Anybody ever see Neil Diamond live?
I went to an 4th of July concert in the park, and the cover band that played was really good. They would dress up like the performers they were covering like Billy Gibbons from ZZ Top, Jim Morrison, Sonny and Cher, etc. The odd part though was when they did some ND tunes, and "Neil" hit the stage with "Sweet Caroline". When the song got to the chorus, and it came to the little walk down, "Neil" would shout "Da, Da, Da" and wave his arms from side to side and about half the crowd did the same. There was no pre-instruction to the crowd to do this so I'm thinking this is something that occurs at a real ND show and the people engaging in the response must have seen a real show.
Just curious about this phenomena as I have never seen Neil Diamond. Any Diamond Heads out there that can share some insight? 
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I never saw Neil Diamond live. 
Weather was absolutely perfect, had a nice spot staked out on the lawn in front of the stage, cooler full of refreshments, and pleasnt company. Couldn't ask for more!
Hope you had a nice 4th too!
I'm happy that things are going well for you. 
This is the only "Diamond Head" I know of.
They really are called "Diamond Heads".
but I think we should start a tribute band to an unknown band ....imagine our success with getting gigs if we became BOB a TRIBUTE TO
STEVE or LED FLOYD .
We always drew huge crowds when our name was on the marquee.
Of course nobody ever stayed to hear us play after they had to actually pay for their beer, but the upside was we never had to play requests!
This could be huge! We may have inadvertently uncovered one of the greatest musical hoaxes ever perpetrated!
There is no Neil Diamond! It's all just been a terrible dream!
now that could be painful .
Neil in perfect voice in 1976
and Neil a few times after that.
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The tributes are most likely sort of takeoffs and exaggerations, and Neil of course, used to do Sweet Caroline like it was originally meant,
(and sometimes he changes the words of the Hands part.
Neil's voice is a bit difference now and he knows the range is different
He is in better voice in 2013 than in the 90s, where once we saw him and his voice could hit the fast sibg but messed up the ballads of all things(froggy like).
one show was so bad, we left 1/2 way through, and I forgot my tennis jacket I had worn, but was too lazy to go retrieve it from the floor level (
)
I still think Neil and Barbra's Flowers is the single best performance ever on the Grammy awards.
He puts on a great show though, relatively long, and does some of his early moody stuff
(though at his age "Girl you'll be a woman soon" starts to sound a bit weird, but it's still my favorite song of his.(From 1967 I think).
