David Gates plays a show in his hometown of Tulsa
every year or so. He looks like a 60 year old country
gentleman now, but his voice is still still sounds
like 1969....simply awesome. The time I saw him he did
not disappoint...he played all his Bread standards, a
few solo gems, and even a couple of new songs, one of
which was in the league of his Bread standards. I
would love to see another pop album from him. 

Rich B

Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 08:06:18 +0000
From: boim@att.net
To: audities@smoe.org
Subject: Crtics be damned
Message-ID: <102720030806.10442.3f1b@att.net>

Hi Michael,

In the 70's, like in this decade, I never was strongly
influenced by the 
critics. I had my own set of ears, if I liked a song
on the radio I bought 
their music and attended their gigs. 

You mention Bread, for example. They are one of my
favorites. Two distinct 
songwriters in David Gates and Jimmy Griffin, and
their songs were marvelous. 
They both were successful apart from Bread, and their
music is still being 
recorded - case in point, "Everything I Own" was just
done by the Connells 
and included on the 2003 Sparklefest CD. The Connells
performed it on Sparkle-
Saturday as well.


See ya,
Sherman



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