G. Love & Special Sauce - BUS INVADERS Ep. 2198 - video Dailymotion

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Become a member (it's FREE) at https://digtb.us/signup Buy official DTB merch at http://digtb.us/merch  On this episode of DTB’s “Bus Invaders”, we take you inside the touring vehicle of the blues/rock band, G. Love & Special Sauce, while on the “Lemonade 20th Anniversary Tour” with Makua. G. Love & Special Sauce is currently supporting their newest album, Ode to R.L.  VIDEO INFO: Film Date - January 11, 2026 Location - Space in Evanston, IL  KEEP UP WITH G. LOVE: Facebook - https://facebook.com/glovespecialsauce Instagram - https://instagram.com/phillyglove Twitter - https://twitter.com/glove  FOLLOW US: Website/Email List - https://www.digitaltourbus.com/#/portal/signup YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/digitaltourbus Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/digitaltourbus/ TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@digitaltourbus Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/digitaltourbus/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/digitaltourbus Pinterest - https://www.pinterest.com/digitaltourbus/ LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/digital-tour-bus-llc Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/user/digitaltourbus  VIDEO SUMMARY: 00:00 Introduction 00:38 Skip Intro 01:23 Front Lounge 15:01 Bathroom 17:49 Bunks 21:05 Back Lounge  ABOUT DIGITAL TOUR BUS: Digital Tour Bus is your backstage pass to your favorite touring artists! With daily video releases, we cover all genres, and have had the pleasure of featuring the likes of Matchbox Twenty, Twenty One Pilots, Megadeth, MGK, Papa Roach, AJR, Pierce The Veil, Simple Plan, A Day to Remember, and thousands of others over the past 15 years. "Bus Invaders" takes you inside an artist's home on the road, "Cooking at 65mph" showcases the culinary skills of artists on tour, "Gear Masters" unveils the equipment musicians use on stage, and "Stage Threads" dives into the meaning and inspiration behind the clothing artists wear during their performances.

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00:00This is like really good probiotic. It's like drinking the kombucha. You could just

00:03drink this juice. It's delicious. So we've been plastic water bottle free on

00:08this bus for over 10 years. I'm a Gaviscon if I have too many cookies.

00:42Hey, what's up? Welcome to the G-Love and Special Sauce Tour Bus. Come on on.

00:47All right, guys. What's up? I'm G-Love of G-Love and Special Sauce. We're out here

00:50on our 2026 winter tour, which is the 20th anniversary of our Lemonade record,

00:59which was released in 2006. Wow. Anyhow, we just were on the fifth day of our first

01:09week here. So going into two days off. I'm heading home tomorrow. But yeah, we're here

01:14in Evanston, Illinois. And the tour is going great. Looks like we're going to be sold out

01:19tonight at a venue called Space. We're out with our friend Makua Rothman. And yeah,

01:25that's it. So want to come check out our bus? It's pretty sweet.

01:28Look, man. I'm just going to be completely honest. I'm not a big tech person. And usually

01:33I don't even know how the fuck these TVs work. There's a lot of stuff. But yeah, we're

01:38actually having a problem because our tour manager, Kyle, he like, we were on, we had

01:43YouTube TV. And then he, he's like a gamer or something. And he put the YouTube TV off.

01:50And now it's just stuck on YouTube. And so long story short is that they, oh, did they get

01:57it back? Because basically that's great news. Looks like they might be back online here.

02:03Which is great because I'm a Philadelphia Eagles fan. And the Eagles game is about to start

02:08after we do our tour at 3.30 here in the central time zone. So anyways, yeah, it's pretty sweet.

02:18Um, you know, these buses are super dope. Um, and you got the two TVs. So you can be sitting

02:24here watching TV and you can come sit over here and watch TV. You got your homies. And so we,

02:30you know, what do we watch? The guys like to watch like a lot of South Park, um, family guy.

02:37They seem to be total degenerates. They're grown men that just want to watch cartoons. Um, I'm not

02:44a real big TV person, honestly. I don't really have time. My, my wife watches shows constantly.

02:50Constantly. My kids are addicted to the fucking screen. And I'm, uh, I'm all about, uh, arts and

02:56crafts and doing chores and shit like that. So, um, every once in a while I'll have a movie

03:02night though, you know, and of course the game day, this is my day to watch some TV. So I've

03:07pushed sound check way back to make it just a five minute sound check so I can watch my

03:11game. Go birds, baby. The tour bus is great. I'm just going to be honest. It's very expensive

03:17to rent a tour bus and it's becoming, um, almost, um, no, what's the word? Unfathomable,

03:26unsustainable, unfathomable. Yeah, that works too. But yeah, it's all, it's, it's almost

03:31becoming unsustainable for us to tour in a tour bus, which we've been lucky enough to

03:36have been in a tour bus for 30 years since 1996 was our first tour in a tour bus. So

03:41before

03:42that we were in a van and the van tours props to all the kids out there doing the van

03:46tours

03:46because that is a tough, uh, thing. So the best thing about being on a bus is health and wellness.

03:54And having creature comforts and also staying out of trouble because after the show, you

03:59don't go out to the bars. Well, I guess you can for a little bit, but the bus leaves and

04:02goes to the next town and that's when we have, you know, maybe a late night snack and, um, hang

04:09out for a little bit and just, you know, kick it and then get some sleep, get ready for the

04:14next show. So we've got all our food and stuff. So let's say, let's see, we're just, we're one

04:19we got so we don't have a ton of stuff. Oh, well, that's nothing really in there. It's

04:23some paper towel. Um, let's see what we got down here in these drawers. Usually keep some

04:28beverages down here. So there's some trash and Pellegrino. I like to keep a rider pretty

04:34healthy. Well, see like we're not fully stocked yet. So, oh, Sun Cruiser. This is our tour sponsor,

04:42Sun Cruiser. Would you like one? And, uh, I'll have one when we're talking to get ready

04:49for the game, of course. Uh, but Sun Cruiser is awesome because, hey, like I was just saying,

04:55it's, it's, it's tough out here in the business. Sun Cruiser's backing our tour and that's awesome.

05:01So props to Sun Cruiser for supporting loud music and creating this delicious cold beverage.

05:06Yeah, I recommend. Um, let's see what we have over here. Cheers, guys.

05:16Feels like we're in at the beach. So here, um, Coca-Cola, you know, I'm not a big Coke drinker,

05:25but some of the guys like it. Uh, some of the guys like sparkling water, ginger beers, go great

05:32with tequila. Uh, uh, just some beers overflow. We always try to get local craft beer and also

05:43maybe, um, Corona or High Life or something, but I always like to support local craft breweries

05:51and distilleries when possible. High noons, Kyle at TM likes to have his RTDs. You know what

05:58it is. Ready to drink beverages. Um, always like to get some fruits and vegetables on the

06:04rider. So bananas are always a staple. Ginger, uh, make some tea. Uh, we got tomato. We got

06:12avocado because it's a great snack. Just slice this open. A little fresh lime. We got red

06:18onions and tomatoes. So yeah, this, so look, so what, what they were pretty proud about is

06:23a rider. And, um, you know, cause you figure it out after, as the years go by and kind

06:28of hone in on it. But some things you have to understand is that you have this hospitality

06:34budget. So because we're out here working and trying to earn a living, the more stuff

06:41that we can have the hospitality budget pay for that we don't have to come out of pocket

06:45and eat is great for the crew and the band and me. And, um, so that being said today, I'm

06:51not going to go to a restaurant because look, I got this beautiful rotisserie chicken. It's

06:55making my mouth water right now. Like seriously, I'm fucking hungry. But yeah, some of the guys,

07:01um, it's like, we got bagels, we got smoked salmon. So you can make delicious, you know,

07:07smoked salmon, bagel, got the cream cheese, you know, where's the cream cheese? Um, the red

07:15onion and tomato. Mmm. And we always, so why just get cold cuts when you could get chicken

07:20salad, tuna salad, stuff like that. You know, again, we'll get the fresh tomatoes. Um, we

07:27got a bag of kale in here. Uh, a box of arugula. So, you know what I'm saying? We really,

07:34one

07:35thing we like to drink is picklebacks. If you ever had that whiskey and pickle juice, of course,

07:40the, uh, our go-to is Bubbies. They have the delicious, this shit is making me really hungry.

07:46All this shit. They got the Bubbies. It's the fermented. It's not, it's, this is, uh, fermented.

07:54So this is like really good probiotic. It's like drinking the kombucha. You could just drink

07:58this juice. It's delicious. And that being said, we have that. And then also the other probiotic

08:04Bubbies. Sauerkraut, right? I know we're here in Chicago, the big hot dog town. So, what do

08:13we have here? Well, these aren't Chicago dogs, but these are Long Island Nathan's famous, uh,

08:18Frank. So, again, you know what I'm saying? Just reset that. Uh, we don't usually get a fruit

08:25tray. However, Makua, who's, uh, out on tour with us, he didn't want his fruit tray. So we

08:32have been good. Hummus. Like I said, craft beer. So urban underdog. Where was this from

08:38the other night? In St. Louis, where we kicked off the tour. So St. Louis, play St. Louis,

08:44drink St. Louis beer. Last night, we're in Milwaukee, play Milwaukee, drink Lakefront Brewery,

08:54brewed in Milwaukee. Frank, my tech. He's a yogurt guy. As a vocalist, yogurt stunts are great

09:02for me. But Chobani, we got the oat milk. And another thing we love to have is kombuchas,

09:10uh, to start off the day. So, yeah. Suncruiser in there. And so, as, like, different people come

09:20in and out of the band on their journeys of life, they all kind of add to the rider,

09:25and then some of the stuff stays on. So, um, our dear friend, Van Gordon, amazing, Van

09:30Gormar, amazing lead guitar player who was with us. He loved these Stumptown iced coffees. He's

09:36not on tour right now. No fault of his own. But, um, we, Van, this is for you, brother.

09:42It's still on the rider from you. And Chuck Therese, our, uh, our, our former drummer. He

09:48was a guy who had ginger and stuff like that. So, anyways, here's our snack drawer. So, you

09:54know, we got the cashews. So, we're starting to stock up. You have to manage this stuff.

09:59Gluten-free bread, because Nate, uh, who's filling in for Jimmy Jazz is gluten-free on the bread.

10:05Um, we got the seaweed snacks. So, then when we get to the back, ah, get to the back lounge,

10:13I'll show you all this shit that I'm taking home to my kids, because basically, like, if you have

10:16kids, you know, kids fucking eat so many snacks. So, I take, when I'm going home on my days off

10:21right

10:21now, I do what's called looting the rider. And then I take, I gotta leave enough stuff for the

10:27guys to have snacks on the day off. But, I gotta unload this stuff, because that's one less thing I

10:32gotta buy at the grocery store. Like I said, we got the bagels, nice popcorn. It's all really good

10:39stuff, you know, just trying to keep it healthy. And, um, so yeah, over here, this is a really cool

10:45thing about this bus. This is our first bus. We have been, if you notice, uh, you don't, except for

10:51that Pellegrino, we try to be as plastic-free as possible. Um, you know, I, I use a Yeti cup

10:59for my

11:00coffee, so I don't use the disposable, um, cups for my coffee. Uh, and I have a couple water bottles.

11:08This, so we've been, and props to John Butler and Jack Johnson for leading the way on that many,

11:14many years ago. And so we've been plastic water bottle-free on this bus for over 10 years.

11:22So what we have is a five-gallon jug of water. And we used to have the pumps, and we

11:28would just sit

11:29right here, but now this bus is moving forward. I'm really happy, uh, for Pioneer Coach for leading

11:35the way on this. This goes down to the bay where there is a five-gallon tank that's hooked up

11:43to

11:44this. So we have spring water that's coming out here because you can't drink the bus water, okay?

11:50Um, I mean, it's not gonna, you're not supposed to drink it. Don't drink the bus water.

11:56Drink the filter water. Not filter, bottle water. Spring water from a five-gallon bucket. Try to not

12:04use plastic water bottles, people. Move on, you know what I'm saying? It's nice to have your own

12:09water bottle. You know, you give your kids water bottles for school, you take a water bottle,

12:14you be a big boy, be a big girl, and help do your part to save the environment, all right?

12:20If not, you get the baguette, okay? So this is nice to get the baguette. So over here is a

12:27good drawer,

12:28and here is, um, let's see what we got in here. This is the late night munchie drawer. Holy

12:34shit. This is the problem. This is the problem. Whoever got this shit is trying to kill us and make

12:41me put on a lot of weight during tour. So this is a problem, uh, combined with marijuana, um, this

12:49drawer

12:49can be a real big problem for me on a late night after the show. Really have to be careful

12:55and try to

12:56discipline myself. During the day, I'm very healthy, and one thing I like to eat, um, is a lot of

13:02fish,

13:03and actually tonight, today, after we leave, I'm gonna make myself, um, a sardine salad with some red

13:10onion, lime juice, maybe a chop a little ginger, and put it over some arugula, and this has a lot

13:17of

13:17good omega-3s, and very good for you, and cheap. Got some beef jerky for a high-protein, low-fat,

13:26but, you know, healthy snack, and of course, the cookies, man. Gotta watch out, but who doesn't love

13:33those Tate's, extra thin and crispies? Woo, boy! Dangerous! Uh, one thing I like to do is juice a

13:42lemon every morning, or a lime, and gargle with it. I make a little lemon with the juicer. I put,

13:48um,

13:50I put a little pinch of salt, some black pepper, and a cinnamon is another thing that we use heavily.

13:57I'm gonna cinnamon in my coffee, guys, so I just have black coffee with cinnamon. I also do my health

14:03shot,

14:04and add a little cinnamon. So that, you still want to know, I can keep going. So in the freezer

14:09here,

14:09another thing on the rider is my morning starts with, um, a scoop of this green vibrance, which is

14:18powdered greens, probiotics, as well as a master blend of this Ohm, uh, adapt, adaptogens mushrooms.

14:27This has lion's mane, reishi, cordyceps, turkey tail, uh, trumpet, maitake, chaga, shiitake,

14:38and some things I can't really pronounce so well. So that, that, again, little cinnamon.

14:45I take my, after I do my lemon squeeze shot, I always take the, uh, well, I, you know, I

14:53wash the

14:54lemon peel with it. I take these, the juice lemons, I put them in there and I drop them in

14:59my water

15:00bottle so I have fresh cold lemon water. That's it, man. One of the great things about the bus and

15:07one thing I want you guys to know, if you're coming on the bus, you can only go number one,

15:13okay? And if you're a woman and you come on the bus, please put your paper in the trash. And

15:19if you're a

15:20man peeing on the bus, please use some paper and wipe off the seat, okay? If you dribble one, you

15:26scribble, wipe the shit off in a pibble or whatever it goes, okay? So this is, this bus is great.

15:32Well, you got to have the mirror, man, so that you can see, you know, get, get ready for the

15:36show,

15:37you know, make sure you're looking good before you go on stage. And, um, the bathroom's great. Um,

15:43again, don't poop on the bus. Um, you got to figure that out. If you need to have an emergency

15:50stop,

15:51you tell the driver, it happens. That's why it's so important. All you venue owners out there,

15:58if you're starting a venue, please, for the love of God, put a bathroom backstage so that your bands

16:05can use the bathroom, uh, backstage, because there's nothing worse than, you know, having to go,

16:09uh, this is TMI, but nothing worse than having to be an artist right before you go on stage at

16:14a

16:14sold out show at a little venue, having to go take a crap in the bathroom. And then you come

16:19out of the

16:19stall and people are like, Oh, that was fucking G lab. I just took a shit. Yeah. I'm a human.

16:26TMI. Uh, but it, it happens. So it's, it's really nice for venues to, to take care of the artists

16:31and

16:32have a good green room. So if you're starting a venue, think about that, throw it down, take care of

16:38your artists. Um, so yeah, there's a nice bathroom and you got the flush over here and you,

16:49just push that button and then it's good.

16:55Most of us don't have a toilet that nice in our house, right? But, um, and you know, we have,

17:00it's just like, here's this thing, you're on a winter tour in the upper midwest and heading to New

17:04England, just gotta keep your health. So you're touching a lot of people. That sounded weird.

17:10You're, you're having to contact with a lot of people. Uh, and then I go home and hang out with

17:16my wife and three little kids that are like, you know, walking germ, germ pools, not my wife,

17:20but the boys. So hand sanitizer, try to have it all around. Um, so that you're always

17:29constantly washing and sanitizing your hands. Okay. So that's up, up here we have, um,

17:36it's like the driver's supplies. Someone's got their toothbrush up there. Oh, there's air freshener,

17:41wipes. You know what I'm saying? All the things, man. Welcome on back. This is bunk alley. And, um,

17:52so one great thing about our unit is that we have a trio and you can see these bunks are

18:01generally set

18:02up for 12 bunks. So you have four rows and three bunks. Four times three is 12. And, um,

18:10so there's five of us. So we're really spoiled, um, because a lot of bands have 12 guys on the

18:17bus.

18:18We've always been a trio and continue to tour as a trio for the most part, which makes our bus

18:24life

18:25very nice. Um, everybody has what it's called a junk bunk and I won't, I don't even show you my

18:32home

18:32is junk bunk, but you can come look at my junk bunk. And, um, I'm a little, I'm messy. I'm

18:38a messy smurf,

18:39but, uh, this is where I can keep my stuff. I got my toiletries. I got a nice joint someone

18:47gave me from

18:47the other day. Got my Gavis gun if I have too many cookies. I got my, my little supplements.

18:55I got my ear, in-ear monitors from dark matter, which I never use because I'm old school until I

19:02get in trouble. Um, I got my clean clothes up here. Um, I just got my mouthwash, just got it

19:12today. So

19:14like to keep fresh breath, you know what I'm saying? Help mouth oral, oral health. Got my socks and

19:20underwear bag. Oh, what? Some more hand sanitizer. Uh, I have some shit that I've just, I noticed we

19:29have a peanut butter in the drawer already. And then there was two peanut butters backstage last

19:33night. So I took these, these costs like, you know, $10 or something. These will be in my family's,

19:40uh, cupboard for free. And that's that. I got saline packs. Uh, try to rinse out, you know,

19:48your nasal situation. Uh, I do a lot of arts and crafts with my home, homemade setless,

19:55as I can tell you. But here's one that I prep for Rochester next week on a clear one. And

20:01I have some

20:03canvases up here for my other setless. And, uh, so that's, that's my junk bunk. And then here's my

20:09little bunky boo, as I call it. And you got your charger up here, little lights you can read. I,

20:16I, I wear like, it's, I wear earplugs. I think you should have a sleeping suit, like, like a cocoon.

20:24But I wear like this neck brace when I sleep to keep everything because my arms like, uh, go numb.

20:32Like my neck compresses. So I, I wear this when I sleep. I wear earplugs. And I had this eye

20:39mask.

20:39I wear this too. Don't fuck around. It's time to go to sleep. Uh, this bunk is pretty cool. I

20:46got this

20:46little storage area up here. So whatever. I should have made my bed. No company was coming.

20:53But that's that. Then, um, come to the back lounge. So this, this kind of is, uh, my zone a

21:03little bit

21:04just because I got to do my arts and crafts. A big part of, um, it's been really awesome. A

21:09big

21:09part of our merchandise situation has been my homemade hand-drawn hats. And so I got these prepped.

21:19This, this morning I prepped all of these hats. So one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight,

21:25nine, 10, 11, 12. So 12, 24, 36. So prepped these 36 hats. And then the next step with these

21:32is to ink them.

21:33Uh, so I used to do about five of these a night and I've been doing this for, I don't

21:44know, man, like

21:48almost five years, I guess, or more. I don't know, man, maybe even longer, but, um,

21:55I'll finish this one later, but this is really cool, man. It's a great merchandise item.

22:00Um, um, um, I'm also a visual artist other than a musician. And, um, um, this is a great way

22:07for,

22:07for our supporters, our, our fans to get a piece of, because the, each one is this unique. A lot

22:13of

22:13them have lyrics from our songs, like that's peace, love, happiness. This is my new single,

22:21Weekends Are For Making Love. Ain't That Right from The Lemonade Record.

22:27Funky Cool Philly G Love. Baby's Got Sauce. I Like Whole Beverage. Stupid Love. Shouts of Slightly Stupid.

22:37Bring Me Your Love. Another song from my new record, Who Got The Weed. So, and then, you know,

22:43I'm a big Eagles fan. So, we're doing some Eagles hats today. Go Birds! As the Eagles get ready to

22:52kick off in about a half hour here. So, we're ready for that. And, um, yeah, so that's, that's a

22:58lot of

22:58fun. And then, um, so the other thing I do is, um, this is how it all kind of started.

23:05I do hand-drawn set lists.

23:07Um, so, these are ones that I've got ready for Cincinnati because after tonight's show,

23:13I go home for two days and I fly back the day of the show. So, um, just try to

23:19bang that out now so

23:20that I'm not stressed, um, when I fly back and don't have as much time. And then you can see

23:26up here,

23:26I got, I like to get ahead of it because of the fact that this has been really taking off

23:31in the last

23:31some years. I think it's quite a lot of work. So, I'm constantly doing this every day. I'm,

23:36I'm drawing on a lot of hats and every day I'm doing my set lists. Um, so this, these are

23:45prepped now

23:47in chronological order for the next coming shows. Boston River Private, Ann Arbor. I'm doing,

23:53these are small, so I'm doing two Ann Arbor, Kent, Ohio. So, these will get inked. Columbus, Ohio.

24:01And then these will get inked up and I'll put the song selection. So, this, again, this is like, um,

24:08you can go on Instagram and do hashtag GLoveSetList and you'll see over thousands, thousands of these

24:17posted. And every night, luckily, and thanks to all my fans out there, every night these set lists

24:26usually get purchased at Merchant Nights. And it's been really fun to see people have

24:31collected them over the years. And, um, and I like it. It's like a centering thing for me to do

24:38another creative thing. So, part of the cool thing about being a guitar player is you get,

24:44you have to have a lot of guitars. Part of the cool thing about being an artist is you got

24:48to have a

24:48lot of pens. So, you know, these, some of these are newer and some of these are older, but it's

24:54just

24:54wild, like so many paint pens, you know. Um, you know, when you're a kid, you'd be like,

24:59oh my God. I mean, I got bags and bags of, you know, magic markers and I used to be

25:05a graffiti writer.

25:06So, you know, if you're, if you're playing in a venue or you go backstage,

25:12you'd probably see a G-Lo tag back there and wherever you go. Cause I get around. So that's

25:19it. And then the last thing is just, um, our, our back closet. It's this nice, you know,

25:25can put our stage clothes back here. You know, I got a little snazzy little jacket.

25:32Got this nice suede one for the stage. And then Tom, the drummer has some of his stuff back there.

25:39Before I say goodbye, I'm going to put on my brand new hat and, um, thanks for coming by. Again,

25:45I'm G-Love from G-Lovin Special Sauce. We're always on the road, uh, all across the country and the

25:52world.

25:52Please come check us out and thank you guys for supporting live music. Um, if you want to find out

25:58more about what we're doing on Instagram, I'm at Philly G-Love. On Twitter, at G-Lovin Special Sauce on

26:07Facebook

26:09and philadelphonic.com for all of our touring online merchandise and everything else, all of our

26:16other projects like pre-rolls, my Pinot Noir one, artwork, and all the other things that we're doing

26:25off the stage. Thanks guys so much for checking out our boss. We'll come back anytime.

26:29We'll see you next time.

26:30Bye.

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