In case you’ve never spoken to me for more than 5 minutes, I’m not a big fan of Christmas music. After hearing “play some Christmas music!” every year of our young music playing lives, my brother and I swore it off years ago. But, of course I have released a few Christmas songs over the…
Years ago when I was working in grocery stores, they would torture us every Christmas with the worst versions of every Christmas carol ever. And those people doing those versions were getting paid every time it played. I vowed that one day I would write and record some Christmas music and get some of that…
I started working on a new song recently called “Super Dan” and I’m just getting down to recording it. Thought I’d do up a little acoustic version video for you to check out. Love to hear your feedback on it. This song is so new that I can’t yet play it and sing it at…
After my show last night, I was doing a little playing in my studio to wind down. Decided to whip up a little cover of Butch Walker’s new song “All The Love You Need”. It’ll be included in the documentary coming out about him next month called “Out Of Focus”. This is one of those…
Have you ever considered the plight of the poor microphone? That poor little device that has to deal people screaming at it constantly and beer (and lord knows what else) breath? It’s a tough job for the little guy. So as I was tracking the vocals for my next single, I thought it might be…
When I first started writing comedy music, there was one thing I swore I wasn’t going to do. Parodies. Why? Because so many of them are so terrible. As one friend put it, “Replace ‘heart’ with ‘fart’ and there’s your parody.” Not exactly high brow stuff, right? Besides, nobody does parody better than Weird Al…
By now you’ve probably discovered that I make a pretty ugly woman based on the video of my new song, “If I Were A Girl”. It’s below if you haven’t seen it yet. A lot of people have asked if I’ll be making a habit of wearing makeup. The answer is an emphatic “No.” I’m…
Did you get your download of “If I Were A Girl” yet? Today is contest day! Answer 5 questions correctly and you can win these prizes! 1st Place: Phil Johnson and Roadside Attraction DVD 3-Pack – Including “What Color Is Your Laugh?”, “Raising A Rockus”, and “What Color Is Your Laugh?” A “Be Yourself…Unless You’re…
Beyonce, eat your heart out… Oh, boy… I’ve been working on this one for quite awhile. It was written a year ago and today it’s officially available for download! “If I Were A Girl” started off as an idea for a parody song based on Beyonce’s “If I Were A Boy”, which I find to…
If there’s a vote for most awesome technology since the internet and the cell phone, I vote for Netflix streaming. I haven’t turned on a hotel TV in the last two years while I’m on the road. Plenty of good stuff in queue without resorting to reality TV. 🙂 Recently, I ran across a show…
If you’re a Disney fan, you’ve seen this short already. But if not, give it a watch. It’s really fantastic. It captures that classic Disney look and spirit while pushing ahead into a new look and technology. Exactly the things I like about Disney. 🙂 What first caught my eye was seeing that classic, hand-drawn…
Hey Friends… This weekend is my annual birthday show, which is always a fun affair. Even if this particular birthday is one of those less desirable ones with a “zero” in the number. If you’re in the San Jose, CA area, I’d love to have you at the party. It’s Saturday March 2nd at Louisiana…
My favorite songs tend to be those that are really funny or tear-jerking, shut the blinds and cry over a guitar sad. Since my song “I’m Not The One” tends toward the latter, I thought I’d run down some of the songs that were an influence on it. These are my top 10 favorite sad…
A lot of music licensing gets done through 3rd party music libraries that I’ve submitted stuff to. And usually I don’t hear about placements until months later when they show up on my statements. While looking at my ASCAP statement the other day I discovered that Last Call With Carson Daly used my song “Hello…
Don’t…. Just don’t. That’s pretty much it. I’ll admit, I’m a bit of a contrarian. If everyone is doing one thing, I’ll generally run in the other direction. Not all hipster-like “Dude, that band was better when they weren’t popular,” but more “Hey Grown Man with an Angry Birds shirt on, it’s just a game.”…
A really cool dance troupe called Orchid Dance will be performing at my Wiggles and Giggles show on Saturday Nov 27th in San Jose, CA. Not only do they do traditional Middle Eastern belly dance, but they fuse it with all kinds of dance styles and genres of music. If you’re familiar with my work,…
I wasn’t going to post a blog today because, frankly, I’m not feeling very funny or creative today. It happens sometimes. But I wanted to weigh in on the Republican National Convention and Clint Eastwood’s speech. I just watched the speech on YouTube because I didn’t watch the convention on TV. Don’t get me wrong. …
Ok, so I missed last week’s episode because I wasn’t prepared. In this week’s episode I talk about why that was, and then I look grim and scary during one song. And then I sing a song with a word in it that I’ve never heard before. You can watch and chat live every Monday…
Since Henson productions pulled their toys from Chik Fil-A’s children’s meals, they’re going to need a replacement. I’m totally ahead of the game with this idea from my DVD “Be Yourself… Unless You’re An Idiot.”
I want to do a video for my latest single “Geeks Don’t Care” that features pictures of the geek couples I revere in the song. I’m thinking something like the picture to the left. I don’t know those people, but they look fun. In return for use of the picture I’ll be offering back links…
Here’s episode 7 “The Eb Chord Strikes Back” of Phil’s Fast 15… My weekly Monday night online show at 8pm PST. Join me live on Mondays nights right here. This week I pulled out “Blue Collar Anthem“, a song I rarely play because it’s sad and it hurts (physically). You’ll also hear a dirty little…
This is the July 2nd edition of Phil’s Fast 15. You can join me live for the show every Monday at 8pm PST. A free 15 minute show to end your Monday with some comedy and music. 🙂 The episode features the songs “Chasing The Sun” from the album Ribbed For Your Pleasure, an new…
Here’s last night’s Episode 3 (Revenge of the Phil) of Phil’s Fast 15. This episode includes the songs “Share My Pixie Dust”, “LCW”, and “Way Down Yonder In New Orleans”. Better lighting than last week since I remembered to turn the lights on. 🙂 The video is less jerky, but still fuzzy. Getting it worked…
I totally forgot to post this last week as I was running around prepping to leave town again. Anyway… Here’s episode #2. Includes the songs “A Little Boy In Love”, “Happiest Place On Earth”, and “Baby Won’t You Please Come Home”. You can watch live every Monday at 8pm PST at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/phil-johnson-and-roadside-attraction
