Here at the BBBC, we love The Dropkick Murphys, so I thought I would pass along a short article from Gibson’s website. Enjoy…
Jonah Bayer | 11.01.2007
If you don’t think you’ve ever heard the Dropkick Murphys‘ music, think again. “When people ask me what I do, I say ‘I’m in a band called the Dropkick Murphys’—and if they still haven’t heard of us, I say we had that song in The Departed and they instantly know what I’m talking about,’ explains the band’s guitarist and multi-instrumentalist Marc Orrell. “That movie helped us become a household name—and I think it also helped our album [The Meanest of Times] debut in the Billboard Top 20, which was unreal.”
That star-making song, “I’m Shipping Up To Boston,” features lyrics from legendary protest singer Woody Guthrie and was originally included on the Dropkick Murphys’ 2005 album The Warrior’s Code and passed on to the film’s director Martin Scorsese by the Band’s Robbie Robertson. “Amazingly, I guess Robbie is a fan of ours and knew Martin from The Last Waltz; he heard he was doing a film about Boston, so he passed our song along because it has a really Irish feel,” Orrell explains. “We were in Europe and we saw the trailer on our computer and we were like, “Oh my God, it’s even the trailer—this is going to be huge!’”
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