We were in BOSTON 03/11/04-03/14/04
here you'll see some of the photos from Boston & the DKM concert we went to on 03/11/04 as well as the charity breakfast on 03/13/04!
The show & the breakfast were awesome. I shook Al Barr's hand,
& Elizabeth & I had our pictures taken with various band
members. ( You'll see after we get the pics developed & scanned,
hopefully early next week. ) For now, though, if you look close you'll
see us in one of the pics posted from the charity breakfast here. (Hint: Look in the top left corner. Elizabeth was wearing a beige coat. )
THE
SHOW-03/11/04 If you were at the Avalon for last year's St. Patrick's
Day shows, you may think this impossible, but Dropkick Murphys really
outdid themselves this time around. Even last year's show (at least on
the night we were there) was not quite as awesome as this year's. ( We
never would have thought that they could top last year, though. ) The
band played a pretty good mix of older tunes and more recent favorites.
While they didn't play any Clash covers at the show we were at, they
surprised me by playing The Nips ' Vengeance ' & AC/DC's ' Long Way
to the Top, ' both of which were from singles or compilations, as
opposed to DKM albums. The show also included ' Good Rats, ' 'The Wild
Rover, 'and
' Finnegan's Wake ,' in addition to the usual working class anthems
such as ' Worker's Song, ' ' A Few Good Men,' & ' Boys on the
Docks,' and of course ' The Dirty Glass ' with Stephanie Dougherty. We
left saying it was the best concert we had ever been to.
THE
BREAKFAST - We were among the last 50 people to get tickets to the
charity breakfast, which benefited The Nick Boynton Diabetes
Foundation. We shelled out the $50 for two tickets when they became
available, the night before we flew to Boston. We were certainly not
disappointed. We knew from the moment the band walked by casually
greeting the fans waiting to get in ( outside The Harp on the morning
of the 13th ) that this would be a morning to remember. Once
we were inside, the band members were just as casual, allowing the fans
to take pictures with them, signing various items, etc. The Pogues, one
of my personal favourite bands, played over the sound system as we ate
breakfast & went around taking pictures of each other with members
of the band. Ken Casey joined a Bruins team
member onstage to raffle off a variety of Dropkick Murphys & Bruins
items, then Dropkick Murphys took the stage and played excellent
acoustic versions of '
The Dirty Glass ' with Stephanie D. & another great tune, which if
memory serves was ' Boys on the Docks. ' Elizabeth says it was ' Boys
on the Docks, ' reminding me that Ken Casey introduced his mother
before playing it & stated that the song was about her father, John
Kelly. Then Casey dismissed us so that the band could go across the
street to the Fleet Center to watch the Bruins defeat the Sabers 3-2.
