99.1 PLR celebrates 50 years! This week we are celebrating another great year in our history: 1999!
That year PLR welcomed Black Sabbath at Ozzfest 1999 at Hartford’s XFINITY Theatre. Black Sabbath was already two years into their reunion with the original band lineup – Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward. In 1999 the band headlined Ozzfest, a yearly heavy metal music festival that toured different cities throughout the summer months.
Today we look back at Black Sabbath’s performance at Ozzfest 1999 in Hartford…
Black Sabbath
Tour: Ozzfest 1999
Main Stage: Black Sabbath, Rob Zombie, Deftones, Slayer, Primus featuring Buckethead, System of a Down, Godsmack, Hatebreed
Second Stage: Fear Factory, Slipknot, Reveille, Hed PE, Flashpoint, Pushmonkey, Drain STH, Apartment 26, Puya, Static-X
Saturday June 19, 1999
The XFINITY Theatre in Hartford, Connecticut
Ticket Price: $28.50 and $48.50
Band Lineup: Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, Bill Ward
Setlist*
War Pigs
N.I.B.
Fairies Wear Boots
Electric Funeral
Sweet Leaf
Into The Void
Guitar Solo
Snowblind
Black Sabbath
Iron Man
Children of the Grave
Paranoid (encore)
*source: setlist.fm
Check out the live clips of Black Sabbath on Ozzfest 1999
Eddie Wazoo was a staple at WPLR from 1975-1981. He’s most known as the afternoon drive host and music director during one of the most fertile times in rock music. He talks about how he got his name, great behind the scenes PLR stories and why it took so long for PLR to play The Ramones.
Chaz and AJ interviewed “Dr. Fauci” about the latest rules we should be following, with a contagious strain of COVID-19 going around. Johnny A, Phil’s dad, also called in his questions about being safe at home. (0:00)
Joe LaChance “the weed guy” was on the phone to talk about the first hurdle for legalized marijuana in Connecticut being cleared earlier this week. Does he think the bill will eventually pass? (12:00)
Jimmy Koplik from Live Nation was on to offer the latest on concerts eventually returning to Connecticut, then started to share his Top 5 albums of the 1980’s. (23:44)
Mayor Cassetti from Ansonia, and Derby Mayor “Zeke” were on the phone to talk about the great pizza places in the valley, since the movement to make pizza the official state food for Connecticut is hitting some snags. (38:16)
Lisa Fischer has performed on stage with the Rolling Stones, and she was on the phone with Chaz and AJ this morning to talk about her upcoming show at the Ridgefield Playhouse. (50:06)
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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*
Stairway to the Stars
OD’d on Life Itself
Cities on Flame with Rock and Roll
E.T.I. (Extra Terrestrial Intelligence)
Harvest Moon
Career of Evil
Joan Crawford
See You in Black
Burnin’ For You
Then Came The Last Days of May
Harvester of Eyes
Godzilla
(Don’t Fear) The Reaper
*source: setlist.fm
Check out these live clips of Blue Öyster Cult on their Heaven Forbid Tour
Yesterday, Chaz and AJ spoke with Adam, who is interested in buying a used pair of socks from Ashley. She selected three pairs she’d be will to part with, and Adam called in to pick the one he’d like the most. He asked her to please wear them for a full week before sending to him. (0:00)
Tony Spera, the son-in-law to Ed and Lorraine Warren, was on the phone to share a story he’s never told Chaz and AJ before. A demonic idol found in the woods of Connecticut, and the high priest that created it. (16:42)
Attorney Norm Pattis was on to talk about two cases he’s been heavily involved with, both of which are being made into movies this summer. Chaz and AJ asked him about his relationship with Fotis Dulos, and the Manhattan Madam. (25:10)
99.1 PLR celebrates 50 years! This week we are celebrating another great year in our history: 1999!
That year PLR welcomed Rage Against The Machine to New Haven Coliseum. RATM hit the road in 1999 to support their third studio album, “The Battle of Los Angeles,” which featured such singles as Guerrilla Radio, Testify, Calm Like a Bomb and Sleep Now in the Fire. It would be Rage’s last tour together before breaking up in October 2000. They’d reunite occasionally between 2007-2011. In 2021 the band hopes to have its first full-length tour since 2000.
Today we look back at Rage’s 1999 show in New Haven….
Rage Against The Machine
Tour: The Battle of Los Angeles
Special Guests: Gang Starr and At The Drive-In
Sunday December 5, 1999
New Haven Veterans Memorial Coliseum
Ticket Price: $25
Band Lineup: Zack de la Rocha (vocals), Tom Morello (guitar), Tim Commerford (bass) and Brad Wilk (drums)
Setlist*
Bulls on Parade
Testify
People of the Sun
Calm Like a Bomb
Bullet in the Head
The Ghost of Tom Joad (Bruce Springsteen cover)
Sleep Now in the Fire
Born of a Broken Man
Know Your Enemy
No Shelter
War Within a Breath
Guerrilla Radio
Freedom
Killing in the Name
*source: setlist.fm
Check out these live clips of Rage Against The Machine in 1999
