Although the band's biggest hit was 1966's "Dirty Water", a song about Boston, Massachusetts--and was in fact in 1997 declared the "official victory anthem" of the Boston Red Sox baseball team--none of the band members were from Boston, and in fact none had ever even been to Boston when they recorded the song. It was written by their producer,
Ed Cobb, who had visited Boston once and had been beaten and robbed while walking on a bridge over the Charles River.