A Conversation for The Post Writing Challenge: Diamonds in the Rough
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cactuscafe Started conversation Jul 18, 2011
Ah 
. Ah love. Ah, The Master. Just the other evening, I was watching the silhouette of a lone gull fly across the evening sky, with The Master on my headphones.
It's a good life for ND fans these days. Pre Glastonbury 08, (Glastonbury Festival 08 when Neil played the Pyramid Stage creating one of those unforgettable legendary Glastonbury performances), you only told selected trusted friends about your stash of ND CDs, but now it is so hip and cool to be a fan that I might have to ask myself for my own autograph. Sort of thing. Like. Yes.
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Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor Posted Jul 18, 2011
Aha. He must go in cycles, then.
I remember back in the 70s. Elektra laughed at a friend for going to a Neil Diamond concert. I asked why. Turned out she had him confused with someone else.
In the meantime, I was already in another city, scouting us out a new location. A friend there kept playing all of Diamond's music on his car stereo - cassette tapes, remember them? And in his game room on vinyl. Friend's favourite phrase was 'If you know what I mean...'
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cactuscafe Posted Jul 18, 2011
Ah yes, well you see, the Diamond light is following you.heheh.
How can I write this poem for the competition. hmm.Ah, the challenge, the challenge, the challenge of it all. heheh. So beautiful those lyrics, how can I follow the Sanctus Kyrie, the Gloria Holy Holy. (quote ND from JLS). You see, us fans call it JLS. We are cryptic, yet sensitive people.
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Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor Posted Jul 18, 2011
This is going to be a FUN challenge.
On the one hand, h2g2ers who know all the albums by their initials.
On the other hand, Prof Animal Chaos, whose comment was .
I am pleased. 
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Beatrice Posted Jul 21, 2011
My father is a HUGE fan. I got him tickets to see ND in concert in Dublin for his 70th birthday - but he got a bit freaked out at the size of the crowd that would be in an open air stadium so I ended up having to sell the tickets 
Casette tapes? Pah, we used to listen to him in the car on cartridges 
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Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor Posted Jul 21, 2011
. So far, we've had a report of a young adult who can sing 'Love on the Rocks', and knows all the lyrics, and your dad, who is a fan at 70. 
You know, I'll bet my brother-in-law had him on eight-track...remember eight-track?
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