Benny Drawbars
@bennydrawbars.bsky.social
Mashing keys for the Seattle Kraken since 2022! Views (and music taste) my own. Running playlist for this season found here (caution: some explicit lyrics): https://open.spotify.com/playlist/18W9puiIeyqQf2Pphs3DY0?si=Y5mAdIMiQN-dSlB2OEE3Bw&pi=StaQ5G-QQGC6W
50 years and 1 day ago, the SS Edmund Fitzgerald and her crew went down in Lake Superior off the shores of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. 49 years and 11 months ago, Gordon Lightfoot recorded a song about it. Today seemed as good an occasion as any to play it on an organ at a hockey game.
November 12, 2025 at 6:52 AM
50 years and 1 day ago, the SS Edmund Fitzgerald and her crew went down in Lake Superior off the shores of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. 49 years and 11 months ago, Gordon Lightfoot recorded a song about it. Today seemed as good an occasion as any to play it on an organ at a hockey game.
Sharks? Too aggressive for my taste. So here's a more friendly Phish instead, 'Character Zero' (featuring a weird click of something bouncing everytime I hit the sample pad, but you can't win em all)
November 6, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Sharks? Too aggressive for my taste. So here's a more friendly Phish instead, 'Character Zero' (featuring a weird click of something bouncing everytime I hit the sample pad, but you can't win em all)
You can take the boy out of Chicagoland but you can't take the love of Chance the Rapper out of the boy. Always try to rep some Chano when the Blackhawks are in town (In this case 'Tree' and via the hook on this one, 'Video' by India.Arie)
November 4, 2025 at 8:32 AM
You can take the boy out of Chicagoland but you can't take the love of Chance the Rapper out of the boy. Always try to rep some Chano when the Blackhawks are in town (In this case 'Tree' and via the hook on this one, 'Video' by India.Arie)
Bonus snippets from this evening, in case you had a Peso Pluma shortage I guess ('Ella Baila Sola' by Eslabon Armado and Peso Pluma)
October 29, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Bonus snippets from this evening, in case you had a Peso Pluma shortage I guess ('Ella Baila Sola' by Eslabon Armado and Peso Pluma)
A little Coheed and Cambria for an excellent third period comeback to 'Welcome Home' an OTL point on Hispanic Heritage Night!
October 29, 2025 at 6:48 AM
A little Coheed and Cambria for an excellent third period comeback to 'Welcome Home' an OTL point on Hispanic Heritage Night!
youtu.be/nOndQVYx7n0?... means it's also time for me to do my annual reminder about one of the best live sets ever
D'Angelo & the Vanguard - Full Concert - Live at North Sea Jazz Festival 2015
YouTube video by North Sea Jazz Archive
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October 14, 2025 at 6:19 PM
youtu.be/nOndQVYx7n0?... means it's also time for me to do my annual reminder about one of the best live sets ever
Man, rest easy to one of the best to ever do it. Everyone go spin some D'Angelo today
October 14, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Man, rest easy to one of the best to ever do it. Everyone go spin some D'Angelo today
No 'Saturday Night Divas' here as the Kraken grind out an OT winner against Vegas! (Spice Girls)
October 12, 2025 at 6:14 AM
No 'Saturday Night Divas' here as the Kraken grind out an OT winner against Vegas! (Spice Girls)
Nice choice of post game attire, Naylor
October 11, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Nice choice of post game attire, Naylor
Just an absolutely wild ball game
October 11, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Just an absolutely wild ball game
Welcome back my friends, to the show that never ends, the next season of Kraken Hockey! I'm no Keith Emerson but I did my best on Karn Evil 9 1st Impressions Pt. 2
October 10, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Welcome back my friends, to the show that never ends, the next season of Kraken Hockey! I'm no Keith Emerson but I did my best on Karn Evil 9 1st Impressions Pt. 2
Wishing the Mariners good luck this weekend with a little 'Mr. Rager' by Kid Cudi. TRIDENTS UP!!!
October 2, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Wishing the Mariners good luck this weekend with a little 'Mr. Rager' by Kid Cudi. TRIDENTS UP!!!
Stop me if you've heard this one....So, two hockey organists walk into a bar...
Great time at The Valley in Tacoma checking out @kseal.bsky.social and Seal Party!
Great time at The Valley in Tacoma checking out @kseal.bsky.social and Seal Party!
September 28, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Stop me if you've heard this one....So, two hockey organists walk into a bar...
Great time at The Valley in Tacoma checking out @kseal.bsky.social and Seal Party!
Great time at The Valley in Tacoma checking out @kseal.bsky.social and Seal Party!
Look, I try to avoid posting anything not related to playing 20 seconds of a song at a hockey game, but as a musician and person who makes stuff, this is infuriating.
www.404media.co/chicago-sun-...
www.404media.co/chicago-sun-...
Chicago Sun-Times Prints AI-Generated Summer Reading List With Books That Don't Exist
"I can't believe I missed it because it's so obvious. No excuses," the writer said. "I'm completely embarrassed."
www.404media.co
May 20, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Look, I try to avoid posting anything not related to playing 20 seconds of a song at a hockey game, but as a musician and person who makes stuff, this is infuriating.
www.404media.co/chicago-sun-...
www.404media.co/chicago-sun-...
Anyway, that'll do it for me til next season! In the meantime, look after your neighbors, especially those in vulnerable communities (our trans and immigrant friends especially!), and in the words of Bill and Ted, be excellent to each other! (Also, Mariners, I'm just a water taxi ride away....)
April 19, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Anyway, that'll do it for me til next season! In the meantime, look after your neighbors, especially those in vulnerable communities (our trans and immigrant friends especially!), and in the words of Bill and Ted, be excellent to each other! (Also, Mariners, I'm just a water taxi ride away....)
And lastly, since it was a beautiful spring day in Seattle on Tuesday and I've done nothing if I haven't accidentally cultivated a reputation of being the hockey organist who plays emo/pop-punk/midwest-emo/insert-related-genre here, here's Hot Mulligan's *Equip Sunglasses*
April 19, 2025 at 6:05 PM
And lastly, since it was a beautiful spring day in Seattle on Tuesday and I've done nothing if I haven't accidentally cultivated a reputation of being the hockey organist who plays emo/pop-punk/midwest-emo/insert-related-genre here, here's Hot Mulligan's *Equip Sunglasses*
Next up: 'Threat' by Charly Bliss! Someone was very excited earlier in the season when I hit 'I'm Not Dead' and the verse of 'Threat' is incredibly fun to play!
April 19, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Next up: 'Threat' by Charly Bliss! Someone was very excited earlier in the season when I hit 'I'm Not Dead' and the verse of 'Threat' is incredibly fun to play!
Okay, several days late posting anything from Fan Appreciation Night but I have a 3.5 week old so time is meaningless! Tried to circle back to some things that seemed to really resonate with people this season, so in honor all the people who got excited about 'Stash' and their current CPA run:
April 19, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Okay, several days late posting anything from Fan Appreciation Night but I have a 3.5 week old so time is meaningless! Tried to circle back to some things that seemed to really resonate with people this season, so in honor all the people who got excited about 'Stash' and their current CPA run:
Reposted by Benny Drawbars
S: That was a great goal
W: You know what else would be a great goal
S: what?
W: Winning a Playoff Series
(in unison) WAH! HAH! HAH!
W: You know what else would be a great goal
S: what?
W: Winning a Playoff Series
(in unison) WAH! HAH! HAH!
April 14, 2025 at 3:42 PM
S: That was a great goal
W: You know what else would be a great goal
S: what?
W: Winning a Playoff Series
(in unison) WAH! HAH! HAH!
W: You know what else would be a great goal
S: what?
W: Winning a Playoff Series
(in unison) WAH! HAH! HAH!
Today is Herbie Hancock's birthday, so here's two versions of 'Watermelon Man' (from 1962's 'Takin' Off' then 1973's 'Head Hunters')
April 13, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Today is Herbie Hancock's birthday, so here's two versions of 'Watermelon Man' (from 1962's 'Takin' Off' then 1973's 'Head Hunters')
Benny Drawbars will be out of the lineup tonight (personal reasons, birth of child). His Iron Hands streak will reset after 123 Kraken games at CPA.
Timeline for return is week to week, hopeful for April 12 versus St. Louis
(I did send some recordings to DJ Cide, though, so not *totally* gone)
Timeline for return is week to week, hopeful for April 12 versus St. Louis
(I did send some recordings to DJ Cide, though, so not *totally* gone)
March 27, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Benny Drawbars will be out of the lineup tonight (personal reasons, birth of child). His Iron Hands streak will reset after 123 Kraken games at CPA.
Timeline for return is week to week, hopeful for April 12 versus St. Louis
(I did send some recordings to DJ Cide, though, so not *totally* gone)
Timeline for return is week to week, hopeful for April 12 versus St. Louis
(I did send some recordings to DJ Cide, though, so not *totally* gone)
Okay, this is mostly for @organistalert.bsky.social whomst I told I was going to try to do Happy Birthday in 10/8 (2+3+2+3, 8th=8th triplet from prev measure) for Pi Day, but in case you've never been to a game in person, here's what I usually get up to under the 'in game messages' during 1st INT
March 15, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Okay, this is mostly for @organistalert.bsky.social whomst I told I was going to try to do Happy Birthday in 10/8 (2+3+2+3, 8th=8th triplet from prev measure) for Pi Day, but in case you've never been to a game in person, here's what I usually get up to under the 'in game messages' during 1st INT
Okay, Pi Day 2025 setlist:
Up first: '79 Cents' by Eilen Jewell (one of the 'searching for numbers' results, but fittingly enough for the theme tonight, is a condemnation of the wage gap!)
Up first: '79 Cents' by Eilen Jewell (one of the 'searching for numbers' results, but fittingly enough for the theme tonight, is a condemnation of the wage gap!)
March 15, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Okay, Pi Day 2025 setlist:
Up first: '79 Cents' by Eilen Jewell (one of the 'searching for numbers' results, but fittingly enough for the theme tonight, is a condemnation of the wage gap!)
Up first: '79 Cents' by Eilen Jewell (one of the 'searching for numbers' results, but fittingly enough for the theme tonight, is a condemnation of the wage gap!)
If you need a break from the eldritch horror that is waking to face a new day in the current era, here's a timeline cleanse:
Alright, last year for Pi day we got through 3.141592653589 (Three Little Birds by Bob Marley, 14 Years by Guns N Roses, 15 Step by Radiohead, 92 Explorer by Post Malone,
Alright, last year for Pi day we got through 3.141592653589 (Three Little Birds by Bob Marley, 14 Years by Guns N Roses, 15 Step by Radiohead, 92 Explorer by Post Malone,
March 14, 2025 at 5:19 AM
If you need a break from the eldritch horror that is waking to face a new day in the current era, here's a timeline cleanse:
Alright, last year for Pi day we got through 3.141592653589 (Three Little Birds by Bob Marley, 14 Years by Guns N Roses, 15 Step by Radiohead, 92 Explorer by Post Malone,
Alright, last year for Pi day we got through 3.141592653589 (Three Little Birds by Bob Marley, 14 Years by Guns N Roses, 15 Step by Radiohead, 92 Explorer by Post Malone,
'Yyyits been....one week' since a Kraken home game, and what a game it turned out to be! Luckily, only two days till the next one! (By Barenaked Ladies, despite, as Colin Mochre said on that one Whose Line episode, being fully dressed men)
March 13, 2025 at 6:17 AM
'Yyyits been....one week' since a Kraken home game, and what a game it turned out to be! Luckily, only two days till the next one! (By Barenaked Ladies, despite, as Colin Mochre said on that one Whose Line episode, being fully dressed men)