{"id":9593,"date":"1980-08-06T11:00:00","date_gmt":"1980-08-06T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/?p=9593"},"modified":"2026-09-25T07:48:58","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T14:48:58","slug":"roll-of-the-dice-love-will-get-you-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/1980\/08\/06\/roll-of-the-dice-love-will-get-you-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Love Will Get You Down"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not gonna lie: it’s a stretch to call today’s entry an original song.<\/p>\n

If anything, it’s a glimpse into the earliest stages of how Bruce constructs a song. Except in this case, it’s not clear that the exercise led anywhere.<\/p>\n

In these escaped-into-the-wild excerpts from early 1979, Bruce holds three cards: a riff, a hook, and a delightfully cynical concept–namely, that however wondrous and wonderful love might feel at first, inevitably it’s going to, well, let you down.<\/p>\n

All four of these recordings were captured on an ordinary cassette recorder at Bruce’s house in Holmdel. In the first one, we learn that Bruce started with the riff and elements of the melody–there are no lyrics to be found.<\/p>\n