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Neil Diamond - BBC Radio 2 - Electric Proms 2010 - Live at The Roundhouse, London; October 30, 2010

 

It’s likely fans have worn out many a copy of Neil Diamond’s Hot August Night so much so that when it comes to the end of Cherry Cherry at the Roundhouse, one begins to anticipate the opening bars of Sweet Caroline (which was how it was on Hot August Night)… so ingrained is the show in one’s memory.

Hot August Night, released in 1972, was not only a hit album but probably presented Neil Diamond at the height of his prowess as a singer and performer - where he could effortlessly plumb the lows on any song. It is also probably the album to compare his live performances and, 38 years later, Diamond hasn’t aged too badly. He can still do Girl, You’ll Be A Woman Soon without slurring his lines - “I’ve been misunderstood for all of my life/But what they’re sayin’, girl, just cuts like a knife/’The boy’s no good’ “ - easy to sing when you’re young but it sure can trip you up. And the strain shows on And I Am… I Said.

And Diamond is such a pro that you even welcome his hocking his new album, Dreams. (It’s the Brother Love’s Traveling Salvation Show after all.) For the “new” songs on Dreams, such as Midnight Train To Georgia, Ain’t No Sunshine and I’m A Believer, while Midnight Train is basically Gladys Knight’s and one wouldn’t think of it as a Diamond cover, Diamond has slowed down the tempo and given it his own touch; and similarly with the “reinvented” I’m A Believer (a Diamond song made famous by The Monkees).

But then again, Diamond has always left his own stamp on other people’s songs - on the Stones album, he had The Last Thing On My Mind, Husbands And Wives, If You Go Away, Suzanne and I Think It’s Gonna Rain Today (the album was bookended by I Am… I Said). It’s hard to listen to these songs and not think of Diamond’s mournful vocals. Already back in 1971, Diamond had a blueprint for his covers album(s)!

As on 2008’s Hot August Night/NYC, Diamond appears very gracious and grateful to be entertaining the fans and while this may not be his last hurrah, it sure is nice of him to have Lulu as a guest (whoever still remembers The Boat That I Row?).

Listening to this show is fun but it’d be great to watch the TV broadcast, especially when it’s in high-def. Even then, it’d still be too short!

 

Size : 2.12 GB

Media : Proshot

Menu/Chapters : Yes/Yes

Duration : 01h01mn39s

Picture Quality : A

Sound Quality : A

Excellent Picture & Sound : Yes

DVD Cover included

 

Video DVD5

Format: MPEG 2

Bit rate: 3 810 Kbps

Nominal bit rate: 9 000 Kbps

Width: 720 pixels

Height: 480 pixels

Display aspect ratio: 4:3

Frame rate: 29.970 fps

Standard: NTSC

Color space: YUV

Bits/(Pixel*Frame): 0.368

 

Audio

Format: AC-3, Audio Coding 3

Bit rate: 448 Kbps

Channel(s): 2 channels

 

Tracklist:

 

01.Beautiful Noise

02.Blue Jeans

03.Hello Again

04.Play Me

05.Solitary Man

06.Girl You'll Be a Woman Soon

07.Cherry Cherry

08.The Boat That I Row [With Lulu]

09.Midnight Train to Georgia

10.Ain't No Sunshine

11.I'm a Believer

12.Shilo [Amy MacDonald solo]

13.Holly Holy

14.Cracklin' Rose

15.I Am... I Said

16.Sweet Caroline

 

 

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