We had a great time at the Milford Performance Center’s Drive In Concert featuring “Motley2” playing the best of Motley Crue at the Connecticut Post Mall Parking Lot!
Check out all the great upcoming drive in concerts this spring at www.milfordperformancecenter.org.
Dumb Ass News – A woman believed she was engaged to Prince Harry. The story takes a turn, when everyone realizes they don’t even know Harry’s full name. (0:00)
Somehow, AJ has never played the board game “Operation” before. Chaz made sure to fix that, but with a twist: every time AJ failed, he ALSO got a shock from a shock collar. (8:59)
So, snow now in mid-April? Sure. Chaz and AJ talk about the pictures on Twitter of multiple inches of snow on the ground in Ellington, Mooseup and Norfolk. Norfolk residents quickly texted the show to tell everyone they were pronouncing the name of the show incorrectly. (20:43)
After the Norfolk snafu, Fun Fact Friday was dominated by the Tribe calling in other words commonly mispronounced, including Ashley’s take on “costume.” (36:28)
Boss Keith’s Top 5 was back in person, after making a full recovery from his J&J vaccination hangover. These are the 5 things he wants everyone to agree with him about. (47:03)
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5:30. Mitch, the King of the Nerds, Top 10 Superpowers:
6:00. If you got your two Pfizer’s shots. You’re not done.
99.1 PLR celebrates 50 years! This week we are celebrating another great year in our history: 1987!
That year PLR welcomed U2 to New Haven Coliseum. U2 hit the road in 1987 to support their fifth studio album “The Joshua Tree,” which featured major hits like With or Without You, I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For, Where The Streets Have No Name and In God’s Country. Joining them at the Coliseum was special guest Mason Ruffner.
U2’s New Haven show occurred between two stadium shows. The night before they played in front of 55,000+ in Foxborough and two nights later over 86,000 at JFK Stadium in Philadelphia. At the time U2 was perhaps the biggest rock band in the world. New Haven Coliseum’s 10,500 capacity was one of the smaller venues on their North American Tour. It’s believed that their stop in New Haven was U2’s way of saying “thank you” to the city that first welcomed them with open arms on their very first tour in the United States in 1980.
U2
Tour: The Joshua Tree
Special Guest: Mason Ruffner
Wednesday September 23, 1987
New Haven Veterans Memorial Coliseum
Ticket Price: $14.50
Band Lineup: Bono (vocals), The Edge (guitar), Adam Clayton (bass), Larry Mullen Jr. (drums)
Setlist*
*source: setlist.fm
Check out these live clips of U2 in 1987
This is the third debut album in our Hall of Fame. Guns ‘N Roses Appetite for Destruction. Released in July of 1987 when hair metal bands were dominating rock station charts, we all thought that this was just another hair band out of L.A. That’s until you dropped the needle on cut one, side one and got your head blown off by “Welcome to the Jungle.” No, this was not another hair band out of L.A. but a straight-ahead hard rocking band. It wasn’t until the following year that this album became a massive commercial success with songs like the aforementioned “Mr. Brownstone” to the showstopper “Paradise City” and the classic “Sweet Child O’ Mine.” Add along “Rocket Queen,” Nightrain” and “My Michelle,” you have the best-selling debut album of all time, as well the 11th best-selling album of all time in the United States. At this time, we would like to induct Guns ‘N Roses’ Appetite for Destruction into the WPLR Hall of Fame.
Learn more about the album:
Guns N’ Roses Conquered the Rock World with Appetite for Destruction
25 Things You Might Not Know About Appetite For Destruction
Smack, strippers and Guns N’ Roses: the chaotic road to Appetite For Destruction
Essential video:
Listen to the album:
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Ashley agreed last week to sell her used socks to Adam, for some decent money. The deal was for her to wear the same pair, every day for a week, and then send to him without washing them. Of course Ashley decided to break a bunch of the agreed-upon parameters. (0:00)
Dumb Ass News – There is a new sponsor for Dumb Ass News! Chaz and AJ were listening to the new production sent over by the voice guy, and couldn’t get over how many sound effects he uses. (13:58)
93-year-old Flo called in to share some poems she wrote, and talk about her life growing up during the Hoover presidency, and without any indoor plumbing. (24:23)
Jimmy Koplik of Live Nation had an update on concerts in Connecticut, and the last hurdles the state needs to clear before he can start selling tickets again. Then, Chaz and AJ had him finish his list of the greatest albums from the 1980’s. (35:16)
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Join Rick Allison and Frank Critelli every Sunday at 10pm for “The Local Bands Show” on 99.1 PLR!
Send your original music to [email protected] or The Local Bands Show, 70 Quarry Dock Road, Branford, CT 06405
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Brian’s Guitars – 453 W. Main Street, Cheshire
6:00. More details released on the Branford shooting.6:13 – 7:00. How will Adam react to the news of Ashley’s sock development? What do you collect?
7:00. How to NOT get bit by a dog. National dog bite prevention week. Michelle Douglas, “the Dog lady” on the phone
7:13. Dumb Ass News. What happens when you buy a house with money accidentally deposited into your account.
7:20. Woman thought she was engaged to Prince Harry.
7:30. Have you ever been duped by the internet?
8:00. More details about the shooting in Branford, and a crypto currency guy is found dead.8:13 – 9:00. Any CT concert updates? Concert Guru Jimmy Koplik.
9:00. Buddy the Beefalo has been captured. Plymouth Police on the phone.
9:13. Dumb Ass News. Liposuction doctor dancing with human fat in TikTok
9:20. Chaz catches up with Anthony Cumia. Formerly of Opie and Anthony and now owns his own media company. Compound media.
Tickets for his show tomorrow HERE!
99.1 PLR celebrates 50 years! This week we are celebrating another great year in our history: 1987!
That year PLR welcomed Pink Floyd to Hartford’s XL Center (which was called Hartford Civic Center at the time) for two shows on back-to-back nights. Pink Floyd hit the road in 1987 to support their thirteenth studio album “A Momentary Lapse of Reason,” which featured singles like Learning To Fly, On The Turning Away and One Slip. It was Pink Floyd’s first album recorded without founding member Roger Waters, who left the band in 1985, and their first full tour since 1981’s “The Wall” Tour.
Pink Floyd
Tour: A Momentary Lapse of Reason Tour
Wednesday October 14 and Thursday October 15, 1987
The XL Center in Hartford, Connecticut
Ticket Price: $22.50
Band Lineup: David Gilmour (vocals/guitar), Nick Mason (drums), Richard Wright (keyboards)
Setlists*
Night 1 – Wednesday October 14, 1987
Night 2 – Thursday October 15, 1987
*source: setlist.fm
Check out these live clips of Pink Floyd in Hartford in 1987
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