Kenny Bassender (Part 2)
www.cafepress.com/dfearstudios – KENNY SHIRTS Part 1: www.youtube.com Part 3: www.youtube.com Full Title: Kenny Bassender’s Quest For Greatness With the Underground Association of Puppydog Racers Kenny Bassender has never been great. At anything. Sports, girls, school…he’s never anything better than never the best. “Mediocrity flows through my veins.” But, as in all adventures worth making a movie about, things are about to change for Kenny. Brad, a slick, mysterious boy Kenny’s age approaches him with an opportunity for greatness. A place where you don’t need to be great…to be great. Special Thanks to Dustin Hamlin for the gun effect! Check out his short, MOON QUEST! www.youtube.com
Bread was a late 60s/70s rock/pop band from Los Angeles, California. They were one of the most popular rock groups of the early 1970s, a primary example of what later was labeled “soft rock”, releasing a string of well-crafted, melodic soft rock singles. The band consisted of David Gates, Jimmy Griffin, Robb Royer, Mike Botts, and Larry Knechtel. Gates, Griffin, and Royer joined together in 1968 and signed with Elektra Records choosing the name Bread in 1969. Gates and Griffin had both worked with Royer’s previous band, The Pleasure Fair. Bread’s first single, “Dismal Day”, was released in June 1969 but did not chart. Their debut album, Bread, was released in September 1969 and peaked at #127 on the Billboard 200. Songwriting on the album was split evenly between Gates and the team of Griffin-Royer. Jim Gordon, a top session player, accompanied the band on drums for the album. Bread became a quartet with their second album, On the Waters (peaking at #12 on the Billboard 200), bringing in Botts as drummer. This time their efforts quickly established Bread as a major act, hitting the mainstream with the Billboard Hot 100 #1 hit “Make It with You” in 1970. “Make It With You” would be Bread’s only number one hit on the Hot 100. For their next single, they released a re-recorded version of “It Don’t Matter to Me”, a Gates song from their first album. This single was a hit as well, reaching #10. Bread began touring and recording the 1971 album titled Manna (#21), which included …
