99.1 PLR celebrates 50 years! This week we are celebrating another great year in our history: 1989!

That year PLR welcomed Aerosmith back to New Haven Coliseum. After a highly successful Permanent Vacation Tour in 1987, Aerosmith hit the road in ’89 to support its tenth studio album “Pump,” which featured hits like Love In An Elevator and Janie’s Got a Gun. The tour lasted almost a full year and there were multiple opening acts along the way, including Metallica, Joan Jett, Poison, The Black Crowes and The Cult. By the time the tour came to New Haven, Skid Row was tabbed as the opener.

Today we look back at Aerosmith’s 1989 show at the Coliseum…

Aerosmith

Tour: Pump

Special Guest: Skid Row

Thursday December 28, 1989

New Haven Veterans Memorial Coliseum

Band Lineup: Steven Tyler, Tom Hamilton, Joe Perry, Brad Whitford, Joey Kramer

Setlist*

1. Heart’s Done Time
2. Magic Touch
3. F.I.N.E.
4. Monkey on My Back
5. Don’t Get Mad, Get Even
6. Permanent Vacation
7. Janie’s Got a Gun
8. Mama Kin
9. Hangman Jury
10. Voodoo Medicine Man
11. Red House (The Jimi Hendrix Experience cover)
12. Rag Doll
13. Draw The Line
14. Dream On
15. Love In An Elevator
16. Dude (Looks Like a Lady)
17. Sweet Emotion
18. Big Ten Inch Record (Bull Moose Jackson cover) – Encore
19. Walk This Way – Encore

*source: setlist.fm

99.1 PLR Aerosmith Backstage Meet and Greet Photos

Check out the videos of Aerosmith at New Haven Coliseum

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 David Bowie back to the Coliseum. Bowie came to New Haven on March 22nd to support his tenth studio album, “Station To Station,” which featured the hit single Golden Years.

Interesting note about this show: Just two nights earlier in Rochester, Bowie and a few of his friends were arrested on marijuana charges. He paid the bond and hit the road and headed to Springfield and New Haven to play his scheduled gigs before his scheduled arraignment back in Rochester later that week. Long story short, Bowie pleaded innocent and eventually the charges were dismissed.

Today we look back at David Bowie’s show in New Haven…

David Bowie

Tour: Isolar

Monday March 22, 1976

New Haven Veterans Memorial Coliseum

Band Lineup: David Bowie, Carlos Alomar, Stacy Heydon, George Murray, Dennis Davis, Tony Kaye

Setlist*

1. Station To Station
2. Suffragette City
3. Fame
4. Word on a Wing
5. Stay
6. I’m Waiting for the Man (The Velvet Underground cover)
7. Queen Bitch
8. Life on Mars?
9. Five Years
10. Panic in Detroit
11. Changes
12. TVC15
13. Diamond Dogs
14. Rebel Rebel (encore)
15. The Jean Genie (encore)

*source: setlist.fm

Check out these David Bowie performances from 1976