The song is supposedly based on a true incident. Arlo is called up for a draft examination, and rejected as unfit for military service as a result of a criminal record - consisting in its entirety of a single arrest, court appearance, fine and clean-up order for littering and creating a public nuisance on Thanksgiving Day in 1965, when Arlo was eighteen years old.
For a good period of time after its release in 1967, "Alice's Restaurant" was in frequent rotation on nearly every college and counter-culture radio station in the country. Indeed, it became a symbol of the late '60s and for many it defined an attitude and lifestyle that were lived out across the country in the ensuing years. Many stations across the States have made playing "Alice's Restaurant" a Thanksgiving Day tradition.
The song describes Guthrie's being called up for the draft, and the surreal bureaucracy at the NYC induction center at Whitehall Street. Because of Arlo's criminal record for littering, he is first sent to the "Group W Bench" (where those draftees wait who cannot be inducted except under a moral waiver) then outright rejected as unfit for service. The punchline of the story is that, in the words of Guthrie, "I'm sittin here on the Group W bench 'cause you want to know if I'm moral enough to join the army, burn women, kids, houses and villages after bein' a litterbug?"
The final part of the song is where Arlo tells the audience that should they find themselves facing the draft they should walk into the military psychiatrist's office and sing, "Shrink, You can get anything you want, at Alice's restaurant," and walk out. Thus is born, "The Alice's Restaurant Anti-Massacree Movement, and all you got to do to join is to sing it the next time it comes around on the guitar."
Guthrie revised and updated "Alice's Restaurant"years later to protest Reagan-era policies, but this second version has not been released on a commercial recording. He sang a third version during the Bush Administration years that was recorded and released by the Kerrville Folk Festival.
Chris Draft was born on February 26, 1976, in Anaheim, California, USA.
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did he go to Canada or get a deferment from the draft?
No. They say that he avoided military draft by saying that he was gay. Which was seen as a disease back then. I don;t know if this is true, but he did avoid military draft.
Dopey is the one without a beard.
No. He and the band barely managed to avoid the draft; I believe they turned him away because he seemed undesirable. One member of the band got out of it because Alice shot him in the foot.
If you mean the script, they are selling it in novel form at Barnes and Noble.
Arlo Guthrie's song Alice's Restaurant is a satirical comment on the Vietnam War. Guthrie is poking fun at the frustrating contradictions prevalent in United States bureaucracy. In the song, on a Thanksgiving day, he and a friend are caught by police dumping the remains of the meal in an illegal manner and are sent to jail. When Arlo is up for the draft, he is forced to sit on the Group W bench with other serious, hardened criminals, who will not pass for being fit for war, even though they are of a kind that should have no problem fighting with guns and killing others.
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The phrase "on tap" is usually used to describe what draft beers are available at a bar or restaurant. The word onTap also refers to the web application framework for the company ColdFusion.
You can do something about the lost draft if you have the demand draft number. visit the branch where you took the draft and provide them the draft number. Also give them a letter with the draft details (on whose name you took the draft, the date, draft number, amount, payable city etc) and tell them that the draft is lost. As a first step, ask them to block the draft so that, the draft cannot be cashed by someone. As the next step, ask them to either cancel the draft and pay you money or re-issue a fresh draft.
You can do something about the lost draft if you have the demand draft number. visit the branch where you took the draft and provide them the draft number. Also give them a letter with the draft details (on whose name you took the draft, the date, draft number, amount, payable city etc) and tell them that the draft is lost. As a first step, ask them to block the draft so that, the draft cannot be cashed by someone. As the next step, ask them to either cancel the draft and pay you money or re-issue a fresh draft.
Well it depends who you draft in the draft. Mine? the draft team is awesome.
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WHen you make a draft and play your flipnote, the draft cannot be seen....
Baby boomers protested the draft during the Vietnam War through large-scale demonstrations, such as the "Stop the Draft Week" protests in 1967. They also utilized civil disobedience, burning draft cards and organizing draft resistance movements. The movement gained momentum with events like the Kent State shootings in 1970.