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Throwback Concert: Grateful Dead at Yale Bowl 1971

99.1 PLR celebrates 50 years! This week we are celebrating our first year on the air: 1971.

That year PLR welcomed The Grateful Dead to New Haven for an outdoor summer show at the Yale Bowl. At the time PLR was just 3 months old and this was the first major rock concert that PLR supported.

Grateful Dead

Saturday July 31, 1971

Yale Bowl in New Haven, Connecticut

Ticket Price: $5.00 and $7.00

Band Lineup: Jerry Garcia, Phil Lesh, Ron “Pigpen” McKerman, Bill Kreutzmann, Bob Weir

Setlist*

Truckin’ (beginning of Set I)
Sugaree (Jerry Garcia song)
Mr. Charlie
Mama Tried (Merle Haggard cover)
Big Railroad Blues (Cannon’s Jug Stompers cover)
Hard To Handle (Otis Redding cover)
Loser (Jerry Garcia song)
Playing In The Band (Bob Weir song)
Dark Star
Bird Song (Jerry Garcia song)
El Paso (Marty Robbins cover)
Me and Bobby McGee (Kris Kristofferson cover)
Bertha (beginning of Set II)
Big Boss Man (Jimmy Reed cover)
Me and My Uncle (John Phillips cover)
Deal (Jerry Garcia song)
China Cat Sunflower
I Know You Rider (cover)
Sing Me Back Home (Merle Haggard cover)
Sugar Magnolia
Casey Jones
Not Fade Away (The Crickets cover)
Going Down the Road Feelin’ Bad (Henry Whitter cover)
Not Fade Away (The Crickets cover)
Uncle John’s Band (encore)
Johnny B. Goode (Chuck Berry cover / encore)

*source: setlist.fm

Give a listen to these audio clips from the Yale Bowl show

Hummels PLR 99 One-on-One: Drew Carrano

In WPLR’s 50 year history there has only been three marketing directors. Drew Carrano is our third and current Super Hero. He talks about going backstage, meeting KISS, his start at PLR in 1998 and the man who was one of the most important people in his life, PLR legend, Sam T.

PODCAST – Wednesday, April 28: Best Jobs For Tips; Dumb Ass News; Connecticut’s “Demon Chihuahua”

Chaz and AJ found a list of the best jobs to have, if you are working for tips. The Tribe also called in stories of the biggest tips they’ve ever received. (0:00)

Dumb Ass News – How do you make your voice sound super deep? A guy inhaled some kind of gas, and he sounded like a demon. (9:52)

Ariel recently adopted the “demon chihuahua,” and was on the phone to talk about the clothes she dresses him in, and how he treats her differently than her roommate. (21:14)

President Joe Biden was on to talk about the importance of his first 100 days in office, but had his interview stolen by former President Trump. (29:02)

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Chaz and AJ Show Rundown: Wednesday, April 28

6:00. New COVID guidelines and how being fully vaccinated can get you a free drink in Connecticut.

6:13 – 7:00. The best jobs to have if you’re working for tips.

7:00. Prancer the demonic chihuahua has found a home in Connecticut. And Joe Biden checks in.

7:13. Dumb Ass News. What did this guy inhale to make him sound like this?

7:40. 13 ticks on his nads – AJ Parody Song.

8:00. So how much is Eddie Van Halen’s 1930 something Ford worth? It’s for sale.
Wayne Carini.

8:13 – 9:00. What are the top 5 movie themes. Movie Critic Joe Meyers.

@joesview on Instagram and Twitter

9:00. You’ll be surprised as to how many people have been working from home drunk or stoned. Call in if you’re one of them. 877-764-2535

9:13. Dumb Ass News. A hospital typo turns a baby into a vegetable.

9:20. Grammy Award winner Lisa Fischer. You can purchase tickets to her show at the Ridgefield Playhouse HERE!

Throwback Concert: Neil Young at Shakespeare Festival Theatre 1971

99.1 PLR celebrates 50 years! This week we are celebrating our first year on the air: 1971.

That year Neil Young hit the road for a solo tour that came to The American Shakespeare Festival Theatre and Academy in Stratford. Unfortunately The Shakespeare Theatre is no longer around (it sadly burned to the ground in January 2019), but the recording of this show lives on. In March 2021 Neil Young released a live album and concert film entitled “Young Shakespeare” from that ’71 show in Stratford.

Neil Young

Tour: 1971 Journey Through The Past Solo Tour

The American Shakespeare Festival Theatre and Academy – Stratford, Connecticut

Friday January 22, 1971

Ticket Price: $6.50

Personnel: Neil Young (guitar, piano, vocals)

Setlist*

On The Way Home (Buffalo Springfield song)
Tell Me Why
Old Man
Journey Through The Past
Love In Mind
A Man Needs a Maid
Heart of Gold
Don’t Let It Bring You Down
There’s a World
The Needle and the Damage Done
Ohio (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young song)
See The Sky About to Rain
Down By The River (Neil Young & Crazy Horse cover)

*source: setlist.fm

Check out these live performances of Neil Young in Stratford

PODCAST – Tuesday, April 27: AJ’s Spider Story; Dumb Ass News; Coolest Places In Connecticut

Horrible tick stories continued, again from a Tribe member from Long Island, where two children stumbled through a nest of baby ticks. (0:00)

Dumb Ass News – a teacher was barred from teaching for 3 years after admitting to forgetting what happened on a trip with students because of drinking. (3:12)

Stasha Healy knows all the coolest places in Connecticut, and enlightened everyone on the real-life Indiana Jones that lived in the state. (11:40)

Dumb Ass News – a story about spiders led to another classic AJ story, claiming he released the same spider into the woods over and over. (27:36)

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Chaz and AJ Show Rundown: Tuesday, April 27

6:00. Ratings are in on the Oscars. Yikes.

6:13. Have you ever been bitten by a tick? Call in your tick stories. 877-764-2535

7:00. So how’s Buddy the Beefalo doing?

7:13. Dumb Ass News. What did you learn in school today? These kids had the best answer ever.

7:20. A typo on a birth certificate has a whole different meaning.

7:30 – 8:00. Funny hospital mishaps.

8:00. So maybe the hamburger wasn’t invented here?

8:13 – 9:00. Secret Connecticut. Awesome places we didn’t know were here with Author Stasha Healy.

You can purchase her book, “Secret Connecticut,” HERE!

9:00. You know it’s baseball season when this guy wants to furnish your house for free. Eliot Tatelman, President of from Jordan’s Furniture.

9:13. Dumb Ass News. Is there a record for that? Woman breaks an oddball world record.

9:20. Billy Joel’s former drummer Liberty DeVitto.

You can purchase tickets for his May 1st show in Milford HERE!

Throwback Concert: Yes at Palace Theater Waterbury 1971

99.1 PLR celebrates 50 years! This week we are celebrating our first year on the air: 1971!

That year PLR welcomed progressive rockers YES to the Palace Theater in Waterbury. YES hit the road in 1971 to support their fourth studio album “Fragile,” which features the hit songs Roundabout and Long Distance Runaround. Joining YES at the Palace were The J. Geils Band.

YES

Tour: Fragile

Also featuring The J. Geils Band

Wednesday December 1, 1971

The Palace Theater in Waterbury, Connecticut

Ticket Price: $5.00

Band Lineup: Jon Anderson (lead vocals), Steve Howe (guitars), Chris Squire (bass/vocals), Rick Wakeman (keyboards), Bill Bruford (drums)

Setlist*

Roundabout
I’ve Seen All Good People
Mood for a Day
Clap
Heart of the Sunrise
Keyboard Solo
Long Distance Runaround
The Fish (Schindleria Pramaturus)
Perpetual Change
Yours Is No Disgrace (encore)

*source: setlist.fm

Below is a photo from Art from Westville, who won the Yes album “Fragile” from PLR in 1971! Thanks Art for sharing this photo!

Check out these clips of Yes performing live in concert

PODCAST – Monday, April 26: Oscars Recap; Tribe Tick Stories; Elon Musk Wants Humans On Mars

Dumb Ass News – A horse was spotted at a car wash, and residents of Belchertown, Mass. were very concerned. An entire news report was put together, just to reassure everyone that the horse is fine. (0:00)

Movie critic Joe Meyers watched every minute of last night’s Oscars, and thought it was one of the better broadcasts the awards show has ever done. He addressed the controversy of Best Actor not going to Chadwick Boseman, and the one bit from the broadcast he really hated. (9:53)

Boss Keith also watched every minute of the Oscars. He pretty much hated all of it, and yelled about how they can fix it for next year. (27:45)

Dumb Ass News – Elon Musk wants to put human beings on Mars. Why is the internet mocking him for this? (40:46)

It seems like this year is going to be a busy one with ticks, judging by the stories Chaz and AJ have already gotten from the Tribe. One guy spent 30 minutes fishing, and found over 20 ticks on his legs afterwards. (47:20)

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Photos: Drive In Concert featuring The Best of the ’70s

We had a great time at the Milford Performance Center’s Drive In Concert featuring Dizzy Fish performing “The Best of the ’70s” at the Connecticut Post Mall Parking Lot!

Check out all the great upcoming drive in concerts this spring at www.milfordperformancecenter.org.