Christmas in Milwaukee

Tuesday, May 8, 2007 in Milwaukee. Starts off like most any other show. After Rock of Life, Rick plays a piece of Greensleeves (What Child is this) and mentions that he has a Christmas "album" coming out. Then he says that it's very scary to look out (in the audience) and recognize about 90% of the faces. He said he felt like he was being stalked, and that wasn't necessarily a bad thing. Then he brought out a "nun chunk" (?) that he was given in sound check and played with it for a while and talked about going to Catholic school and then went on to play with the toy and make comments as he shot off each nun. He asked who was going to all 5 shows, and then said they were a bunch of sick puppies (this seems to be an annual observation for him). He said he was going to be here all 5 nights too, so he must be sick, too. Then he opened up a "Pandora's Box" that someone had brought with some questions and dares, and the one he picked said "we dare you to play something from your new cd "meaning the one that will have Who Killed Rock N Roll on it. He asked for a different guitar. He then said that the songs on the Christmas cd were going to be all traditional stuff and that he and Derek had written a song. He said he hated rock n roll Christmas albums, that he liked the traditional songs, so there wouldn't be any rock n roll on his (but there would be on the next record). So, he sang a verse of that. I'm not sure what the name of it was, but maybe "Christmas with You". It was a nice, slow song about being away and wanting to be with someone for Christmas (that's what I got out of it, anyway). I very rarely like a song the very first time I hear it, but honestly, I really liked this one.
When he did Don't Talk to Strangers, he found someone from England and someone from Scotland and said he'd do two accents, then decided to do 3, so he did the Australian one.
He promised that they'd do a bunch of different songs tomorrow night. Then did a bit of "Beat it" while Rick was getting hooked up with his mobile gear. After Love Somebody, Rick asked for a beer. People were offering him theirs, and he said "I'll kiss you on the lips, but I ain't drinking out of your beer". He said he wasn't drinking red wine anymore so if you were thinking about bringing him wine as presents to save your money. Someone brought some sharks, the band played some "jaws" music and Rick acted like the shark was eating him, then did a hiccup. He said he was going white shark cage diving in September, and said that if we had autographs or memorabilia to hang on to them because they might be worth a lot more after the end of September. Then Rick came close to doing "naked" night by doing a shirtless encore. He did say something about being naked by the end of the night, but didn't quite make it.

The full set list:

Who Killed Rock N Roll
Will I?
Affair of the Heart
Alyson
IDEFY
Rock of Life
Christmas Song
Red House
DTTS
Medley
(Beat it)
Love Somebody
My Generation
Human Touch
Jessie's Girl
Love is Alright Tonite

More pictures from the show can be found in the spotlight section.