| SONGS SPEAK TO US "Tumblin' Dice" The Rolling Stones |  |  |  |  |
| Written by Joe Viglione |
| Friday, 15 May 2009 22:14 |
| Producer Jimmy Miller's staggering endless party is best exemplified by this enormous hit single that propelled the Exile On Main Street album. Though it is the same old Keith Richards chord changes it is an amazing amalgam of sound that explodes with guitars, bass and backing vocals enveloping Mick Jagger's swagger as solidly as any song this mighty band ever recorded. Jagger talks of the game of life, he's the "lone crap shooter", he's the tumbling dice...shedding the Jumpin' Jack Flash persona to actually be that man of wealth and taste. At the casino of life, YOU'VE GOT TO ROLL ME...and as Charlie was away with his pregnant wife it is drummer/producer Miller who takes over the drums as the chirping backing vocalists are screaming "You got to roll me...you've got to roll me...got to roll me..." Miller's rhythm was one of the strengths of his intangible production technique and when he left the Stones (and the Stones left him) both entities were adrift at sea and never fully recovered, musically or otherwise. JV, 7/31/09 6 PM
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| Last Updated on Friday, 31 July 2009 15:07 |
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