The Apollo was the perfect setting for Jason Pierce's Acoustic Mainline performance. This New York City show was only around his 10th time performing on acoustic guitar with only an organ player, a string quartet and a five-person choir.

Simple Kid opened with a short set that saw him play along to a video of Kermit the Frog and his Logic Express backing band. He was decent, but didn't leave much of an impression.

When the Spaceman took the Apollo stage at around 9:30pm, he launching into a dazzling version of "Sitting On Fire." By the time he got to the third song, an amazing cover of Daniel Johnston's often covered "True Love Will Find You In The End," I felt like I was watching something very special....but then something odd happened....the crowd went all disrespectful.

Inside this beautiful theater, while almost everyone sat quietly, taking in this righteous music, numerous people kept getting up from their seats in the middle of songs. Others started talking on their cellphones, while patrons at the bar were talking loudly and making jokes about how "every song sounded the same," which couldn't have been further from the truth.

One particularly loud douchebag kept screaming out request and demanding that J. "take his sunnies off." It was beyond rude and disrupted the spiritual nature of the evening.

Regardless of some naughty crowd members, the music really was fantastic. The girl sitting next to us starting bawling during, ironically, "Stop Your Crying" and didn't stop until the show was over. I must admit that "Stop Your Crying" had me in tears as well.

The "Anything More" into "Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space" into Elvis' "Can't Help Falling In Love" medley was breathtaking and brought about the first standing ovation of the evening. It was the highlight of the show.

A bluesy take on the mournful "Broken Heart" led into "I Think I'm In Love...," which was, in my opinion, the only song that suffered from this minimalist approach.

An amazing show that easily could have been a contender for show of the year had it not been for some very disrespectful audience members. Seriously, why don't those people just leave the venue? Fuckers. (photo by paulgalipeau).......

SPIRITUALIZED | APOLLO THEATER | NOVEMBER 16, 2007
Sitting On Fire / Lord Let It Rain On Me / True Love Will Find You / Cool Waves / Amen / Going Down Slow / Feel So Sad / Soul On Fire / Walking With Jesus / Stop Your Crying / All Of My Tears / Baby I'm Just A Fool / Anything More -> Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space ->Can't Help Falling In Love / Broken Heart / I Think I'm In Love... // Lord Can You Hear Me // Oh Happy Day

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