Friday and Saturday night hockey with Noveltown and the Filthies - By N.L. Belardes
What a Friday and Saturday night combination punch at the Rabobank Arena. Friday night I headed down to the Rabobank to watch the Condors in a 4-0 first period run over the Idaho Steelheads. Of course, pesky Idaho had to come back into the game. Fish-slopping turned steely ice hockey players, Idaho brought it to the Condors, who had to settle for an overtime win.
Reagan Leslie heads to the penalty box after getting tough...
There were tough face-offs, quick goals, and even my favorite player Reagan Leslie had a great game. His overtime shootout goal kept the Condors in the hunt. Saturday night was a tougher game against an Idaho team the Condors had been whooping a lot. Reagan played a little too deep into the zone. Getting back on defense was tough and so that contributed to the Condor’s Saturday night loss. But Saturday wasn’t about losing. Saturday nights in Condorstown are a winning combination of fisticuff hockey, great music, and great charity moments.
Coach Marty Raymond just before he encouraged
the crowd to continue their chant of "Ref you suck!"
during Friday night's horrible officiating.
The shriners were on hand selling tickets for the
big Condor dinner and auction coming up tonight at
the Crystal Palace. (Call 661.831.4476 for details)
Saturday night home games for the Bakersfield Condors had hit a high note a few weeks ago with Dirty Spanglish in the house. Kenny Mount of the Filthies had helped out that night in a big 50 CD giveaway. Now it was the Filthies turn again. Kenny ‘Motor’ Mount, Jeremy ‘Gus’ Gustafson, Kelly and big mean man Guppy were all fired up for the event. And so were the 7,264 fans on hand.
Kenny Mount singing "Condorstown"
Who is this strange fan who dances and hands out T-shirts???
Can't see hockey without food from the All-star grill...
Filthies’ drummer Guppy sipped his beer while Colonel Claw’d the Skater and he both pounded drums during the first period action between the Condors and the Idaho Fishbait (Steelheads). They sent the crowd into some raucous cheers with their bomp bomp pah… bom bomp pah crash sounds…
Everyone got fired up.
Pretty soon I ran into the Postal Conspirators. Oh for the love of hockey… They talked some trash, but then did say that Dirty Spanglish sounded great a few weeks before. Can’t beat that. When an event is memorable, that means success. Noveltown’s success for being the business behind the hockey CD has been a hard-earned partnership between The Bakersfield Condors and Noveltown to provide exciting music, a killer hockey CD, and fun family times all around. Noveltown even provided 20 CDs for The Filthies to hand out right after their performance. Kenny Mount was in shock, “We can’t give these away! These are money! 20! No way!”
Gus from the Filthies
Soon the Filthies jumped into their song, “Condorstown”. I went and hung out down below the band and sat with the folks from Kerngamers.com to hear the punk sounds smash like a hockey fist into the audience. Little kids and big kids danced, and during the “Skate, Fight, Skate Fight!” segment, arms were raised and fans were rowdy. I dug the energy…
And then I saw it. Big and fat on the jumbotron in a mad moment of Noveltown ecstasy: the CD cover artwork and Noveltown promo on all four sides of the jumbotron while Kenny Mount sang and Gus ripped and shredded his guitar in a rural rock punk moment that I will never forget. The jumbotron glowed a baby blue. “Condorstown” itself glowed with the pride only a hometown hockey team could ever have. The song radiated with energy that infected fans with the idea that “Hockey and music in Bakersfield, California rules supreme.”
This image on the jumbotron promotes the new
look Noveltown will soon have...
Noveltown does need your help to raise funds. CDs are on sale in the Condors arena, and online at www.noveltown.net. Support local music, support local hockey. Check out the press release. And if that isn’t enough, check out a few of the places from where people have been buying BAKERSFIELD hockey music from Noveltown just this weekend:
New Cuyama, CA
Bakersfield, CA
Suva, Fiji
Bellflower, CA
Las Vegas, NV
Biloxi, MS
Dayton, OH
Woodbury, MN
Caledonia, Ontario
lake isabella, CA
Get a copy and help support music, hockey, and the literary arts, all here in the Southern San Joaquin.
Reagan Leslie heads to the penalty box after getting tough...
There were tough face-offs, quick goals, and even my favorite player Reagan Leslie had a great game. His overtime shootout goal kept the Condors in the hunt. Saturday night was a tougher game against an Idaho team the Condors had been whooping a lot. Reagan played a little too deep into the zone. Getting back on defense was tough and so that contributed to the Condor’s Saturday night loss. But Saturday wasn’t about losing. Saturday nights in Condorstown are a winning combination of fisticuff hockey, great music, and great charity moments.
Coach Marty Raymond just before he encouraged
the crowd to continue their chant of "Ref you suck!"
during Friday night's horrible officiating.
The shriners were on hand selling tickets for the
big Condor dinner and auction coming up tonight at
the Crystal Palace. (Call 661.831.4476 for details)
Saturday night home games for the Bakersfield Condors had hit a high note a few weeks ago with Dirty Spanglish in the house. Kenny Mount of the Filthies had helped out that night in a big 50 CD giveaway. Now it was the Filthies turn again. Kenny ‘Motor’ Mount, Jeremy ‘Gus’ Gustafson, Kelly and big mean man Guppy were all fired up for the event. And so were the 7,264 fans on hand.
Kenny Mount singing "Condorstown"
Who is this strange fan who dances and hands out T-shirts???
Can't see hockey without food from the All-star grill...
Filthies’ drummer Guppy sipped his beer while Colonel Claw’d the Skater and he both pounded drums during the first period action between the Condors and the Idaho Fishbait (Steelheads). They sent the crowd into some raucous cheers with their bomp bomp pah… bom bomp pah crash sounds…
Everyone got fired up.
Pretty soon I ran into the Postal Conspirators. Oh for the love of hockey… They talked some trash, but then did say that Dirty Spanglish sounded great a few weeks before. Can’t beat that. When an event is memorable, that means success. Noveltown’s success for being the business behind the hockey CD has been a hard-earned partnership between The Bakersfield Condors and Noveltown to provide exciting music, a killer hockey CD, and fun family times all around. Noveltown even provided 20 CDs for The Filthies to hand out right after their performance. Kenny Mount was in shock, “We can’t give these away! These are money! 20! No way!”
Gus from the Filthies
Soon the Filthies jumped into their song, “Condorstown”. I went and hung out down below the band and sat with the folks from Kerngamers.com to hear the punk sounds smash like a hockey fist into the audience. Little kids and big kids danced, and during the “Skate, Fight, Skate Fight!” segment, arms were raised and fans were rowdy. I dug the energy…
And then I saw it. Big and fat on the jumbotron in a mad moment of Noveltown ecstasy: the CD cover artwork and Noveltown promo on all four sides of the jumbotron while Kenny Mount sang and Gus ripped and shredded his guitar in a rural rock punk moment that I will never forget. The jumbotron glowed a baby blue. “Condorstown” itself glowed with the pride only a hometown hockey team could ever have. The song radiated with energy that infected fans with the idea that “Hockey and music in Bakersfield, California rules supreme.”
This image on the jumbotron promotes the new
look Noveltown will soon have...
Noveltown does need your help to raise funds. CDs are on sale in the Condors arena, and online at www.noveltown.net. Support local music, support local hockey. Check out the press release. And if that isn’t enough, check out a few of the places from where people have been buying BAKERSFIELD hockey music from Noveltown just this weekend:
New Cuyama, CA
Bakersfield, CA
Suva, Fiji
Bellflower, CA
Las Vegas, NV
Biloxi, MS
Dayton, OH
Woodbury, MN
Caledonia, Ontario
lake isabella, CA
Get a copy and help support music, hockey, and the literary arts, all here in the Southern San Joaquin.
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