7:30 – Atty Dale Funk
7:45 – Shaun, Co-Founder and CEO of Smash Avenue, CT’s only Rage Room
8:00 – Steve Adelman, The Event Safety Alliance
9:00 – Peter Cordeau, Norwalk Hospital
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99.1 PLR celebrates 50 years! This week we are celebrating another great year in our history: 2004.
WPLR and The Grateful Dead have had a long history together. From the shows at New Haven Coliseum and Yale Bowl right up until Jerry Garcia’s death in 1995, we have been grooving with our fellow Deadheads all along. So when the surviving members of the Grateful Dead decided to continue on after Jerry left us, we had to be there!
Today we go back to 2004 when The Dead came to The XFINITY Theatre (then know as the Meadows Music Theatre) on their “Wave That Flag Summer Tour.”
The Dead
Wave That Flag Summer Tour 2004
Tuesday August 3, 2004
The XFINITY Theatre in Hartford, Connecticut
The Dead lineup: Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, Jeff Chimenti, Warren Haynes and Jimmy Herring
Setlist*
*source: setlist.fm
Check out these live Dead performances from 2004
The Flubble Montage – All week, Chaz and AJ keep track of each and every time someone “flubbles” on the air. Then they throw them all together in one segment for everyone’s enjoyment. (0:00)
Dumb Ass News – a man claiming to be the Prince of Morocco called 911 from a McDonald’s, and the news report covering this story was pure gold. (5:25)
Scot Haney was on to help pick the movie from the 90’s Ashley has to watch this weekend. (12:21)
Shaun from “Smash Avenue,” the state’s first and only rage room was on to explain what AJ should expect from his first visit there this weekend. (21:38)
Fun Fact Friday, AJ had info on ‘yo momma’ jokes, some cool facts from “Pulp Fiction,” the movie career of Liam Neeson, and a discussion about sneezes and farts. (26:18)
Boss Keith’s Top 5 was an insane breakdown of the things he’s learned this week that make him angry. (35:50)
The show close right before a three-day break is usually fun, but today’s was particularly unhinged. AJ and Phil traded barbs until one was threatened to be choked out. (47:54)
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5:30 – Mitch Hallock, King of the Nerds – Creator of Terrificon and CT GamerCon
7:00 – Brian Foley, Assistant to the Commissioner, Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection
7:00 – Dr. O, Principal Investigator of the Pfizer COVID vaccine at Yale School of Medicine
7:30 – WFSB’s Scot Haney
7:45 – Shaun Chambers, Co-Founder and CEO of “Smash Avenue,” CT’s only Rage Room
8:00 – Dick Knapinski, Director of Communications for the Experimental Aircraft Association
9:00 – Captain Frank Eanotti, Stratford PD
9:30 – Boss Keith
99.1 PLR celebrates 50 years! This week we are celebrating our ninth year on the air: 1980.
Remember the old Pinecrest in Shelton? Sadly the venue no longer exists, but before its closing, many of classic rock’s greatest bands played there. Acts like The Allman Brothers Band, Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, Journey, Chicago, Meatloaf, Bob Marley and more all performed on the Pinecrest stage.
Today we go back to 1980 when Santana played one of the last major concerts at Pinecrest. Santana was coming off his European summer tour, which included three nights at Wembley Arena. The Pinecrest show was just the fourth stop on the United States leg of the tour. It’s hard to fathom a performer like Carlos Santana would even perform in a small town like Shelton considering in 1980 he was stopping in major cities and venues in Chicago, Philadelphia, Denver, St. Louis and Los Angeles!
Santana
Special Guest: Al Di Meola
Sunday August 3, 1980
Pinecrest Country Club in Shelton, Connecticut
Ticket Price: $9.50
Setlist*
*source: setlist.fm
Check out these past live performances
Chaz and Jennifer recently adopted two cats, and have not settled on named for them quite yet. While talking about the pair, AJ jokingly suggested some names that Chaz loved. (0:00)
In news, Dr. Rockman Ferrigno called in to help the Tribe members still hesitant to get the COVID-19 vaccine. (10:37)
In Dumb Ass News, a man’s defense for playing his music too loud late at night, is a pretty good answer! Then, AJ and Ashley try to sing along to some Led Zeppelin. (24:50)
Beth Fitzgerald is a life coach, and told us the one thing we all need to do to be happy. Plus, Ashley does not agree with her about pigs in a blanket. (32:09)
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99.1 PLR celebrates 50 years! This week we are celebrating our ninth year on the air: 1980!
That year Queen came to Connecticut and rocked Hartford’s XL Center (then called the Hartford Civic Center). Queen was supporting its eighth studio album, “The Game,” which featured hit songs “Another One Bites The Dust” (which Queen played live for the first time ever in Hartford in 1980) and “Crazy Little Thing Called Love.”
Today we look back at this show…
Queen
Tour: The Game
Special Guest: Dakota
Wednesday August 20, 1980
The XL Center in Hartford, Connecticut
Ticket Price: $9.50
Setlist*
*source: setlist.fm
Check out these audio clips from Queen’s show in Hartford
Mike the Neurosurgeon explains how he gets his kids to wash their hands, by using an example of a patient who had worms in the brain. Plus, how fat David Hasselhoff saved the life of one of his buddies’ girlfriends. (0:00)
A $300,000 heroin bust in New Haven, Det. Chris Lyons was on to explain how these busts are researched, investigated and carried out. (16:00)
The Mega Millions jackpot is well over $650 million. Chaz and AJ fantasize about how they would spend a fortune like that, and Francine, who works with the lottery, called in to explain some of the rules on employees. (29:56)
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