Bread - Best Of

* A SIGOPS Compilation *

Bread was an American soft rock band from Los Angeles, California. They had 13 songs chart on the Billboard Hot 100 between 1970 and 1977.

The band was fronted by David Gates (vocals, bass guitar, guitar, keyboards, violin, viola, percussion), with Jimmy Griffin (vocals, guitar, keyboards, percussion) and Robb Royer (bass guitar, guitar, flute, keyboards, percussion, recorder, backing vocals). On their first album session musicians Ron Edgar played drums and Jim Gordon played drums, percussion, and piano. Mike Botts became their permanent drummer when he joined in the summer of 1969, and Larry Knechtel replaced Royer in 1971, playing keyboards, bass guitar, guitar, and harmonica.

A bread truck came along right at the time we were trying to think of a name. We had been saying, "How about bush, telephone pole? Ah, bread truck, bread." It began with a B, like the Beatles and the Bee Gees. Bread also had a kind of universal appeal. It could be taken a number of ways. Of course, for the entire first year people called us the Breads.

Origin: Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Genres: Soft rock
Years active:
1968–1973 1976–1978 1996–1997

Tracks:
01 - Diary
02 - Baby I'm-A Want You
03 - It Don't Matter To Me
04 - If
05 - Mother Freedom
06 - Guitar Man
07 - The Last Time
08 - Lost Without Your Love
09 - Daughter