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*
- Hard To Handle (Otis Redding cover)
- Till The Morning Comes
- Loser (Jerry Garcia cover)
- Self Defense
- Alligator
- Mr. Charlie
- Weather Report Suite
- Let It Grow
- Deal (Jerry Garcia cover)
- Shakedown Street (beginning of Set 2)
- Ramble On Rose
- Easy Wind
- The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys (Traffic cover)
- Good Lovin’ (The Young Rascals cover)
- Drums
- Space
- Wharf Rat
- Box of Rain
- Gloria (Them cover)
- Eyes of the World (encore)
- Night of 1000 Stars (Phil Lesh & Friends cover) (encore)
*source: setlist.fm
Check out these live Dead performances from 2004