Hot August Night (Remastered / Expanded) (2CD) | Neil Diamond

Hot August Night (Remastered / Expanded) (2CD) | Neil Diamond | Trees in the sky!

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	Hot August Night (Remastered / Expanded) (2CD) Neil Diamond Mca, 2000 average customer review:based on 75 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Every day can be a Hot August Night

Excellent concert which was perfectly recorded and produced (only a few years after Beatles stopped touring, if you've ever "heard" those concerts).
While singing with the same charisma that he's since become known for, Neil Diamond is surprisingly shy and very polite as he speaks in between numbers. "Crying in your pretzals" is a surprise favorite.
This is the album which propelled Neil Diamond from a singer/songwriter to SuperStardom!

Trees in the sky!

Like trees in the sky!

Well ...as I read, much has been said about this beautiful concert but, if you permit me, I`d like to add a few words about it from this part of the world. I used to listen to it in LP recording when I was 15 or 16. I'm 46 now. So, the old LP somehow scratched now, I got a remastered CD a few days ago and....Wow!!! This is what I remembered...and more! Maybe the interesting part is that I studied music, so as a professional musician I somehow retrace my steps asking the key question: was there anything here worthy of my awakening music perception? And the answer is YES! These are not just romantic memories of my adolescence. No. There are beautiful melodies and poetry in Morningside, a lovely, somehow Haydn inspired, treatment of the strings in the Prologue, inspired orchestral arrangements in I am I said, a strong "pathos" in the rock-gospel interpretation of Holy Holly, the great percussion of Denis St. John....you name it. But, above all that, and somehow illuminating all of it, this was 1972, and still the spirit of the 60's! I find it touching to read that Neil Diamond's last album, still unreleased, is called "Home Before Dark". Home and dark are not clichés or empty words for someone who has "seen the light" or dreamt with the "Dear Father" through his own poetic sky, not so "lonely looking". It sounds suggesting. This man has been singing for 40 years now and in good company: these were the times of Luther King and of Peter Paul and Mary, the times of Serrat in Spain and Caetano in Brazil, the times of Joan Baez. Young generations: will you ever get the picture? This people sang from commitment and from the heart's mystic daimon, ( no miss spelling) as the Greek would say it. This was still the spirit of Kennedy, not Bush, the spirit of make love, not war, the times of melodic and harmonic richness expressing the true longings of a generation, not of silly and elementary beats on two chords, expressing the greediness of the pop market.
No, this was much different; this had roots and spirit: Neil, the trees you saw in the sky, that August 24 beautiful night, are still there! With all of us. And, yes, they are BEAUTIFUL!
Thanks again for sharing them with us.
Santiago Zuleta.

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Hot August Night

This is some of his best work. The venue he chose was appropriate, too.

hot august night

waited a long time for a cd of this concert. Well worth the wait. Fantastic reproducion-- delighted.

THE VERY BEST OF NEIL DIAMOND

Neil Diamond's HOT AUGUST NIGHT, is a two CD album of his greatest concert which was in 1972 at the Greek Theater in Los Angeles. This stirring performance has been repeatedly acclaimed as his greatest concert ever. This album was beautifully remastered and makes for a fabulous gift for all who love Neil Diamond.

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