipeg and or Vancouver and the power of music..?? Please do tell. I know famous people meet a million fans but still I wish..... TY forever for your gifts!
Thanks for the interview!
I saw Arlo in 1985 in Kansas City, MO at Starlight Theater. I was 5 years old and loved it. I need to see him again when he is in town.
Arlo is far better in concert than on an album. He gets so much energy in front of a crowd. One of the shows I have ever been to.
For sure. Even though we've heard the stories so many times... they're still a pleasure to hear live!
Oh my goodness has it been that long ago. Guthrie whatever you are doing works, you look Great. You are right Music is a big part of our life.
Alice was the first album I bought from my first pay packet from my first job. I still have the album which in my will is left to my nephew. I would love to see an audience with Arlo Guthrie here in Adelaide, South Australia.
he is so wise, i love hearing this stuff, it really changes my perspective of things.
"I know stuff" arlo guthrie
"I Sing about stuf".
Love Arlo! Nice interview, thanks :)
Last time I saw him was in the film "Alice's Restaurant". That was when? 1969. Man, it's been a while. But he's still a charmer.
thanks for the memories..........
Such an enlightened interview. Thank you!
Intelligence and humility. Legend.
Who else has such curly locks, curly locks? I love those locks and line.
Isn't he delightful and charming and smart !
Great interview Arlo.
Right on!
It's great that Arlo escaped Huntington's
Lucky indeed… none of the kids from Woody’s first marriage escaped it.
Good interview. Wish i could see Arlo live. Would be nice if his next tour was in Sweden. Hehe.....
He has to get to the UK too : ¬ )
Good to know, Arlo. Good on you.
Alices Restaurant the movie was fantastic and I watch it at least once a year.
Good interview
an intelegent man
It was actually his dad's 99th birthday. I was there!
I saw Arlo in Nottingham, a small venue in a pub. Must of been late 80's. Apparently he was a bit put out as the previous gig had been the Fairfield Hall in Croyden. Non the less the evening rocked and we had such a good time.
My wife and her best friend saw this wonderful human being in the wealthy city of Naples Florida.
THE BARBARA B . MANN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER .
They were in her friends orange and white micro bus .
Having donned thier Tie - Dies (Every day wear for them ) and parked amongst all the Porsches , and BMWs , and Mercedes Benz .
The other attendees wore suits and posh high fashion modern dresses .
Well after the show our man Arlo politely made his way through the nice normal folks , and in the parking lot he landed on our 2 real deal hippie movement rejects . Ha ha .
He ended up shooting the breeze with them for awhile and even autographed my lady's big green clog/heel phsycodelic shoe !!!
Some weeks later we recieved a letter in the mail . It was an invitation to go to that wonderful church in Massachusetts .
Yes ! We were invited to share Thanksgiving dinner with his family !!! 100 % Gods honest truth !!!
Well , we were just about at the bottom of the state of Florida .
We had 3 amazing young children and were living off of my lifelong occupation in bartending .
Our old van (not the micro - bus ) would have been a crap - shoot at best to make the trip to Massachusetts and back .
It takes almost a darn day of driving , just to get outta Florida from here .
We wanted to go soooooooooo badly we could taste it !!!
Wewanted our family to experience the love and good times of such beautiful people and culture .
We raised our children with that kind of love and freedom and actually lived that way back when they were born and raised in the early 90s . We were 60s born and saw things were in need of good things all around .
Well ...
To this very day , every time something makes me think about all of the stupendous things about this man and those delightful days , I regret it deeply and ever so sadly , that we missed an opportunity for that thanksgiving with the family (All his people are surely family ) of A . G .
Although to this very day my children have grown up and had children . Yup I'm a grandpa now .
And I think the coolest thing in the world was while sitting on the back porch of my wife's hippie - hand - made - peace - shop .
3 (three) generations of my family and especially the grand kids , were all tapping their feet , lightly , easily bobbing thier heads , and trying to sing along with Alice's Restaurant !!!!
Tears of joy ?
And happiness , and a perfect peace in knowing , that if and when life hurls misfortunes and disasters our way , we all have the love and passion to give them a helluva good fight.
Thanks for reading my rambling on about this .
And remember ...
3 generations touched and influenced by this music !!!
Fondest regards . Matthew .
Thanks
What an inspirational post! Thank you.
When you mentioned three generations of your family, all touched by one experience, it struck me hard.
My family never managed harmony as a kid. Long story short, I never even experienced two generations together in harmony.
Well, half a century, my wife & I, both lost souls as tiny children, found ourselves together & with our children & their children. Three generations in harmony. And these globalist bastards have broken everything, forcing us apart just as effectively as a military draft.
Assuming any of those following generations survive to converse in the distant future when I’ll be gone, I hope they’ll recall they were blessed to be part of a multi generational family in harmony, albeit so briefly.
Folk music IS social media, so true. I found Alice's Restaurant in a second hand music store when it was 15 years old, seemed along time ago then.... funny to think it is 53 years old now.
What an icon! People like this are getting less and less. All music was experiments with the public at that time. Those times are nos gone. Just turn on the radio!
1968 or 69. The Second Fret Coffee House in Philadelphia. My girlfriend and I drop-in out of curiosity because this evening’s performer is Woody Guthrie’s son.
As we enter, I immediately head to the men’s room because I am in my prime-time beer-drinking days.
Inside the graffiti-adorned john, a tall, skinny, scraggly-dressed dude offers me a hit on his massive blunt, the size of a Cuban cigar.
I politely decline since I am a devout, Midwestern beer-drinker and I do not want anything interfering with my religious pilgrimage thus far that day.
I return to my girl at our table when this very same, generous bong-head shyly takes the stage. After a few tunes, he performs Alice’s Restaurant before it has yet to reach the airways and make him famous.
Good times.
Might have been 1967!
I can't believe I've missed playing here..I'm from Wisconsin, I'll have to pay better attention to his during dates
"New York State Thruway's CLOSED, man!!!!"
Classic !
Awesome. That was great. Almost forgot about that. A hundred years and many lifetimes ago. We're still here. Peace!!
I truly hope that Arlo will post those live recordings of his father, that he & his sister listened to back then!!
Does anyone know if they've done this??
Thank you Arlo for all of the precious memories!
Some youngsters say they prefer the older music and some of the modern stuff there not interested in
come play boston common 2017 hemp fest < Please
Arlo is as famous for talking as for singing...kinda like Steve Earle.
Magic is overlooked with "star" performances as a valid aspect. My feeling is, what your intent is toward the audience is the key. When it comes from the heart. People know and respond. A selfish performer doesn't last long.
"Magic is overlooked with "star" performances as a valid aspect."
wut ?
Your father Woody Guthrie was your inspiration and pretty much your life from his music yours is good but he was the inspiration admit it and say it
How come this interview lasted longer than 18 mins and 20 secs?
@7:38'ish... I hear "Newborn Song Lyrics"...
eugenics eyes wide shut,
does anyone know where i can get anything i want?
At Alice's Restaurant.
Cepting Alice😁
I sure wish they would release woody Guthrie live.
LetArtsLive , Try WG live wire & Library of Congress interviews 🌱💧
My daughter ( Marion Sosa) is a new generation and you tube put her in new ‘indie folk music’ she just realest yesterday (9/18/2020 ), her first single “ deportee” (aka) Plane wreck at Los Gatos), words by Woody’s Guthrie, music by Martin Hoffman.
looks like Billy Connolly(!)
What did Bob Dylan and Arlo think of one another?
What does Bob think of anything? Leaving his Nobel Prize sitting on the shelf.
You got your hair all done the look is cool as you can be but I'll bet you in the morning you look like me
nobody doesn't like sara lee
What a bare horrid empty room to do an interview. You really bring out the best of a person in a carpeted prison cell
Oh... absolutely right. He didn't want to do it at the venue... which would have been awesome... so the hotel gave us this dank conference room. Guess it doesn't matter anyway... it's about the stories.
My left ear feels molested and my right, neglected.
arf arf arf, hee haw hee haw
He looks and sound great. luv him. I just wish he would shave his facial hair off, he's too much of a baby face.
I wish I knew why his bottom teeth are glowing white. His top teeth are normal white..but those bottom babies are really aglow. I do LOVE Arlo though!!
Dentures.
R Yackez It's so great to see Arlo hasn't changed one bit. He talks the same, looks the same, he's real.
R Yackez he has a Billy Connelly hairstyle
When did he stop doing his hillbilly accent?