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…
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…
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…
99.1 PLR celebrates 50 years! This week we are celebrating our first year on the air: 1971. That year Mountain, along with Johnny Winter, played two shows on the same night at Quinnipiac University in Hamden. The first show was at 8pm and the second show at 11pm. Mountain had just released its monster hit…
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,”…
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,…
99.1 PLR celebrates 50 years! This week we are celebrating another great year in our history: 2001! That year PLR welcomed Poison to The XFINITY Theatre. Bret Michaels and crew were headlining the “Glam, Slam, Metal Jam Tour,” which also featured fellow 80’s rockers Warrant, Quiet Riot and Enuff Z’Nuff. Poison had just released their…
99.1 PLR celebrates 50 years! This week we are celebrating another great year in our history: 2001! That year PLR welcomed Ozzy Osbourne to The XL Center (formerly known as the Hartford Civic Center). Ozzy hit the road in the fall and winter of 2001 for a co-headlining tour with Rob Zombie called “Merry Mayhem.” …
99.1 PLR celebrates 50 years! This week we are celebrating another great year in our history: 2001! That year PLR welcomed The John Entwistle Band to Toad’s Place. John “The Ox” Entwistle, best known as the bassist and a founding member of The Who, hit the road in 2001 to support his band’s studio album…
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…