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  Spoon - The Majestic Theater, Detroit - October 13, 2007By Daniel JohnsonOctober 15, 2007 When an excited fan stormed the stage three-quarters of the way into Spoon's set to cop a hug from frontman Brit Daniels, you couldn't blame her for being delirious with enthusiasm. Daniel is officially an indie dreamboat, and Spoon had probably peeled whatever paint was left clinging to the walls of the Majestic Theater within the first five minutes of their performance. Everything after that was just overload, a generous heaping of the Austin combo's minimal rock-n-roll studio records brought to life with maximum levels of intensity, so all of the excitement must have gone to her head. And while it wasn't exactly "Dancing in the Dark," Daniels took it good-humoredly. As she was led away by a stage hand, he asked for a round of applause, saying "She's wearing a 1999 T-shirt. That's my favorite Prince album." It was a telling moment, beyond the unsurprising revelation that Daniels has a soft spot for purple. (He wrote "I Turn My Camera On," after all). The fan's gesture, in its decidedly un-indie extroversion and idolatry, was something you would have never seen even a few years ago at a Spoon show, when their profile was still low enough for fans to think of them as a private treasure. But Spoon are the little engine that could, with a career trajectory that's as strange as it is well-deserved. As they evolve from playing Letterman to SNL, and continue to sell hundreds of thousands of copies of each successively brilliant release, it gets harder and harder to think of them as ours. Even if it means sharing them with the great unwashed, giddy masses.
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