Van Dyke Parks Rare Live Concert 1992

A concert with Van Dyke and full ensemble at Lone Star Roadhouse, NYC, 1992.

[@ericynot]

Parks is that very rare individual who apparently can simply do anything he decides he wants to do: acting, singing, playing, writing. Heck, if he felt like it, he'd be a terrific stand-up comedian. He is an American original who reminds me somewhat of Mark Twain.

[@multicaruana]

+ericynot He's an amazing man, a genius, obviously. It runs in his bloodline(who says genius is not inherited?) To think I have his old Greenwood County Singers' albums- or was it the Serendipity Singers?

[@comet1048]

Beginning times of the songs: America - 0:34 Tokyo Rose - 4:46 Cowboy - 11:33 Wings of a Dove - 18:15 Men All Want To Be Hobos - 23:21 Night in the Tropics - 27:56 Sail Away - 32:02 FDR in Trinidad - 38:25 Orange Crate Art - 43:06 Sailin' Shoes - 45:42 Paradise Hill - 51:10

[@mustavertwang]

0:34 God save the Queen (U.K.National Anthem)

[@comet1048]

@@mustavertwang Sure but this is a performance of the track "America" from "Tokyo Rose" kzbin.info/www/bejne/p6KvlKtofL-CjLM

[@sunkintree]

@@mustavertwang If you want to split hairs, it's "My Country Tis of Thee"

[@DavidCKendall]

I'm stunned... It just doesn't get better..

[@bobhenry2411]

Saw Van Dyke Parks debut "Tokyo Rose" at McCabe's Guitar Shop in Santa Monica in 1989 or 1990. Went backstage after the concert and he graciously autographed his seminal album "Song Cycle" . . . by drawing a James Thurber-like caricature of himself. Nice memento of the occasion.

[@beachboys66]

Thanks very much!

[@The21stcenturypaul]

In a life which has been greatly blessed w/ having seen my musical heroes perform live... here's one who I never have; I've had to make do w/ bits like the appearance on Night Music, & listening to "...Ash Grove" uncountable times, so this is... wonderful. It pertinently fills in the gap between (the highly underrated & under-appreciated) "Tokyo Rose" & "Orange Crate Art," for a long-time fan like myself -- & for "Paradise Hills," ALONE, it is indispensable. "Thanks for posting" seems inadequate... bless you, Bruce!

[@ulpana]

Another opportunity to sit with VDP and mine the folk lore and recording history of this playful impish old soul is this U. of Tube clip I just stumbled upon in these insomniac overnight bouts of troubled sleep, Global Pandemic & Russian Invasion of Ukrainian Muddle East Bread Basket while Global E-CON collapses promptly on schedule since the last tax-payer bail-out and wealth transfer to the Oligarchs who rule U.S. all as Bush-Cheney-Paulson slunk out of the TARP'd White House after their 2nd term of draining U.S. for the Iraq & Afghani Invasions\Occupations\High Tech Weapons Suq for the ISLAMIC STATE and TALIBAN (call it Quantitative Easing 1 and 2 if you will, that is what Obama and Biden called it last time they used that Larry Summers tricky electronic bookkeeping HI FInance Feudal Lord Shtick; Now Putin & his Oligarchs or alternative World's Reserve Currency Feudal Lord of HI Tech might try if he can out-source to Hacker-Mercenaries a bit of Bit Coin contracting to use as Strongman Cult of Personality for Life Putin and his chump Trump withdraw from Ukraine). Here's the prescribed treatment from Washington to Wall Street's best & brightest.: www.occupy.com/article/quantitative-easing-bank-bailout-different-name ... and for which this is a splendid antacid, the most caffeinated I've ever seen or heard Van Dyke Parks!!!!!!!!!! No lie it was sponsored by RED BULL ACADEMY........ kzbin.info/www/bejne/sIO5qml-n92hj6c #VanDykeParks #TheBeachBoys #RedBullMusicAcademy Van Dyke Parks talks Skrillex, The Smile sessions and Production | Red Bull Music Academy 25,967 views Apr 2, 2015 478 Likes Mitch Ritter\Paradigm Sifters, Code Shifters, PsalmSong Chasers Lay-Low Studios, Ore-Wa (Refuge of Atonement Seekers) Media Discussion List\Looksee

[@SDAnderson44]

Wonderful to find this on here! I discovered Parks when I was 14, around 1968 on a kind of sampler LP (seems it was Warner Bros but not sure) with a couple of songs from 'Song Cycle' LP, so I immediately got that record & dug it special as it was very different from anything else I had heard; but it was 'Discover America' LP that I loved best and still do. I recall actually finding it in a cut-out bin for .99 cents, which is crazy but the fact is that I got some incredible records in such places. By that time I knew about Parks collaborations with Brian W & the B Boys (Heroes & Villains, etc) but didn't know until many years later that he had been a child actor, nor about so much else. Then in 1986 on Christmas Eve I had the good fortune to meet him in a restaurant in Nashville TN. He was sitting and eating alone so I introduced myself and we talked for about an hour. He was really friendly, I mean like genuinely not by rote so to speak. I expect that being alone and away from home on Christmas Eve, he was more inclined to visit so long. Anyway, I told him about discovering his music, especially Discover America. He said he was surprised that anyone remembered that LP & that it sold like 10 copies (a jest of course). Well, I didn't intend to go on so long here, I think seeing Parks in this video brought it back, as he looked very much the same then. As we parted he wrote a note, signed it and drew a little picture of himself, on the back of his credit card receipt, including the phrase 'Don't leave home without it' (it was an American Express card). I still have it. What a treasure... the man of course, and also the memory of that meeting!

[@daveidmarx8296]

That's just an incredible memory! I love Discover America too, having found the CD in a cut out bin in 1992. I wish there were more artists like Van Dyke Parks around, both in terms of talent and in modesty.

[@ulpana]

"I discovered Parks when I was 14, around 1968 on a kind of sampler LP (seems it was Warner Bros but not sure) with a couple of songs from 'Song Cycle' LP, so I immediately got that record & dug it special as it was very different from anything else I had heard; but it was 'Discover America' LP that I loved best and still do. I recall actually finding it in a cut-out bin for .99 cents, which is crazy but the fact is that I got some incredible records in such places. By that time I knew about Parks collaborations with Brian W & the B Boys (Heroes & Villains, etc) but didn't know until many years later that he had been a child actor, nor about so much else." I was drawn into this delightful "Musical Memoir" by your crafty lede paragraph. See the collections online of this lit genre "Musical Memoirs" by the poet\performer\educator at U.C.-Berkeley who invented this form of first-person inter-braided poetic journalism of intersecting Time\Place\Soundtrack musical memoirs, Al Young, Z"L who passed away only a few years ago in the Bay Area. Especially at the web site NEGLECTED BOOKS. You can also pick up these books for a few cents at the used bookstores left by Amazon in the wake of their Corporate Caliphate anti-trust\anti-competitive bid-net empire. neglectedbooks.com/?p=205 To your observant note on finding at age 14 some of Van Dyke Parks Warner Brothers recordings on a sampler, these samplers were brilliant ways for a Corporate Caliphate giant like Warner Bros\Universal to recoup the losses for recording and globally distributing niche dba 'Cult Artists' who painted outside the Music and Marketing Industry's categories and code numbers. They were called LOSS LEADERS and if you kept any of your teen-age collection of vinyl you will find many of the paper sleeves inside the artful covers contained Warners Ad Promotions for LOSS LEADERS by the likes of Randy Newman, Arlo Guthrie, Lowell George & Little Feat, Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention, Wendy Waldman, Wayne Shorter & Weather Report, Joni Mitchell, The Fugs, Miriam Makeba, Hugh Masakela & Grazing In the Grass, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Flora Purim, Milton Nascimento, Gal Costa, Curtis Mayfield, Chaka Khan, Letta Mbulu, David Rudder, The Mighty Sparrow, Brenda Russell, Minnie Riperton, Jayne Cortez & the Fire Spitters and her husband the New Classical orchestral and Jazz pioneering composer\combo leader Ornette Coleman a la SKIES OF AMERICA, see Shirley Clarke's masterpiece documentary on Ornette's life beginning at the small Texas town tumbleweed train junction in the shadow of a metastasizing glass tower city and named MADE IN AMERICA etc kzbin.info/www/bejne/mITbnKt7apt6hcU What a way it was to cross-pollinate and let music lovers and song chasers disc-cover artists that may also have fallen between the cracks or who didn't aim for a Greatest Common Denominator pop cookie cutter and radio-ready format. Band Camp and online music distribution is a mixed bag, again the same anti-competitive anti-trust practices like trans-national Corporate Caliphate music streaming cyber platforms present same problems leading to LOSS LEADERS and MARKET FAILURES like our U.S. Public Health System and the rest of National Security being Privatized too. Mitch Ritter\Paradigm Sifters, Code Shifters, PsalmSong Chasers Lay-Low Studios, Ore-Wa (Refuge of Atonement Seekers) Media Discussion List\Looksee

[@Goodyearmonkey]

Got here because of the brave little toaster I love KZbin

[@billyshane3804]

Ken Park

[@waynerand1265]

He saw Clarence Thomas back then. How right he was

[@SFO-musical]

just awful

[@yolo_zen]

joelSanFrancisco joelSanFrancisco a w f u l

[@RozarSmacco]

Definition of insanity: calling this artistic triumph “awful”. Just the words “legs akimbo extended to the mind of God”

[@leokimvideo]

Yes, Orange Crate Art was amazing with Brian Wilson's voice. Van Dyke's like someone from a previous time of entertainment. Rare to see him doing a live show

[@justinmcinerny]

This is absolutely brilliant. I never understood exactly where SMiLE and Pet Sounds came from until I listened to Van Dyke Parks' solo music. Is it an exaggeration to say that SMiLE and Pet Sounds are really Van Dyke Parks records with help from Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys?

[@comet1048]

22:49 for the ice cold joke about Jesus dying on the cross, lol

[@thewordofgord]

I have a live cd from Van years ago but I'm sure this is not it. But thanks so much for this upload.

[@Martin-iv6lq]

Boy this is some shit music if I ever heard any.

[@josephmaccauley3640]

What a great discovery on you tube. The violin riff on the end of Sail Away is brilliant.

[@kennethfrench5279]

I was at this show! Tried (and failed) to record it. Very nice to hear it again.

[@donalddepew3274]

Me, too! It was such a thrill then and what a wonderful surprise to fine here now. Thank you.

[@bjchew777]

Marvelous, simply marvelous!

[@impalaman9707]

The great composers of our day---like those of old such as Schubert and Mozart--are men with names like Parks and Wilson

[@iandxx]

it is really wonderful to see this - thank you for posting!!

[@mustavertwang]

God save the Queen!

[@Moonews]

12:32 he mixes up two lines, has to commit and then cringes at his mistake. Always such a funny guy!

[@braincurlH]

great stuff! thanks for it..

[@piromaniac9999]

I hear an american anthem in his song.

[@manimoosic]

Thank you so much for uploading!

[@bruceanderson3057]

Timeless enjoyment. What a treat!!!