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Chaz and AJ Show Rundown: Monday, May 3

5:30. Beefman’s Top 10 List: Songs with the word “Fire” in the Title:

1) Fire – Jimi Hendrix

2) We didn’t start the Fire – Billy Joel

3) I’m on Fire – Bruce Springsteen

4) Play with Fire – The Rolling Stones

5) Fire Down Below – Bob Seager

6) Light My Fire – The Doors

7) Heaven’s on Fire – Kiss

8) Blood and Fire – Van Halen

9) Fight Fire with Fire – Metallica

10) Great Balls of Fire – Jerry Lee Lewis

6:00. A moose hit by a car in Connecticut.

6:13. A sign that people are ready to have sex again.

6:20 – 7:00. Weird and public places you boinked.

7:00. It’s School Nutrition Recognition Week. Does Ashley know what that means?

Share YOUR school meal experience…@SNACT on Facebook, @MySnact on Twitter, @snaofct on Instagram

7:13. Dumb Ass News. A news reporters reaction to a live car accident.

7:20 – 8:00. Roller Coaster Karaoke. How did AJ and Phil do singing on one of the best wooden roller coasters in the country?

8:00. NFL agent Joe Linta runs through the big NFL draft takeaways.

8:13. Dire Straits guitarist Jack Sonni’s wild night bar hopping with Robin Williams. Also, his encounters with Princess Diana and Madonna.

9:00. Mackenzie Newcomb – a woman who is selling her NY wedding.

9:13 Dumb Ass News. The Queen didn’t take long to warm up to a marital aide company.

Throwback Concert: AC/DC at New Haven Coliseum 1983

99.1 PLR celebrates 50 years! This week we are celebrating another great year in our history: 1983!

That year PLR welcomed AC/DC to New Haven Coliseum. AC/DC hit the road in ’83 to support their eighth studio album “Flick of the Switch,” which featured singles like Guns For Hire, Flick of the Switch and Nervous Shakedown. It was the last album to feature drummer Phil Rudd before his return 12 years later. Rudd left AC/DC in May 1983 and was replaced by 19 year-old Simon Wright, who would join the band on the “Flick of the Switch” World Tour.

This was AC/DC’s first of only two concerts ever in New Haven. The band also played in New Haven in 1985 on their “Fly On The Wall” Tour but never returned after that.

AC/DC

Tour: Flick of the Switch

Wednesday December 7, 1983

New Haven Veterans Memorial Coliseum

Ticket Price: $12.50

Band Lineup: Angus Young (lead guitar), Malcolm Young (rhythm guitar), Brian Johnson (vocals), Cliff Williams (bass), Simon Wright (drums)

Setlist*

Guns For Hire
Shoot To Thrill
Sin City
Bedlam In Belgium
Back In Black
Bad Boy Boogie
Rock and Roll Ain’t Noise Pollution
Flick of the Switch
Hells Bells
The Jack
Highway To Hell
Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
Whole Lotta Rosie
Let There Be Rock
T.N.T. – Encore
For Those About To Rock (We Salute You) – Encore

*source: setlist.fm

Check out these live clips of AC/DC in 1983

Photos: PLR’s 50th Birthday in New Haven

Thursday April 29th was “PLR Day” around Connecticut and in New Haven to commemorate PLR’s 50th Anniversary. All day we visited 9 iconic spots around New Haven and had our awesome listeners sign our big birthday card. Thanks everyone for coming out and celebrating with us!

Check out our photos:

Photos: Drive In Concert featuring Christine Ohlman and Liberty DeVitto

We had a great time at the Milford Performance Center’s Drive In Concert featuring Christine Ohlman & Rebel Montez and Liberty DeVitto & The Slim Kings at the Connecticut Post Mall Parking Lot!

Check out all the great upcoming drive in concerts this spring at www.milfordperformancecenter.org.

PODCAST – Friday, April 30: Flubble Friday Montage; Dumb Ass News; Ashley’s Babysitter Horror Stories

Despite everyone’s best efforts to not do this so often, the flubble montage had plenty of hysterical moments from the past week. A combination of a flub, and a mumble, flubbles are always collected at the end of the week to play for everyone’s entertainment. (0:00)

Dumb Ass News – Chaz and AJ spoke with Tribe member Christine, who routinely treats her pet like a child and even refers to it as “her daughter.” (4:47)

Scot Haney was on immediately following Chaz’s blow up with Christine, for treating her pet like a person. Scot had to inform him that today is National Adopt a Pet Day. (15:14)

At the tail end of Fun Fact Friday, Ashley’s mom called in to share horror story after horror story, of young Ashley chasing away babysitters. (22:43)

Boss Keith was fact-checked on his NFL Draft predictions from last week, then let out the crazy for his Top 5 grocery store observations. (28:41)

Image Credit: fizkes / iStock / Getty Images Plus

Chaz and AJ Show Rundown: Friday, April 30

5:30. Mitch Hallock, King of the Nerds, Top 10 Nerdy Gadgets you wish you had:

1. Lightsaber

2. Time machine

3. Ray gun

4. Robot

5. Spaceship

6. Flying car

7. Super computer

8. Teleporter

9. Shrinking ray

10. Jet pack

Mitch is the creator of Terrificon and CT Gamer Con

6:00. Lady Gaga’s dog napper caught.

6:13. A Flubble Montage that will throw the dignity of a 50 year legendary radio station out the window.

6:20 – 7:00. The Top 10 things people do for their pet to treat them like kids.

7:00. It’s National nutrition month. What does that mean? Hello? Does Ashley know?

7:13. Dumb Ass News. It was a weird time for her to discover that she had two privates.

7:20 – 8:00. We have a clip of a weather guy we want to play for Scot Haney and get his thought.

8:00. Queen Elizabeth didn’t take a lot of time to warm up to a Sex toy company.

8:13 – 9:00. Fun Fact Friday.

9:13. Dumb Ass News. A Flubble Montage that will throw the dignity of a 50 year legendary radio station out the window.

9:20. Boss Keith’s Top five thoughts about the grocery store.

Throwback Concert: Jethro Tull at New Haven Arena 1971

99.1 PLR celebrates 50 years! This week we are celebrating our first year on the air: 1971.

That year PLR welcomed Jethro Tull to New Haven Arena on Grove Street. Jethro Tull hit the road in 1971 to support its fourth studio album “Aqualung,” which featured songs like Locomotive Breath and Hymn 43. This was their best selling album, selling over seven million copies worldwide.

Note: This was the last full year for the New Haven Arena and Jethro Tull’s performance was one of the last rock acts to play there. The Arena officially closed its doors forever in 1972 to make way for the newer, much larger New Haven Veterans Memorial Coliseum.

Jethro Tull

Thursday October 28, 1971

New Haven Arena

Ticket Price: $5.00

Band Lineup: Ian Anderson, Martin Barre, Jeffrey Hammond, Johnn Evan, Clive Bunker

Setlist*

My God
Thick as a Brick
Aqualung
To Cry You a Song
A New Day Yesterday
Cross-Eyed Mary
Up to Me
Tomorrow Was Today
Hymn 43
Nothing Is Easy
Wind-Up
Guitar Solo
Locomotive Breath
Wind-Up (reprise)

*source: setlist.fm

Check out these clips of Jethro Tull performing live in the 1970s

You made Seth’s Make-A-Wish wish come true!

Big thanks to all the Chaz & AJ Tribe Members for coming out and making Seth’s Wish come true! He’ll be heading off for a camping trip with his family in an RV this summer!

The Local Bands Show 05/02/21

Join Rick Allison and Frank Critelli every Sunday at 10pm for “The Local Bands Show” on 99.1 PLR!

Send your original music to [email protected] or The Local Bands Show, 70 Quarry Dock Road, Branford, CT 06405

Check out the bands that will be featured this Sunday….

Absolute Zeros – Tiger Beat
Scott Fitch – Stand Up and Fight For All
Shandy Lawson – This Old Fool
The Sawtelles – (Brand New) Phase
Seth Adam – The Real Ones
Destination – Miles Away
Falconeer – LaDarius
Shame Penguin – Pretzel

Support your Local Bands!

Support Local Businesses who support Local Bands…

New England Brewing – 175 Amity Road, Woodbridge

Brian’s Guitars – 453 W. Main Street, Cheshire

PODCAST – Thursday, April 29: 50 Years Of WPLR!

New Haven mayor Justin Elicker was on with Chaz and AJ to read a proclamation, celebrating 50 years of 99.1 PLR. (0:00)

Connoisseur Media CEO Jeff Warshaw was on to recognize the station’s 50th anniversary, and explained what it is like to own a radio station, and how he wound up buying WPLR. (8:38)

Senator Blumenthal called in to sing Happy Birthday, and reminisce about the events he has participated in over the station’s history. (14:32)

Live Nation’s Jimmy Koplik was on one phone line, and Governor Lamont was on another, both to celebrate the station’s 50th. The Governor was able to squeeze a little concert news out of Jimmy as well, another act booked for the new Hartford HealthCare Amphitheater in Bridgeport that was not supposed to be announced until next week. (22:42)

Chaz and AJ spoke with their bosses, Kristin Okesson and Keith Dakin, about the station’s history, how PLR is different from many other rock stations around the country, and all the times Chaz and AJ have gotten them into trouble over the years. (30:01)

Chaz has been interviewing some of the legendary personalities from the last 50 years of PLR’s history, and had clips here from Marcia Simon, who admitted to one her biggest on-air mistakes. Then, it wouldn’t be a 50th anniversary celebration without hearing from Stoneman. (42:53)