Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Drop Kick Murphys Live Up to Their Name

The story goes, on St. Patty's Day, a crowd joined the band on stage to kick up the celebration. In the crowd, a lone and not too smart Neo-Nazi starts doing the Nazi salute, at which point the band's bassist and lead singer gives the Nazi a good old-fashion punker beat down. I wouldn't want some Neo-Nazi crashing my party either. I read about the story here.

Turns out, I like their music. I've never been that much into punk, I grew up listening to Hip Hop. Of course, a lot of people don't know that Hip Hop, Punk and New Wave grew up together. Beastie Boys were a punk band before they ventured into Hip Hop, by the way. Then they went on to do much more.

Anyway, so far this is my favorite Drop Kick Murphys' song. "First to die..." Indeed. Kickin' a--


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