Neil Diamond

And I think one of them is 2025's Craig Brewer's Song, Song Blue.

The Neil Diamond tribute act biopic.

Yeah.

Not a biopic of Neil Diamond, but a biopic of the tribute act that is very real for Milwaukee.

Yeah.

This almost down the line, there's a lot of stars born in it.

It was a good watch.

Some of it is fun.

Right.

So I figured, you know, there's all these certain songs you play at campfires, like, you know, certain ones come up like follow you to verge you by Tyler Childers or, Sweet Caroline or, you know, by Neil Diamond or something.

You know, there's a certain song I said, I want to write something that is the perfect campfire jam song.

um something easy because that's the thing fireside loves a very simple song

Anyway.

Oh, Neil Diamond.

I forgot.

Neil Diamond wrote Lookout Here Comes Tomorrow.

Did you know that? I forgot about

that.

Dean toured nationally in the 70s.

He played a show with the White House and has performed multiple Neil Diamond tribute shows.

He is a great talent and a great time.

I'm sure you will enjoy.

But that's kind of how it started.

And, and, and my voice, it's kind of, it's kind of low.

So it lent itself to, uh, um, to certain celebrities and such where I was, um, like I actually do a Neil Diamond tribute show

because

Well, even before you even got the itch to perform, do you recall some of your earliest memories of music being played around the home?

Neil Diamond.

My love for Neil.

So I love that dude.

So grew up on Neil Diamond.

And obviously...

LaMarca and I share this kiss was obviously ingrained with me.

Neil Diamond and Kiss, they were obviously the two major things going on in the Wood household back then.

I think you'd enjoy him because she's always, she loves music too.

Neil Diamond is her jam.

So we waited around at the Birchmere to meet him and I had him sign.

And so I was trying to figure out what the date was.

And with his Midwestern politeness, he stood up and took his hat off and was like, I'm very pleased to meet you.

And it just touched her so much that she was just like, I love that guy.

So yes, now there's Neil Diamond and John Hiatt in her playlist.

Some other stuff too, but so it just was like, I just, I was just so touched.

They played on Dusty Springfield's Son of a Preacher Man.

And they even played on Neil Diamond's Sweet Carolina.

Those are some heavy hitters.

They're killers.

sort of,

there's an irony built into it, which has something to do with like, I look out and when I see people slam dancing to like Neil Diamond or like Judy Garland or something like that, like they don't cop to the irony in their faces.

Like they're slam dancing as if it was like, you know, an exploited song or something like that, really serious.

And you know, but it's over the rainbow by Judy Garland or, you know,

And I went, hang on a minute, there's a fucking tape in the tape deck.

Push that out and say, guess what? Fucking open up the centre console, Pantera, Neil Diamond.

Ah, so good.

Fucking Elton John, fucking, and then Bush Ballad.