In an empty Fenway Park, the Boston roots-punk band played the first great rock show of the pandemic era, with help from Springsteen.

Bruce Springsteen performs on the video board with the Dropkick Murphys during the Streaming Outta Fenway performance with no live audience as the Major League Baseball season is postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic at Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts Wednesday, May 27, 2020.

With eight musicians in their current touring incarnation — bagpiper very much included — 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 — with help from Bruce Springsteen — while adhering with admirable strictness to social-distancing guidelines?

“It’s just the Dropkick Murphys here, sneaking into Fenway for a little concert,” Casey said

The band played a full-length set, from the excellent new Clash tribute “Mick Jones Nicked My Pudding” to a blazing “Amazing Grace” to the inevitable “Shipping Out to Boston.” Towards the end, Casey asked, “Is New Jersey in the house?” and there was Springsteen on the Diamond Vision screen, ready for his first plugged-in, full-band performance since the pandemic began

Bruce Springsteen, The Dropkick Murphys