99.1 PLR celebrates 50 years! This week we are celebrating another great year in our history: 1976!
WPLR’s studio at the time was on Chapel Street, which was a short drive to New Haven Coliseum. WPLR and The Coliseum had a long history of welcoming some of the biggest rock acts to New Haven. In 1976 WPLR welcomed Black Sabbath to the Coliseum for the very first time. Black Sabbath came to the Coliseum to support their seventh studio album, “Technical Ecstasy,” and brought opening act Ted Nugent with them.
Today we look back at that show and tour…
Black Sabbath
Tour: Technical Ecstasy
Also Featuring: Ted Nugent
Saturday December 11, 1976
New Haven Veterans Memorial Coliseum
Ticket Prices: $6.00 & $7.00
Band Lineup: Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, Bill Ward and Gerald Woodroffe (keyboards)
Setlist*
- Sympton of the Universe
- Snowblind
- All Moving Parts (Stand Still)
- War Pigs
- Gypsy
- Black Sabbath
- Dirty Women
- Drum Solo
- Guitar Solo
- Rock ‘n’ Roll Doctor
- Electric Funeral
- Iron Man
- Children of the Grave
- Paranoid
*source: setlist.fm
Check out these live performances from Black Sabbath’s 1976 tour