99.1 PLR celebrates 50 years! This week we are celebrating another great year in our history: 1977!
That year PLR presented Jethro Tull at New Haven Coliseum. In 1977 Jethro Tull hit the road to support its tenth studio album, “Songs From The Wood,” which featured the singles The Whistler, Songs From The Wood and Ring Out, Solstice Bells.
Today we look back at Jethro Tull’s show in New Haven…
Jethro Tull
Tour: Songs From The Wood
Thursday March 31, 1977
New Haven Veterans Memorial Coliseum
Ticket Price: $7.50
Band Lineup: Ian Anderson, Martin Barre, John Glascock, John Evans, Dee Palmer, Barriemore Barlow
Setlist*
- Wond’ring Aloud
- Skating Away on the Thin Ice of the New Day
- Jack-in-the-Green
- Thick as a Brick
- Songs From The Wood
- Conundrum
- To Cry You a Song
- A New Day Yesterday
- Velvet Green
- Hunting Girl
- Too Old to Rock ‘n’ Roll, Too Young to Die
- Symphony No. 9, Op. 125 (Ode to Joy) (Ludwig van Beethoven cover)
- Minstrel in the Gallery
- Cross-Eyed Mary
- Aqualung
- Guitar Solo (encore)
- Wind-Up (encore)
- Back-Door Angels (encore)
- Wind-Up (reprise / encore)
- Locomotive Breath (encore)
- Pomp and Circumstance (Land of Hope and Glory) (Edward Elgar cover)
- Back-Door Angels (reprise / encore)
*source: setlist.fm
Ticket stub courtesy of Al F.
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