99.1 PLR celebrates 50 years! This week we are celebrating another great year in our history: 1999!

That year PLR held its annual Memorial Day Concert at historic Yale Field, home of baseball’s New Haven Ravens. The headliner was Blue Öyster Cult, who were out supporting their thirteenth studio album, Heaven Forbid, which was released the year before in 1998. It was their first studio album with new material in a decade.

Also on the bill at Yale Field were Indigenous, a blues-rock band from South Dakota that had a big New Haven following thanks to PLR, and classic rockers NRBQ.

Today we look back at our 1999 concert at Yale Field….

WPLR Memorial Day Concert with Blue Öyster Cult

Tour: Heaven Forbid

Also featuring NRBQ and Indigenous

Plus special guests Hubinger Street, Eclectic Nobody’s, and Grove Fiction Sex Ceremony

Saturday May 29, 1999

Yale Field in West Haven, Connecticut

Ticket Price: $12

Blue Öyster Cult  Band Lineup: Buck Dharma, Eric Bloom, Danny Miranda, Allen Lanier, Bobby Rondinelli

Setlist*

1. Stairway to the Stars
2. OD’d on Life Itself
3. Cities on Flame with Rock and Roll
4. E.T.I. (Extra Terrestrial Intelligence)
5. Harvest Moon
6. Career of Evil
7. Joan Crawford
8. See You in Black
9. Burnin’ For You
10. Then Came The Last Days of May
11. Harvester of Eyes
12. Godzilla
13. (Don’t Fear) The Reaper

*source: setlist.fm

Check out these live clips of Blue Öyster Cult on their Heaven Forbid Tour

99.1 PLR celebrates 50 years! This week we are celebrating another great year in our history: 1999!

That year PLR welcomed The Rolling Stones to Hartford’s XL Center (formerly called the Hartford Civic Center) for two shows on back-to-back nights. The Stones were on their “No Security” Tour to support the live album “No Security,” which featured live recordings of their “Bridges To Babylon” Tour in 1997-98. Several different bands opened for The Stones on the “No Security” Tour, including Bryan Adams, Jonny Lang and Sugar Ray. In Hartford, the Goo Goo Dolls were the supporting act.

Interesting note: On the very same night of The Stones’ second show in Hartford, the UConn Men’s Basketball team had captured its first NCAA National Championship down in Tampa, Florida. The Huskies beat Duke 77-74 creating a party-like atmosphere around Hartford that night.

Today we look back at both nights of The Rolling Stones in Hartford in 1999…

The Rolling Stones

Tour: No Security

Special Guest: Goo Goo Dolls

Sunday March 28 and Monday March 29, 1999

The XL Center in Hartford, Connecticut

Ticket Prices: $91.00, $126.00 and $251.00

Band Lineup: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood, Charlie Watts

Setlists*

Night 1 – Sunday March 28, 1999

1. Jumpin’ Jack Flash
2. Bitch
3. You Got Me Rocking
4. Respectable
5. Honky Tonk Women
6. Memory Motel
7. Saint of Me
8. Some Girls
9. Paint It Black
10. You Got The Silver (Keith Richards on vocals)
11. Before They Make Me Run (Keith Richards on vocals)
12. Out of Control
13. Route 66 (Bobby Troup cover)
14. Get Off of My Cloud
15. Midnight Rambler
16. Tumbling Dice
17. It’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll (but I Like It)
18. Start Me Up
19. Brown Sugar
20. Sympathy for the Devil (encore)

Night 2 – Monday March 29, 1999

1. Jumpin’ Jack Flash
2. You Got Me Rocking
3. Respectable
4. Gimme Shelter
5. Honky Tonk Women
6. I Got the Blues
7. Saint of Me
8. Some Girls
9. Paint It Black
10. Thief in the Night (Keith Richards on vocals)
11. You Don’t Have to Mean It (Keith Richards on vocals)
12. Out of Control
13. Route 66 (Bobby Troup cover)
14. When the Whip Comes Down
15. Midnight Rambler
16. Tumbling Dice
17. It’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll (but I Like It)
18. Start Me Up
19. Brown Sugar
20. Sympathy for the Devil (encore)

*source: setlist.fm

Check out these live clips of The Rolling Stones in Hartford 1999