Word: dices
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rowdyman. Or, Zorba goes to Newfoundland. The dice are naturally loaded in favor of the fun-lover, and the whole affair is amateurish...
...main walkway in the Olympic Park is more down to earth. Called Spielstrasse (Play Street), it is a kind of carnival midway with restaurant, beer garden, refreshment booths, street theaters, pantomimists, painters, puppet shows, oompah-pah bands in Lederhosen, folk dancing, and stands displaying such wares as Olympic dice ($1) and Olympic paperweights...
...average, slightly seedy apartment in Oakland, Calif. The Rolling Stones' new album, Exile on Main St., was playing on the stereo, the shower was running, and out of the steam came a croaky voice singing Tumbling Dice. Then out of the shower, into his underpants, and out into the big bright kitchen came Dick Miller, 23, home after a long day clerking at the art-supplies store. "Three hours till we hear the greatest rock-'n'-roll band in the world," Miller yelled out the window to no one in particular...
...songs roll on, Jagger wiggles his flanks in Guitarist Keith Richard's face. Singing the frantic Gimmie Shelter, Jagger stands fey in the middle of it, bouncing time with one scarecrow leg, left hand inverted on his hip like an artist balancing before his easel. For Tumbling Dice, he strips off his denim jacket to reveal a sheer white jersey shirt that matches the clinging pants. And then Mick dances around Bassist Bill Wyman standing stiff and still in his new suit, sips on a Coors between choruses, trades vocal lines with Richard...
...respectively. Three of the cuts on the first side are pedestrian rock songs that are nearly indistinguishable from each other. The standouts are "Shake Your Hips," a Slim Harpo tune that the Stones do in a version a little slower than, (but otherwise identical to) the original; and "Tumbling Dice," the single, which is nice enough but hardly up to the standard of most Stones 45s. Jagger's voice is mixed down so low on this whole side that the lyrics are completely unintelligible...