The Tour: G. Love and Special Sauce

The Band: G Love and Special Sauce- Garrett Dutton (G Love), Jimi Prescott, Jeffery Clemens

The Day: Spetember 25th, 1999

The Venue: Cornell University

The Price: $14.00- seated

The Show: Review written by Jonah Gold

The phat rhymes and beats were flowing, Saturday, September 25th at Bailey Hall, when G. Love and Sepcial Sauce made an Ithaca appearence. Their opening act was DAS EFX, G Lovewho were not a German techno band as one might guess, but a rap group, consisting of two MC's and one DJ. While they claimed to be "straight from the sewer" they were actually from New York City. They rocked the house, told the two halves of the audience to shout at each other, and tried to incite the security guards to arrest the audience member who was smoking "the wacky tabacky." Then they left and after length pause, G. Love, or "Glove" as he is sometimes referred to by the punctually-impaired, took the stage. G. Love was accompanied as always by Special Sauce, his talented back up band consisting of "the Houseman", a drummer who laid out the dop rhythms like nobody's business and bass player "Jimi Jazz" whose picture is in the dictionary next to the word "fun," but both of whom resemble professional studio musicians, in contrast to Mr. Love's sharply dressed, sup-dupa-fly look. The set they played was eclectic, as is to be expected from a man who dresses like a fifties pimp, carries a harmonica and plays "hip-hop blues". he played such favorites as, "Basketball" and "cold beverage" but seemed more interested in playing less expected tunes. He gave us several covers, including Bob Marley's "Hammer, the Beatles' "you've got hide your love anyway" and Donovan's, "Season of the Witch". G LOVE flier ad He showed off his blues cred and his smooth-as-ice musicianship by playing some slow acoustic numbers and a couple longer jams. HE ended with some freestylin', where he busted rhymes on the spot, and proved that he was not fakin' it by screwing up. While many concertgoers seemed tofind it wack that he didn't play all his singles, including his signature number, "Baby Got Sauce", he gets mad props from me for playing what he wanted to play and I liked the fact that the band, especially Houseman, got a chance to exhibit their skills, representin' for the aging white hip-hop-blues musicians of the world. Say what you will about their authenticity and "street cred" whatever that means, but G. Love and Special Sauce are a talented group of musicians, and when they kick is live, they kick is hard, keepin' it real or otherwise.

 

 

My Take On The Days Events:

-It was cool when they did Cold Beverage.
-Sucked, cuz I didn't know a lot of the unfamous songs.
-Like Jonah, I give props that he played what he wanted to.
-Me and my friend had fun chair hopping in the balcony.
-Met Mike. hahaha
-G. Love frestylin' that was fucking awesome. "chronic" - "phildelphonic"
-Balcony seats were kinda cool.

Overall: G Love and Special Sauce rated alone- sucky, okay, decent, worth it, fucking kick ass, the best concert.

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