The band has made a name for itself as a result of its extensive worldwide touring, and its St. Patrick's Day weekend shows, which are held in and around Boston. The group is also famous for their patronage of the Boston Red Sox, Celtics and Bruins.
There are differing stories as to the origin of the band's name. Former band member Marc Orrell has said:
The Dropkick Murphy will come and get you if you don't go to sleep tonight. It's a rehab center, I think it's in Connecticut. I think it was the guy who used to come around late at night for all the drunks, like if you were too drunk to drive home, he would come and get you and put you in this hole that you couldn't get out until you were sober enough, I don't know. There's a bunch a stories, it's also a boxer, a bunch of things, a rehab center in Connecticut, grandparents used to scare kids with it.
Dropkick Murphys was originally formed in 1996 in Quincy, Massachusetts. The band first started playing in the basement of a friend's barbershop and soon found that people loved their music, and as a result began to tour and record.
The band put out a series of EPs and were signed by Hellcat Records. In 1998 they released their first full-length album, Do or Die. Lead singer Mike McColgan left the band later that year with his life-long dream of becoming a Boston firefighter (but who later returned to the punk scene with the Street Dogs), and was replaced by The Bruisers lead singer Al Barr, who was referred to Ken Casey by Derek TC NYSR producer–founder of the groundbreaking 1990s Oi!–Skampilation series at the Middle East Club in Cambridge.
In 1999, they released their follow-up album, The Gang's All
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