Keith Richards celebrates his 73rd birthday today – defiantly surviving 2016! 

In the following interview,  Keith Richards  talks about the Rolling Stones Desert Trip performances with Nobel Laureate Bob Dylan, about why he himself didn’t win the Nobel in chemistry, despite his reputation for expertise, and what it’s like playing with the incredible harp player Mick Jagger  on the new Rolling Stones  album “Blue and Lonesome”  
Rolling Stones, Keith Richards on “Blue and Lonesome” with Becko  from Triple M, Sydney

Happy birthday Kieth!

From Wikipedia:

Keith Richards (born 18 December 1943) is an English guitarist, singer, songwriter, best-selling memoirist and founding member of the rock band The Rolling StonesRolling Stone Magazine credited Richards for “rock’s greatest single body of riffs” on guitar and ranked him 4th on its list of 100 best guitarists.

Enjoy this Kieth Richards playlist

Phish on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon – introduced by Kieth Richards

Phish appeared on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon 5/14/2010

The show is doing Rolling Stones Week, and as part of that, Phish performed The Stones song “Loving Cup ”, which has been part of their repertoire for many years.

Really great song, so many classic lines from one song… Jaggers/Richards  masterpiece!  Their lyrics  are often brilliant, and underrated.  they get upstaged usually by Mick and Keith themselves. 

“What a beautiful buzz”

“I’m the man who brings you roses, when you ain’t got none”

“I would love to spill the beans with you till dawn”

“Give me little drink from your loving cup
Just one drink and I’ll fall down drunk”

Last October 31, as part of Phish Festival 8, the band played the Rolling Stones performing Exile On Main Street  (the album “Loving Cup” is from) as their musical Halloween Costume. 

Much of this set was also part of their recent theatrical release Phish 3D.   Here is the “Loving Cup” from the film (sorry it is not in 3D here!)

Phish Halloween 2009: Exile On Main Street by the Rolling Stones

The finalists in the Album run were the names of the camps at Festival 8: Purple Rain, Electric Ladyland, Kid A, Auracular Spectacular, Lamb Lies Down On Broadway, Hunky Dory, Exile On Main Street, Larks Tongue In Aspic.  On Friday, the night before, Trey teased the crowd about playing a hint as the band broke into “David Bowie” – but the hint was that they would not be doing Hunky Dory.  I was leaning toward Purple Rain, as a crowd pleaser. But, the secret was out late Friday, and confirmed by the phake Playbill on early Saturday Morning, Exile would be the winner.   And what a winner it was! While not everyone “knew” it (except for “happy” and “tumblin’ dice” and of course, “loving cup” – which was perhaps phish’s best ever version!) the album rocked, and rolled, and bluesed and grooved in many ways.   I would encourage you to buy the official download from the band for the full effect of the music, and the seemingly well rehearsed rendition of all these great Stones songs. Meanwhile, here are a few amateur video clips of most of the album “costume”, presented here for your education only. 

Follow this link to learn more about the album
Rolling Stones: Exile On Main Street