2013-04-17 Majestic Theatre (Detroit)
Setlist
Some songs were recorded on video in the audience, they are linked with each song. Quality is, as these things always are, variable.
Banter
I've been waiting since I wrote this song to play this song here. As you may or may not know, we are in the Michigan territory. [woo!] It's not the same as being in Michigan, it's the Michigan and Northern Indiana territory. In wrestling in the 70s, it was run by a guy named Ed Farhat, who wrestled under the name 'The Sheik', not the Iron Sheik, the Sheik. [more woos] He pioneered an artless kind of wrestling that just involved a lot of blood and cutting people up. A worthwhile art to pursue, right? He's actually the boss of the territory, but he never broke character publicly. He was The Sheik, and he ran this town, and Northern Indiana, and he was renowned for bringing, what they called, in a term that was very mystifying to a young boy, a foreign object. 'cause if the announcer says, you know, he's got a ballpoint pen, that doesn't sound terribly threatening. But if he says, oh no, the Sheikh has got a foreign object, that sounds pretty scary. This song is about what happens when you come face to face with a foreign object. (Foreign Object)