MOST UNDERRATED BAND... THEY SHOULDVE BN AT ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME...

One of my favorite songs by *BREAD* is " *Everything I Own* " I really loved it when it first came out in 1971. I was in High School. Since then the song has taken on a different meaning since I lost my _Mom, Dad and Kid Brother_ ... The song is felt deeply in my Heart!🤎 David Gates is one great singer/ songwriter. Just listen to " *IF* "...wow...

One of those bands when you look at their greatest hits you can’t believe how many they had.

James Griffin was a highly underrated singer in his own right.

A friend and I went to my first concert in Seattle in 1978 at the age of 16 and watched Bread perform. It was great. They did a slide show and Gates told the back story on the songs. I think Bread's contributions deserve much more appreciation.

Loved Bread. They were the perfect 70's band

A few comments. In 2016, I had the great pleasure of sitting down and chatting with David Gates about his music and career. He said that Royer was actually let go from Bread, because Royer wasn't that strong of a musician, kept making too many mistakes in concert, and because wasn't comfortable on stage. Knectel, who was a multi-instrumentalist on keyboards, bass and guitar was quickly recruited. James Griffin, sadly developed a serious problem with alcohol and drugs, particularly heroin. Many nights he was in no shape to be performing onstage. Guitarist Dean Parks was brought in for some live shows towards the end of Bread, essentially replacing Griffin on guitar and adding banjo. Videos exist of Bread performing with no Griffin onstage. Although Griffin was a talented vocalist and songwriter, neither his material nor his voice that the same magic that David Gates' voice and songs did. Every hit single of the band had been written by Gates, and Griffin was jealous and angry that his songs weren't selected by Elektra Records for singles. (Griffin's songs, however, did appear on the b-sides of most of the 45s, as well as filling roughly half of Bread's albums.) In 1973, the band broke up, due to Griffin (and co-writer Royer's) declining quality of their songs (according to Gates), Griffin's heroin problem and bickering between Griffin and Gates. Since both Gates and Griffin co-owned the name "Bread", Gates threw in the towel and terminated both his involvement with Griffin and with Bread. Two reunions of Bread were moderately successful, but didn't come close to the level of success they'd had in the early '70s. One last thing: Gates and his wife settled in Washington STATE, not Washington D.C. Both are in their early '80s now, and Gates does not sing or write songs anymore. Gates is somewhat of a recluse now, and he just wants to live out his final years in peace, and away from the attention and turmoil of the music business.

I got a chance to play impromptu with David Gates in Barstow,California at his home. Since I lived right up the street,we'd play a little,smoke a little,and have some fun. He had an older Harley Shovelhead and I had a Triumph 750. We never got a chance to ride together, but I remember playing with David Gates back in the early 80s. I'm still not much good at playing rhythm, but I earned a lot from him playing at his house back then. Thanks for reading,peace.

A really special group from that era. Their music was just beautiful and a perfect reflection of the times.

Ahhhh, youth. I was 13 in '70 and Bread was big on AM radio. Seemed like every time we went for a drive we'd hear one of their songs. I never bought anything from them but never changed the station either. It was good music. Nice work here.

In My Humble Opinion,, The Saddest Story In Rock History,, Is That Of Badfinger..R.I.P. Pete,, Tom & Mike. 🙏 ❤

Memories… anyone else watching this in 2021? “Lost Without Your Love” played a big part in my first marriage. So many good songs that I still love.

Damn! I never knew James Griffin, Mike Botts & Larry Knechtel have all passed away. God bless their souls for being part of the greatest ballad group of all time. QUESTION: Why isn't Bread in the RRHOF yet? They deserve it. Anyway, thanks for this heads-up. Keep it up OK? 👍🏽

I love the band Bread David Gates is a lyrical genius and a master of the spoken word and being able to put feelings on paper

I LOVE Bread! They're a guilty pleasure, kind of an "Air Supply" of the 70's, but the music is just so beautiful. They are such an underrated band.

The most memorable soft rock bands in my mind are bread and the carpenters.

Thank you for this wonderful summary of BREAD. Their music will always be near me.

Their music have huge impact in philippines. We grew up adoring their songs. At 19 years old in 1979, i made it here in the USA and has been wondering ever since what has happened to Bread and all it's members...until now! Thanks to KZfaq and to you Sir. Keep up the good work!

Air Supply wishes they could be as hardcore as Bread.

Larry Knechtel's career was a lot more extensive than you indicate. He was part of the Wrecking Crew and played on untold number of hits and albums.

One brave guy you are taking on Bread. Mad respect for you as they are one of the best ever. Great retrospect. Thank you!!!

Jimmy Griffin was a great singer. I believe equally as good as David. Great songwriter too.

Correction: David Gates does not live in Wash, DC. He currently lives in Washington state. I grew up in Los Angeles County and attended the same public schools (Elementary to High School) with two of his youngest children. A very nice family. At some point in the 80's or 90's, David Gates moved to a working cattle ranch he purchased in Northern California. Then at some point he and his wife (Jo Rita) migrated further north to Washington state. I remember being in their LA area home around age 14 and they had a built-in recording studio. A nice large house but not ostentatious or showy at all. Looked like it would fit right in on a ranch.

I worked with Jimmy for 20 plus years actually going in and reciting 15 of thier greatest hits with Jimmy doing lead. Also having Jommy singing lead on a song that I and fellow artists and writers of "The Remingtons" with Rick Yancey and Richard Minagra with Jimmy . Also Jimmy would come in on other songs we would write. I MISS him and Rick Yancey who we recently passed in Augest.but can find our working relationship in the book Mana from Heaven the book on Bread

I listened to Bread during my teenage years. Thanks for digging deep with the information. Didn't know that two members had passed from cancer at 61 years old. Bands seemed to have internal struggles that made it hard to stay together sometimes.

Thanks for this video. Along with Jim Croce, Cat Stevens, America and James Taylor, Bread was the best that the 70s had for that real balladeer singer/songwriter movement that touched so many hearts and wallets. "And Arbury was her name."

Still listening to them. Love bread.

The kings of soft rock. Brilliant songs.

The 13 years that Gates was in hiatus, he owned a ranch in the Fall River Valley in N. Cal, where my brother in law was his ranch foreman. He did build a recording studio on that ranch

Really liked this group, and know their songs well. Always wondered what happened, so Thank you for doing the research.

Thank you for this historical info I am a African American woman who love all of B music I knew nothing about the music history until now. I have all B cds and constantly listen to the beautiful voice and stories of this magnificent group I was sad to learn about the deaths of the B members. I wish everyone could discover this group from the past it would make them appreciate life and slow down to visualize beauty again. I live in the city but when I listen to B sometimes with tear because of memories of life I truly believe that if music like B can change this society we're in for the better. May God grant paradise to the deceased and blessings to the living members of B 1954 baby boomer.

Although they were way before my time, their music was so nostalgic to me.I had older siblings who had an album with all of their hits,,I love the music they provided for us ,they have a special place in my heart becaue they remind me of certain pats o my childhood.So Bread will forever be one of my favorite soft rock groups for me.

Well done, thanks. I didn't know they toured that much, partly because I have not been able to find any videos of them playing live. I'd love to see a What Happened to 20/20.

Thanks for the report…. Bread is absolutely irreplaceable…. I’m so glad to Play their songs on my guitar …. It’s so refreshing and revitalizing… never aging those songs

they absolutely owned the '70's... such great songs!

Bread is every rocker's from the 70s guilty pleasure. My Favs being Let Your Love Go and I Don't Love You.

Knectel was insanely talented - - enough for three or four superior artists combined. As part of the informal group of Los Angeles session players that later became known as The Wrecking Crew, his sound is all over hundreds of Top 100 pop songs. This includes some of the most iconic songs of the 60s as he was the session bass player for both Light My Fire by the Doors and mr. Tambourine Man by The Byrds. his piano work for Bridge Over Troubled Waters was almost the downfall for him as producers began expecting a similar sound and similar success for their projects from him. That's one of the reasons why he left much of the session work behind and was willing to become a band member for Bread.

Thank you for this biographical summary. I loved these songs when I was a teen. They were all very powerful, especially "If."

I still love their music … it is rumoured that today they are ‘toast’. 🤔

Man did I love Bread back in the early 70s as a young teen. Still diggen Bread at 62 years of age.

I really loved the Best of Bread album

Thx. Nice effort; nice production. "Bread" was my first "rock" concert, 1971, w/ my mom, when I was 11 y.o. I remember the show fondly, and have loved them ever since. Also, I remember smelling pot for the first time. Oh, the memories :)

On the Waters was one of the first 8 tracks I bought. It was also the only one that played in my car where I didn't have to use a matchbook to keep it from "double-tracking" lol Thanks for the walk down memory lane!

My favorite group as a young girl - such memories!

Loved it. Thank you. Bread was my favorite band in high school

"Guitar man" was the reason I picked up a dictionary as a young girl in Germany in the seventies because I wanted to "get the meaning out of each and every song". Which of course didn't work but I wanted to know what my favorite singer and songwriter all were singing about.❤

Loved the band! Came to New Zealand and I got a place right up front. Loved it! Favourite was Baby I want you!

OK - Now I have to hear all the greats from Bread again. Unfortunately, I never purchased one of their albums at the time. However, I will be looking in bins or new sale of Bread Albums. Wonderful biography! Thank you!

This guy has so much to say in a short period of time that he can't finish his words.

I was amazed to hear they released a CD many years before CDs were invented. ;)

Thank you for this. I always wondered what happened to them.

Btw. Griffin co-wrote the Carpenters song For All We Know. .

It’s a shame that Jimmy Griffin of Bread and Alan Clarke of the Hollies weren’t as recognised as their band mates David Gates and Graham Nash. Both from all accounts were humble men without big egos from what I’ve read and seen.

Bread should have been inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame decades ago.

There was more drama going on in that group than I ever would have suspected.

I got their greatest hit LP way back when. Nice love songs.

One correction: David Gates lives in the City of Mount Vernon, Washington, not Washington D.C. I have family in Mount Vernon and when I'm up to visit them I'll carve out some time to visit Lost in the Groove (record store in downtown Mt. Vernon, definitely worth checking out if in the area). A couple of years ago I was in the store and they were playing Best of Bread. I asked the owner if Gates visits the store, owner said he's been in several times.

...one of the guys in my three man barracks room in Germany - a cook - would spend hours sitting on his bunk (almost 50 years ago 1973), listening to Bread LPs trying to pick out chords....I've often wondered what happened to him...ad David Gates

I used up my Best of Bread 8 track tape until it died and also heard Gates wrote a Life Savers jingle. Talent!

David Gates retired to Washington State, not D.C. He lives a few miles north of me and remains out of the public's eye. Fabulous person.

Small correction on what’s otherwise a good compilation of existing internet sources. “On U.N.I. record label” that’s Uni as in Universal, an MCA label.

Nicely done. I read that Bread lost all their musical gear in a crash of a semi-truck while on tour with Pat Odea

I LOVE ALL BREAD BEAUTIFUL STORY SONGS HAVE ALL B CDs RETIRED NOW STILL CRY ON MANY OF B SONGS. AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMAN N.J

I guess it was the huge number of great songs and amazing singers around at the time that kept Bread from really getting the success they deserved. So many memories...

Loved chilling out with this music.

“If” was one of the first records I bought. Still love it and them.

I believe David Gates wrote that early 60’s hit Popsicles, Icicles. Great writer

Egos and drugs kept them from staying together, but I can't imagin them doing much more than they did. Bread was a shooting star that burned brightly for a time and then flamed out. None of them had any great successes after the late 70's. Their music takes me back to a time that I greatly loved, but sadly will never know again. I think they call that nastalgia. Thanks guys.

David Gates wrote songs for and produced Capt. Beefheart's A&M sessions. A must hear. For real. No joke!

Geat head banging music. Love how the guitar screams

Great soundtrack of our lives, always fresh like if it was yesterday.

Been a big fan since the early 70’s, and was lucky enough to have seen them in concert on the farewell tour in like 1997, one of the best concerts I’ve ever been to

Always wanted to see Bread with Meatloaf.

Into a lot of hardcore country and dark heavy metal I have love bread since I was a kid still today will listen to them they were an awesome band

Grew up with Bread. Had most of their albums . Down on my knees and she's a butterfly I still play regularly. Too long on the road also.

Great job on this. I saw Bread in concert in Norfolk ,VA. In Dec. 1972. They rocked hard in concert. How about doing a video on The Outsiders ?

Mother Freedom is an excellent song.

Make it with You is my song for my husband from way back when. And I really like IF.

Nice coverage.

In the early to mid 1970s Bread had an enormous run of hit songs.

I'm glad I got to see the Gates, Griffin, Botts and Knectel line up in 1977. I thought Griffin was awesome on stage, his voice was amazing and he jammed on his guitar. Botts sang "Long Tall Sally" while playing drums. It was a great show, I remember it like yesterday. The only sour point was when someone threw a frisbee at Gates while he was playing, he wasn't happy.

The Best of Bread. Wore it out. Still have the album.

I grew up in Tulsa & my aunt went to school with David Gates…and today Mr. Gates lives up the road from ME in Mount Vernon Wa.! Loved “Bread” from the git go..talented men all !❤❤❤❤❤😊

Great musical craftsmanship. I listening to them from 1976 until college when I made a cassette for my friend Trevor who thought that they were "girly and uncool".

What happened to Bread? Someone made a sandwich!!🤣😂🤣 Sorry couldn’t resist! Most soothing sounds ever!

I guess you can say that when they started to have problems, Bread was "toast"

David Gates is a god among men :) David could write and sing like no other :) The best male singer at that time...

"Everything I own" is as beautiful a song as can be.

I assume Griffin was the lead vocal on Let Your Love Go and Truckin. Gates had the signature sound though. Gotta go with what sells in that industry. The company boys do not like to mess with success.

I used to practice playing guitar in high school - and "If" always looks so cool to play on it. "If", " Everything I own" & "Make It With You" ... And ... "Aubrey" ! ❤🌟

Thank you, Dave! Grew up listening to Bread

Such a great 70s band

I had the If album. When we moved, the idiots threw it in a skip and took it to a dump. We were not at the house. We had already moved out of the country. We lost thousands. This was a great album as it had several of his hits. So sad to see him go.

My Top 7 Favorite Songs of BREAD are 1.) IF... 2.) AUBREY... 3.) DIARY... 4). EVERYTHING I OWN... 5.) GUITAR MAN... 6.) MAKE IT WITH YOU... 7.) LOST WITHOUT YOUR LOVE, and plus 1 Solo (David Gates) Song... 8.) GOODBYE GIRL... I loved their Songs, and I never get tired of listening to them over and over since the '70s till now... the LYRICS were welded with TRUTHFULNESS from the HEART... as if their SONGS never get OLD... TIMELESS Songs...

Good job getting this all told in under 10 minutes. I like that. One correction: Knechtel was not an original member, as he replaced Robb Royer, who is still alive along with Gates.

Thank you. That video was very informative. To me, the group Bread was an oasis of quality musical performances admist a lot of disco nonsense and empty meaningless heavy metal noise. Heart felt lyrics with often times good moral lessons about how to deal with Love's dilemmas gave me many years of enjoyment listening to these wonderful songs by talented lyricists and musicians.

Good video! Nice material! Let me do the VO narration next time! Love to help!

One of my favourite bands growing up. David Gates'Cloyds/Rain suite is a great track. Wonderful. Thanks for the great music, guys.

I was a love sick Airman back in 76. Stationed in England and lost with out my ex girlfriend. Ah to be 18 again. Flush with cash, I spent big on JBL 100 speakers, Marantz amps and receivers. The power would blow you away. I was blasting Bread one afternoon, a bit loud.When I answered the pounding at dorm room door, my whole crew was outside the door singing..baby I want you to want me...I was red faced, but laugh about it still. Rocking out to Bread...LMAO

👍Thank you for the segment.