MANNY AIGNER RETURNS FOR A 'THROW OF THE DICE'

 

We've been throwing this little ditty (dice?) around for a good while now, so much so that the exact origins have become a bit vague.  Lots of Shedders have contributed ideas, thrown in a lick here and there, so the feel and the music have tumbled together into what we have finally settled on.    

 

Lyric wise, as Mick remembers.........."Just the other day, I actually found the original lyrics I had written for the song before I gave them to Graham to see if he could make more sense than what  I had. My lyrics were nothing more than a bunch of one liners without any real story behind them. Graham came back with a whole new set of lyrics which contained only three of the original lines, and contained all those wonderful metaphors about gambling, even though it wasn't meant to be a song about gambling."

 

Graham reckons .....  "We were actually in The Shed when Mick and I started playing around with some words which seemed to fit a groove we had in mind. I think at that point we came up with the line  ‘you’ve got the moves….I’ve got the answers’ and didn’t get too much further, other than agreeing to pursue the idea.  I said I’d have a go at some lyrics. 

So I went home and put some words together before sending it back to Mick".

 

Then, not so long ago, Manny strolled back into The Shed. Hadn't seen Manny for a while, maybe a year. Anyway, in he came, armed with his trusty acoustic. We ran through Throw of the Dice and liked the flavour Manny added. Really helped lock it in.  

 

So on went the recorder, and after Neil had waved his wand over it, THIS is what came out

 

Lyric credits go to Mick and Graham, and Manny gets a tick for bringing the feel together. Then again, Louise has been playing bass on it since the early days, so she gets a tick too.  Maybe we should just call this another group effort!

 

Anyway, the story is a purely fictional.......the old love going wrong thing. Nothing too deep.

 

The players?

 

Well,

 

Mick Nadin wrote the core lyrics, sang it and played harp

Graham Brown lyrics and percussion

Louise Nadin helped shape it and played bass

Manny Aigner brought something special and played guitar

Neil Porter did all the production work and shook a couple of eggs

Pete played the drums