Hey gang - If you ever have the chance to see Neil Diamond in concert - GO

blm

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Thu Mar-23-06 05:33 PM
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Hey gang - If you ever have the chance to see Neil Diamond in concert - GO

You just know that half the audience are drooling Republican women and when Neil sings Hot August Nights and he jumps up and plays preacherman, he goes into an impassioned speech about everyone joining together, black and white, and gays and straights and made a quick remark about letting gays have their full rights - all in preacher man mode.

It was pretty cool that he had these women applauding and shouting Amen to everything he said. I wonder how many of them absorbed it? The concert I saw was in Atlanta last October, and I always keep coming back to that moment.

Ah well.... just always wanted to share that.

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megatherium

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Thu Mar-23-06 05:35 PM
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1. I saw a wonderful concert with him in 1972.

I saw him with my Mom, I was only 12. He can perform and he can write a hell of a good song, his catalog from the late 1960s is incredible.

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blm

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Thu Mar-23-06 05:41 PM
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5. heh - did you see Saving Silverman?

rent it if you can.

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datadiva

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Thu Mar-23-06 05:36 PM
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2. He was here in Stockton, CA a few weeks ago

the tickets were 1000 dollars ea. They reduced the tickets because they didn't sell out. We have a new Arena and this was for a promotion for the arena. The city lost a lot of money!

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blm

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Thu Mar-23-06 05:40 PM
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4. That sounds like it was a fundraiser or something, not a regular concert.

Top dollar in Atlanta was 100.

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TomInTib

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Thu Mar-23-06 05:37 PM
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3. I never thought I would be saying this, but his new album is...

phenomenal.

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blm

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Thu Mar-23-06 06:23 PM
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9. Rick Rubin produced it - took him back to his roots when he first started

writing social conscious music - the stuff that wasn't marketable at the time.

Remember when Rubin did that with Johnny Cash in his big FU to country music elite?

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TomInTib

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Thu Mar-23-06 07:07 PM
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10. I remember. You know the one Neil Diamond thing that bugs me?

He is in what I believe is the greatest musical documentary, ever.

"The Last Waltz" is a Scorsese film about the Band's final gig, at Winterland in 1976.
Every review of that wonderful film drags Diamond's "Dry Your Eyes" through the muck.

I am a musical snob, but I have watched that performance under every type of self-induced haze (and yes, amazingly enough to friends and family, straight and sober) imaginable to try to understand the critical pan on that performance.

I always find it stirring and powerful.

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CBGLuthier

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Thu Mar-23-06 05:41 PM
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6. Saw him in the 70's

Was just in love with his song I am (I said)

Worst seats ever, The spotlight guys that hung from the ceiling were below me but still a good show.

Glad to hear he has values I can share and isn't just another bloated ego freak.

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tulsakatz

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Thu Mar-23-06 05:55 PM
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7. I've seen him several times...

...though not lately. My sister has been a serious Neil Diamond fan for years......

He always puts on a fantastic show!!

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LizMoonstar

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Thu Mar-23-06 06:07 PM
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8. I love Neil for comedy value, and would love to see him, especially now.

We just love his stuff, because all the famous stuff is stuff that drunk frat boys sing in karaoke, and his choice of words is often far out, and that's what makes it such good clean fun. It's not a cultured, true-fan pick, but I think my favorite has to be Cracklin' Rosie.

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