MySpace Brought Neil Diamond Back To The Bitter End For A "Secret Show"
Last night, while you were busy not standing in line with a printout of your MySpace profile with Secret Shows in your top friends on Bleecker St., these people were:
And most of 'em wound up looking at this:
[photo by Marisafaith]
Honestly, was Gelmania at Rififi worth it? Yeah, probably. But acknowledge the awesomeness that must have been seeing Neil fucking Diamond at a place as tiny as the Bitter End (capacity: 110 JD McNugents), down in the NYU drinking quad Village. Speaking of, the Voice got setlist:
"Solitary Man"
"Don't Go There"
"Home Before Dark"
"Really Amazing Grace"
"Kentucky Woman"
"Cherry, Cherry"
"Sweet Caroline"
And the crowd got the video:
"Sweet Caroline"
"Kentucky Woman"
"Cherry Cherry"
"Pretty Amazing Grace"
"After the club filled up, Paul, the owner, opened the window and put a speaker in it so everybody outside could hear the concert!" said YouTuber cgwolf, who caught the sidewalk footage. Pretty cool, Paul. Neil Diamond Homepage.com Blog (true name, unofficial site) reports that Matt Sweeney was on guitar, and that Neil wore black slacks, shirt and a brown leather jacket.
So why was ND catering to the MySpace set? In support of new LP Home Before Dark ... which Billboard says is on track to be his very first number one album! We're not gonna say it.
Yeah we are: Diamonds really are forever, guys. Had to be done. Just look at the man.
[photo via neildiamond.typepad.com]
Neil, we wanna party with you. C'mon a yeah, ha.
Posted at 9:48 AM in Concert, Video
Tags: Chavez | Matt Sweeney | Neil Diamond
oh wow...that would blow my mind
Posted by: neener at May 8, 2008 10:53 AM | ReplyScore = 0
I might be mistaken, but isn't Totally J/K on Thursdays? Making that tonight.
Posted by: m at May 8, 2008 11:15 AM | ReplyScore = 0
nope your mental rififi schedule is on point, m. sorry, it was meant to be gelmania. totally j/k is tonight, and will be good times.
Posted by: amrit in reply to m's comment at May 8, 2008 11:30 AM | ReplyScore = 0
I love The Bitter End. Just saw Chris Batten and the Woods KILL IT this past weekend. Wish I knew about this though.
Glad to see such a legendary club getting something good going on again.
Posted by: BE at May 8, 2008 11:54 AM | ReplyScore = 0
In an effort to sound *extremely* gay: Neil looks awesome for a 137-year-old man. Ronnie Wood outta see if he can steal a few dabs of whatever flavor of "Oil of Olay" Mr. Diamond is using.
Posted by: J at May 8, 2008 12:43 PM | ReplyScore = 0
I did the poster for this show...just sayin:
http://myassociatecornelius.blogspot.com/2008/05/neil-diamond-secret-show.html
Posted by: Micah at May 8, 2008 3:34 PM | ReplyScore = 0
funny how much everybody is...F**KING TALKING in those youtube bits.
Posted by: cherrybanana at May 8, 2008 7:42 PM | ReplyScore = 0
Hey guys...if you didn't get a poster at this show, then grab one at my site:
http://www.bluecollardistro.com/myassociatecornelius/product_info.php?products_id=2536&cPath=414_415&store=1
Thanks!
Posted by: Micah at May 12, 2008 2:26 PM | ReplyScore = 0