Bread
Some think Bread was lame, but I always thought they were great. Soft in spots, but the tunes were there. David Gates was a great writer, but the team of Jimmy Griffin and Robb Royer were almost as good. They didn't write the hits, but their songs are what made the albums great. Just a little rougher than Gates' stuff. Griffin and Royer also won a Academy Award for the song "For All We Know", which they wrote under pseudonyms.
There aren't a lot of good Bread clips. I couldn't find any featuring the original trio of Gates, Griffin and Royer, but did come across this first clip of the most popular lineup of the band. Gates and Griffin were joined by drummer Mike Botts and multi-instrumentalist Larry Knechtel. Knechtel had been a very in-demand session musician (and continues to be to this day). He played bass on the Byrds debut single "Mr. Tambourine Man" (Roger McGuinn was the only Byrd to actually play on that track), and played the piano on Simon and Garfunkel's "Bridge Over Troubled Water".
This first clip features the more popular lineup on the "Captain and Tennille" TV Show, doing their reunion hit "Lost Without Your Love" in 1977.
Clip number two is a live "Guitar Man". I assume this is the post "Lost Without Your Love" tour. I believe Gates and Griffin had a falling out and Gates, Knechtel and Botts toured as "David Gates and Bread" minus Griffin, so Griffin sued them.
Bread reunited (with Griffin back on board) and played quite a few shows in the late 1990's...mostly outside of the USA. There is a picture or two of the reunited Bread here, amongst many others. I happened to see David Gates with the musicians that supported Bread in 1998. The concert was great. Gates looked like an old guy, but he sounded just like he did in 1970. His voice was unchanged.
Unfortunately, there will be no more Bread reunions as both Mike Botts and James Griffin died in 2005.
There aren't a lot of good Bread clips. I couldn't find any featuring the original trio of Gates, Griffin and Royer, but did come across this first clip of the most popular lineup of the band. Gates and Griffin were joined by drummer Mike Botts and multi-instrumentalist Larry Knechtel. Knechtel had been a very in-demand session musician (and continues to be to this day). He played bass on the Byrds debut single "Mr. Tambourine Man" (Roger McGuinn was the only Byrd to actually play on that track), and played the piano on Simon and Garfunkel's "Bridge Over Troubled Water".
This first clip features the more popular lineup on the "Captain and Tennille" TV Show, doing their reunion hit "Lost Without Your Love" in 1977.
Clip number two is a live "Guitar Man". I assume this is the post "Lost Without Your Love" tour. I believe Gates and Griffin had a falling out and Gates, Knechtel and Botts toured as "David Gates and Bread" minus Griffin, so Griffin sued them.
Bread reunited (with Griffin back on board) and played quite a few shows in the late 1990's...mostly outside of the USA. There is a picture or two of the reunited Bread here, amongst many others. I happened to see David Gates with the musicians that supported Bread in 1998. The concert was great. Gates looked like an old guy, but he sounded just like he did in 1970. His voice was unchanged.
Unfortunately, there will be no more Bread reunions as both Mike Botts and James Griffin died in 2005.
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