Rock hero Jack White turns 45-years-old today. White leads a successful solo career and is the head of his own label: Third Man Records. And it all started with his two-piece band The White Stripes in 1997.
By the early 2000s, him and Meg White became the leaders of the garage-rock revival scene, alongside bands like The Strokes and Interpol. To celebrate Jack's birthday and legacy, we're taking it back to the Stripes' most formative year - 2002. We've dug up a setlist from a show on Jack's birthday in 2002, when he turned 27-years-old.
The show took place at The Vogue in Indianapolis on July 9th as part of the White Blood Cells Tour. It was in support of their third studio album White Blood Cells, which propelled the band into commercial popularity.
The show carried a 27-song set--cannot confirm nor deny if it was meant to mirror the age he was turning that day.
The set opened with "Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground" and featured songs from all three of their albums they had released up until that time. They even played a song off of 2003's Elephant which hadn't been released yet - "Ball and Biscuit."
While they played their biggest hit from that year, "Fell in Love with a Girl," the setlist also boasted deep cuts like "Sister, Do you Know My Name" and "Little Room." But it didn't end there, 10 covers made it into the set that night including "Jolene" by Dolly Parton, "Isis" by Bob Dylan, and "Rated X" by Loretta Lynn."
The main set ended on "Screwdriver" and then they blessed fans with a cover of "Boll Weevil" by Lead Belly. See the entire setlist here:
You can listen to the audio from the show, or watch footage from a different concert on the tour, all below! Happy Birthday Jack!
