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Established in 1998,
Nostalgia Central is your one stop reference guide through five decades of music, movies, television, pop culture
and social history
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THE BAND
David Gates
Guitar, vocals, bass, keyboards
James Griffin
Guitar, vocals, keyboards
Rob Royer
Bass, guitar, vocals, flute, keyboards
Mike Botts
Drums
Larry Knechtel
Bass, guitar, keyboards
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Bread
Bread stated out as Elektra Records studio session musicians
and originally intended the group to be wholly studio-based. The
reception for their first album in 1969, and the hit single Make
It With You changed the minds of Gates, Griffin, Botts and
Royer (who was later replaced by Larry Knechtel).
The band members had been playing for years and at one time or
another had backed up Chuck Berry, Carl Perkins, Clarence
'Frogman' Henry, Glen Campbell, Duane Eddy and Merle Haggard.
Jimmy Griffin had also written songs for Lesley Gore and Bobby Vee
and acted in For Those Who Think Young (1964) and None
But The Brave (1965).
The group had several hits before splitting up in 1977. The
group reconvened for a reunion tour in 1997.
Jimmy Griffin died at his Nashville home of complications
arising from cancer, on 11 January 2005.
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