99.1 PLR celebrates 50 years! This week we are celebrating another great year in our history: 2001!
That year PLR welcomed U2 to The XL Center (formerly known as the Hartford Civic Center). U2 hit the road in 2001 for the “Elevation Tour” to support their tenth studio album “All That You Can’t Leave Behind,” which featured such hits as Beautiful Day, Stuck in a Moment You Can’t Get Out Of and Elevation. Joining U2 in Hartford was special guest PJ Harvey.
The “Elevation Tour ” was the highest grossing tour of 2001 after playing 113 cities in both Europe and North America. The tour began with a pair of shows in Sunrise, Florida in late March and wrapped up in Miami in early December. The show in Hartford was part of the band’s first leg of the North American Tour. Two nights later, U2 would begin a string of shows at Boston’s TD Garden, where they filmed the concert DVD “Elevation 2001: Live From Boston.”
The Elevation Tour would be so successful, U2 would go on to perform the halftime show at Super Bowl XXXVI in New Orleans.
Interesting note about the Hartford show: After singing Mysterious Ways, Bono makes reference to Toad’s Place and how New Haven was one of U2’s first stops on their very first tour of North American in 1980. The sold out crowd at the XL Center went crazy after he mentions “Toad’s Place.”
U2
Tour: Elevation Tour 2001
Special Guest: PJ Harvey
Sunday June 3, 2001
The XL Center in Hartford, Connecticut
Ticket Price: $46.25 to $86.25
Band Lineup: Bono (vocals/guitar), The Edge (guitar/piano), Adam Clayton (bass), Larry Mullen Jr. (drums)
Setlist*
Elevation
Beautiful Day
Until the End of the World
Mysterious Ways
Stuck in a Moment You Can’t Get Of
Kite
Gone
New York
I Will Follow
Sunday Bloody Sunday
In a Little While
Desire
Stay (Faraway, So Close!)
Bad
Where the Streets Have No Name
Pride (In the Name of Love)
Bullet The Blue Sky (encore)
With or Without You (encore)
The Fly (encore)
One (encore)
Walk On (encore)
*source: setlist.fm
Listen to the entire U2 2001 show in Hartford
Check out these live clips of U2 on the “Elevation Tour”
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99.1 PLR celebrates 50 years! This week we are celebrating another great year in our history: 2001!
That year PLR welcomed Aerosmith to Hartford’s XFINITY Theatre. Aerosmith kicked off its “Just Push Play Tour” in Connecticut to support their thirteenth studio album “Just Push Play,” which featured such songs as Jaded, Fly Away from Here, Sunshine and Just Push Play. Joining them in Hartford was special guest Fuel.
Aerosmith
Tour: Just Push Play
Special Guest: Fuel
Wednesday June 6, 2001
The XFINITY Theatre in Hartford, Connecticut
Ticket Price: $79.00
Band Lineup: Steven Tyler (vocals), Joe Perry (guitar), Brad Whitford (guitar), Tom Hamilton (bass), Joey Kramer (drums)
Setlist*
Beyond Beautiful
Back In The Saddle
Jaded
Love In An Elevator
Just Push Play
Big Ten Inch Record (Bull Moose Jackson cover)
Fly Away From Here
Pink
Mama Kin
Same Old Song and Dance
Come Together (The Beatles cover)
Dream On
Toys in the Attic
I Don’t Want To Miss a Thing
Janie’s Got a Gun
Cryin’
Walk This Way
Sweet Emotion
Livin’ On The Edge – Encore 1
The Train Kept A-Rollin’ (Tiny Bradshaw cover) – Encore 1
I’m Down (The Beatles cover) – Encore 2
*source: setlist.fm
VH-1 Live at Aerosmith’s Tour Kick Off in Hartford 2001 (thanks Dave Streicher)
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99.1 PLR celebrates 50 years! This week we are celebrating another great year in our history: 2001!
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Poison
Tour: Glam, Slam, Metal Jam Tour
Also featuring: Warrant, Quiet Riot and Enuff Z’Nuff
Friday June 15, 2001
The XFINITY Theatre in Hartford, Connecticut
Ticket Price: $18.00 / $32.50
Band Lineup: Bret Michaels (vocals), Rikki Rockett (drums), Bobby Dall (bass), C.C. DeVille (lead guitar)
Setlist*
Look What The Cat Dragged In
I Want Action
Ride The Wind
Cry Tough
I Won’t Forget You
Something To Believe In
Your Mama Don’t Dance (Loggins & Messina cover)
I Hate Every Bone in Your Body But Mine
Rock Star
Fallen Angel
Let It Play
Every Rose Has Its Thorn
Unskinny Bop
Nothin’ but a Good Time (encore)
Talk Dirty To Me (encore)
*source: setlist.fm
Check out these live clips of Poison from past performances
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