![]() It is all so very impressive for a band that just turned twenty years-old in 2016. They even gave a special performance aboard the USS Constitution during its final voyage and in honor of the historic ship’s 217th birthday, partaken in charity work passionately, among many other things over the course of their career. Bostonians through and through, the band have performed all throughout their hometown and at many of the city’s landmarks, including Fenway Park, TD Garden, and the Boston Pops. In fact, a version of the song – guest starring one of the band’s many friends, some guy called Bruce Springsteen – was released as a benefit for the Boston Marathon bombing victims. Looking back, since the band’s inception in 1996, they have sold a staggering four million albums worldwide, and just one of their videos – “Rose Tattoo” from their eighth studio album, Signed and Sealed In Blood – has over 24 million views on YouTube. Their first big break came when The Mighty Mighty Bosstones selected them as the opening act for their 1997 tour and the rest is well-documented musical history. Early influences for their music ranged from Swingin’ Utters, The Ramones, The Clash, and Sex Pistols, to The Pogues, and The Dubliners, as well as, believe it or not, AC/DC. Thankfully, the band avoided confinement in the sanatorium, and instead got their start like so many bands before them, literally in a friend’s basement. Murphy was a bizarre professional combination of wrestler and sanatorium-owner, who operated the Bellows Farm Sanatorium – which was known as “Dropkick Murphy’s” in Acton, MA. John “Dropkick” Murphy’s alcohol-detoxification facility, Dr. A beloved bunch, the band returned on January 6th with 11 Short Stories of Pain & Glory, their first studio album since 2013’s Signed and Sealed in Blood. Kick back with a beer and let us discuss a little band from the bawdy streets of Boston, MA, the kings of Celtic Punk, Dropkick Murphys.
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