Diamond Girl

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Hands, touchin' hands
Reachin' out
Touchin' me
Touchin' you

I f*cking love me some Neil Diamond. I saw him live last night & that guy still rocks. We had seats in the upper level, but they upgraded us to lower level behind the stage. We were unsure about this, but figured if the seats sucked we could just move. They turned out to be really good, he has a walkway around the entire stage so he played to us quite a bit and there was a huge screen right in front of us, so we saw everything.

Of course, at 30 we were by far the youngest ones there. Too funny. People looked at us like we were nuts. Oh, and Neil? Has groupies! There were a few chicks in the front few rows all whored up for him, jumping around & holding up signs. I like the guy, but I don't think he's hot or anything. Nice ass though, he must work out.

He sang for over 2 hours straight & sang pretty much every song I can think of EXCEPT "Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon" (which I hate - so I didn't really care) and "Solitary Man" (which I love - very disappointed he didn't do it.)

Cherry, Cherry
Play Me (teeheehee)
You Don't Bring Me Flowers (barf)
Kentucky Woman
Shilo
Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show (possibly my favorite Neil song - he closed with this)
America (so much fun)
Love on the Rocks (...ain't no surprise...)
The Grass Don't Pay No Mind
Crunchy Granola Suite (opener)
Desiree
Forever In Blue Jeans (wait, maybe this is my favorite)
Jonathon Livingston Seagull (stupid video of this stupidass seagull)
Holly Holy
Soolaimon
I Am, I Said
I'm a Believer
Sweet Caroline (probably the only tims the majority of the crowd was up on its feet.)
There were 3 or 4 more that I didn't recognize.

Oh, and I got a kickass shirt. Its a black fitted long sleeved T that says "Diamond Girl Forever" on the front with pink rhinestones around it and "Neil Diamond Tour 2005" down one sleeve. They also had a cool orange long sleeved T shirt (not fitted, more of a man's shirt) that I loved but I could only afford one ($38 each) & I'm a sucker for sparkles.

Yup. I'm a loser. And I don't care who knows it.

Anyone else love The Neil? Favorite/least favorite songs?