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
Dumb Ass News – The sound of an angry customer driving through the entrance of a Taco Bell. As you might expect, AJ was on the side of the driver. (0:00)
Jonathan Carbutti was on to talk about the massive property that sold recently, setting a record in our area. (11:29)
The weirdest, coolest and most secret places in the state. Author Stasha Mills Healy was on with Chaz and AJ to talk about her book, “Secret Connecticut,” and the fascinating places she’s uncovered. A room full of human brains, a real Stonehenge, and the significant summers Martin Luther King Jr. spent in Connecticut. (21:26)
Chaz’s wife, Jennifer was on to report a fresh batch of road rage she experienced on her way to work. The Tribe was quick to call in the very aggressive behavior they’ve seen on the road. (36:34)
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6:00. The double mutant strand of covid 19 is in California. Is there anyway we can put it on the no fly list?
6:13 -7:00. The Top 10 albums of the 1980’s.
7:00. A big time television production person found dead in a hoarding house.
7:13. Dumb Ass News. The sound of an angry customer driving through the drive through at Taco Bell.
7:20. The guy who is willing to pay a lot of money for Ashley’s socks.
7:30 – 8:00. Weird fetishes or strange thing you’ve saved/collected.
8:00. A real estate record price set in our area. How hot is it and how can you take advantage of the market even if you don’t own a home. Jonathan Carbutti.
8:13 – 9:00. Secret Connecticut. The weirdest and coolest places in the State. Author Stasha Healy
9:00. The top things that cause arguments out on the road.
9:13. Dumb Ass News. A teacher accidentally posted a sex video on snapchat.
9:20. Let’s play who’s the jerk. AJ or the other guy.
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
Jumpin’ Jack Flash
Bitch
You Got Me Rocking
Respectable
Honky Tonk Women
Memory Motel
Saint of Me
Some Girls
Paint It Black
You Got The Silver (Keith Richards on vocals)
Before They Make Me Run (Keith Richards on vocals)
Out of Control
Route 66 (Bobby Troup cover)
Get Off of My Cloud
Midnight Rambler
Tumbling Dice
It’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll (but I Like It)
Start Me Up
Brown Sugar
Sympathy for the Devil (encore)
Night 2 – Monday March 29, 1999
Jumpin’ Jack Flash
You Got Me Rocking
Respectable
Gimme Shelter
Honky Tonk Women
I Got the Blues
Saint of Me
Some Girls
Paint It Black
Thief in the Night (Keith Richards on vocals)
You Don’t Have to Mean It (Keith Richards on vocals)
Out of Control
Route 66 (Bobby Troup cover)
When the Whip Comes Down
Midnight Rambler
Tumbling Dice
It’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll (but I Like It)
Start Me Up
Brown Sugar
Sympathy for the Devil (encore)
*source: setlist.fm
Check out these live clips of The Rolling Stones in Hartford 1999
AJ surprised everyone after admitting to watching the entire UConn game against Arizona in the Final Four. Ashley then ranked the most boring sports to watch, and Chaz couldn’t get over the Gonzaga buzzer beater that sent them to the National Championship game. (0:00)
Dumb Ass News – A man found a way to get kicked out of the happiest place on Earth, after spending $15,000 to get there. (15:03)
Intern Ben was on the phone for another round of Chaz and AJ’s Killer Karaoke, which prominently featured a lady giving her all for a Tina Turner performance. (24:47)
Chaz and AJ pulled some clips of UConn head coach Geno Auriemma talking to the show before this season began, back in June. Geno elaborated on his frustration with fans who have too high an expectation of his team each season, and explained how COVID-19 threw a wrench into the UConn seasons – men and women’s teams. (36:44)
Dumb Ass News – AJ has not had any pizza for over a month, after giving up all bread for Lent. Chaz, Ashley and Phil all teased him by eating pizza in front of him. (51:22)
Since all of Dumb Ass News was spent teasing AJ with pizza, Chaz and AJ finally got to the stories they had planned to do. AJ got to eat his pizza first, of course. (59:00)
