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)
('QLONA' by KAROL G and Peso Pluma
October 29, 2025 at 7:41 AM
('QLONA' by KAROL G and Peso Pluma
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!
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)
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!!!
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*
Coupled with 'Mass Pike' by The Get Up Kids in what I'm dubbing the @joshgondelman.bsky.social special after he posed the question 'how many songs are there about the Massachusetts Turnpike' about 'Threat' and because @gwenindoubt.bsky.social requested it, though I did egregiously miss a note in it
April 19, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Coupled with 'Mass Pike' by The Get Up Kids in what I'm dubbing the @joshgondelman.bsky.social special after he posed the question 'how many songs are there about the Massachusetts Turnpike' about 'Threat' and because @gwenindoubt.bsky.social requested it, though I did egregiously miss a note in it
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!
And 'Birds of a Feather' Also hit 'Cars Trucks Buses' but didn't get a clip of that one.
April 19, 2025 at 5:01 PM
And 'Birds of a Feather' Also hit 'Cars Trucks Buses' but didn't get a clip of that one.
Here's 'Bouncing Around the Room' by Phish (played very fast because I wanted to make sure I got to the chorus before puck drop but then it was a very long faceoff so it was in hindsight unnecessary)
April 19, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Here's 'Bouncing Around the Room' by Phish (played very fast because I wanted to make sure I got to the chorus before puck drop but then it was a very long faceoff so it was in hindsight unnecessary)
(The Head Hunters version)
April 13, 2025 at 7:25 AM
(The Head Hunters version)
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')
And because bluesky vids cap at 60s, here's the rest of it, 'You're Still The One' by Shania Twain for an anniversary and some general noodling for various other messages. (Fun 'Women in Hockey' night fact: the Happy Birthday melody was written by Mildred J. Hill)
March 15, 2025 at 6:22 AM
And because bluesky vids cap at 60s, here's the rest of it, 'You're Still The One' by Shania Twain for an anniversary and some general noodling for various other messages. (Fun 'Women in Hockey' night fact: the Happy Birthday melody was written by Mildred J. Hill)
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
'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)
Hey, here's some Missy Elliott and a reminder to practice your scales more so you don't 'Lose Control' like I kind of did at the end there
March 6, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Hey, here's some Missy Elliott and a reminder to practice your scales more so you don't 'Lose Control' like I kind of did at the end there
Forgot to post something from Saturday, but given it was Kraken Day, got me thinking about Kraken Day 2022 and our pal Roman Vashchuk, so here's 'Oh, the Red Viburnum in the Meadow' (or, if you'd prefer, Ой у лузі червона калина)
March 3, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Forgot to post something from Saturday, but given it was Kraken Day, got me thinking about Kraken Day 2022 and our pal Roman Vashchuk, so here's 'Oh, the Red Viburnum in the Meadow' (or, if you'd prefer, Ой у лузі червона калина)