There will never be another decade like the 70s. Where did all the groups like Bread and Sylistics go? With the exception of singers like Adele, the industry is pretty sad. For those of us who grew up in the 70s, it was a magical time.
I was stationed at Minot AFB, North Dakota spending many freezing and lonely nights on the flight line guarding B52s and this song was played a lot on the local radio station. I remember looking up at the black North Dakotan sky which was saturated with stars along with the Aurora Borealis. This song helped get me through those cold nights. It " Kept me goin'" A great song. Great memories.
Wow. That was so vivid. Your comment made me think of my carefree childhood days sitting on the roof of our cab while staring at the moon. Ahhhh.... those days.
This is literally the first song I can ever remember hearing. I remember my dad played if for me in the car one time picking up from school in ‘06, every day after that, I asked him to play the guitar man song. Man this is a classic that won’t ever get old for me❤️
Growing up in the sixties and seventies I never realized how incredibly good so many groups were/are. I was growing up in the golden age of rock n roll. Rock on!
English is my second language, as a child I liked the songs in that language, the only thing I regret is that no longer they make songs like that, they musicians, no longer have the feeling of that time, there is something special in these songs. I think they wont come back again, excellent group
+Freddy Debourg if you listen to radio you won't hear this. You actually have to search for music like this. It exists but now you have to look harder for it
Steve Wright on Radio 2 played this yesterday afternoon .Great song which I hadn't heard for years .thats why I'm here.Steves show is great and it's in the UK but you can stream it abroad.
Hats off to our Dads. The late , great Jimmy Griffin is buried in the same cemetery as my Dad in Memphis, Tn. All the members of Bread are gone now except David Gates. RIP boys, you were good.
I sure miss those days when life just seemed a little easier . I think the world just got in a big hurry and why I don't know but I just think we need to slow down some.
Superb. Always loved the melancholy in that song. Lovely guitar here by a young Dean Parks. The original version had featured lead guitar from the late, great Larry Knechtel. The same man who played piano on 'Bridge over Troubled Water', organ on 'Good Vibrations' and bass on 'Mr Tambourine Man'. Some legacy, eh?
Right, a shame, Larry Knechtel plays the bass here, one of the best and most booked session musician then, Wrecking Crew, Simon and Garfunkel, Doors, Association, Fifth Dimension and so much more.
I grew up in the 80s and we had pretty good music but you guys in the 70s REALLY had the best music era of all time. I sometimes cant get over the level of talent that was in the 70s. Even some of our beloved 80s bands like Hall & Oates, Depeche Mode, and The Police started in the 70's...Thanks for the upload-Its the best version Ive found.
Awesome song that can all be played in first position chords. I love Bread, one of the most heartfelt bands that ever was, and that I suspect will ever be.
My 13 year old "head-banger" son finally told Me the other day that he loved this song! I'm an "old" head - banger but this is the music I grew up with and I still love it more then today's music! I hugged my son and said "Thank you"! I knew you'd come around!!!
I was a 6 yr old kid when Bread came out with some of the best songs. Just turned 50: They are still one of the best bands ever... David your voice is God sent. This is actually my husbands account, he is MY guitar man. Love to all who are blessed to be able to play.
An excellent live version of a great tune by Bread! These guys put out one great tune after another back in the fabulous 1970s! Bravo, David Gates, James Griffin (R.I.P.), Robb Royer, Larry Knechtel (R.I.P.) & Mike Botts (R.I.P.)!
A classic at it's best. The future is here, the music isn't, we go back in time to live the feeling lost , the soul, the rythme and melody. These are the times not forgotten
Well I know it is a great advantage if you play guitar and sing a song, you always gather people around you. I call my guitar my friend! And he gives me the friends I am looking for!
I went to San Fran recently and listened to this one on the ipod as I was walking around. So cool. Love the 70s stuff. Keep rockin' everyone. Remember there's a lot of kindred spirits out there, Shirley
this is a song that I cannot ever forget..when I was 21 yrs old I contacted bacterial endocarditis and almost died....I spent 2 months in a hospital in Newark and thank God for Dr. Leon Smith who saved my life. My Mom was deathly afraid of driving in a car but she came to see me every day...when I came home the song that was playing in the house was Guitar Man...I will never forget that..
I don't know why but this was always one of my favorite David Gates (BREAD) tunes. I guess the simplicity of the song and the good melody of it. Of course Gate's voice hooked up with this song just, well, WORKS! It's also a common song for many new Guitarist's to learn to play and sing to. Thanks David for the wonderful memories. I would love to see a BREAD reunion tour although I know a few of the members have passed on. A Bread reunion tour would be so awesome. Gates can STILL SING!
This was one if my favorite songs of that time period and I totally agree. We had our issues but it was a simpler more laid back era. Today the world moves too fast and most people seem so wrapped up in themselves to care about others,
Nice. My first new car was the '72 Dodge Charger SE, w/concealed headlights, 440CI V8 w/4 bbl. Traded it in 3 years later for a dull "family car" following marriage and expecting first child. Dunno WTF i was thinking. Boy, those were the days though!
I have no idea what the comments mean above---------I remember listening to this 45 over and over when I was shorter then I am now. Still makes me cry! I was not two years old at the time of this concert! Still love it! Thank you!
i was only 2 years old when this song came out. now im 40yrs old and just started jamming this song with my kids. we just watched this music clip. And we love too sing and jam with...............cool..
What a glorious narrative. Bread could take you for a ride with every song. Love songs, songs of daily grind, travelling songs...they could write them all with equal aplomb.
During the 70s, we liked Deep Purple, Led, Black Sabbath; however, we had The Bread in high steem, since they were exceptional composing and playng ballads. Good times.
The lead guitarist in the yellow and black shirt is the studio legend Dean Parks. He played a vintage triple humbucker rare Les Paul guitar in black (exactly like Peter Frampton’s). The 1972 studio version of this song featured Larry Knechtel playing lead guitar 🎸, as well as bass guitar on the original track. Cool 😎 stuff! Larry played the piano on Simon and Garfunkel’s “Bridge Over Troubled Water” song, amongst being a member of The Wrecking Crew studio band, which he played on most of The Beach Boys “Pet Sounds” LP, and the legendary unreleased “Smile” LP, along with him playing on so many other bands hit songs since the early 1960’s.....
ive been a guitarman for 25years and the journey is awsome id hear this song as a kid on the radio stone age time to today but better as you had real friends not computer friends back then you experienced good parties lots of naughty woman lots of danger fast cars with pride as today they have toy cars we had v8s life without guitar for me is life without food everyday music today is made for slow minded people simple minds music in the past was adventure a story a feeling of pride thats why it lives still to this day
excelente tema, recuerdo cuando era adolescente y lo escuché por primera vez.... gracias por subirlo, poco queda por decir de la musica de esos tiempos... MUSICA PARA SIEMPRE !!!!
I remember hanging out in the music lounge at Bayway U ( NJ), in early 1972, Sharing a bone with some of my friends, with the music of bread on the stereo. It was sweet music back then, and it's still sweet music today.
ME TOO PROUDAMERICAN57 I AM A PROUDAMERICAN53, WELL BORN IN '53, AND YEAH, THE 70'S WERE A GREAT TIME FOR ALL GENRES OF MUSIC.....RIGHT ON BREAD, THANKS FOR POSTING & UPLOADING FOR ALL TO ENJOY, THANKS FOR YOUR COMMENT.....
My brain is trapped in the 70s. Many songs such as this one and “if” wake me from a sound sleep. Maybe a time capsule takes me back to a wonderful time of life while I am sleeping.. That actually could be a great song..
There will never be another decade like the 70s. Where did all the groups like Bread and Sylistics go? With the exception of singers like Adele, the industry is pretty sad. For those of us who grew up in the 70s, it was a magical time.
I agree with your comment about Adele,she is such a depressing singer,making younger people who don't have much confidence, SUICIDAL.
My thoughts exactly. These were the best years for original music
I completely agree with you, Sir! There will never be another decade like the 70´s... best regards from Brasil
It's Sunday morning July 2023 and I'm on a Bread nostalgia marathon. Such good memories, the music holds up 50+ years later!
O, September, 2023, been a long time and a lot of memories ago.sweet!
Yo tengo 69 años y la música de los 70s me traen muchos recuerdos
I was stationed at Minot AFB, North Dakota spending many freezing and lonely nights on the flight line guarding B52s and this song was played a lot on the local radio station. I remember looking up at the black North Dakotan sky which was saturated with stars along with the Aurora Borealis. This song helped get me through those cold nights. It " Kept me goin'" A great song. Great memories.
Thank you for your service, Sir.
God Blessed you and your services.
Thou art understood in this camp, dear Muad' Dib ... very much so ...
Wow. That was so vivid. Your comment made me think of my carefree childhood days sitting on the roof of our cab while staring at the moon. Ahhhh.... those days.
That and pulling yourself
This is literally the first song I can ever remember hearing. I remember my dad played if for me in the car one time picking up from school in ‘06, every day after that, I asked him to play the guitar man song. Man this is a classic that won’t ever get old for me❤️
Bread is one of the most unappreciated bands of all time. Their music is fantastic, the dj
From Tulsa Oklahoma 👍
@@jazzdad24 Thanks! the dj
lol only sold 10 mil albums 😅😅😅
A time when music had expression and no auto-tune needed because artist had a voice.
David Gates has the most Hauntingly Beautiful Voice. I love this song.
I agree 100%. I feel the same way.
Alberdina Degraaf
Agreed ❤
Cricket Lee .. you right .. but don't forget the amazing voice also of Dennis Yost ( classic lV )
I hadn't heard this song in so long I forgotten how good of a band Bread was.Hearing this was like a blast from the past.
Growing up in the sixties and seventies I never realized how incredibly good so many groups were/are. I was growing up in the golden age of rock n roll. Rock on!
English is my second language, as a child I liked the songs in that language, the only thing I regret is that no longer they make songs like that, they musicians, no longer have the feeling of that time, there is something special in these songs. I think they wont come back again, excellent group
+Freddy Debourg - I think musicians do . but you won't get these songs on the airwaves these days.
maybe people have lost their feelings too
+Freddy Debourg if you listen to radio you won't hear this. You actually have to search for music like this. It exists but now you have to look harder for it
sad but true
Steve Wright on Radio 2 played this yesterday afternoon .Great song which I hadn't heard for years .thats why I'm here.Steves show is great and it's in the UK but you can stream it abroad.
I feel like I'm back in the 70s. That's a good thing
roy jurich....The 70’s sucked. Therefore, you suck too ?
The 70's were the best, we had hot fast cars , cool cloths , and the best music .✌🎵
...and sexy woman with warm smiles.
and no...cellphones...
Those bell bottoms got old fast, though.
@@bradford_shaun_murray 0⁰,,,
I loved to see the girls in them high wasted blue jeans. Still cool. And its coming back in style. Get ready 60 and 70's. We are making a comeback?!
Simply love this song. Beautiful voice and simpler time. When it was truly great . 🎼🎼❤️❤️
My dad played this when I was young in the 70's...thanks dad
Hats off to our Dads. The late , great Jimmy Griffin is buried in the same cemetery as my Dad in Memphis, Tn. All the members of Bread are gone now except David Gates. RIP boys, you were good.
Brian Drewry There is only one left?
Yep, but point noted.
I sure miss those days when life just seemed a little easier . I think the world just got in a big hurry and why I don't know but I just think we need to slow down some.
The 70's were so cool in America, it was chill, I remember....
Amen, I totally agree. Take me back to the 60-70s era & leave me there.
Maybe that's just how getting old feels.
Right on !
I would like to dedicated to a old pal died of cancer very quick God bless him 😊 x
They produced some of the best music. This classic never gets old just so much better.
This song is a masterpiece it brings back memories .
Superb. Always loved the melancholy in that song. Lovely guitar here by a young Dean Parks.
The original version had featured lead guitar from the late, great Larry Knechtel. The same man who played piano on 'Bridge over Troubled Water', organ on 'Good Vibrations' and bass on 'Mr Tambourine Man'. Some legacy, eh?
Right, a shame, Larry Knechtel plays the bass here, one of the best and most booked session musician then, Wrecking Crew, Simon and Garfunkel, Doors, Association, Fifth Dimension and so much more.
I mean of the Wrecking Crew squad.
THANKYOU!!! My big dude for theses explanations!!!
@@clannad99germany70And the piano on Johnny Rivers’ “Rockin’ Pneumonia.” 🎹
@@clannad99germany70Wait, that’s Larry Knechtel here on … bass???
I grew up in the 80s and we had pretty good music but you guys in the 70s REALLY had the best music era of all time. I sometimes cant get over the level of talent that was in the 70s. Even some of our beloved 80s bands like Hall & Oates, Depeche Mode, and The Police started in the 70's...Thanks for the upload-Its the best version Ive found.
couldn't agree more.
Yes we did, and Thank you Vietnam Era music. Old Combat Vet Tom 1970.
Good love making music with hubby almost 40 years ago. Love Bread, Steely Dan, The Eagles, Three Dog Night!
Still takes me back to the 70s and 80s.
This is one of the World's most beautiful songs.. A Timeless Classic.
Bread is the forgotten group of those days.
Very talented
Never forgotten.
We were so lucky to have tunes like this on the radio when i was a kid....much appreciated.
David Gates and Jimmy Griffin, talk about your power house of talent! Is there anything more beautiful than the sound of Gates' voice?
That guitar solo is really crazy!
I love it!
Played it over and over again. Bada$$ guitar lead🤘😎
Been listening to Bread for years. This version of Guitar man is splendid.
Awesome song that can all be played in first position chords. I love Bread, one of the most heartfelt bands that ever was, and that I suspect will ever be.
My old friend introduced me to this song. She passed away much too young, too soon. Thank you, Suzanne. This ones for you.
very sorry, deb.
Yes.i had a friend who took her own life aged 16.we had both loved this song. Rest in peace lynne.still think of you.x
Aahh...Bread. One of my guilty pleasures.
What a band they are . They do what they do the best .
My 13 year old "head-banger" son finally told Me the other day that he loved this song! I'm an "old" head - banger but this is the music I grew up with and I still love it more then today's music! I hugged my son and said "Thank you"! I knew you'd come around!!!
Underrated band to many
Oldies but goodies 😊
The 70's and 80's were the best music 🎶.
I was very young. Nice music.
this is a tune to sit outside with friends and just enjoy
Damn good observation...
I was a 6 yr old kid when Bread came out with some of the best songs. Just turned 50: They are still one of the best bands ever... David your voice is God sent. This is actually my husbands account, he is MY guitar man. Love to all who are blessed to be able to play.
Ok, 191 Justin Beiber fans must of stumbled on this GREAT SONG!!
Amazing memories....love you Mom & Dad
LOL
I can't help it, I miss his voice so much! Thank you for that beautiful God given voice!
This is what we can call music !
+Gladys Moreno ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh yea
+Gladys Moreno It is music, and good writing, well thought out. I'm sure Bread had formal music training, before trying for the big time.
I call it bread.
An excellent live version of a great tune by Bread! These guys put out one great tune after another back in the fabulous 1970s!
Bravo, David Gates, James Griffin (R.I.P.), Robb Royer, Larry Knechtel (R.I.P.) & Mike Botts (R.I.P.)!
These are some times I grew up on old & new.
Beautiful Bread songs ,Thanks for sharing.
What's softer than Bread.
That guitar solo tho, cuts right through me.
A classic at it's best. The future is here, the music isn't, we go back in time to live the feeling lost , the soul, the rythme and melody.
These are the times not forgotten
Well I know it is a great advantage if you play guitar and sing a song, you always gather people around you. I call my guitar my friend! And he gives me the friends I am looking for!
I love songs about guitar playing like this song from Bread. I also think of George Harrison: 'While my guitar gently weeps'!
Thank you metal1369
I went to San Fran recently and listened to this one on the ipod as I was walking around. So cool. Love the 70s stuff. Keep rockin' everyone. Remember there's a lot of kindred spirits out there,
Shirley
Best decade ever
Agradeço a participação de todos no canal vejo que tem bom gosto
this is a song that I cannot ever forget..when I was 21 yrs old I contacted bacterial endocarditis and almost died....I spent 2 months in a hospital in Newark and thank God for Dr. Leon Smith who saved my life. My Mom was deathly afraid of driving in a car but she came to see me every day...when I came home the song that was playing in the house was Guitar Man...I will never forget that..
I don't know why but this was always one of my favorite David Gates (BREAD) tunes. I guess the simplicity of the song and the good melody of it. Of course Gate's voice hooked up with this song just, well, WORKS! It's also a common song for many new Guitarist's to learn to play and sing to. Thanks David for the wonderful memories. I would love to see a BREAD reunion tour although I know a few of the members have passed on. A Bread reunion tour would be so awesome. Gates can STILL SING!
I heard this song while watching on TV-Maid in Manhattan,so I miss Bread's songs,especially,guitar man is very special.thank you very much.
This was one if my favorite songs of that time period and I totally agree. We had our issues but it was a simpler more laid back era. Today the world moves too fast and most people seem so wrapped up in themselves to care about others,
ha...try 2023
Thank you for your wonderful memories of music of it is played.
My first new car, a 1972 Plymouth Road Runner. I thought I was Richard Petty. I rapped it around a pole near SPS in Jenkintown, PA.
Nice. My first new car was the '72 Dodge Charger SE, w/concealed headlights, 440CI V8 w/4 bbl. Traded it in 3 years later for a dull "family car" following marriage and expecting first child. Dunno WTF i was thinking. Boy, those were the days though!
JTP! Sorry, I've seen too much reruns of The Goldbergs
I have no idea what the comments mean above---------I remember listening to this 45 over and over when I was shorter then I am now. Still makes me cry! I was not two years old at the time of this concert! Still love it! Thank you!
One of the coolest bands ever with those great hits! Love the Bread. Frank Sanso
i was only 2 years old when this song came out. now im 40yrs old and just started jamming this song with my kids. we just watched this music clip. And we love too sing and jam with...............cool..
Used to thrash Bread back in the early 70s with my mono cassette player, boy those were the days.
This song never fails to make me cry.. Even I myself am not sure why I am crying over this.. It's just beautifully sad..
David Gates has to be the most underrated songwriter of the last 40 years.
What a glorious narrative. Bread could take you for a ride with every song. Love songs, songs of daily grind, travelling songs...they could write them all with equal aplomb.
Thank You GOD for the Gibson Les Paul.
What a great live version of a fantastic recording; 97 poor souls got lost somewhere...
Sinto uma emoção tão forte escutando essa música.... 2020 aqui!🇧🇷
One of my favorite songs of all-time. A sublime classic.
bread-Guitar man Muito linda essa musica Amo Amo Amo Muito...
my brother brought home many bread albums in the 70,s thanks for letting me wear em out bro love ya.
Haunting song about a Rock Star/Guitarist that doesn't want to let go...
During the 70s, we liked Deep Purple, Led, Black Sabbath; however, we had The Bread in high steem, since they were exceptional composing and playng ballads. Good times.
The lead guitarist in the yellow and black shirt is the studio legend Dean Parks. He played a vintage triple humbucker rare Les Paul guitar in black (exactly like Peter Frampton’s).
The 1972 studio version of this song featured Larry Knechtel playing lead guitar 🎸, as well as bass guitar on the original track. Cool 😎 stuff! Larry played the piano on Simon and Garfunkel’s “Bridge Over Troubled Water” song, amongst being a member of The Wrecking Crew studio band, which he played on most of The Beach Boys “Pet Sounds” LP, and the legendary unreleased “Smile” LP, along with him playing on so many other bands hit songs since the early 1960’s.....
The best neck nibbling music ever, brings back memories . Of dances in St Thomas hospital medical school
Gott im Himmel ! There's some really special music from the last sixty years !
ive been a guitarman for 25years and the journey is awsome id hear this song as a kid on the radio stone age time to today but better as you had real friends not computer friends back then you experienced good parties lots of naughty woman lots of danger fast cars with pride as today they have toy cars we had v8s life without guitar for me is life without food everyday music today is made for slow minded people simple minds music in the past was adventure a story a feeling of pride thats why it lives still to this day
THIS A GREAT SONG .
Music that marked the season, I was a child at the time, it is in these footsteps that I became a musician, playing drums etc ...
excelente tema, recuerdo cuando era adolescente y lo escuché por primera vez.... gracias por subirlo, poco queda por decir de la musica de esos tiempos... MUSICA PARA SIEMPRE !!!!
I agree this song embodies nothing short of pure excellency and perfection. It is flawless, flawless.
100% agreed, we do need to slow down, Peace to all 🌎❤✌
where music was filled with meaning, love and RocknRoll....miss that!
I love this Song :)
Love this Song
My first cassette in my first car. Won't forget it. Thank you, Bread.
Love it!
I remember hanging out in the music lounge at Bayway U ( NJ), in early 1972, Sharing a bone with some of my friends, with the music of bread on the stereo. It was sweet music back then, and it's still sweet music today.
I sure miss those laid back awesome days
ME TOO PROUDAMERICAN57 I AM A PROUDAMERICAN53, WELL BORN IN '53, AND YEAH, THE 70'S WERE A GREAT TIME FOR ALL GENRES OF MUSIC.....RIGHT ON BREAD, THANKS FOR POSTING & UPLOADING FOR ALL TO ENJOY, THANKS FOR YOUR COMMENT.....
right on
I wish I could relive the 70s all over again, Born in 63
My dads favorites song!
Doesn't matter where I am or what I am doing, I can always find time to enjoy this song. Classic.
Love this tune! They just don't write them like this anymore....
I'm a freshman in Highschool. And this is the best song ever. I absolutely am in love with Bread. \m/
Bitter sweet dream songs
awesome as always the 70 s
My brain is trapped in the 70s. Many songs such as this one and “if” wake me from a sound sleep. Maybe a time capsule takes me back to a wonderful time of life while I am sleeping.. That actually could be a great song..
Supernatural Season 11 Episode 4
"BABY"
The "Guitar Man" rules!!!!! Remember this song back in 72-ohh those were the days!!!! Not just the music but those lyrics!!!!
David Gates, come on guys not only a "chick" song! Listen to that guitar..Check out Cakes version of this beautiful song I so love it.
+JennaP46 OOOh cool, I didn't know Cake did a version. I will check it out and I appreciate the recommendation.
JennaP46
The Cake version brought me here lol. What a great song!!
This songs are considerated for me like "old songs true" that we Will LOVE for ever and ever
great song
I am 50 and still loving The Guitar Man~~~~~~~~~`
This singing style has some vocal inflections that remind me of Edie Brickell. Wonder if they're from the same place or something.
The way the 70s and early 80s were, many nights these Bread songs were very mellow and soft. Very good time.
I need me a guitar man...Or a drummer
How about a one man band?
Mallika Chauhan could you settle for a lead singer?
Mallika Chauhan to take an axe guitar player
@@MallikaMenon Or a classical guitar player (fingerstyle)?
🎸🎸
Guitar man & Piano man. Two perfect songs from the 70's. Thks Bread and Billy Joel
Bread - Guitar Man (1972)
Check YOU out, Mike! I thought you were a hard-core rock man! lol It's nice to see you post a soft pop balled. I loved Bread, by the way.
Jan Hots Jan I love all types of music except heavy death metal .
feeling wonderful listening to this, am an oldies lover, the best songs ever!