Bonghit Records

03/08/2024

"All of BKF's Albums are insanely great. Mind blowing multi-instrumentalists in avant-rock settings are my favourite thing and Brian Kenney Fresno is a rare delicacy. This album, more so than any other of our time, speaks to the pain of enduring the disregard for our planet, as viewed from a Fresno-gilded precipice fabricated entirely of people's nonsense. His reflection shows the elemental beauty within this darkly humoristic moral tale that is both wry, heavy, and unexplainably beautiful. Moreover, it's an historic look at our time worth passing down through the ages. Consider it a responsibility! We preserved Zappa, great. Next: Brian Kenney Fresno. Prog rock/ art rock/ avant rock all at it's finest for you to savour. It seems a requirement that you buy it at once. You're probably a musician if you are reading this. Save your masterclass money and buy BKF albums instead. I promise you will break into a new you." Holly Csigna of Age of Fiction ; Seattle, WA.

12/30/2023

It's true!

This just in...... TeamNeville Concerts has signed an opener for The P.A.K.T. show, at Fulton 55 on February 8, 2024.
It's Brian Kenny Fresno, a staple of the Fresno Music scene for years.

Brian Kenney Fresno plays the Warr Guitar,
a 12-stringed ungodly union of bass and guitar
while accompanying himself on drums and vocals.

His catchy lyrically fueled songs are a humorous education on all things Fresno.

For tickets https://www.tix.com/ticket-sales/3guysplayintheblues/6563/event/1336110

12/28/2023

Brian Kenney Fresno’s new keyboard album; You’re Killing Me Fresno is now Available in a physical format.
$15 + s&h
From a Fan: “People need to know that this is not just a disc and cover that you can run on Bandcamp or whatever. This is a full multimedia artifact that needs to be cherished and handled! Complete printed lyrics(and there are lots of them)! An actual b**g tool! Careful packaging design done by a professional! Bandcamp won’t begin to match the genuine hands-on experience”

10/09/2023

Anyone?

10/06/2023

https://briankenneyfresno.bandcamp.com/album/you-re-killing-me-fresno

5 track album

08/21/2023

A review of my new song: Plastic.

08/21/2023

https://fb.watch/mzxuLYthjE/?mibextid=cr9u03

08/20/2023

08/19/2023

I just got the singles from “You’re Killing Me Fresno” back from The Mastering Institute. I can’t believe the difference in everything. It sounds even MORE amazinger. For telling stories and imparting scene specific passages, keyboards with samples are a scarily powerful combo. And drums. I changed out all of them on Bandcamp. The songs, not the drums. If you have the old ones, give them the Office Space Copier Treatment and download the new. I’m looking forward to the CD release, but the label is dragging their feet through our dispute. I want the ocean in every unit, but they say it will be too heavy and smelly, like the times I used to send lil boxes of raisins in my-get this-“ Promo Pack”, in the “mail”, but by the time they’d get to the East coast they’d have maggots in them when the booker opened it.
But that was memorable, and not far off from what I was trying to represent, so who’s being unreasonable?
Here’s what alert long time listener George said in a nice email out of the blue, titled,
“You’re Killing It Fresno”
“I’ve enjoyed all the new tracks and plan to buy You’re Killing Me Fresno when it’s out.

The new keyboard/drumpedal approach provides a nice wide palette of instrument-sounds and an extremely wild and off-the-grid rhythmic turboshamble. I think a longtime specialty of yours is taking rhythmic advantage of the live sync-with-yourself one-man-band thing to really romp.

Lyrically my favorite so far on the new one is 7-11 Sushi.

Say yes to the Fres no,
George”
Thanks George!
This is maybe my current fav. Yes, that IS a twelve tone row the audience gets to sing, and the Gershwinesque trash heap ending really stirs my soul.
I would love it if YOU reviewed the new singles, or one. Or just listened to any of it.
It’s all still free, because I am beyond wealth with music. And my love for you. And beer, which actually does cost money, but whatever, the singles are all still free. Rock Forever Forth.

track by Brian Kenney Fresno

08/15/2023

There’s a fantastic amount of plastic
Plastering the planet, blanketing the globe
There’s a fantastic amount of plastic
It’s in your rugged athletic footwear
It’s in your sexy bedroom robe
Islands in the ocean, mountains to the sky
It’s in every single person, it’s in everything you buy
Satellites like cigarette butts casually infecting space
Plastic’s the empty Dorito bag of the entire human race

We’re awash in plastic, drowning by the day
Designed for instant obsolescence, but to never ever go away
It’s a planetary scale abuse, trillions and trillions of single use
Burying us in our grave of overconsumption

And the flowers on our headstones we’re all made from plastic
And the cars that drove the mourners there, you guessed it, plastic
Electric safe and compactstic
With the promise of Spring at lastic
Yes, plastic was the answer to all the problems
Then the problem turned around and became plastic
Back to haunt us from the pastic
As the cumulative effects became drastic

Hey! I found your old toothbrush from when you were six years old!
It was right there with all the other plastic crap you’ve ever been sold
And it wasn’t going anywhere, or was it ever likely to
Combined with the plastic of the billions of all the people around you
And you can’t get away from it no matter what you do
All for the Saudi princes and the profits of Wall Street Avenue

So you’re got Senators in the plastics industry
Plasticity in the senators
Not to mention The Plastics Council or The Plastics Lobby
You got plastic in your food you got plastic in your children
You’ve got plastic in the center of your soul

Now there’s just no way to talk about plastic
Without being angry or sad
Unless you sing about h**p
And all the advantages to be had
One of the things that’s so rad
Anything that can be made from oil can be made from h**p

But the purveyors of greed aren’t farmers
That’s who they ran out long ago
What they sell instead is just a death pollution
When there’s always been a simple h**p solution

So they fooled us with a stupid triangle
For forty fu***ng years
Never recycled anything but only shifted gears towards making
YOU GUESSED IT, More Plastic!
Cause everyone felt so, placated
All their concerns had been ,vacated
It was cheaper to make it new, no actual recycling to have to go through
Just paid the redemption to pacify you

And so from the depths of the Mariana Trench, to the highest Himalayan summit
All you guitar playin heroes, it’s in your picking hand as you strum it
It’s in the hot water hoses of your house if you re-plumb it
It’s in the title of this song years from now when you still hum it

(12 tone crowd choir, boys against the girls)
Plastic you, Plastic me, Plastic us, Plastic we.

Plastic, It’s what we do, it’s inside of you, it’s never far, it’s who we are
It’s who we serve, not what we deserve

While h**p’s the clear path forward
As you humanity positions itself toward
Cleaner transitions toward future solutions
For the threatening scourge of plastic pollution

https://briankenneyfresno.bandcamp.com/track/plastic?fbclid=IwAR3Un0ty0YryKVvvhSVGTaSVM7csVqPp31bQ7SkTJmAIqSdPVJYQYbTZcps_aem_Ac_GRLEdQDRAMDjdC7y5Sl8ridUo2SAozlmfrHqIvVSL2plE2I4Pd9DU1YwE8FD7kDM&mibextid=Zxz2cZ

track by Brian Kenney Fresno

07/19/2023

I forgot to say penultimate!
This is the fifth and last single from You’re Killing Me Fresno.
“Six Lanes To Pismo”. Title from a memory from Professor Paul Gilmore.
Free to a good home. Actually, I don’t care if it’s a good home.
I just want to get it out there, dot dot dot.
It’s fourteen minutes long, so don’t blame me if you burn your popcorn, or overshoot your exit.

track by Brian Kenney Fresno

07/18/2023

Lyrics to the upcoming Brian Kenney Fresno song release:

Six Lanes To Pismo

We need to help out others
Understanding that's not hard
We need more public housing
Just "Not In My Back Yard"
I'll hang out with your prostitutes
I'll even wash your feet
Just don't put in the high rise housing
Where Shaw and Glen Avenue meet

Now compassion is a virtue
But in Fresno that can hurt you
We all need human dignity
And housing at an affordable price
But for the property in question
You know the project's just too large
And you might be right if you thought
Some lunatic's been left in charge
Soon you'll have seven stories staring down
In some suburban sucker's side yard
With a little booth by your bedroom window
For the armed security guard
And after every car drives through
The iron gate slams hard
This is what the signs say in everyone's front yard

Traffic, Pollution, Congestion!
Traffic, Pollution, Congestion!

Quiet residential little neighborhood
Won't be good..
Inundated hundred daily trips
The word "insipid" just rolls off your lips
The phrase "Insipid Urban Planning" rolls
It just rolls off your lips.
It'sinsipidurbanplanningit'sinsipidurbanplanningit'simsipidurbanplanning

Backed against a constant traffic jam
Instead they'll all drive by where I am
Tires squealing, fentanyl dealing
Sideshows on my quiet quaint lane
Diaper dumping stereo thumping diaperdumpingstereothumpingdiaperdumpingstereothumping
And we'll have
Traffic, Pollution, Congestion
Traffic, Pollution, Congestion

Oh man, don't get me wrong
I love single mothers and drug dealers
Just examining all the details, and the angles of this song
There's four....

You've got your development and re-development players
And a shocking lack of thoughts and prayers
From the big business churches that run this town
They offer political coverage for the powerful
Blessings for donations
Credibility to the corrupt culture of the construction corporations
And for all the tainted tithings that flow into their coffers
You know they're laundering good will for all the money Satan offers
For their diabolically evil public relations seeking clients
For developers in a Fresno, it's elementary political science
It's elementary, my dear Fresno

More pavement, More Jesus, Six lanes to Pismo!
More Pavement, More Jesus, Six lanes to Pismo!

Ok, you bougie rich entitled racists
Are always letting us know what you think
If there's a whiff of fairness for the under privileged
Oh, you're gonna make a stink
But no, not everything's about you
Or your self victimization
Or your economic stigmatization
Or your racial discrimination
Or your corruption served up Fresno Style
Or your Jim Crow laws held all the while
Or your ongoing red-lining
To which Whitey's always taken a shining
Like a child, I hear your constant whining
About people ( like you) that don't belong here
And your fortified white guilt that you've translated into fear

Oh, actually it IS all about that and more
But mostly
Shelter, Affordable Housing!
Shelter, Affordable Housing!

"Hey! Let's form a committee!
We'll end homelessness in the city!
More profitable to pretend to be involved
We'll clear em out and call the problem solved
We'll get a grant and blow it
Don't need results to show for it
Cause in the profitable private sector
We do just what we please
Which is follow the trail of money
Motives never altruistic
No concern for housing homeless
Making money's more realistic
It's the public face of advocacy
Skimming and grifting bureaucracy
Whoops! We spent that money all on us?
Let's consult our records....

Paid for lots of studies
Got massages in Carmel California
Luxurious lunches at the winery where we all swore not to tell
Not to tell about our families European getaway no pay vacay
Paid for by the public well it's in our interest not to tell
It's inourinterestnottotellit'sinourinterestnottotell....
But to help the homeless go to hell
Cause they haven't ever bought a hot tub or a deck for me
Some snow tires, or hookers, or cheap business suits
Co***ne bricks and hookers from the South side
Or hookers all filled with co***ne
So we'll just deny them their humanity
And get our own signs manufactured
Getourownsignsmanufacturedgetourownsignsmanufactured
Get our own signs made that just say

More Studies! Fat Paychecks! Blue Ribbon Panels!
More Studies! Fat Paychecks! Blue Ribbon Panels! "

(Room quad-sected, encouraged to "Fight Like Hell ")
( Left Center) TRAFFIC, POLLUTION, CONGESTION!!
TRAFFIC, POLLUTION, CONGESTION!!
( Far Right) MORE PAVEMENT, MORE JESUS, SIX LANES TO PISMO!
MORE PAVEMENT, MORE JESUS, SIX LANES TO PISMO!
(Far Left) SHELTER, AFFORDABLE HOUSING!
SHELTER, AFFORDABLE HOUSING!!
(Right Center) MORE STUDIES! FAT PAYCHECKS! BLUE RIBBON PANELS!
MORE STUDIES! FAT PAYCHECKS! BLUE RIBBON PANELS!!

07/16/2023

So. This year (2023) turned out to be a different type of aquapocalypse than detailed in this song, but with patience, all things can come to fruition?
The last week was the hottest ever recorded, and this song is supposed to be hilarious.

track by Brian Kenney Fresno

07/11/2023

Speaking of today’s date…

from the album The Sound Of Fresno

07/11/2023

Today’s the day!

track by Brian Kenney Fresno

07/07/2023

As promised

track by Brian Kenney Fresno

07/04/2023

This song was inspired by the flyer for the Neilson's Party. It was just sitting there on the table, and the song formed in front of my eyes. The words are Erin's-and all right there on the flyer- except where sensitive information is involved, which I replaced, and also added "mid summer party", at the end section. There is a special irony here, in that none of the Neilsons have ever seen my show, or heard this song.

lyrics

4th of July
Please come to the Nielson’s 4th of July Party
They’re having it right there on the 4th of July
3:oo PM
What’s the address on San Madelle now?

You should bring a towel, a swimsuit, fireworks, drinks
your favorite dish and other BBQ foods
We provide the BBQ beans and hot dogs, lemonade, condiments, paper items,
basketball volleyball ping pong badmitton foosball, and swimming

Fireworks at dusk-Bring a friend- Don’t miss the fun!

from the album Further Adventures In Fresno