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Daily Press. Tuesday. April 26. 1983 2 Gives Hard Roc Wave Intensity 1 Daily Press Reviews citt 1 A II I 1 ance do you realize its remarkable range, power and clarity. He is to tenor what Jim Morrison of "The Doors" was to baritone, capable of singing with a powerful resonance that shows anger or in a soft, lilting, bittersweet tone that quiets the hall to pin-drop stillness.

My only criticism is that Bono sings all the songs, and by the end of the performance his voice sounded a little ragged and tired. But Bono is by no means a one-man show. As versatile on his instruments as Bono is with his voice is a man called "The Edge." He played a variety of different guitars as lead guitarist in addition to accompanying himself on keyboards and, on at least one song, with a penny whistle. The Edge played his guitar, a unique angular-shaped instrument, with vitriolic intensity, often echoing Bono's soaring tenor with screeching, haunting chords. Keeping the beat fast and furious were Adam Clayton on bass and Larry Mullen Jr.

on drums. As stark as the songs could be, Bono became playful at times. Once he bolted into the audience, jumping on a chair and singing from the sixth row, then scrambling atop the stage speakers and cooly sitting there as he sang to the screaming audience 16 feet below. Another time he danced a jig with a young woman from the audience, then took her picture as she coyly sat on a speaker. It's said Bruce Springsteen once cancelled a flight back to the U.S.

so he could catch 2 in action. What Bruce did on songs like "Born to Run," this group has picked up and taken to a "nuclear-pitched" level. By DAVID TARRANT Staff WrtMr NORFOLK 2 gave its audience all -the hard rocjt it wanted with new wave intensity by four Irishmen relatively unknown outside the British Isles. But Sunday's Chrysler Hall show also gave its young, leather-jacketed and mini-skirted audience a fresh, startling new talent in the clear tenor-voiced, vigorous and, yes, charismatic performance by the group's yeoman lead singer, Bono. Bono led the group, which began its U.S.

tour this month, through many of the songs from 2's recently released "War" album. The song's themes take a defiant stand against war and its prolific modern weapons. In song after song, the group painted a stark, black and white view of a modern world increasingly dominated by war and its wages, where love, often as bleak as the world around it, still fills a void. Early on in "Seconds" Bono cried out in a tenor that leaped throughout the hall, "Lightning flashes across the sky. From East to West you do or die yes they're' doing the atomic bomb, they want you to sing along, say good-bye, good-bye." Next, in "Surrender," three white flags flew from the stage as the group sang, "The city's alight with lovers and lies." "Sunday Bloody Sunday" continued the theme as Bono and the young enthusiastic crowd sang "No more (Bloody Sundays)." But nowhere is the group's themes of a war-ravaged world vs.

personal love, better combined than when it played its new hit single "New Year's Day." Here many in the crowd joined in singing the song about "a world in white" under a "blood red sky" that won't change its warlike ways. In this context the chorus, "Though I want to be with you, be with you night and day" sounds like a personal plea for love as the only way to keep one's sanity in a mad world. There has been much said about the so-called "Irish tenor," but not until one witnesses 2's lead singer in a live perform- (Staff Photo By HERB BARNES) Single Bullet performs at WNOR's rock roll party at Norfolk's Scope complex. States Provides Extra Bonus For WNOR's Rock Party and "Jenny, Jenny, C. Rider" Jenny." chance to play a major concert in Tidewater soon.

The guys already have a following on the NorfolkVirginia Beach club circuit, and their single "Keep It Tight" is getting airplay on Music Television. Sunday night they introduced "Hang Onto Your Heart," a song soon to be featured on a new video clip. With the volume approaching a more tolerable level. States joined the party to fill in for the Skip Castro Band, which arrived late after travel complications. It took real profesionalism for a group to walk into a hall on short notice and without a sound check and perform so well.

A drummer who was unusually adept at extended solos seemed to be one of the group's greatest strength. The crowd even called States back for an encore, a cover version of The Beatles' "I Saw Her Standing There." Fortunately, once the Skip Castro Band came onstage, the guys gave a rousing performance that leaned toward rockabilly, the first variation in style the crowd had heard so far. Opening with the ancient "My Girl Is Red Hot," the group stuck mostly to vintage rock, including By LARRY RHODES Staff Writer NORFOLK Those who attended the 1983 Tidewater Rock Roll Party sponsored by radio station WNOR received a bonus. Because of the late arrival of one of three bands scheduled to perform, an extra group was wedged into the program. The filler, States, was better than some of the rest of the evening's lineup.

Single Bullet Theory, a fine band from the Richmond area with a style somewhere between pop-rock and new wave, played some good music in the opening set that was marred by a deafening sound system. Perhaps the sound man thought the extra volume would take care of the echo resulting from the fact that only about 5,000 people were in the audience. Apparently, he had everything so loud he couldn't tell how to mix it The keyboard player was bearly audible, and the lead guitar was often weak. "Those were terrible conditions to play in," remarked drummer Dennis Madigan after Single Bullet Theory's set "Onstage, we couldn't tell a thing about what we were playing." The group hopes to have another A crazy Jerry Lee Lewis-styled pianist and a guitarist who pranced about the stage like Chuck Berry made the group as entertaining to watch as to hear. It was a letdown when Marshall Crenshaw closed the show.

Performing a very lackadaisical set of rock 'n' roll that included an uninteresting remake of Al Green's "Here I Am," Crenshaw was unable to keep many people from leaving the concert early. Maybe competition from the 2 concert next door in Chrysler Hall hurt the attendance. WNOR had a much more positive response several months ago with a similar promotional concert in Hampton Coliseum. Admission to both events was the purchase of a WNOR T-shirt Only a few people at the concert wore their T-shirts, perhaps because of the chilly weather outside, and the crowd didn't seem to be in much of a party mood. It was a good idea anyway.

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