99.1 PLR celebrates 50 years! This week we are celebrating another great year in our history: 1978!

That year PLR presented Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band at New Haven Coliseum. Springsteen hit the road in 1978 to support the “Darkness on the Edge of Town” album, which featured such hits as Prove It All Night, Badlands and The Promised Land. In fact this sold out New Haven Coliseum show came immediately after Bruce’s first ever headlining shows at New York’s famed Madison Square Garden.

Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band

Tour: Darkness

Friday August 25, 1978

New Haven Veterans Memorial Coliseum

Ticket Price: $8.50

Band Lineup: Bruce Springsteen, Clarence Clemons, Steven Van Zandt, Max Weinberg, Roy Bittan, Danny Federici, Garry Talent

Setlist*

1. Good Rocking Tonight (Roy Brown cover / beginning of Set I)
2. Badlands
3. Streets of Fire
4. Spirit in the Night
5. Darkness on the Edge of Town
6. Factory
7. Heartbreak Hotel (Elvis Presley cover. Note: this was around the one year anniversary of Presley’s passing)
8. The Promised Land
9. Prove It All Night
10. Racing In The Street
11. Thunder Road
12. Jungleland
13. Paradise By The “C” (Beginning of Set II)
14. For You
15. It’s Gonna Work Out Fine (Ike & Tina Turner cover)
16. 4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)
17. Sherry Darling
18. Not Fade Away / She’s The One
19. Growin’ Up
20. Backstreets
21. Rosalita (Cone Out Tonight)
22. Born To Run (encore)
23. Because The Night (Patti Smith Group cover / encore)
24. Quarter To Three (Gary “U.S.” Bonds cover / encore)

*source: setlist.fm

Check out these past live performances

99.1 PLR celebrates 50 years! This week we are celebrating another great year in our history: 1992!

That year PLR welcomed the Steve Miller Band to New Haven Coliseum. This was Steve Miller’s first time playing at the Coliseum and his first time playing a show in New Haven since 1968’s performance at Yale’s Woolsey Hall!

Steve Miller Band

Saturday May 2, 1992

New Haven Veterans Memorial Coliseum

Ticket Price: $18.50

Band Lineup: Steve Miller, Gordy Knudtson, Paul Peterson, Bob Mallach, Billy Peterson, Norton Buffalo

Setlist*

1. Swingtown
2. True Fine Love
3. Jungle Love
4. Mercury Blues (K.C. Douglas cover)
5. You Send Me (Sam Cooke cover)
6. Seasons
7. Living In the U.S.A.
8. The Stake
9. Winter Time
10. Space Cowboy
11. Kow Kow Calqulator
12. Fly Like An Eagle
13. Wild Mountain Honey
14. Abracadabra
15. Serenade
16. Jet Airliner (Paul Pena cover)
17. The Joker

*source: setlist.fm

Take a look at our backstage photos with Steve Miller

Check out these live clips of Steve Miller Band in 1992