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Mike Botts
aka Michael Botts
real name Michael Gene Botts
Oakland, United States
Mike Botts is credited on 616 releases across 127 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1969–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
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Albums
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Decades active
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Biography
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Michael Botts born December 8, 1944 in Oakland, California and died December 9, 2005 in Burbank, California was the drummer of 1970s soft rock band Bread and a studio musician.
Bio from Discogs
Credited work
616 releases · 127 albums · active 1969–2025
- Performance · 986
- Other credits · 97
- Production · 7
Studios: Elektra Sound Recorders · Sound Recorders, Hollywood · Sound Labs, Hollywood · Larrabee Sound Studios
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Footloose (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
1984
The Best Of Bread
1973
Greatest Hits
1976
Physical
1981
Hasten Down The Wind
1976
Greatest Hits Volume Two
1980
Baby I'm-A Want You
1972
A Quiet Normal Life (The Best Of Warren Zevon)
1986
Urban Cowboy (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
1980
Totally Hot
1978
Bombs Away Dream Babies
1979
The Simpsons Sing The Blues
1990
The Best Of Bread (Volume Two)
1974
The Envoy
1982
You're Only Lonely
1979
Guitar Man
1972
Manna
1971
Lost Without Your Love
1977
What's Wrong With This Picture?
1976
The Sound Of Bread - Their 20 Finest Songs
1977
Bradley's Barn
1968
Anthology Of Bread
1985
All This And Heaven Too
1978
Linda Ronstadt
1971
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