G. Love and Special Sauce | 07.09.10 Grey Whale Sessions Trailer
July 9th, 2010
There is a new film starring G. Love and also features Keith Mallow, Tyler Warren, and Chris Christenson entitled “The Grey Whale Sessions” The trailer is live and being circulated to surf VIPs and press. You can check it out here!
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G. Love and Special Sauce | 07.02.10 Free G. Love Download!
July 2nd, 2010
During the filming of the movie Grey Whale Sessions, G. Love wrote and recorded a song inspired by the trip. This is the only place you can get it. Download it here
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G. Love and Special Sauce | 06.10.10 G. Love and The Avett Brothers!!
June 10th, 2010
G Love recently joined The Avett Brothers on stage at the Summer Camp Music Festival for a killer performance of their song “The Fall”. Those boys are awesome and G was psyched to join in on the fun.So you want to see a video? Check it:
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G. Love and Special Sauce | 05.26.10 G. Love on Jack Johnson’s new album, “To the Sea”
May 26th, 2010
G. Love is featured on two tracks of Jack Johnson’s new album, To the Sea, hitting stores June 1st! Rolling Stones is broadcasting five songs from the album where you can watch G. Love tear it up on the harmonica on the clip of “At Or With Me.” Watch it here. Catch all of G. Love’s harmonica stylings by listening to the rest of “At Or With Me” and “Red Wine, Mistakes, Mythologies” on Rhapsody, which features the full album. Check it out.
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G. Love and Special Sauce | 05.25.10 5/24/10 – Writing on the Walls Again
May 25th, 2010
I wanted to reminisce about the days of my youth in Philly and the inner city youth culture which I grew up in. I was especially thinking of the days and times of the graffiti writers. I became a teenager in Philly in the 80’s and so that’s where my journey in life and manhood began. I truly think that young people come into themselves around the age of 15 and so those early teenage years I spent really had an impact on who I am, what I do and what I like today. In my crew there was always something new every year. It went, Basketball, Skateboarding, Break Dancing back to Skateboarding, B-ball and Hip Hop, back again to skateboarding, graffiti writing, city biking, and then music, the interest of which was definitely fueled by marijuana and the spirit of teenage rejection of the “normal” path in life. I could definitely write a whole story on each phase and I guess I will but today I’ve been itching to write about my days as an aspiring and unfortunately, lousy graffiti writer ...
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G. Love and Special Sauce | 05.20.10 5/20/2010 – Getting Ready
May 20th, 2010
What up Pham. Spring is here and summer is right around the bend and I’m loving it. So nice to be able to jam in the sunshine all day and grill it up at night and hoop on the weekends.
I’ve had some good times home with the fam and now I’m heading halfway around the world to Tokyo for the Green Room festival in Yokohama. 48 hours of travel for 50 mins on stage? Sure, why not…HELL YES! I’m pumped to get back to Japan and back on the stage. I think this will be something like my 29th trip to Japan. I’ve been making this trip for 15 years. Damn! I will never forget looking down at the main intersection in Shibuya during rush hour and all those people on the street…such a different culture than America. Shibuya makes Times Square in NYC look like a suburb. Tokyo is the ultimate city. I have to say that I feel like Japanese cooking is the most elevated cooking in the world. It’s definitely up for debate… Anyways, its f*cking good that’s all I know. I always eat the craziest food there and I’m about to do it again so bring it on. If it grows, swims, walks, squirms, crawls, floats or climbs- I’m eating it. So here’s a brief rundown on something’s brewing in Philadelphonic. I’m just starting to work on a secret, summer, carbonated, alcoholic, and cold beverage due for a possible 2011 summer release. What is it?!?! Top secret but I will say that involves lemonade and beer and a classic brewery…. My homie Will Conner at Adventure Hats and Cover Hats is gearing up to release a G. Love summer straw fedora 100 percent of the profits will continue to go to Malaria No More. I’m gearing up for my long awaited solo acoustic tour in support of the good brother Jack Johnson. This tour will take me coast to coast and I can’t wait to kick it. I’m going to be drawing material from my street musician, Oh Yeah record days, delta blues like Robert Johnson and John Hurt, covers from Velvet underground, Eric B and Rakim and Leadbelly as well as my newest original material. In the fall I will begin work on my acoustic roots record. A record I’ve been waiting 15 years to make. I apologize for taking so long between records this time but I finally feel like it’s the record I want to make. I promise!! My record collaboration with the infamous Plutonics from Oz is in its final stages of production and I hope it will be released late 2010 and will bring me back to Oz for a collaboration tour. This project is so damn funky. I swear its gonna be your new favorite G. Love record. I also hit the studio with Slightly Stoopid for a week and we continued work on our collaboration projects. We made 4 dope tracks and it was great reconnecting with the fellas for some of everything you’d expecteverything you need. Well, that’s about it right now. Thanks for tuning in. See you this summer!!! Thanks! G
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G. Love and Special Sauce | 05.04.10 5/4/10 – Baja Living
May 4th, 2010
What’s up Pham!!It’s been awhile since I picked up the pen ya know so here we go. I’ve been runnin and I’ve been racin, so many different towns so many different places…Winter tour wrapped up a couple weeks ago and just in time for the ice to melt in Boston, I had spring break with my son on the gulf coast in FLA where I fished for Tarpon and enjoyed the naturals of Sanibel including many Alligators and Snakes. After that I was off to Todos Santos, which is just north of Cabo, the southern tip off Baja, Mexico. I was on a surf trip to make a short film with Keith Malloy, Tyler Warren and soon to be legendary shaper Chris Christenson.
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G. Love and Special Sauce | 04.16.10 G. Love Acoustic in Charleston, SC
April 16th, 2010
Watch G. Love rock the local scene in Charleston, SC! Listen to live acoustic versions of “Still Hangin’ Around” and “Baby’s Got Sauce” as G kicks it with the Charleston locals at the Bridge 105.5, and Halfmoon Outfitters.
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G. Love and Special Sauce | 03.19.10 Southern Swang
March 19th, 2010
What up what up what up Pham!! Well, we are two weeks into the second leg of our winter tour and after a slamming week of shows we are gearing up to play Charleston, SC. C-Town has always been one of my favorite spots and today was just beautiful. Spring is finally in the air and it feels good to see the sun. This tour has seen the band digging into a lot of old obscure catalogue tracks like “Town to Town” and “Walk to Slide” as well as new joints like “Party, Freakin’” and “Come Back to me”. It’s feeling real nice and the band is crackalacking We had a real tough week last week when Frank C aka The Big Skrimp slipped on the loading ramp in Grand Rapids and busted his leg. He is going into surgery next Thursday and is going to be out of commission for a couple months. Get well Skrimp!! The crew has been pulling together to get through with one man down and big shouts to The Golden Boy, Mikey Ledesma for helping with guitars while Skrimp heals up. So, we hit the Carolinas this week and then head down to Florida. We are hoping to get some surf in Jacksonville and play some slamming shows so get on out. As always, thanks for your support and letting us play our music for you. We sure couldn’t do it without you! Thanks- G
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G. Love and Special Sauce | 03.10.10 Here We Go Again
March 10th, 2010
Well, after an awesome tour and 5 days off we are back at it. Ohhh Yeaahhh! Are you Reaaaaady! We will be swing through the Midwest then working our way down through the Dirty South to Florida. Last week was beautiful up in Boston until Thursday morning that snow and rain started coming down and I’m sure gonna miss my fam but I’m not gonna miss this weather. Take me down south where the weather suits my clothes. The world has been crazy and troubled lately with the earthquakes in Haiti and Chile. How blessed are we to have our health and live in a safe place. Never take it for granted. A good friend of mine from Philly, Dave Sullivan, just got back from Haiti where he was on the ground helping the initial stages of rebuilding and re planting the country. He said it was so heavy. The damages sustained in this country will still be there after the news crews have disappeared so keep sending aid. And Dave recommends sending aid through more grassroots channels than the Red Cross. We are looking forward to seeing you all soon! Real soon like tomorrow Thanks so much G