Ambrosia - Paradise Theater, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A. 10-29-1978 (FM)

Ambrosia
Paradise Theater
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
October 29, 1978
WBCN 104.1 FM Broadcast Recording
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No Cover Art

Lineage: WBCN 104.1 FM Boston Pre-Recorded Broadcast > Sansui 8 Reciever With Wire Antenna > Unknown Reel Deck @ 3.3/4 ips > Maxell UD 35-90 Master Reel > 1st Gen. Maxell UD 90 Minute Cassette Copy > Played On Tascam 112 Into Soundforge (Wav) > Flac (sb's aligned)

01 Life Beyond L.A 6:19
02 If Heaven Could Find Me 4:46
03 Not As You Were 4:15
04 How Much I Feel 5:47
05 And... Somewhere I've Never Traveled > 5:12
06 Nice, Nice, Very Nice 6:07
07 The Brunt 5:39
08 Band Intros/Holding On To Yesterday 5:55
09 Can't Let A Woman (Get Into My Head) 6:23
10 I Wanna Know 7:17

David Pack vocals, guitar
Chris North keyboards
David Cutler Lewis keyboards
Joe Puerta lead vocals, bass
Burleigh Drummond drums, percussion, background vocals

My first experience hearing Ambrosia was when I was in Junior High School, about 13 or 14 years old. It was in my literature class and we were reading the novel Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There. We had read the poem The Jabberwocky and this kid named Kieth says "Ambrosia put that on their album". The teacher said to bring it in so he did the next day. The teacher played the song "Mama Frog" which is the one with the Jabberwocky section. We then discussed the presentation of the poem in the song etc. After the discussion the teacher says we can read and listen to the music.

The music of the first 2 Ambrosia records mined the same waters of Commercial Progressive Rock that Kansas did. The difference being that Ambrosia tempered their Progressive Rock leanings with the Arena Rock of say Toto while Kansas paired theirs with more of a Mainstream Hard Rock sound. Ambrosia wanted to hit the Rock Singles Radio stations. Kansas wanted the FM Album Rock audience. This show catches Ambrosia on tour to support their 3rd album Life Beyond L.A. This album marked a further watering down of their sound, to where the Prog-Rock tendencies were non-existent. The follow up One Eighty went even further down that pathway. It earned the band some chart hits however. Both "How Much I Feel" and "Biggest Part Of Me" hit #3 on The Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart. The bands 5th album Road Island was a welcomed return to the Progressive Music of the 1st 2 LPs.

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