New England Off Topic and Banter as Most Brilliantly Proposed by Cape Cod MINI

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One thing you have to remember about Rynfest is that it's an outdoor event, not a club.

[pezboy]

And here are the Dropkicks at the Leeds Festival in the UK:



Reading Festival, UK:



Lowlands Festival, Netherlands:



But I guess they suck and only draw a crowd because they sing about Boston.

Honestly, I don't really like their new stuff...their old singer is in that Street Dogs band which I like a lot. The Dropkicks just play an insane amount of shows, and do a lot of charity events for the community. They work really hard. Harder than most bands out there.

[DanzMINI2]

They can also sing the National Anthem quite well. I saw them at the Patriots vs. 49ers game!

[jcsinnh]

Thanks all for your help...even proud poppa, Ian.

Specter 9 from outer space or whatever and Keller Williams both do loads of outdoor concerts. Personally, I think that, in an effort to move away from pure blues and funk, my pal Doug is stretching genres too wide. But this kinda concert does need a blend of genders. Stats show that you should have a female performer highlighted...like last year with Dirkin and Deep Banana Blackout.

I'm pushing Scarlett a bit too and will do more on that once she returns from European tour.

I'm learning but I think you need to get the audience jumping with every band, every band. No quiet interludes with a chance to take a snooze in your lawn chair. Also, with Bud as a sponsor, I have to put up with their lousy new beers.

Speaking of which, cracked an 8 Ball stout last night. M said it looked like the oil from the Buick. Tasted good despite the imagery. Thanks, fishy.

[Cape Cod MINI]

Too bad about the Budweiser. They are proof that big money advertising overcomes sh*t for taste.
The 8 ball uses cod liver oil as it's base. That's why it's so, so,....so much like old Buick oil?

[jcsinnh]

No wonder I have had to make sooo many trips this AM!

[Cape Cod MINI]

I see Jeffrey is back already. Let's have an update please.

[pezboy]

Oh please no...I don't want to see his sig anymore. Those eyes are creepy.

[Windshadow]

Sigh no one cares about the history of NE drunk farms... its all about the music huh? well see if I ever try to edify your dull narrow lives again

[snid]

This weekend, the UPS-mobile should pass 70,000 miles.

Some people buy a new MINI every year some don't.

[GBMINI]

Quote: Originally Posted by snid

Some people buy a new MINI every year some don't.

Not me.
I got a full two years out of GBMINI#2

[jcsinnh]

Quote: Originally Posted by Windshadow

Sigh no one cares about the history of NE drunk farms... its all about the music huh? well see if I ever try to edify your dull narrow lives again

You kidding? I was hysterical then I told the show's mastermind and he fell off his chair laughing. Talk about funny farms. That's the idea that, if revived, would attract Baker, Barnatt, and me. Not to mention all the rest of the goofballs on this thread - save Ian who teetotals. Our hero.

[Windshadow]

Ok then I will keep being MAMAs own 'Cliff Claven' & 'Major Winchester' combined

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

[Cape Cod MINI]

Quote: Originally Posted by Windshadow

Sigh no one cares about the history of NE drunk farms... its all about the music huh? well see if I ever try to edify your dull narrow lives again

Hey, speak for them! I'm down with it. We were just too wasted last night to respond. I don't see pink elephants anymore. Now I see old men in orange jumpsuits.

[snid]

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

Quote:

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

Quote:

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.