Neil Diamond is not just a legend; he is an icon. He is one of those artists whose popularity seemed to cross over all musical lines, which allowed him to gather fans of all musical genres. If you don’t believe me just look around the bar when “Sweet Caroline” comes on the jukebox. This guy was making hits before I was making doo doo in my diapers so you better believe that when the opportunity presented itself to see him for the first time Ingrid and I were there.
His newest album was his 32nd album called Melody Road that was released the previous October but when you go to a Neil Diamond concert you are going to get the hits because he has 37 Top 40 hits from those 32 studio albums. He was everything you would expect him to be, which is a total professional. For roughly two hours he just kept playing hit after hit after hit with lots of banter and storytelling between songs. There were multiple times during the show I thought “oh yeah I forgot he sang that song!” His large backing band gave the show an orchestra/Vegas production feel and I was impressed how great his voice still sounded. All in all he shined bright like only a diamond could.
SETLIST: I’m a Believer, Thank the Lord for the Night Time, Love on the Rocks, Hello Again, Kentucky Woman, You Got to Me, Girl, You’ll Be a Woman Soon, Play Me, Red Red Wine, Beautiful Noise, If You Know What I Mean, Brooklyn Roads, Shilo, Nothing But a Heartache, In Better Days, The Art of Love, Forever in Blue Jeans, Cherry, Cherry, Crunchy Granola Suite, Morningside, Holly Holly, I Am…I Said, Cracklin’ Rosie, Sweet Caroline, America, Brother Love’s Traveling Salvation Show, Heartlight
PS – apologies for the shitty quality of my pictures and the only videos I could find out there. Clearly the people who took the videos had iPhones just like me…
