C I on MUSIC 

Neil Peart of RUSH recorded a new version of 'The Hockey Theme' song.  Link here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QMzDw3PdFs

posted 17 Dec 2009

John Buccigross of ESPN.com entertains us all with his Hakan Loob version of the Adam Sandler-type play of 'The Chanukah Song'.  Follow the link here for lyrics and the posting.

9 December 2009

 In their recent show in Chicago, Weezer set to the stage to play an encore, a popular song entitled "The Sweater Song" or "Undone".  I have provided a link here to the video.

5 December 2009

Brian Youngston and I composed a couple original songs in a recent jam, just sitting around on Remembrance Day watching some hockey.  Click on the links below and you'll begin to download a quicktime version of the short songs, enjoy.  It will take a short time.

Tiffany Blakemore managed to catch us performing in a short video, the White Stripes' "Same boy you've always known".  Good time, although our lack of practice shows...

ORIGINAL SONGS:

Discuss and pursue - acoustic guitar and vocals

Relentless - acoustic guitar and vocals

Robin Keith Thompson / 22 November 2009

"Grandma was a champion jigger.  She always carried a piece of plywood in the trunk of her car so she would have a hard surface to dance on.  My Grandpa played the fiddle, and his kids played guitars and she would jig.  An unbelievable jigger." - from page 6, of Theron Fleury's recent book "Playing with Fire".

23 October 2009

Revolution Mother lead vocalist and skateboarder Mike Vallely lays out his thoughts on a blog on the Ducks' website.  You can read it HERE. 

Interesting, the final entry is an account of a charity game in which he laces 'em up with the boys.

28 September 2009 

"Forget the iPhone", he says in his calm, soft-spoken Canadian accent, "we're now experiencing the 'birth of digital music 2.0'. And its midwife is not Apple but BlackBerry. I love Led Zeppelin, I listen to Zeppelin all the time, I'm a big U2 fan, Pink Floyd, ACDC. Am I showing my age?" he asks, at which point the increasingly agitated young press officer jumps to his rescue. "The Killers are pretty cool", she says. Mr Balsillie takes the hint and continues. "I love the Cure, the Psychedelic Furs, all the new wave stuff, the Killers, grunge, Nirvana. I love the Chilli Peppers. Is that okay? I'm a rocker. A rocker's rocker."

- Co-CEO of Research In Motion Jim Balsillie in a UK Telegraph article 27 January 2009

 10 August 2009 - The Carolina Hurricanes file a lawsuit over Tyrone Banks over a song he produced in 2007 (which the 'Canes used in promotional ads and video).   Carolina claims that he misused the ditty recently, promoting it in a way damaging to the club's identity.  Oh, and the fans say the song damages their identities.  

Henrik 'King' Lundqvist played acoustic guitar at New York's Warren 77, a sports bar.  Ken Daneyko, Rod Gilbert, and Brendan Shanahan were in attendance...."Sleeping and Drinking".  View the 5HOLE.COM vid here, or search for the video on the NHL Network.

2009 Penguin draftee Ben Hanowksi, known for his record setting point totals as a Little Falls Flyer (Minnesota High School) states his favourite music, NHL player, food, etc. here.

 In the article, Ben put "Heart of Champion" by Nelly as his 'pump up' song.

Mike Komisarek

(Montréal Canadiens) source - http://canadiens.nhl.com/

Tomas Plekanec

Derek Meech stated his theme song would be: "Bulls on Parade" by Rage Against The Machine (Detroit Red Wings) - source - The Hockey News