Happy 61st Birthday Keith Richards 12/18/1943

[TimmyB]

Happy 61st Birthday Keith Richards,

May you have many, many more in health and happiness. Who am I kidding you're going to out live us all!

I can't wait to see the Rolling Stones again in 2005 and/or 2006!

Last year I celebrated Keith Richards 60th Birthday at Stones Place in Toronto where Rolling Stones backing vocalists Bernard Fowler & Blondie Chaplin performed a concert in celebration of Keith's 60th.

Seeing members of the Rolling Stones touring band perform Stones songs on Keith's birthday was a lot of fun. Especially since they performed a lot of rare Stones songs I might never see live.

Here was the setlist from that memorable night.

Bernard Fowler & Blondie Chaplin

Thursday December 18, 2003

Stones Place

Set I: 11:17PM

1. Sparks Will Fly

2. She Was Hot

3. Jumpin' Jack Flash

4. Cherry Oh Baby

5. Love In Vain

6. You Got Me Rockin'

7. Street Fighting Man

8. Might As Well Get Juiced

9. Dance Little Sister

10. She's So Cold

12:14AM (57 minute set)

Set II/Encore 1:16AM

11. Wild Horses

12. Dear Doctor

13. The Worst

1:33AM (17 minute set)

From www.billboard.com THIS DAY IN MUSIC December 18, 1943

1943 - Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones is born in Kent, England.

[TimmyB]

I just discovered on a Rolling Stones message board today that the Bernard Fowler & Blondie Chaplin (both are backing vocalists in the current Rolling Stones touring band) concert celebrating Keith Richard's birthday was happening again! I found out after 9PM so I rushed from Hamilton to Toronto to get to Stones Place before they got on stage.

Let me just say that compared to last years Bernard Fowler & Blondie Chaplin concert this one was far superior in nearly every way. The band performed better and played more songs and the crowd was way more into the show (How about that guy with the Velvet Underground And Nico Tshirt? He was doing a crazy Mick Jagger impersonation all over the place).

Here's the setlist from the show. I'll see if I have time to write more tomorrow.

BERNARD FOWLER & BLONDIE CHAPLIN

STONES PLACE

SATURDAY DECEMBER 18, 2004

Start time 11:11PM

Set I:

1. Might As Well Get Juiced

2. Dance (Pt. 1)

3. Sparks Will Fly

4. Little T & A

5. Happy

6. Love In Vain

7. Street Fighting Man

8. Honky Tonk Woman

9. You Got The Silver

10. She Was Hot

End Set I 11:57PM (46 minutes)

Set break 55 minutes

Start time 12:52AM

Set II:

11. Slave

12. You Don't Move Me

13. Can't You Hear Me Knocking

14. Before You Make Me Run

15. Cherry Oh Baby>Little Drummer Boy>Cherry Oh Baby

16. Wild Horses

17. Jumpin' Jack Flash

18. You Got Me Rocking

End Set II 1:38AM (44 minutes) (Bernard & Blondie never leave the stage)

19. The Worst (Acoustic- duo)

20. Dance Little Sister (with band back)

End show 1:48AM (54 minutes)

(Total time 1 hour and 40 minutes)

What a setlist! Could you imagine seeing the Rolling Stones perform this set? Songs like "Dance (Pt. 1)," "Little T & A," "She Was Hot," "Slave," "You Don't Move Me," "Cherry Oh Baby" and "Dance Little Sister" are songs I have never seen the Stones perform live and probably never will.