Arizona Daily Star from Tucson, Arizona • Page 47

Tucson, Sunday, Aprlt 12, 1992 fllbf Ariiona 3ailo Star Section Page Three U2 shows its mature, serious side to fans at ASU REVIEW U2 in concert, with the Pixies, Friday night at the Arizona State University Activity Center. matic "Until the End of the World," the sweet ballad "One," an exciting "Bullet the Blue Sky," a crude but earnest version of Lou Reed's "Satellite of Love" and a semi-acoustic "Angel of Harlem." For the latter, drummer Larry Mullen and bassist Adam Clayton joined Bono and The Edge on a tiny auxiliary stage extended out into the audience. Bono spent much time out there himself, trusting the reaching fans who surrounded him to not sweep him away. During an especially tender guitar solo by The Edge on the achingly romantic closing tune "Love is Blindness," Bono even slow-danced with a lucky female fan. The concert featured very few songs released before the 1987 album "The Joshua Tree." Most notable among these was the stirring Martin Luther King Jr.

tribute "Pride (In the Name of Love)." But such early-'80s hits as "Sunday Bloody Sunday," "New Year's Day," "I Will Follow" and "Gloria" weren't to be found. They weren't missed by this audience member, either. Because the band's compostions have grown steadily more personal and less didactic, such facile browbeating, no matter how impassioned, simply wouldn't have fit. Still, the show didn't lack for uplifting anthems. "Where the Streets Have No Name" and "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" were presented, and greeted by the crowd, with all the zeal one expects from a U2-style-spectacle.

The Pixies, who played Tucson the night before, opened the show with a 45-minute set of explosive avant-garde garage-rock. They played with energy and confidence but seemed out of place in the large arena. Most of the audience listened politely, but it appeared that in anticipation of U2 this excellent band was soon forgotten. -v itMz i yA XCX I BY POPULAR ONE WEEK ONLY JULY 8-12 By Gene Armstrong The Arizona Dally Star TEMPE U2 brought its Zoo TV Tour to ASU's Activity Center Friday night, entertaining a sold-out crowd of more than 12,000 fans with an evening of "flash and trash." While poking fun at its own super-real image, the popular Irish rock band successfully deflated past criticisms of self-importance. It didn't hurt that U2 played most of its thought-provoking latest album, "Achtung Baby," which features some of the group's most mature and emotionally complex material.

The concert was a cheeky rock 'n' roll carnival filled with show-biz gloss: glittery costumes for lead singer Bono, multiple video screens scattered about stage, brightly painted cars dangling from the ceiling, and even a belly dancer for the dance-rock hit "Mysterious Ways. The band also enlisted the aid of a DJ, who spun discs before their 100-minute performance from a tiny, mirrored car that was lowered from the rafters. His selections include The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Sly and the Family Stone, Nirvana, James Brown and The Ronettes. Soon enough, though, U2 emerged. Black leather encased the charismatic Bono, giving him the air of an Elvis-Jim Morrison hybrid.

Oozing self-absorption, he flirted with a video camera that projected him onto the large screens. The surging "Zoo Station" came first, signaling that we were far from home, followed by the creepy song of obsession, "The Fly." While Bono sang, "It's no secret that our world is in darkness tonight," the dozens of large and small video screens flashed a dizzying series of messages that were almost too fast to see. These ranged from the propagandists "Every artist is a cannibal" and "Guilt is not of God" to such friendly advice as "Wear a condom" and "Call your mother." Lead guitarist The Edge showed how he's moving into new artistic territory with his whiplash leads on Better Than the Real Thing" Other highlights included the dra- SPECIAL Present Ad at check-in (1-4 Persons) 2 ROOM SUITE $54 Good 7 days a week thru 5-31-92 Phoenix Sq Pk 4954 Tempe 4954 Tucson 5969 Yuma 5969 Ontario 5969 Rocky Point 4954 Scottsdale 4959 Continental Breakfast! f-rl Friendly Social Hour HBO tAQWh Look for our new northwest side Super Store -Oracle at Orange Grove 744-4545 Save SPRING STUDIO MB Sin SAVINGS SRMH Stop Tv i W7 SONORA DESERT HOSPITAL IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THE RE-LOCATION OF THE OFFICES OF MARTIN ELLIOT SODOMSKY, M.D. GENERAL PSYCHIATRY 1 200 N. EL DORADO PLACE, Building Suite 620 6022981818 '4 ne umcKest way to the Hottest Ticket.

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