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Oakland The Sacramento Bee U2: Hints of a second show being added in Monday April 28 1997 CB Continued from page Cl is the only town on the planet where not going to go nuts over a 40-foot lead singer Bono told the crowd of 38000 at sold-out Sam Boyd Stadium where said 40-foot lemonshaped disco ball was used in the first encore to transport the band from point (backstage) to stage 100 feet in front of the main stage Buried under the lemon ball -not to mention 100-foot One night 22 songs With or without you U2 kicked off its PopMart stadium tour Friday in Las Vegas This quite better than the real thing (ie actually being there) but the complete set list from the opening-night concert: "Mofo" Will Better Than the Real Thing" "Do You Feel (In the Name of Love)" Still Found What Looking For" Night On Earth" the End of the God Will Send His at the Believer" "Bullet the Blue the Streets Have No First encore You Wear That Velvet or Without Second encore Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill "Mysterious Freedom du Lac the country is going to have something on the Vegas show and probably every TV station will says Gary Bongiovani the editor of the concert-industry magazine Pollster they have the ABC special So going to have a tremendous amount of publicity for this and going to help you should definitely see some sort of 6pike in The publicity surrounding the tour opener should also help boost ticket sales for the tour which are flat in some markets including Eugene Ore where U2 is scheduled to perform May 6 and Los Angeles where the band has a June 21 date If nothing else U2 can probably pack the Los Angeles show with its celebrity fans The VIP guest list for the tour opener included Mel Gibson REM Robert De Niro Christian Slater Dr Dre Elisabeth Shue Bruce Willis Calvin Klein and Nicholas Cage The lone Northern California PopMart date is scheduled for June 18 at the Oakland Coliseum although sources said Saturday that a June 19 show could soon be announced for the Coliseum If the set list change between now and June 18 fans will hear almost in its entirety: The group performed 10 songs from the 12-song album during concert And although several of the new songs either collapsed talk amongst Bono cracked after the band stopped midway through the problematic at the or sounded flat-out flat a stripped down the slightly plodding some of the material too was magical Most notable among these was the beautifully meditative God Will Send His which was performed by Bono and The Edge on the tiny stage with Mullen adding some light drumming from his main-stage kit The band managed to fill the stadium with the quiet song which was performed without much visual augmentation from the LED screen or the elaborate light setup or even the mobile lemon A mirror-covered 40-foot piece of fruit may not grab much attention here but U2 did just fine Associated Press photograph bassist Adam Clayton is the man behind the mask during the two-hour 22-song performance with most of them coming during the searching anthems or Without Still Found What Looking (In the Name of and the closing song Although the lighting schemes and especially the surprisingly high-resolution LED screen never ceased to amaze on a visual level the sum of The ringing echoing guitar slightly raspy tenor vocals busy almost funky bass lines and taut imaginative beats almost rendered the magnitude and razzle-dazzle of the PopMart production irrelevant Drama and spectacle may be a part of rock roll as U2 manager Paul McGuinness said last week but that mean essential Indeed the sense of humor style and drama may have added a nice touch to the PopMart show but it was the sense of purpose with which U2 performed that made the show so emotionally rewarding sounded said an excited but exhausted Sandy Maloney after the show A 32-year-old financial analyst and U2 (the band formed in 1976) Maloney came from Los Angeles for the show and had plans to fly to San Diego for PopMart concert the second date on the tour seen them 18 other times and this was about as good as heard them said Maloney has sold 850000 US copies since its release on March 4 and for most bands that would be a remarkable figure For U2 though decidedly unremarkable given that U2 has sold more than 70 million albums worldwide during its 17-year recording career In the United States alone 199 sold 5 million copies and smash hit Joshua nearly twice that amount Sales of should increase over the next two weeks thanks to an hour-long ABC-TV special A Year in that aired Saturday and included some quickly-edited footage of concert The executive-produced by McGuinness was not unlike a prime-time infomercial The media coverage generated by PopMart tour opener likely will help sales as well every newspaper in MUSIC REVIEW golden arch giant stuffed olive brilliantly conceived 56-by-170-foot LED wall and generous helping of campy kitschy pop-culture references was this golden nugget: U2 is still a great rock band Although the Irish group hit a few rough spots and even aborted an off-key off-tempo version of its new Beatlesque hit at the the music played by Bono guitarist The Edge bassist Adam Clayton and drummer Larry Mullen Jr still transcended the hype surrounding the concert With so much pre-tour attention being focused on the visual side and overall magnitude of PopMart (the 14-month production features almost 500 tons of equipment and has operating costs of more than $15 million per week) it was easy to forget that U2 has the conviction musical talent and well-crafted songs to galvanize a stadium full of fans It take long for U2 to remind the world via a throng of international press and TV crews of its credentials: When the band somehow moved seamlessly from the blistering pulsating industrial-techno wallop of the show-opening to the simple but moving chords and refrain of its glorious 1980 hit Will the crowd itself joyously followed along adding a rousing chorus of many thousands and getting more than a few neck hairs to raise Even in the section of the stadium occupied by a large contingency of oft-cynical US pop music critics several sets of lips were spotted mouthing the words to the spiritual song It was just one of a handful of transcendent moments provided Bobby visits All My Children (3 pm Channel 10): Adam destroys divorce papers and insists she sign the petition for divorce he prepared As Liza gets ready to leave the mansion Adam grabs her and gives her a passionate kiss As Jake waits for Liza at the country inn Adam and Liza enjoy unbridled sex Jake arrives on the scene and discovers a rumpled-looking Liza in bed When Jake learns Liza slept with Adam he ends the relationship Liza tells Marian she has lost love and money When Erica and Sonya are almost struck by a speeding car Gloria wonders if Dimitri was driving Tanner plots to kill the blackmailing Earl Mateo and Tanner argue over welfare Erica panics when Edmund reports that Dimitri is heading for Russia Another World (11 am 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