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[335clone]

Bob Seger somehow wrote with the viewpoint and world weary attitude of a depressed retiree with no prospects even when he was young. We're not sure why this is.

He's from Detroit, so that explains a lot.

 

[Bob411]

I have heard "Tumbling Dice" hundreds if not thousands of times in my life and I couldn't tell you more than 5 words of the lyrics.

I know the lyrics but, it's only because of Linda Ronstadt.

Local radio station has the Then And Again segment. They play the original, then a cover. Today it was Tumbling Dice. In between the two versions they always add some history.

They went to a 1978 interview she did for Hit Parader magazine for it.

https://www.ronstadt-linda.com/arthp78.htm


"Lisa: Why did you choose to do "Tumbling Dice"?

Linda: The band used to play that all last summer at sound check. I really loved it too, but nobody knew the words. Then Mick came backstage when I was at the Universal Amphitheater and he said, "You do too many ballads, you should do more rock and roll songs." I, of course told him he should do more ballads, because I think he's a great ballad singer.

Of course, he's a great rock and roll singer too, but I'm especially fond of his ballad singing. So we started to tease each other, with me telling him to do more ballads and him telling me to do more rock and roll, then I thought well, nobody's right ... rock and roll as a concept, you know, hardly anybody really writes rock and roll anymore. The greatest rock and roll writers were in the fifties and sixties except for him, he's the greatest contemporary rock and roll singer, rock and roll writer ... I mean that as opposed to rock, what they call rock music now. So I made him write down the words to that song and I learned it and we started doing it."