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Quote: Originally Posted by Windshadow

I tried to use Google to backup my memoriesbut the bands use of the name makede it hard to get an info that way... but perhaps an old timer at a Hartford or New Haven newspaper could dig up the real facts of the place.... as it was told to me it was used by folks like judges and high power politicians to have place where they could go and get blotto safely... I even tried the retired wrestler aproach to the search but it turns out that a large number of pro wrestlers over the last few years have used that moniker... so all we have to go on for the story is my memory... unless Ed can dig up some info given his contacts in the required Conn. social set

My googling showed the band claiming the name came from a Boston area rehab place in the 40's / 50's. Or, CT. Conflicting stories

http://www.dabelly.com/features/feature119.htm

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DPK's name has several different meanings, all of them intriguing.

"The Dropkick Murphy will come and get you if you don't go to sleep tonight," offers Orrell. "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 story, it's also a boxer, a bunch of things, a rehab center in Connecticut, grandparents used to scare kids with it."

http://www.worldlyremains.com/Dropkick.htm

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Matt: Where does the name come from?

Ken: Dropkick Murphy’s was an old rehab place in Boston in the ‘40s and ‘50s, before fancy detoxes, where drunks would go to clean up. It seemed appropriate.