Neil Diamond Live – St. Paul, MN 7/11/12
One more legend crossed of the bucket list. I have always heard that Neil Diamond is the consummate crowd-pleaser and now I know what all the fuss is about. He is like the ultimate lounge singer – with major distinction: he wrote all the songs. Neil panders to the audience in such an over the top way that it actually works.
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I can’t do a better review than the local papers – so listen to the experts:
Set list:
Soolaimon/ Beautiful Noise/ Forever in Blue Jeans/ Hello Again/ Love on the Rocks/ Play Me/ Shilo/ Red Red Wine/ You Got To Me/ Girl, You’ll Be a Woman Soon/ Cherry Cherry/ Kentucky Woman/ Solitary Man/ Glory Road/ I’m a Believer (both a slow talk-sing version and then a rock version)/ You Don’t Bring Me Flowers/ Crunchy Granola Suite/ Holly Holy/ Sweet Caroline/ I Am…I Said ENCORE Cracklin Rosie/ America/ Brother Love’s Traveling Salvation Show/ I’ve Been This Way Before
Axl's Catch Groove 
You are a very open minded guy Axil. Admirable. Other than hearing a few of his tunes on the radio when I was younger my real exposure to Neil was in ‘The Last Waltz’ which I thought was very cool. Actually went and bought the album ‘Beautiful Noise’ after.