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t54 THE BOSTON GLOBE FRIDAY, AUGUST 21, 1902 U2's journey into the center of the mind Lynyrd Skynyrd delivers meat 'n' potato rock! LYNYRD SKYNYRD '92 with 35! Kruviiil By Paul Robicheau SPECIAL TO THE GLOME The leaner-than-ever Leon Wilkeson, it must be noted, looked like a dapper mad-hatter, with a tiny Confederate flag flying atop his tall hat. But Iiono kept embracing the crowd whenever things tended to get too remote. He broke open a bottle of champagne and danced with a female fan. He sang "New Year's Day" with a male fan at his side, singing along boozily. MUSIC Continued from Pane Presley's "Can't Help Falling in Love," a moving final encore that let everyone come up for air.

The "Zoo Station" assault a vastly expanded version of last spring's tour that hit Boston Garden on St. Patrick's Day was accompanied by six TV-like towers, eight video screens (with blitzing images that 1 made it seem like Sartre's "No Exit" on acid), an airport-like tower with a pirate's flag of a skull and cross-bones on top, and, oh yes, an Irish flag raised at the opposite end zone. The show threatened to splinter off in all directions, yet remained extraordinarily well-organized. Songs from the new "Achtung Baby" album still opened the set, giving way to a proving, folk-style coffeehouse set on the mini-stage at mid-field, where Bono, Mullen (with congas), The Edge (with acoustic guitar in hand) and bassist Adam Clayton played a stirring "Angel in Harlem" and "Love Comes to Town." Those are two tracks from their underappre- At: Great Woods Center for the Performing Art, taut night per mad-hatter, with a tiny Confed-'V erate flag flying atop his tall (which he put on the end of his gujVj tar as the American flag replaced its Southern rival during "Sweet Home These guys know how to visually pump up the crowd. Granted, there was no video (save the camera feed to the lawn), but there was some.

stage smoke. Strobe lights accompanied the. clunky gallop of set-opener day Night Special," as drummer Custer missed the rhythmic of departed accomplice Artimus Pyle (even if veteran Pyle coasted on his last tour in 1991). But picked up, with robust vocals by Zant, on "Smokestack Lightning, ami "I Know A Little." The band added two new num-Iwrs to the set, the nondescript boo- gie "Good Lovin'" (no, not the classic) and thi; punchier "One Thing." A new album is supposedly on the way. Tliis is the second round for the U2 At: Foxhoro Stadium hxt night, tomorrow and Sunday more like the "Bladerunner" soundtrack.

But Bono kept embracing the crowd whenever things tended to get too remote. He broke open a bottle of champagne and danced with a female fan. He sang "New Year's Day" with a male fan at his side, singing along boozily. And, smiling, he dedicated "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" to "any Irish people who are here illegally." There was a loud cheer. Meanwhile, several East German Trabant cars were carried overhead on cranes.

One had the words "No drugs please" and "Misplaced farm girl." And the video images, which again started with a computer-edited sample of President Bush saying, "We will rock you," were ultimately deeply absorbing, sometimes off-putting (burning crosses on "Bullet the Blue but also laced with uplifting messages and images of kaleidoscopic flowers (on the song When the show wound down to the Martin Luther King tribute, "Pride (In the Name of Love)" and "Desire," the audience definitely knew it had seen one of the best shows of its life. This 21st-century rock opera was worth every minute of the trip. down to meat potato basics and social showmanship more than their Allman brothers. This was truer than ever since Johnny Van Zant has assumed the vocal helm of the band in place of his late brother Ronnie, who died in the 1077 plane crash which derailed Skynyrd for a decade before a late '80s reunion. The younger Van Zant worked the stage and the crowd more than Ronnie did, saddling up to bandmates and tying a Confederate flag to his mike stand to hold it aloft.

The band backed him up with a hard-rocking flourish last night. A couple of times, Randall Hall reared his head and bit into high notes, while grit-toned Gary Rossington and bassist Leon Wilkeson offered tandem head wags. The leaner-than-ever Wilkeson, it must be noted, looked like a dap- post-tribute Skynyrd, and, as Van Zant sang te- fans in "What's Your Name," "When I come back next year, wanna hmj you again. Southern rock peers 38 Special held their own, boosted by returning, I "THIS SURPRISE HIT SHOULD HAVE YOD YOU'll WAN! TO RUSH AND TEH YOUR FRIENDS ABOUT THIS RIOTOUS ACTION COMEDY. A SCINTILLATING MIX OF COMEDY AND ACTION WITH A CAST THAT CANNOT BE BEAT.

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"If I hear one more guitar solo this week, I'm gonna flip," one bird said to the other. "Well, we could have flown over to the big show in Foxborough and watched TV," thet other replied, "but, after all, this is kinda our song." They weren't alone: 10,000 fans of the rowdy Southern band were happy to be in the same roost, regardless of the fact that Eric Clapton and the Allman Brothers ruled the past three nights. However, truth be told, before "Free Bird," Lynyrd Skynyrd kept guitar solos relatively concise (and shallow) in comparison to the deep-jamming Allmans the night before. The common-man salutes "Curtis Lowe" and "Simple Man" provided the emotional peak of the 105-minute set until Lynyrd Skynyrd kicked into closing party gear with "Gimme Three Steps" and "Call Me the Breeze" as fans' fists waved in the floodlights. Yes, the guys in Skynyrd were OF IDE SUMMER CHEERING All YEAR.

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