Billy Ray Cyrus delivered a slow-talking, technical difficulty riddled, bizarre performance at the post-inauguration Liberty Ball Monday.

It’s safe to say that this week’s Liberty Inaugural Ball was the first time that most people had seen much of country musician Billy Ray Cyrus in at least a couple of years. Although he’d been clinging to some semblance of mild relevance for a while almost entirely on the strength of the career of his daughter,

"I wouldn’t have missed the honor of playing this event whether my microphone, guitar and monitors worked or not," Cyrus told PEOPLE exclusively