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1 PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE FRIDAY, MAY 23, 1997 A-17 Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement MUSIC REVIEW TLJsodl sirs 1tn lb solid for One of Allegheny County's largest Chrysler Plymouth Jeep Eagle Dealers Is overstocked and is forced to sell cars and trucks for as low as five dollars this Saturday, May 24, 1997 during a one-day sales event. Pleasant Hills, PA prices even lower than at Wholesale buyers will be rep-Larry Antonucci, general wholesale auctions. resented to take trade-ins manager of Pleasant Hills Auction bidding often inflates during the sale," Mr. McKlvitz Chrysler Plymouth Jeep the true value of a car so you said. "We also have six busi-Eagle.

One of Allegheny pay more. Here every car is on ness managers who will help County's Largest Volume New sale, first come first served buyers arrange low-cost fl-and Used Chrysler Ply- and no bidding. It's the per- anln(f wv. ant AS story lemon as well as a stadium-dwarfing toothpick piercing a giant green olive, the band seemed as big as a fly (that's the insect, not Bono's old stage per- sona). But then, even someone as large as Brooke Shields would have seemed a bit tiny on that stage.

And this from a band that insists it's scaled back from the Zoo TV days. Some artists have heroin. These guys are facing a $250,000 a day production habit. The images flashed on the world's largest video screen were a mix of pop art animation (including the work of Andy Warhol) and closeups of Bono and company playing a rock show. As for the music (yes, there was music), the bad news is there are only three songs worth a second listen on "Pop," the band's latest techno-inspired release.

The good news is they've been playing all three on the tour. They took the stage to the tune of M's chart-topping single, "Pop Muzik," walking through the crowd. Bono dressed in a hooded boxer's robe, the Edge in a cowboy outfit. Five songs in, they'd already given the crowd a' sample of where they've been and where they're going, from "I Will Follow," the band's first hit, through "Pride (In The Name of Love)" to the opening dance attack of "Mofo," one of the weaker for: ays into techno on "Pop." U2 puts on a techno -spectacle, along with music By Ed Masley Post-Gazette Staff Writer In 1983, they came alive on "Under A Blood Red Sky." Back then, the sky was a limit. Last night at Three Rivers Stadium, Bono, the Edge and the other two guys had rock star money to burn and they burned it with spectacle, under a French-fry-yellow arch.

A towering French-fry-yellow arch, which U2's set designers swear has nothing to do with a certain fast food chain beginning with Mc. Whatever. The band was in town for the PopMart tour, a multi-media, state-of-the-art celebration of spectacle Kiss with a conscience, but sillier. Bathed in the glow of a 50-by-170 foot video screen, in the shadow of not just the 100-foot' arch, but also a four- 1 mouth JeeP Ele feet opportunity to get a good mvcnt to Bjust announced plans to hold quality used car at the lowest BfcM. tft.i Pair offer hugs for free U2 tickets a five dollar used car and price possible, including at truck sales event on Satur- least 4 cars for only five dol- torv wiU be yer 3 new day, May 24, 1997.

According lars. All cars will be on dis- used cars and trucks, to used car manager Dave play at Pleasant Hills Chrys- We want to remind everyone McKlvitz, record sales from ler, Plymouth, Jeep, Eagle at jg a one jay sae the last few months have re- 600 Clairtor iBlvd. in Pleasant only. when our inventory has suited in an overstock of Hills, PA. At 9:00 a.m.

all ve- trade-ins. "In the last three hides will be opened so that been reduced, we will remove months our sales have in- buyers may inspect the vehi- the sale prices and return to creased at a tremendous cles for one hour before the normal operations. Since we rate," McKlvitz said. "Now, sale begins at 10:00 a.m. are a local business we would we must reduce the number Whoever is sitting behind the like to give back to the com-of cars and trucks on our wheel at 10:00 a.m.

when the munity," Mr. Antonucci said, used lot to a more manage- prices are posted on the wind- "We would rather allow local able number. During this five shield will be given the first people to buy these over-dollar sale every used car and opportunity to purchase the stocked vehicles than whole-truck will be sold for thou- vehicle at the sale price. This sale ihaa at auction." As sands below it's original innovative approach to sell- you can imagine sales tax and price. In fact, cars that are ing used vehicles will make it AAA tn normally priced for six to easy and quick for anybody in hcense will be added to all ve-eight thousand dollars will be the market for a good used ve- nicies.

Any questions can be sold for four to six thousand," hide to get a great car or directed to Sales Department Mr. MrKlvitz said. "Our nis- truck at a verv low brice with at Rt. 51 South, Pleasant tomers should find these no hassle. Hills, PA.

CONCERT FROM PAGE A-1 Bover, two grunge-attired 18-year-olds who played nell with the free market last night. They spent their last few bucks on a stadium parking space and then walked around the Three Rivers lot with a cardboard sign: Hugs for Free Tickets. "The idea is, we'll hug them for tickets," Edelstone said. "We've done it before in the past." "Yeah," Boyer jumped in. "I got into a few Further Festivals that way." Further Festival? "It's the remaining members of the Grateful Dead," Boyer said.

That explains a lot. It does not explain why Edel- stone, a Point Breeze guy somewhere between high school and college, and Boyer, a ginger-haired kid from Hampton with a goatee that makes him look like a young Trotsky, have given out three hugs so far and remain ticketless. "I thought she had a ticket, but she just wanted a hug," Edelstone said as a drop-dead good-looking brunette walked away giggling, one hug the better. "Who needs tickets?" a scalper near gate shouted. "We got hugs for free tickets," Boyer countered.

The scalper looked at him half-eyed. "We need a ticket. You need a hug. And you know it," Boyer said. Two girls with tickets and big hair to go with them strolled past oblivious to this presumed need.

There are reasons a concert does not sell out. Courage, a Bostonian who spends much of his year in Phoenix, where scalpers are legal and the governor is under indictment, had U2's dilemma figured out. "Nobody wants to see this band anymore. The people that saw them before have heard the songs. All they're gonna hear is 12 new songs that they don't want to hear," Courage said.

"They want to hear the old stuff." The old stuff is the stuff of "Rattle and Hum," and "Joshua Tree," and the songs have names like "Sunday, Bloody Sunday," and "Where the Streets Have No Name." The lyrics, by a working-class Dublin boy named Paul Hew-son, who changed his name to Bono Vox and then lost his Vox but kept on singing, are redolent of struggles social, political and religious. But U2, being an Irish band, runs well ahead of its audience. Dublin abounds with bands playing something called "trip-hop," with big, juicy arrangements. U2 fans look at Our Memorial Week this the way a parent looks at a child who has returned from college with a pierced nose it's not worth a big fight, but you're going to keep an eye on the situation. "The big thing over there right now is the techno movement," said CD.

Coll, who hosted the only tailgate party with an Irish tricolor fluttering over it. Coll is Irish born, Dublin educated and U2-loyal. "I'm out here mostly to listen to the old stuff," he said. "There's nothing like the old U2. The 'Joshua Tree' is my favorite." If Three Rivers did not sell out last night, it was still a pretty, hefty turnout.

About 30,000 were believed to be there, and that would have been 29,960 more than joined visiting Irish President Mary Robinson at a dinner in New York the same evening. Among people finding reasons not to go inside the stadium, George Briney, 27, of Troy Hill, had the most intriguing. He's a huge U2 fan, a man who owned every one of their albums right up until Briney was passing out" "little mimeographed leaflets that -analyzed Bono's lyrics, found-, them religious and urged concert-goers to give it up for the Lord. Indeed, U2's works are filled with images from the Old Testament, and references to Christian" sacrifice, Briney recently made the Christian sacrifice tossed out his U2 albums. I "I pretty much had them all, he said.

"I put them up on a pedestal, like an idol." Consequently, he discarded them as a potential false god. He handed out another flier. "Enjoy the show," he said, almost wistfully. He positively wouldn't go inside? "I tell you what," Briney sighed, "if someone came up now and gave me two front-row tickets, it would be a great temptation." He glanced back toward the gate. Someone should have 'called Edelstone and Boyer.

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