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Where and when the hell was this performed at?!!? Calling Van Dyke Parks a "butthole" hahaha wtf. Brian is either over medicated, drunk or both because Jesus he sounds bad. This isn't even like Love You or 15BO bad(btw I love his late 70s vocals) but this is hard to listen to kind of bad. Very interesting piece of audio, does anyone have any information on it? I'd sure like to hear him try and do Surf's Up that day..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgAMHVL9hBQ

I first read about it in an issue of Uncut. A year or two later the audio appeared.  Barbara Bach's birthday party.
It's unfortunate, yet strangely entertaining.

Who is the raspy voiced guy on this track? "Forget dem words, freak?" I've always wanted to know this.

I think it was recorded in 1995.

You can tell how innately talented a musician is by their ability to sound awesome when they're performing drunk.

Wow...I think this is awesome!  Pure rock 'n' roll.  Love how Ringo tries to give him the hook in the middle and it just keeps going.

that was terribly entertaining somehow.

so bad it's awesome.


yeah who is the raspy-voiced dude? he seems like the biggest butthole in the world.

It was Barbara Bach's 50th in 1997.  You can hear Ringo around 3:30 "thanks to Brian for coming over tonight". Funny, you wouldn't think that BW would be drinking! But it sure made for something interesting..

When I first heard it, my guess was post Landy, but pre Melinda days. Not too far off, but I assumed Melinda helped Brian stay 'clean'.

Sounds like Wolfman Jack.

Nah, not raspy enough and in too low a register to be the Wolfman.  Plus, Wolfman Jack passed a couple of years before this recording if it was made in August 1997.

He goes on to say, "as you can tell we all remember this one..."

Classic Ringo. Master of the understatement  :lol

Man, you guys never heard this before?   Regurgitating old stuff again.

When I first heard the guy with the raspy voice, my first gut reaction was Mark Hudson. I could be way off though. I've always been curios about Brian's comment about Van Dyke Parks. Did they have a falling out or something around that time? Or was it just a "random Brian moment"?

Always thought it was older than mid-90s and from a birthday party of Ringo's...

Steven Tyler is the raspy voiced guy.

From what I've heard, Van Dyke Parks was THERE at the party; Brian might have been just joking around...

Multiple sources say it's from 1995. Brian and Melinda got married on February 6, 1995. Barbara Bach's birthday is in August, so it's definitely AFTER Melinda came into the picture. And...I don't think Brian was ever an alcoholic -- at most, he'd booze it up as a last resort if he couldn't get cocaine, heroin, etc.

Sounds like a bad combination of medication and alcohol

He sounds wasted.   :beer

Perhaps this is the victimization via buffoonery which VDP speaks of? 

Or perhaps what Brian was actually saying was that VDP has the biggest butthole in the world, and if he does, maybe it's because it was victimized by Brian's massive buffoonery late one acid fueled night at the Laurel Way house....maybe even in the sand box!   :o 

I thought it was October 9, 1990.
It is a Ringo Starr's party and Brian is portrayed with a drink in all photos. Landy is there too.

http://www.gettyimages.es/detail/fotograf%C3%ADa-de-noticias/brian-wilson-ringo-starr-and-john-densmore-fotograf%C3%ADa-de-noticias/86156307

Didn't know they were together in 1990. Maybe that's why Brian is so slurred although the fiftieth birthday Barbara birthday party is what I have been told before.

Celebrating John's birthday?

john who?

He asked that because Ringo was born in July.  John Lennon was born in October.  So if it was 1990 and it was October-it was a bit late for Ringo's Birthday. Though perhaps-Ringo had a party just because he wanted to!

My god... Why did you put this image in my brain?!

Post of 2013.

Post of the year.  And the next year.  In fact, the best post I ever read!

You guys need to re-evaluate your standards threshold

I thought SenorPotatoHead's post was the best I ever read until I just read your response. New favourite!

How sure are you about this? Doesn't sound like him to me at all.

I read or was told he was there at the party, and I thought it did sound like him from what I saw of him in the nineties. Now if this was actually 1990 I am completely wrong.

everyday a new 'dis iz tha post of tha year!'....

Hm. Sometimes I think this board has been in existence for 100,000 years now.

So you could be right.

Yes, I thought it was cool and somehow doubt the veracity of the VDP comment.  People can mess with and splice tapes. Sounds fake.  JMHO

Barbara Ann (especially the end) had a very Beatle-esque vibe.   :drum (Go Ringo!)

Your post is now the best post of the year, no decade, no century, no infinity and beyond!!! :lol

Get mad again.

these posts are all just being NOMINATED for post of the year, guys. that's how there can be more than one.

Because you said that all the posts are being nominated for post of the year..I now proclaim your post the post of the year!!!!

THIS is the post of the year.

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Look at how it holds that knotted rope in such a creative, artistic way. So sturdy, so brave, so brilliant...God Bless this Post!

Mega grossest-mind-image of the year post.

If that post had a beret, it would be Jamie from Mythbusters.  :lol