Ambrosia
5th Floor Studios
Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
November 15, 1978
Pre-FM Recording
Flac Level 8 & MP3 320kbps
Front Cover Only
Transfer Lineage: Goldwave (Volume Boost, Compression > Dither to 16b) > Media Monkey (Flac Transfer L8)
01 Intro
02 Life Beyond L.A.
03 If Heaven Could Find Me
04 Not As You Were
05 How Much I Feel
06 And...Somewhere I've Never Traveled
07 Nice, Nice, Very Nice
08 The Brunt
09 Band Intros/Holding On To Yesterday
10 Can't Let A Woman
11 I Wanna Know
David Pack vocals, guitar
Chris North keyboards
David Cuter Lewis keyboards
Joe Puerta lead vocals, bass
Burleigh Drummond drums, percussion, backing vocals
The Traders Den torrent tracker is shutting down. I've been a member for some time and have a pretty good ratio so I'm downloading as much as I can before October 19th. A sad occasion but it will bring a lot more shows to my collection. That in turn brings more to yours. This is one of those recordings, a Pre-FM Ambrosia show how about that. This should help with the it's only Wednesday blues....
Flac
MP3
Wednesday, September 25, 2024
Ambrosia - 5th Floor Studios: Cincinnati, Ohio, USA November 15, 1978 (Pre-FM)
Sunday, November 22, 2020
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
Flac & MP3 320kbps
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 Fog" which is the one with the Jabberwocky section. We then discussed the presentation of the peom 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.
Sunday, July 2, 2017
Lou Reed, Larry Graham, & Ambrosia - Don Kirshner's Rock Concert Dress Rehearsals xx-xx-1980 (SBD) DVD Audio Rip
Don Kirshner's Rock Concert
Dress Rehearsals
xx-xx-1980
Soundboard Recording
DVD Audio Rip
MP3 320kbps
No Cover Art
Screen Shots Included
Lineage: Bootleg DVD > DVD Audio Extractor v4.5.5 > Goldwave v 6.28 (editing) > Traders Little Helper (align sector boundaries) > MP3 320kbps
01 - Lou Reed - Tuning
02 - Lou Reed - Standing On Ceremony (1st Take)
03 - Lou Reed - Standing On Ceremony (2nd Take)
04 - Lou Reed - So Alone (false start)
05 - Lou Reed - So Alone
06 - Lou Reed - Walk On The Wild Side (false start)
07 - Lou Reed - Walk On The Wild Side
08 - Larry Graham - Can You Handle That/The Jam (false start)
09 - Larry Graham - Can You Handle That/The Jam
10 - Larry Graham - When We Get Married (false start)
11 - Larry Graham - When We Get Married
12 - Larry Graham - When We Get Married (reprise)
13 - Larry Graham - One In A Million You (tuning & false start)
14 - Larry Graham - One In A Million You
15 - Larry Graham - Larry's Bass Jam
16 - Ambrosia - Tuning
17 - Ambrosia - Rock And A Hard Place (1st take)
18 - Ambrosia - No Big Deal (false start)
19 - Ambrosia - No Big Deal
20 - Ambrosia - Tuning
21 - Ambrosia - You're The Only Woman (1st take)
22 - Ambrosia - Tuning
23 - Ambrosia - You're The Only Woman (2nd take)
24 - Ambrosia - Tuning
25 - Ambrosia - Shape I'm In
26 - Ambrosia - Tuning
27 - Ambrosia - Biggest Part Of Me
28 - Ambrosia - Kamikaze (false start)
29 - Ambrosia - Kamikaze
30 - Ambrosia - Tuning
31 - Ambrosia - Rock And A Hard Place (2nd take)
32 - Don Kirshner's Rock Concert Ending
total playing time: 1hr 56mn 26sc
tracks 01-07 Lou Reed
tracks 08-15 Larry Graham
tracks 16-32 Ambrosia
justdave's notes:
I ripped the waves with DVD Audio Extractor. I then used Goldwave to adjust the volume and re-edit some track marks. No EQ or noise reduction was used. I seperated all the tunings and false starts from each track so that you could listen to just the songs if you so wish. I encoded the waves to MP3 320kbps because the DVD had lossy audio.
This DVD is said to be dress rehearsals for Don Kirshner's Rock Concert, and seems so with there being no real audience. It is known that some bands were filmed with no audience present and then the audience was edited in later. This was confirmed by Kansas, who were on Kirshner Records. The band released their Rock Concert performance with their Sail On Box Set and talked about the filming in the intro to the DVD footage. So this could actually be a show taping. At the end of the last track the director thanks Ambrosia then tells the crew to prep the stage for John Cougar as the audio fades. They retake a few songs because of technical difficulties, if it was a dress rehearsal they wouldn't need a retake of Your The Only Woman because of a faulty drum mic. So I really think this is an actual taping that the audience will be dubbed in. Either way it's a pretty cool glimpse behind the scenes of Don Kishner's Rock Concert.
Sunday, August 10, 2014
Kansas / Ambrosia - Mayhem Symphonie ~ Syria Mosque, Pittsburgh, PA 10-31-1976 (Pre-FM)
Mayhem Symphonie - (PRRP 018)
Syria Mosque
Pittsburgh, PA
October 31, 1976
Pre-FM Recording - PRRP Remaster
Flac & MP3 320kbps
Cover Art Included
Rosebud's Pick
CD1
01 Intro (3:46)
02 Carry On Wayward Son (5:22)
03 Icarus-Borne On Wings Of Steel (5:44)
04 Down The Road (3:29)
05 Good Evening Introduction (1:28)
06 Mysteries And Mayhem/ (4:12)
07 Lamplight Symphony/ (2:30)
08 The Wall (4:49)
09 Introduction (1:38)
10 Lonely Wind (6:55)
11 What's On My Mind (3:33)
12 Miracles Out Of Nowhere (6:44)
13 Guitar Solo (3:24)
14 Child Of Innocence (4:30)
15 Introduction (1:07)
16 Keyboard Improv/ Drum Solo/Magnum Opus (13:44)
CD2
01 Song For America (9:45)
02 Violin Solo (4:07)
03 Cheyenne Anthem (Ending) (3:32)
04 Belexes (4:45)
Bonus Tracks
05 Interview with Kansas (7:21)
The Opening Act: Ambrosia
06 Make Us All Aware (6:30)
07 Can't Let A Women (6:38)
08 Holdin' On To Yesterday (6:12)
09 I Wanna Know (7:45)
10 World Leave Me Alone (4:33)
Kansas
Steve Walsh –Lead Vocals, Keyboards, Percussion
Kerry Livgren – Guitars, Keyboards
Rich Williams –Lead Guitars
Dave Hope –Bass Guitars
Phil Ehart–Drums & Percussion
Joe Puerta - vocals, bass, guitar
Burleigh Drummond - drums, percussion, vocals, bassoon
David Pack - vocals, guitars, keyboards
Christopher North - keyboards, backing vocals