My friends over at The Mighty Fifty have filmed a string of Big Phony live performances and music videos.  Check out the first couple of videos released online and the Music Video they made for "Girls Like You Don't Go For Guys Like Me."

... so I put up a new jingle written about the LA area based "Kogi" truck (http://kogibbq.com/). It's basically a Korean BBQ/Taco truck whose location can be tracked down by checking it's Twitter updates. I've yet to try it but am planning on it. I hear it's pretty darn good. Gonna leave the jingle up for only a little while but if you happen to catch it, yes... I'm singing in Korean. If you're familiar with the Korean folk song "San Toki" you'll notice I fished out a line from there. I am a little unsure if it's grammatically correct, however I remain 100% positive that I am still a dork with too much time on his hands.

Good day.

bobby

ps- I'm taking suggestions on other jingles/"ode to's" I can work on. Also, taking suggestions as to why I should give up on this music thing all together (as if this was not a pretty good reason to).

Here's a review of "Straight to Bootleg, Volume 01" I just came across written up by Christopher Petro at Performer Magazine. Grateful for the write up even if they called me Robert Chung. Haha.

Review:

Big Phony

Straight to Bootleg, Volume 01

Mixed and mastered by Christmas Jahng | Produced by Robert Chung and Koo Chung

It's been three years since the release of Big Phony's Smoking Kills EP, a heartily ambitious, cozy bedroom-pop debut full of loveable ballads, Simon and Garfunkel innocence and softness. The closing song on the EP, a stripped-down number with lo-fi vocals and four-tracked guitar, offers the best tie to the new full length, Straight to Bootleg, Volume 01.

The new release begins with an affectionate, echoey, lo-fi harmony and Robert Choy's strikingly Elliott Smith-like tone (including the falsetto moments). The opening lyrics contrast brooding sweetness with threatening bitterness – which also punctuates the influencing Smith – as Choy sings, "Watch out / There's a mean motherfucker coming after you."

Languid, journey-like song structures and seamless, unhurried tempos add a refinement that lifts this release with the affecting depth and introspection one hopes to find on such a DIY session. Straight to Bootleg is quintessential singer/songwriter frontier: words and guitar, spelled out together infinitely like a sweet marriage.

Choy's guitarwork is top-notch, like the warm hands of Nick Drake, and he maintains complexity in the album by invoking strong musicianship and harmony (most often with himself). To ignore the strong religious undertones as the fleshy pulse beneath the album would bypass a defining, interlacing thread. Choy comes forward with his doctrine early on the second track, "Words that Define," singing, "I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ / and I believe His name."

Saying Straight to Bootleg is a Christian album sounds pejorative to some; it should be noted here that the religious footing is not preachy. The undertones are certainly there, but they're stark and underscored in endless beauty, which does no more faith proclamation than electric guitars take away from the blues. Choy's songs explore love, loss and inner strength. On those laurels, the album's stripped-down ingenuity is nothing but mesmerizing and awe-inspiring. (Self-released)

www.bigphonymusic.com

-Christopher Petro

http://www.performermag.com/wcp.recordedreviews.0809.php

That's about it.

Big Phony Groupee Session


Big Phony in July issue of KOREAM JOURNAL





Check out Big Phony in THEME MAGAZINE



Big Phony interview also on FutureRockstarsOfAmerica.com.



In other news, there should be a Bootleg demo album coming out in January/February. Don't tell anyone. Only printing up some. Full album still temporarily on hold.

bobby

Interview on ClubZen.com

Well shello there!

In case you haven't already heard, "Straight Bootleg Volume 01" is now available online at BigPhonyMusic.Com.  It's also available at CD Baby and numerous other safe & easy downloading sites.





"Straight to Bootleg, Volume 01" is a collection of home recordings of songs written in recent past. A lot of these songs are in a "rarer" form. Many written and recorded all in one short sitting. Stripped down, simple, sometimes audibly "crappy" but honest. You can hear police sirens in one song because windows were left open. There are a few bonus studio recordings worked on with Koo Chung, who also produced the first Big Phony album "Fiction & Other Realities."

BIG PHONY STUFF



BIG PHONY TEES are also finally available through the website, in two different designs.  Each and every shirt screen printed by-hand by yours truly (sorry).  They are comfortable though, American-Apparel comfy and available in a wide selection of hip colors (or colors) and sizes for both men and women.

Please support poor indie-artists you like! Spread the word! Thank guys!

Peas & Grape Drink,

bobby (big PHONY)


For more Big Phony info visit:

BigPhonyMusic.Com
I Hate Big Phony Facebook Group

I'm a coward.

~bobby

My nephew Colin has trouble pronouncing "Dump Truck" correctly. Comes out sounding like "dumb..." well, use your imagination. I admit, shameless plug.



Happy Cinco de Mayo!

Brian sent this to me a few weeks ago and I've been keeping it to myself ever since. It's the first few moments of a music video he's working on for the Big Phony song "Parade In My Head." It's unedited and it was just given to me to as an example of what it might become. You know that feeling when you have great news and you can't keep it in? I'm having one of those moments with this thing. For the record I hate Brian Won. Guy is a stinkin freak of nature when it comes to being talented, and a good friend.

Unfortunately the only way these clips would upload to YouTube was by reverting them to m4v's (iPod quality) which is why the quality is off.

So we have a "Colorless" black & white version and "Color" version. Please comment and let us know which you like better or your general thoughts. Brian has already decided the "Creepy Pirate Patch" will be taken out. Thanks!

Colorless:



Color:

I got an email today with the following pics. Made my day. Thanks guys.







The t-shirts are currently sold out but we're working on getting more made. I just need to find some affordable good quality shirts. If you know of anywhere I could get some please let us know! I hand press them all myself, so of course it cheapens the value.

Follow your dreams, please.