First Time Hearing Bread - “Guitar Man” Reaction | Asia and BJ

[@showtime4243]

Bread is so underrated…fantastic singing and such relaxing music ! Keep those Bread reactions coming !

[@sergeeternal3778]

I totally agree with you 👍

[@personalcheeses8073]

Same comment for every band and on every post. Either that or they are overrated 😴

[@Wolverines77]

They are underappreciated, everyone loves them. They played in an era that was stocked with over 100 artists and bands that were easily on par with Bread. Quit trying to act like you have some juicy tidbit because you have latched on to an OVERRATED word...

[@AsiaandBJ]

So good!

[@balderdashpoppycockwellmay9498]

They're actually rated quite highly. I checked the board. 88%.

[@surlechapeau]

Asia & BJ, you’ll love their “Make It With You", "Baby I'm-a Want You" and "It Don't Matter To Me"!!!

[@metalmark1214]

For sure, the same ones I'd recommend.

[@surlechapeau]

@@metalmark1214 thank you

[@CodyCloudWalker]

If.

[@metalmark1214]

@@CodyCloudWalker Definitely, but they've already done that one

[@dontworrybehappy8080]

Diary is kinda messed up but a really good one too.

[@ralphfiligenzi6180]

Still sounding great after 50 years.

[@davidcohen7146]

Asia and BJ- Thanks once again for doing David Gates. You can never go wrong with him. The group was Bread but David Gates did it all. He was the lead singer, wrote all the songs, and played guitar. Your next song by them should be Diary. I really believe you will like this one.

[@mrcoldshower2823]

David wrote most of the songs, James Griffin(lead guitar) wrote & sings lead on a few. James co-wrote with Robb Royer(org bass player) even after Robb was replaced they continued to write songs.

[@Chris.Davis.2]

Love Diary, I was a little guy when they were on the radio and their greatest hits album ended up at our house and I was always attracted to the soft mellow tones and beautiful lyrics of David Gates and Bread.

[@kgjunior247]

Larry Knechtel on guitar. Same guy who played piano on Bridge Over Troubled Water by Simon and Garfunkel.

[@SweetThing]

Or Aubrey

[@pmsfar-outgrooviness8025]

@@mrcoldshower2823 David wrote and sang half the songs, all of the hits

[@carolynnewcomb2153]

“If” by Bread is my favorite- such a beautiful love song!

[@jairoantoniofictoriejovel4298]

For me is Guitar Man & Baby I need you

[@combatveteranusnavy2012]

I'm 70 years old now, and continue to thank God, for all the wonderful and incredible music I've experienced in my lifetime. From my first 45 rpm my mother bought me when I was 4 years old, which was Elvis Presley's "You Aint' Nothin but a Hound Dog" to AM-Radio, to FM-Radio starting in 1967, from Motown to Hard Rock. I've been truly blessed. Most of all, I was 12 years old when the 1st Beatles song "I Want to Hold Your Hand played on AM-Radio in 1964, which I listened to on my little AM Radio.

[@willblood7082]

When I was in high school in the 70s the 8-track “The Best of Bread” was an absolute necessity in your car for makeout sessions with your girl at the beach.

[@dontworrybehappy8080]

The Best of Bread, hell ya. Them is baby making music.

[@ron88303]

We didn't have a beach, but we did have Bread!

[@randygreen927]

True on both counts

[@ElusvOptmst1]

Another fantastic group of the 70's. Bread had lots of great tunes.

[@joewiley62]

I grew up around a bunch of musicians. I can't play anything or carry a tune in a 5 gal. bucket, but everytime I hear this song it takes me back to those friends..... Glad you guys played this one ..... Thanks

[@fredstauffer558]

I love when the children appreciate the music of their great grandparents….. We old folks had it going on in the 70’s and 80’s

[@eggy1962]

those guitar feelings you were both describing....seem in very short supply these days , todays artists seem to have forgotten that music should be felt as well as heard

[@kenpaden]

Welcome back to the 70s and the music of my youth!! I wish I would have been more aware of how great the music was back then.

[@mikeat2637]

David Gates is probably the most underrated songwriter around. He's a consummate professional and is a great singer also.

[@Rickynyc69]

Bread makes Asia real happy!

[@deborahcornell171]

Y'all are so right about the effect the guitar can have on you. I've been blessed to see so many great guitarists live...Hendrix, Jimmy Page (Zeppelin), Joe Walsh, Brian May (Queen), James Burton (with Elvis throughout the 70's) etc. I even got to meet Scotty Moore several years ago, the legendary pioneer who was with Elvis in their early days (& with him on the '68 Comeback Special). He was elderly but could still move you with his playing. I wish you could've experienced some of the moments I did, when the music they played soared through an arena & pierced you right in the heart. Speaking of guitarists who can pierce your heart, please react to Stevie Ray Vaughan, "Riviera Paradise" live in Austin 1989. It's an instrumental that's been known to bring grown men to tears. Stevie wrote it right after he got clean & sober & always dedicated it to "anyone out there still suffering". Please, that Austin City Limits version. 💙☮💙☮💙☮

[@deborahcornell171]

@@stevecontini5386 Robin Trower, yes. And Rory Gallagher, Ritchie Blackmore, Billy Gibbons. I feel very lucky. How about you? Any of the same?

[@SantiagoTM1]

Both of U truly love each other. I'm so jealous. I still listen to this type of real music, where one has to know how to actually play a musical instrument, & be able to sing. So glad I grew up with this type of music. Ppl, we had music/real football/baseball/NBA, & of course, Boxing. What a great time to have been a young man @the University. I'm so glad to have seen both of you guys grow as people & educating yourselves with epic music of all types.

[@DanielFrost21]

One of many great songs by Bread.

[@danbaldwin9511]

Another one of the All time Greats from the 70'S.

[@DEBBKIRK11171965]

Bread is definitely a Rabbit Hole worth going down! Their music is timeless! Thank y’all for always making me smile ❤️

[@francesthompson593]

Bread the Masters of Soft Rock no doubt!

[@davidpeters3857]

💯

[@mikewarker4445]

Bread was always the go to mood music for me in my prime dating years, however short they may have been. They were great then POOF they were gone

[@kellyhilton2330]

Love love love Bread 💗 playing this again 🤗😁🎶 thanks, y'all rock

[@warrenbishop6324]

Bj and Asia play Bread song Make it with you which was on the Midnight Special TV Show in 1978. This was a great ending song on the show. It was there only number one hit song. Asia would love this song because David Gates wrote it in the night time when his wife was asleep. Yes watched this one on the midnight special telecast which was there last concert before the band broke up, it's special God Bless and David is a strong Christian.

[@SG-js2qn]

Electric guitar is such an amazing instrument. It is so flexible in giving voice to music. And it's great in combination with other instruments that mimic the voice, like sax, trumpet, violin, and flute.

[@Stacy55ish]

You guys must explore the sounds of this band.

[@lindehughes2011]

IT DON'T MATTER TO ME is my very favorite song by Bread

[@mikehasit]

First heard this on A M radio when it was released in 1972. IMO opinion probably the best soft rock band ever.

[@Ritaholden1]

This song was one of my favorites growing up. My older sisters played this band a lot. Thank you for reaching to it.

[@michaelboley4428]

I love the verse in that song. You listen to the music and you want to sing along you want to get the message out of each and every song.

[@anexceleratedlife]

This song always reminds me of my dad. He would play anywhere there were people: churches, restaurants, malls, many shows in Branson, MO. He wasn’t breathing if he wasn’t playing.

[@roniboyd613]

One of my all-time fave groups! Thank you, I hope you can listen to more of their hits❤

[@cathyhall1350]

My favorite Bread song! The leader, David Gates, is. Tulsa Oklahoma native and went to the same high school I did.. just 10 years earlier, so he was super popular with us! 💕🎸🎼🎸✌️

[@JohnNiemsMusic]

Larry Knechtel who was in the WRECKING CREW who were the great studio musicians in the 50s 60s and 70s and he joined Bread for this album, and he played that LEAD GUITAR there and he played the Piano on BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER and was the only side musician in history I believe to get a grammy with Simon and Garfunkel and he almost got a writing credit for the piano part which he wrote for the song for Paul. David Gates was a good friend with Larry and when he recorded his solo music Larry was on his albums for that too! James Griffin also who was in Bread wrote some great songs too! THE R and R Hall of FAME is a joke with them not in it already!

[@zq9m3xh8]

For me, David Gilmour of Pink Floyd perfectly fits the image and lyrics to this song. That man's guitar has brought me way up, and Lord knows he's made me cry.

[@maryannprzybycien2013]

This song is bittersweet for me. Reminds me of my brother who passed away last year.

[@philipmccarthy6175]

Always loved this song , great vocals and guitar.

[@georgefrechette2707]

Classic 70's soft rock

[@ritchiec6317]

Dang I love bread. Thank You Tony. My older brother who introduced me to so MUCH GREAT MUSIC I LOVE YOU TONY FOREVER

[@tinanickerson1006]

Aww man havent listened to this song in YEARs!!! Gosh I forgot how beautiful that song is...great reaction you guys!!!!

[@kmach1000]

My favorite of Bread! Beautiful lyrics, beautiful guitar... And my favorite David Gates solo is Goodbye girl.

[@donnabannister793]

One of my favourite songs ever🎶🎶 for one of my favourite loved ones!!!🎸🔥🎸🔥 Thankyou for your awesome reaction Asia & Bj!!! ❤️❤️

[@AsiaandBJ]

My pleasure!!

[@hempchimp]

Those that hear "Everything I Own" by Bread need to know the context of the song. It is not about what you think it is. And when you understand it, it will floor you...

[@mariaportengen2959]

A real "goosebumps" song, so beautiful. 🎶🎶🎶🎸🎸🎸🎸

[@dannymoore6886]

The guitar part was played by Larry Knechtel who toured with Bread for a while but was better known as a member of Phil Spector's studio musicians known as The Wrecking Crew. Larry played on so many famous artists and albums too numerous to put down. Known more for his piano, keyboards, harmonica and bass playing. Guitar playing was not his strongest instrument. David Gates asked him to try a solo when his own and Bread's regular guitarist couldn't come up with anything they liked. Larry sat down with a guitar and wah wah pedal and knocked it out of the park. Larry played the piano on Simon and Garfunkel's Bridge Over Troubled Water for which he earned a Grammy. He's heard on studio cuts by The Byrds (Mr. Tambourine Man), Elvis Presley (If I Can Dream), The Doors (debut album), Barbara Streisand (Stoney End), Neal Diamond. He toured with Bread, The Dixie Chicks and Elvis Costello. He was inducted into the Musicians Hall of Fame. He died in 2009. R.I.P.

[@tammygilmer1228]

He also played piano on the Partridge Family...

[@danielkesselring9172]

Thanks for playing it.. been a minute and I forgot how great these lyrics are.. so relatable from the fan’s perspective in the story .. so deep..

[@clintjo2377]

Music with real feelings the sound back then was so amazing ! I am old now but I lived In a time when this was on the radio all the time ! I wouldn't trade those years for anything ❣

[@nathans3241]

I love hearing a string section performing background music in so many of these songs. A lot of music from the 60's and 70's had this type of addition. It brings a song to a different level and sounds so good.

[@sealdrup]

Fantastic, such a vibe. More Bread please!!

[@janabraam7963]

I love this song so much. Bread is great!

[@improperbostonian6722]

Bread with just one of their many epic tunes!

[@leobrotherton2398]

Nobody did it better than these guys back in those days. Sweet sweet sounds.

[@eddieschiaffo1385]

There greatest hits album is filled with hits....

[@Hawken54]

Larry Knechtel did the guitar solo. He was also skilled at the piano and played for Simon & Garfunkel for the song, Bridge Over Troubled Waters.

[@jonfazzone5125]

Great Song Made me immediately think of Johnny Lang song “Lie to Me”. Bread songs are soo chill & smooth

[@omercormier3849]

Bread did real relaxing stuff!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@robertwalker1803]

70’s heaven….and real hitmakers.

[@kornami8678]

Every song Bread ever did was fantastic. Lyrics and music was phenomenal. David Gates and Bread are genius.

[@dougstrong1750]

The guitar solo (with wah-wah pedal), was played by Larry Knechtel, a studio musician who was recruited to play electric bass for the band. He's most famous for his piano playing on Bridge Over Troubled Water. That's serious talent!

[@firedoc5]

You want to chill and mellow out, listen to Bread.

[@BobJohnson-mq2dr]

Always thought this was there coolest song

[@user-uw4wb7qo3i]

The ultimate guitar man is Brain May from Queen. I've met him several times, each time after shaking his hand, I go home and grab one of my guitars ... and sadly, I still sound like me.

[@craigslue]

These guys are the creator of the genre called Beautiful! They have so many beautiful songs. They should be in the HOF. They have been forgotten over time and it's just a shame and don't get their due.

[@dagmar.6954]

I grew up listening to the soft rock music of Bread in the 70's & had their albums. Love David Gates voice. He has one of the most soothing & mellow voices. They had so many hits such as "If", "Make It With You", "Baby I'm-a Want You", "Everything I Own", "Diary", "Lost Without Your Love", "It Don't Matter To Me", "Sweet Surrender" & "Aubrey". In 1978, Gates enjoyed success as a solo artist with the hit singles "Goodbye Girl" (from the movie The Goodbye Girl) & "Took The Last Train".

[@RaynorBear]

Yes, I love "Took the Last Train". Not too many people remember that one.

[@dannymemmory5094]

This song is from back when songs were recorded with the emotions of the players who wrote them 🙂🤓 I had completely forgotten about this song 🎵 Thank you for taking the time to play this song 🎵

[@shirleymongold1201]

One of my favorites

[@JAMESMOORE-gq4vv]

Everybody owned THE BEST OF BREAD back in the day.

[@micheleallen]

My favourite Beard song is Diary. Love them.

[@757optim]

When Beatlemania hit, there was a garage band on every street. The guitar was the soul of rock n roll. Computers have almost ripped the soul out of rock today.

[@LillyMarz777]

Almost? Rock is dead.

[@mynameispaul0530]

Magical song for sure.

[@lak12765]

This song takes me back as a little girl my parents taking us kids on roads trip and this song playing on the radio. Makes me feel so young every time. 🥰

[@crisbarber5404]

Bread was amazing. A lot of people interpreted this song as a drug pusher being the guitar man drifting from town to town.

[@lindawhite5006]

I love you guys! You're very open minded and that's what we need more of!!!

[@djprideone1]

bread is just classic .... jams after jams

[@pedroportalatin6751]

So many memories with my dad cruising in his 57 Chevy

[@carolynbarker160]

She's The Only One should be your next Bread listen! THANKS GUYS

[@moonbeam2062]

The last part sounds like he's basically talking about as the guitar man starts to age and is no longer in his prime, the voice starts to falter, the lights start to fade and the crowds start to thin (nobody comes to see him as much as before) He doesn't notice, he still just keeps going and looking for another place to play.

[@myowndrum286]

Weren't they wonderful? I listened to Bread a lot in the early 70s. Great easy-on-the-mind music. Their song If, is my favorite. Glad you two enjoyed them. It was fun watching you!

[@Redplane500]

I would love for you guys to talk about Bobby Caldwell and his style of music... listen to What You Wont Do For Love - I am curious as to your impressions

[@sharilynbratton6476]

I'm 60 and Bread was new and so popular back when I was a little girl, I loved them as a child and teenager and still do!

[@kerkcaptain4145]

I think you overlook the true message of this song. It is an anthem to any pro musician that does it for the love of it ..... a story of the rise and decline, and the dedication, as long as someone will listen. ....... BTW, check out Breads 'Don't Tell Me No' ...... probably the 'hardest' they ever got. LOL

[@moonbeam2062]

Always been one of my personal favorites by Bread!

[@gray6071]

Inspiration to learn how to play guitar way back summer 85 ... And other Bread greats of course. Thanks A n B

[@kathyrizzi8754]

I love this song & many others from BREAD!👍👏👏👏♥️♥️🌹

[@guitarman8462]

This song is also played with a slide. And the solo on a Wah Pedal.

[@bringingtolightnj9127]

Keep doing Bread songs, all of them. All of them are good.

[@Golddust427]

When David was young he used to play the clubs here with Elvin Bishop & Leon Russell.

[@chrisnicol1644]

Great song... Would love the hear Asia's version...

[@donvito2682]

This is one of my favorites of Bread

[@bkm2797]

Just love this tune, and of course Bread, thinking this is my favorite of theirs or at least up in the top three. Thanks Asia and BJ for the memories.

[@alboystewart2212]

Beautiful number I used to cover this in a band , some years back .. I was fortunate enough to be able to sing it , in the same key 🇬🇧🎸😉 Shaven headed guitarist with the shades 😎 on is the best rock guitarist in the world , by the way “ joe Satriani “ His back catalogue is incredible Check out “ if I could fly” “ flying in a blue dream” “ friends” “ war” amongst many , many others 👍😉 Guitar effect is a wah wah pedal

[@clivem.791]

Great tune and love that ur getting the vibe of the song, yep giving the song its deserved credit..

[@teresabunting6364]

This is my favorite Bread song.

[@carllegate8394]

I really enjoy watching yall's reaction to these songs. Yall do a really good job.

[@kathrynnard8059]

Diary by bread is a good song. Wishing someone well that doesn't return your love. Hard task to do but it shows true love.

[@randlnickel9196]

This guitar is So underrated

[@josephkriegel3162]

I love Asia! She seem like such a sweet soul. BJ is coming around which makes me smile. :)

[@juliettespain7994]

YAY!! GIVE ME SOME BREAD... cozy music for a evening park ur car and talk😉 such great conversations lol. Give me sum luvin. 💗💋💖💗💖💗💖💗💖💗💖💋 Happy Labor day weekend Asia and BJ. Reactions rock🎵🎸

[@ANNEAVES]

Thank you thank you. This is my favorite Bread song. I squealed when I saw you were going to react. More Bread. If you want to get into context how old this song is. David Gates is now 82!

[@jaemyrick5277]

The most inspiring and heartbreaking and beautiful series on tv “This Is US” bought me here. Guitar Man was in an episode. This is US series ended March 24 this year. If you and BJ are interested in seeing this show I highly recommend it. There 6 seasons now On Demand just click on NBC and other streaming channels. Asia and BJ you will need boxes of kleenex. 😭😭😭😭😭

[@maryblum8365]

Welcome to the bread basket. There are so many songs you need to discover Everything I own. David wrote it about the death of his father, Diary and Aubrey just to name a few