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Unfortunately, the musical direction and live performance style of this Irish super-group has dramatically changed in the four years since Rattle and Hum, and the band's Zoo TV production March 13 at the Worcester Centrum had neither the look or feel of a U2 concert...
Live performance is the true test of the strength of a band's material, and the Zoo TV concert illuminated all the subtle differences between Achtung Baby and its more worthy predecessors...
Throughout the concert, however, Bono refrained from becoming any more serious than the music required. His Zoo TV performance did not include any of his infamous political preaching or social sermons...
...separate stage in the crowd also gave intimacy to the enormous arena production. Donning a black flak jacket and Zoo TV cap, Bono stood alone on the smaller stage during "Bullet the Blue Sky," delivering his short, explosive attack on Central American civil war in military commando style...
...light-hearted attitude and pop-star posing seemed disturbingly incongruous with the heavy emotional quality of The Joshua Tree material. Bono almost began to reveal his social consciousness in his introduction to "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For," but he carefully maintained the superficial Zoo TV front as he stated what he wanted to find: "An honest president, an end to this depression and a better TV station...