LOGAN – TOAST, the ultimate tribute to the 1970’s soft-rock band Bread, will perform here at the Ellen Eccles Theatre on Saturday, Oct. 14.
Hailing from Los Angeles, Bread had 13 hit songs on the Billboard Hot 100 charts between 1970 and 1977, practically inventing the soft-rock genre of music in that era.
Fronted by David Gates on vocals and a multitude of other musical instruments, Bread also featured musicians Jimmy Griffin, Robb Royer and Mike Botts, plus a variety of studio musicians who played on their albums.
The band was famously named after a timely bread delivery truck that arrived just as the band members were debating what to name themselves.
The group’s biggest hits — “Make It With You,” “If,” “Baby I’m-a Want You,” “Guitar Man” and “Everything I Own” — remain staples on lite-rock radio more than four decades after Bread’s fame.
Plagued by jealously and internal tensions, Bread dissolved in the late 1970s, with its members later reuniting under various names for nostalgic touring efforts.
In 1994, Royer and Griffin performed together under the name “Toast,” the same name that the Bread tribute band revived in 2017.
TOAST features the musical talents of Jeff Clark, Sam Cottrell, Brett Hart, Troy Jolly and Ken Shumway.
Back in 2017, Clark – whose tenor voice had long been compared to that of Gates – threw together “A Toast to Bread” concert at a local amphitheater in Salt Lake City with a few of his talented friends.
The audience ate it up and requests to perform in other venues began to pour in.
With the two surviving members of original band — Gates and Royer — happily retired, TOAST was born, the ultimate Bread experience.
With a surprising fidelity rarely heard from live tribute bands, TOAST’s sound is often noted as being “spot-on,” nearly duplicating the original Bread recordings.
Here in Logan, TOAST will present a “feel-good” show that includes all of Bread’s top hits and brings Baby Boomers’ fond memories of the 1970s flooding back.
Toast will perform at the Ellen Eccles Theatre at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 14.
Tickets can be purchased online at https://www.cachearts.org/.