Mile High Music Festival 2009 Wrap-Up: G. Love & Special Sauce

I had some pretty high expectations for G. Love & Special Sauce, despite their name, because people all around me were talking up the band to no end. I had heard a few tracks online and just assumed that the fairly average Funk/Reggae-ish Jam Band sound really came alive during the live show. After a few songs at the Rhapsody Tent I began to feel like I shouldn't have built it up in my mind like I had, because, live, they were pretty much what I had heard online, and I was a little let down. Again, they were undeniably talented and the crowd was taken in by their spell within a few minutes, and it's always nice to see a tent full of people as happy as these people were :)

G. Love & Special Sauce - Shooting Hoops

Mile High Music Festival 2009 Sampler, pt. 1

This year's Mile High Music Festival (July 18th -19th @ Dick's Sporting Goods Park) looks pretty promising. Last year had it's high lights, but I doubt I'll have any down time this time around. There are quite a few jam bands this year though, which I'm probably going to be elsewhere for, but there are enough acts that it looks like I'll have too full a schedule to be bothered with jam bands.

As is now a custom of mine, when a festival I plan on attending comes up, I compile a song by each of the acts playing, and host them right here for you crazy kooks to indulge yourselves in. Per the usual, I'll have all of them .rar'd up into 1 huge .rar file, then 3 smaller (bite size) .rar's, and each track individually hosted. If you get the huge .rar, or the 3 smaller .rar's, you'll have all the tracks that the others's have, which is every track listed below. Part's 2-4 are below this very post. just look for yourself! :)

the whole freakin thing:

Mile High Music Festival 2009 Sampler (The Whole Freakin Thing) (this might die sooner than everything else, so get to it quick if you wanna do it in one swipe!)

Bite size chunks:

Mile High Music Festival 2009 Sampler, pt. 1
Mile High Music Festival 2009 Sampler, pt. 2
Mile High Music Festival 2009 Sampler, pt. 3

The individual tracks:
Saturday July 18th 2009

Tool - You Lied (Live)
Widespread Panic - Monkey Image
Incubus - Megalomanic
Ben Harper & Relentless7 - Strawberry Fields (just Benny on this track though)
G. Love & Special Sauce - Shooting Hoops
Big Head Todd & The Monsters - Please Don't Tell Her
The Black Keys - Psychotic Girl
Ani DiFranco - 78% Water
Matt Nathanson - Starfish and Coffee (Prince cover)
Galactic - Tiger Roll
Paolo Nutini - These Streets
Gomez - How We Operate
The Greyboy Allstars - Give the Drummer Some More