Posted on 08/12/2005 4:03:44 AM PDT by 7thson
My wife and I went to the Neil Diamond concert the other night at the MCI Center in Washington, DC. There were about 18,000 people there and he puts on a great show. Did over two hours of songs with no intermission. Not bad for a guy in his 60's.
He brings in a fantastic cross section of people. People from their teens to their 60's; white, black, Chinese, Indian, etc.
My wife and I saw him for the first time in 2001. It was about a week after 9/11 and we did not know if they would still have the show. I think everyone was still kind of jittery but he opened with Coming To America and brought the house down. Back then, everyone in the audience rocked to that song? And four years later?
Though he did not open with Coming To America, when he sang it, he brought the house down. 18,000 people cheering and singing! It gives lie to the MSM saying there is no support for this country!
During the song on the jumbo screens, a film ran showing scenes of immigrants - the legal ones - arriving to our shores. The end of the film was the Statue of Liberty with a panaramic background of NYC. The last scene showed the Twin Towers. Brought a lump to my throat.
All in all, a good night and a great concert. Makes you wonder why the media ignores guys like Diamond, he openly praises the United States, and concentrates on arseholes like Jagger and his ilk.
One more thing. While waiting to take the esculators, my wife and I spoke with an Army guy and his family. He was ramrod fit and straight. I asked if he was Army - suspected he was - and he said yes. Came back from Iraq back in February. Was not bitter or angry or anything like that. Very upbeat. Kept calling me sir until I finally said he did not have to do that. He was there with his wife and two kids. Asked later why I thought he was Army and not Marine, I told my wife its because he didn't have a slopping forehead. Just kidding. I respect all you Marines out there. I then seriously said that while his hair was cut short, it was not Marine style. Also, I said all the service branches carry themselves differently and he did not carry himself as a Marine.
Thanks. One of the freakiest album covers ever!
Also, the soundtrack to Reservoir Dogs.
Super-Billy's Hits of the 70s!
Steven Wright is awesome.
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Coming to America always reminds me of my grandparents who both came here from Europe. I saw Neil Diamond in concert several years ago, and I enjoyed it a lot.
KBLA superhits of the seventies just keeps on rolling with this little ditty that went to #22 in the summer of 1970. The George Baker Selection, "Little Green Bag."
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What? How can they have a concert without Bush-bashing cliches? Isn't that what people go to concerts for?
Especially when Chevy Chase sang it on SNL.
I heard him on Letterman one night, said he wrote Red Red Wine when he was 13 years old. He recorded it in the mid-60's and UB40 did it reggae (i hate reggae) in the 80's
Come-a come-a down, doobie doo down down...
Do do do, doobie bop bop bop, Oh do bop she don don
Woh who who who yeah yeah yeah
(Whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh)
Well, by cracky, it's Neil Sedacky!
I've always liked him and was contemplating seeing him in NYC...but won't be able to get there....I (finally) just got his Jonathon Livingston Seagull CD....great music in that...actually, that can be said about every album (yes, album) I've listened to....I believe, though, he's on the liberal side...I think I read he had a fund-raiser with Baabaa Streisand....but he, apparently, knows where his bread is buttered and won't insult Americans, regardless of their political leanings....
Except the narrator of Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon is also young.
Red, Red Wine's another good one.
"It's Brother Love's Travelin Salvation Show!
Pack up the babies & grab the old ladies
Everyone goes, everyone knows Brother Love's show... Reach out your hand, brothers...."
and
"I'm alive and I don't care much for words of doom
If it's lovin you need well I got the room
I've got love and love is all I really need
I'm alive!"
I'm going to be seeing him in Boston this Tuesday with my wife. I wasn't exactly looking forward to it but now that I've read this post, I guess it won't be such a bad night after all.
I dunno. I never thought he played on the same team as I did. Friend of Dorothy??
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