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Neil Diamond - 12 April 2017

4/14/2017

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Venue: Scottrade Center, St. Louis
Reviewed by: Jerry

Those of you who know us understand that we favor music categorized as what we term as the right side of Rod Stewart.  Well, there are certain events that prompt us to cross that line and venture into the softer side of popular music.  Last week, one such event occurred in St. Louis.  And that would be Neil Diamond in concert.  I’ve been to many concerts in my life and there are only a few that evoke a religious experience of a musical nature.  Neil is one of those.  I’ll admit that I’m not a “super fan” by any means. I don’t own any of his studio albums and all of the songs I know are either on his 12 Greatest Hits Vols 1 & 2 and the Holy Grail of live albums, “Hot August Night”.  But that is all I need. 
 
The show was about 2 hours of pure bliss.  He played most of what I wanted him to play and though he moved kind of slow around the stage, he sounded fantastic for a 76 year old.  As you can imagine, this was one of those shows where the larger portion of the audience probably bought their tickets using their social security checks.  But that’s fine with me.  The crowd was into it all night and I don’t think I and those I was with forced any senior citizen to leave as a result of our over-exuberance and singing through the whole show.  (Oh, yes.  It’s happened before). 
 
I’d like to tell you to go see him no matter how familiar you are with his catalog but if all you know is Sweet Caroline, you’ll probably be disappointed.  But there is no way I was. 
 


Video from the show:
Brooklyn Roads

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