{"id":5064,"date":"2020-05-31T09:19:34","date_gmt":"2020-05-31T06:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevoiceofpeace.co.il\/?p=5064"},"modified":"2020-05-31T09:19:34","modified_gmt":"2020-05-31T06:19:34","slug":"watch-bruce-springsteens-return-to-live-rock-with-dropkick-murphys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevoiceofpeace.co.il\/index.php\/2020\/05\/31\/watch-bruce-springsteens-return-to-live-rock-with-dropkick-murphys\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Bruce Springsteen\u2019s Return to Live Rock with Dropkick Murphys"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In an empty Fenway Park, the Boston roots-punk band played the first great rock show of the pandemic era, with help from Springsteen<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

With eight musicians in their current touring incarnation \u2014 bagpiper very much included \u2014 Boston roots-punk gods the Dropkick Murphys are one of the only bands who practically qualify as a mass gathering in their own right. But with their Streaming Outta Fenway show Friday night, they managed to put on the loudest, most joyful show of the pandemic era \u2014 with help from Bruce Springsteen \u2014 while adhering with admirable strictness to social-distancing guidelines. All it took was an eerily empty Fenway Park, a few cameras (most of them on flying drones), and a work-from-home rock legend joining in from the studio on his New Jersey farm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The band spread out on the baseball diamond, with drummer Matt Kelly holding down second base \u2014 only co-lead singers Al Barr and Ken Casey roamed the field, taking care to stay apart. \u201cIt\u2019s just the Dropkick Murphys here, sneaking into Fenway for a little concert,\u201d Casey said. The band played a full-length set, from the excellent new Clash tribute \u201cMick Jones Nicked My Pudding\u201d to a blazing \u201cAmazing Grace\u201d to the inevitable \u201cShipping Out to Boston.\u201d Towards the end, Casey asked, \u201cIs New Jersey in the house?\u201d and there was Springsteen on the Diamond Vision screen, ready for his first plugged-in, full-band performance since the pandemic began.
They started with \u201cRose Tattoo,\u201d a 2013 song by the band that Springsteen had previously collaborated with them on, and then slammed into Springsteen\u2019s very Dropkicks-ish\/Pogues-like composition \u201cAmerican Land,\u201d with its ever-relevant message: \u201cThey died to get here a hundred years ago\/ they\u2019re still dying now\/ The hands that built the country\/ we\u2019re always trying to keep down.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was ever-so-slightly bittersweet to see a band that thrives on live call-and-response play to silence, and equally so to see how much energy Springsteen put across alone on his farm instead in front of a teeming crowd of tens of thousands. But it was still a miracle \u2013 a great, live rock concert, in a time when such things were starting to feel impossible. The show benefited three charities: the Boston Resiliency Fund, Habitat for Humanity Greater Boston and Feeding America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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