Whether you’ve gone into a psychiatrist’s office and sung, “You can get anything you want at Alice’s Restaurant,” replete with five-part harmonies, or turned down a pickle just so you can ride a “motorsickle,” it should be clear that despite not having an official hit song, Arlo Guthrie has insinuated himself into the collective unconscious.
First popping up on the national radar as part of the Greenwich Village folk scene, he became the voice of a generation after releasing the semi-autobiographical 18-minute-and-20-second protest song, “Alice’s Restaurant.” Now, Guthrie is in the midst of his “solo reunion tour,” where he takes the stage with a few guitars, a harmonica and the belief that Richard Nixon was a fan of his; he maintains that an 18-minute-and-20-second gap found on one of the infamous White House tapes is too suspicious to be coincidental.
November 16, $25-55, 8 p.m., Colonial Theatre, 111 South St., Pittsfield, (413) 997-4444.