The Local Bands Show 04/18/21

The Local Bands Show 04/18/21

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….

  • The Bandidos – Big Tomatoes
  • Big Fat Combo – Hale Bop
  • The Zambonis – Away Game
  • The Bargain – You’re Still Alive
  • Laundry Day – Hey, How’s Heaven?
  • Green Light – Comin’ For Ya
  • Light Warriors – One
  • SG Carlson & The Tines – Rough Jazz
  • Steve Cropper w/ Roger Creale – The Go-Getter Is Gone

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

Chaz and AJ Show Rundown: Thursday, April 15

Chaz and AJ Show Rundown: Thursday, April 15

6:00. More details released on the Branford shooting.

6:13 – 7:00. How will Adam react to the news of Ashley’s sock development? What do you collect?

7:00. How to NOT get bit by a dog. National dog bite prevention week. Michelle Douglas, “the Dog lady” on the phone

7:13. Dumb Ass News. What happens when you buy a house with money accidentally deposited into your account.

7:20. Woman thought she was engaged to Prince Harry.

7:30. Have you ever been duped by the internet?

8:00. More details about the shooting in Branford, and a crypto currency guy is found dead.

8:13 – 9:00. Any CT concert updates? Concert Guru Jimmy Koplik.

9:00. Buddy the Beefalo has been captured. Plymouth Police on the phone.

9:13. Dumb Ass News. Liposuction doctor dancing with human fat in TikTok

9:20. Chaz catches up with Anthony Cumia. Formerly of Opie and Anthony and now owns his own media company. Compound media.
Tickets for his show tomorrow HERE!

Throwback Concert: Pink Floyd at The XL Center 1987

Throwback Concert: Pink Floyd at The XL Center 1987

99.1 PLR celebrates 50 years! This week we are celebrating another great year in our history: 1987!

That year PLR welcomed Pink Floyd to Hartford’s XL Center (which was called Hartford Civic Center at the time) for two shows on back-to-back nights. Pink Floyd hit the road in 1987 to support their thirteenth studio album “A Momentary Lapse of Reason,” which featured singles like Learning To Fly, On The Turning Away and One Slip. It was Pink Floyd’s first album recorded without founding member Roger Waters, who left the band in 1985, and their first full tour since 1981’s “The Wall” Tour.

 

Pink Floyd

Tour: A Momentary Lapse of Reason Tour

Wednesday October 14 and Thursday October 15, 1987

The XL Center in Hartford, Connecticut

Ticket Price: $22.50

Band Lineup: David Gilmour (vocals/guitar), Nick Mason (drums), Richard Wright (keyboards)

Setlists*

Night 1 – Wednesday October 14, 1987

  1. Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts I-V)
  2. Signs of Life
  3. Learning To Fly
  4. Yet Another Movie
  5. Round and Around
  6. A New Machine (Part 1)
  7. Terminal Frost
  8. A New Machine (Part 2)
  9. Sorrow
  10. The Dogs of War
  11. On the Turning Away
  12. One of These Days
  13. Time
  14. On the Run
  15. Wish You Were Here
  16. Welcome To The Machine
  17. Us and Them
  18. Money
  19. Another Brick in the Wall Part 2
  20. Comfortably Numb
  21. One Slip (encore)
  22. Run Like Hell (encore)

Night 2 – Thursday October 15, 1987

  1. Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts I-V)
  2. Signs of Life
  3. Learning To Fly
  4. Yet Another Movie
  5. Round and Around
  6. A New Machine (Part 1)
  7. Terminal Frost
  8. A New Machine (Part 2)
  9. Sorrow
  10. The Dogs of War
  11. On the Turning Away
  12. One of These Days
  13. Time
  14. On the Run
  15. Wish You Were Here
  16. Welcome To The Machine
  17. Us and Them
  18. Money
  19. Another Brick in the Wall Part 2
  20. Comfortably Numb
  21. One Slip (encore)
  22. Run Like Hell (encore)

*source: setlist.fm

 

Check out these live clips of Pink Floyd in Hartford in 1987

 

Chaz and AJ Show Rundown: Wednesday, April 14

Chaz and AJ Show Rundown: Wednesday, April 14

6:00 – 7:00. What’s up with the Johnson and Johnson vaccine? Dr. Ron Clark and a shooter in Branford ended with one dead and one wounded.

7:00. We have a neighbor who was nearby when the shooting began in Branford.
7:13. Dumb Ass News. Driver gets expensive lesson on highway 401.
7:20 – 8:00. Inside details from one of New York Cities most intense serial killer investigations. Patrick Picciarelli, Retired NYPD Lt., has a podcast with Mobster/Actor Gianni Russo. You can listen to it HERE!
8:00. A standoff with a shooter in Branford, and what’s up with the Johnson and Johnson vaccine?
Kim P. with Make-A-Wish CT. 
8:13 – 9:00. The top 5 almost perfect movies. Movie Critic Joe Meyers’s Top 5.
@joesview on Instagram and Twitter 
9:00. Kim P. with Make-A-Wish CT. 
9:13. Dumb Ass News. Woman gets stuck in wet send while walking family dog.
Throwback Concert: R.E.M. at New Haven Coliseum 1987

Throwback Concert: R.E.M. at New Haven Coliseum 1987

99.1 PLR celebrates 50 years! This week we are celebrating another great year in our history: 1987!

That year PLR welcomed R.E.M. to New Haven Coliseum. R.E.M. hit the road in 1987 to support their fifth studio album “Document,” which featured such hit songs as The One I Love, It’s The End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine) and Finest Worksong. Joining R.E.M. at the Coliseum were special guests 10,000 Maniacs.

 

R.E.M.

Tour: Work

Special Guest: 10,000 Maniacs

Saturday October 17, 1987

New Haven Veterans Memorial Coliseum

Ticket Price: $13.50

Band Lineup: Michael Stipe (vocals), Bill Berry (drums), Peter Buck (guitar), Mike Mills (bass)

Setlist*

  1. Finest Worksong
  2. These Days
  3. Welcome To The Occupation
  4. Pilgrimage
  5. Exhuming McCarthy
  6. Orange Crush
  7. Feeling Gravity Pulls
  8. King of Birds
  9. Sitting Still
  10. I Believe
  11. Drive 8
  12. Superman (The Clique cover)
  13. Auctioneer (Another Engine)
  14. Oddfellows Local 151
  15. It’s The End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
  16. Begin The Begin
  17. Stranger (Wire cover) – Encore 1
  18. Cuyahoga – Encore 1
  19. Fall on Me – Encore 1
  20. The One I Love – Encore 1
  21. Wolves, Lower – Encore 2
  22. Crazy (Pylon cover) – Encore 2
  23. 1,000,000 – Encore 2
  24. Singing Cage (with Natalie Merchant) – Encore 3
  25. Harpers (Hugo Largo cover) – Encore 3
  26. So. Central Rain – Encore 3

*source: setlist.fm

 

Check out these live clips of R.E.M. in 1987

 

Chaz and AJ Show Rundown: Tuesday, April 13

Chaz and AJ Show Rundown: Tuesday, April 13

6:00. It looked like the entire planet showed up for Gary Bimonte’s wake. AJ was there.
And…Is it a vaccine van or an ice cream truck?

6:13. Will the guy buying Ashley’s worn socks be excited about this new development?

6:20 – 7:00. It’s National Dog Bite prevention week. Call in your dog bite story.

7:00. Seth is a 4 year old boy who needs our help to get his wish. His mom is up next.

7:13. Dumb Ass News. A ten year olds response to running out of Cheerios.

7:20. What should AJ do for Seth?

8:00. Can the St Vincent volcanic eruption wipe out entire villages. Folks are being asked to leave. How bad can it get? Nick the Science Guy.

8:13 – 9:00. What’s AJ’s house worth? Hello? Does Johnathan Carbutti know? Hello?

9:00. The best job on the planet has just became available. And Robert Fripp and his wife are back with a Judas Priest cover.

9:13. Dumb Ass News. Why would a guy go on porn hub to announce he found his soulmate.

9:20. And the least favorite day of the week is?

Throwback Concert: Def Leppard at The XL Center 1987

Throwback Concert: Def Leppard at The XL Center 1987

99.1 PLR celebrates 50 years! This week we are celebrating another great year in our history: 1987!

That year PLR welcomed Def Leppard to Hartford’s XL Center (which was called Hartford Civic Center at the time). Def Leppard hit the road in 1987 to support their fourth studio album “Hysteria,” which featured major hits like Animal, Pour Some Sugar on Me, Armageddon It, Hysteria and Love Bites and Rocket. It was Def Leppard’s best selling album, selling over 20 million copies worldwide.

Joining Def Leppard in Hartford was special guest Tesla, who opened the show.

 

Def Leppard

Tour: Hysteria

Special Guest: Tesla

Sunday October 11, 1987

The XL Center in Hartford, Connecticut

Ticket Price: $16.50

Band Lineup: Joe Elliott (vocals), Steve Clark (guitar), Phil Collen (guitar), Rick Savage (bass), Rick Allen (drums)

Setlist*

  1. Stagefright
  2. Rock! Rock! (Till You Drop)
  3. Women
  4. Another Hit and Run
  5. Too Late For Love
  6. Hysteria
  7. Guitar Solo
  8. Gods of War
  9. Die Hard The Hunter
  10. Bringin’ On The Heartbreak
  11. Foolin’
  12. Animal
  13. Pour Some Sugar On Me
  14. Let It Go
  15. Rock of Ages
  16. Photograph (encore)

*source: setlist.fm

 

Check out these live clips of Def Leppard in 1987

 

 

Chaz and AJ Show Rundown: Monday, April 12

Chaz and AJ Show Rundown: Monday, April 12

5:30. Beefman’s Top Ten Rock Songs About Outer Space

1)      Space Truckin – Deep Purple

2)      Outta Space – Van Halen

3)      Rocket Man – Elton John

4)      Across the Universe – The Beatles

5)      Space Cowboy – Steve Miller Band

6)      The Final Countdown – Europe

7)      Space Oddity – David Bowie

8)      Rocket – Def Leppard

9)      Rocket Ride – Kiss

10)   Walking on the Moon – The Police

 

6:00. Prince Phillips funeral plans will include Harry but not his wife.

6:13 – 7:00. Reset the Chaz and AJ celebrity Death Pool.

7:00. Dr Fauci is coming to Connecticut. Is that good news or not good news?

7:13. Dumb Ass News. They are both in jail because they are too good at their jobs.

7:20 – 8:00. Killer Karaoke. As a Tribute to Prince Phillip we begin with a Prince song.

8:13. Mob Guy Monday. Gianni Russo on why Carlo Gambino took Gianni under his wing.

8:20 – 9:00. Did Gianni know any of the Goodfellas characters?

9:00. 4 things you could do right now that will make you happy in less than 10 minutes.

9:13. Dumb Ass News. The most interesting choice for a getaway car.

Throwback Concert: Aerosmith at New Haven Coliseum 1987

Throwback Concert: Aerosmith at New Haven Coliseum 1987

99.1 PLR celebrates 50 years! This week we are celebrating another great year in our history: 1987!

That year PLR welcomed Aerosmith to New Haven Coliseum. Aerosmith hit the road in 1987 to support its commercially successful comeback album “Permanent Vacation,” which featured such hits as Dude (Looks Like a Lady), Angel, Rag Doll and Hangman Jury. Joining Aerosmith at the Coliseum were special guest Dokken.

Though 1985’s “Done With Mirrors” Tour was Aerosmith’s official comeback with the return of Joe Perry and Brad Whitford, who both left the band at different points, it was “Permanent Vacation” that marked the band’s true comeback because of its hit songs and commercial success.

 

Aerosmith

Tour: Permanent Vacation

Special Guest: Dokken

Tuesday November 3, 1987

New Haven Veterans Memorial Coliseum

Ticket Price: $16.50

Band Lineup: Steven Tyler (vocals), Joe Perry (guitar), Brad Whitford (guitar), Tom Hamilton (bass), Joey Kramer (drums)

Setlist*

  1. Toys In The Attic
  2. Same Old Song and Dance
  3. Bone to Bone (Coney Island White Fish Boy)
  4. Dude (Looks Like a Lady)
  5. Big Ten Inch Record (Bull Moose Jackson cover)
  6. Lightning Strikes
  7. Rag Doll
  8. Magic Touch
  9. Last Child
  10. Draw The Line
  11. Seasons of Wither
  12. Walking The Dog (Rufus Thomas cover)
  13. Rats in the Cellar
  14. Dream On
  15. Sweet Emotion
  16. The Train Kept A-Rollin’ (Tiny Bradshaw cover)
  17. Walk This Way
  18. I’m Down (The Beatles cover)

*source: setlist.fm

 

Check out these live clips of Aerosmith from the Permanent Vacation Tour