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Benny Drawbars @bennydrawbars.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I guess if there was ever a game to break this one out, it was at tonight's versus the Flames (Buddy's team in the song) with *checks notes* 18 penalties totalling 67 penalty minutes and 3 game misconducts across both teams?

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Benny Drawbars @bennydrawbars.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

A pirate is a *kind* of mariner, yeah?

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Benny Drawbars @bennydrawbars.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

So this is from a few weeks ago but it's been a busy summer and I haven't gotten around to much internet-ing. Anyway, shout out to @nikostratis.com whose phenomenal work I've been really enjoying this summer and who reminded me of the formative role Yankee Hotel Foxtrot had in my life

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Benny Drawbars @bennydrawbars.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Alright, it's Saturday night, the Seattle OGs know that means one thing: Almost Live! (The theme to which, especially the second version in later seasons, absolutely rips). (My research skills weren't able to find who wrote or recorded it, so if anyone knows, hit me up)

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Benny Drawbars @bennydrawbars.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Fun one against the 'Canes, here's some Iron Maiden

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Benny Drawbars @bennydrawbars.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Heard Joe Doria play this one at the Pioneer Square Jazz Walk last week, thought I'd give it a shot.

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Benny Drawbars @bennydrawbars.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Well, definitely some parts of that game I would black out of my memory, but some hustle in the third almost clawed it back! We'll see what Sunday looks like!

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Benny Drawbars @bennydrawbars.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

More sinking than swimming by Long Island tonight, but don't worry Isles fans, it'll get washed away with time

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Benny Drawbars @bennydrawbars.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

....but ultimately, an OTL. How toxic.... though not to the point streak at least!

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Benny Drawbars @bennydrawbars.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

I'll believe in a third period comeback on Pride Night... (This was, for the record between the first and second Seattle goals)

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Benny Drawbars @bennydrawbars.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Really 'Feeling This' dub streak, let's keep it rolling (exciting game, didn't want to blink and risk missing a second of it...)

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Benny Drawbars @bennydrawbars.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Clean New Sweaters on the ice, but some Dirty Old Bossa Nova on the organ (by The Howard Roberts Quartet, but notably sampled in 'The Jam' by A Tribe Called Quest )

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Benny Drawbars @bennydrawbars.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Raising the [ice] Skate to a Kraken win against Philly with this number by @sad13.horse

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Benny Drawbars @bennydrawbars.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Lots of folks nowadays talkin bout the fate of Ophelia, forgetting The Band was putting in the hard work way back in '75 asking where she'd gone. (Penned by Robbie Robertson whose family, like the Kraken's own Brandon Montour, hails from Six Nations, fitting for Indigenous Peoples Night in The Deep)

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Benny Drawbars @bennydrawbars.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

'A heartbreak in mid-December' is right, Neck Deep Here's hoping its not a long lonely December for the dub against the Kings and it gets a buddy soon

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Benny Drawbars @bennydrawbars.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Also a while back someone requested 'All Caps' by Madvillain so here's that (Perhaps a bit on the jaunty side, but sometimes fitting stuff between a whistle and the puck drop requires a little creative license)

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Benny Drawbars @bennydrawbars.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Kraken back in the dub column? Now that's Something Wonderful. And to do it in OT? This year, thats the SEAway

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Benny Drawbars @bennydrawbars.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Lauded all across the ridgelines, fjords, and forests of the Northwest, here's one from @eric_howk called 'RENO' ahead of his stop at Chop Suey next month

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Benny Drawbars @bennydrawbars.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Wait, what month is it? Oh right. It's 'December' (By Collective Soul)

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Benny Drawbars @bennydrawbars.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Well, it's Thanksgiving, so here's a mercifully short and not 18 minute long version of Arlo Guthrie's 'Alice's Restaurant Massacree'

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Benny Drawbars @bennydrawbars.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

I don't have a clever caption for this one, I just think RAYE is neat, here's 'WHERE IS MY HUSBAND!'

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Benny Drawbars @bennydrawbars.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

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.

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Benny Drawbars @bennydrawbars.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

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)

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Benny Drawbars @bennydrawbars.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

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)

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Benny Drawbars @bennydrawbars.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

('QLONA' by KAROL G and Peso Pluma

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Benny Drawbars @bennydrawbars.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Bonus snippets from this evening, in case you had a Peso Pluma shortage I guess ('Ella Baila Sola' by Eslabon Armado and Peso Pluma)

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Benny Drawbars @bennydrawbars.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

A little Coheed and Cambria for an excellent third period comeback to 'Welcome Home' an OTL point on Hispanic Heritage Night!

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Benny Drawbars @bennydrawbars.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

This gem is a few blocks over from me and I think of it often

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Benny Drawbars @bennydrawbars.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

No 'Saturday Night Divas' here as the Kraken grind out an OT winner against Vegas! (Spice Girls)

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Benny Drawbars @bennydrawbars.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Nice choice of post game attire, Naylor

Mariners celebrating winning the ALDS , with Naylor wearing his Kraken abyss jersey

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Benny Drawbars @bennydrawbars.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

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

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Benny Drawbars @bennydrawbars.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Wishing the Mariners good luck this weekend with a little 'Mr. Rager' by Kid Cudi. TRIDENTS UP!!!

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Benny Drawbars @bennydrawbars.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

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!

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Benny Drawbars @bennydrawbars.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Not a fact, but some fun shots of a pipe organ being built

Inside of pipe organ, showing wood framing, metal pipes, and carbon fiber/steel action connections

Exterior of pipe organ under construction, showing wood case, some polished facade pipes, and through gaps with out facade pipes, various interior pipes, wind lines, and other components can be seen

Interior of pipe organ swell box chamber showing metal pipes and wind lines feeding wood pipes mounted above the roof

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Benny Drawbars @bennydrawbars.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

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*

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Benny Drawbars @bennydrawbars.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

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

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Benny Drawbars @bennydrawbars.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

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!

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Benny Drawbars @bennydrawbars.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

And 'Birds of a Feather' Also hit 'Cars Trucks Buses' but didn't get a clip of that one.

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Benny Drawbars @bennydrawbars.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

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)

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Benny Drawbars @bennydrawbars.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Today is Herbie Hancock's birthday, so here's two versions of 'Watermelon Man' (from 1962's 'Takin' Off' then 1973's 'Head Hunters')

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Benny Drawbars @bennydrawbars.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

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)

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Benny Drawbars @bennydrawbars.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

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

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Benny Drawbars @bennydrawbars.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

'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)

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Benny Drawbars @bennydrawbars.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

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

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