Arlo Guthrie is playing in Boston on 11/15. My music tastes are eclectic and broad. I'm going to see Arlo Guthrie down at Symphony Hall. It's a larger venue than I like to normally see him in, but I'm glad he's popular enough to fill it. Arlo's a real working musician. He's out on the road ALOT and I respect the hell out of that. Like everyone who went to school in Austin, I was in a garage band for a while, and I always dream that someday I might hit the road again with a guitar. I'm sure Arlo's gonna go off on the Iraq conflict, and tie it in to Alice's restaurant. But That's Arlo. He's a child of the 60's, and political dissent is one of the most important things that happens here in the US. It's something we can all learn from that generation: the fact that popular will can on occasion trump unpopular leadership. I look on the Vietnam war as the wrong conflict. Of course I wasn't there, and I was only 7 (almost 8) when Saigon ...
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