 | Ambrosia - Biggest Part Of Me
Tags: Burleigh, Christopher, David, Drummond, Joe, North, Pack, Puerta
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Ambrosia - Biggest Part Of Me
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 | Alesana - Ambrosia (LIVE)
Tags: Alesana, Ambrosia, Punkrockvids
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www.punkrockvids.com
Directed By:
Chris Heinrich
Filmed By:
Chris Heinrich
Josh Hewins
James Stephens
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 | AMBROSIA - You're The Only Woman ((Stereo))
Tags: 80, acayetan, ambrosia, balada, ballad, en, español, only, rock, romantic, romantica, the, woman, you're
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In 1980, Warner Bros. released One Eighty, a smash LP that produced two of the year's biggest hits, "You're the Only Woman", reaching number thirteen, and "Biggest Part of Me", which reached number three. This album featured the two new members, Lewis & Jones, although Lewis had contributed keyboard work on the Life Beyond LA album. They dedicated one of their songs to Sandie Clark, a mysterious woman as yet unknown.
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 | A Reminiscent Drive - Ambrosia
Tags: Alansky, Ambrosia, Bild, Clip, Drive, Electronic, Reminiscent, Ton, Video
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My personal version of "Ambrosia" by "A Reminiscent Drive". I made it on a Mac witch iMovie. My title: "Bild und Ton" (Picture and Sound).
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 | Ambrosia - Biggest Part Of Me Live
Tags: Ambrosia, Drummond, Music, North, Pack, Puerta
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Ambrosia playing Biggest Part Of Me Live
From June 1980
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 | Alesana - Ambrosia
Tags: Alesana, Alternative, Ambrosia, Fearless, Records, Rock
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Alesana is now on tour with Chiodos and Silverstein!
Check out www.myspace.com/alesana for tour dates and more details!
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 | Maruta - "Ambrosia"
Tags: ambrosia, Augusto, club, death, Eduardo, fest, gainesville, grindcore, Luna, maruta, metal, miami, Mitchell, Nick, pompano, red, Rotten
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Miami/Pompano's very own 3 man grindcore act performing "Ambrosia" at the Fest '06 in Gainesville at Club Red. Directed by Mikeal "MJ" Vassallo.
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 | Ambrosia (Time Waits For No One)
Tags: Rock
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The core members of the band were:
David Pack — guitar and lead vocals
Joe Puerta — bass and vocals
Christopher North — keyboards (primarily Hammond organ and Chamberlin)
Burleigh Drummond — Drums and vocals
[edit] Formation and inspiration
The members of Ambrosia decided on the moniker in 1970 to represent a vision of their music: all shades, textures, colors and styles. While many people are familiar with Ambrosia's radio hits of the 1970s, the songs on their five albums range from progressive to experimental.
The founding constituents of Ambrosia were reared in Southern California in the area known as The South Bay, later adopting San Pedro as their hometown. Their initial musical influences, like many of their generation, came from The Beach Boys and The Beatles. Ambrosia fused symphonic art rock with a slickly produced pop sound (J. Preston, n.d.).
According to Preston (n.d.), an early incarnation of the band began to experiment with harmonies, which led to an infatuation with Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. After the group attended a show at the Whisky a Go-Go to see an unknown but highly recommended new band called King Crimson, their perception of music changed forever.
The musicians, inspired by the progressive rock era, acquired a significant regional admiration for their inventive musicianship and skillful arranging. In 1971, Los Angeles Philharmonic conductor Zubin Mehta, who featured Ambrosia as part of a so-called All-American Dream Concert, discovered the group. However, it took them four additional years to obtain a recording contract (Ambrosia, 2005).
The major influences on Ambrosia's music include: Frank Zappa, The Allman Brothers, The Sons of Champlin, Yes, The Who, Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Traffic, Pink Floyd and later Genesis and Gentle Giant. On an individual basis, David Pack is a fan of Motown which is evident in his singing and song writing. Christopher North was classically trained, but is influenced by jazz and the blues. Burleigh Drummond had early training in stage acting, and Joe Puerta liked "anything that had a tone" (Preston, n.d.).
[edit] 1970s
The first album, Ambrosia, was released in 1975. It spawned the chart single Holdin' on to Yesterday as well as the FM classic Nice, Nice, Very Nice. The latter was based on Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle. The album was nominated for a Grammy award for Best Engineered Recording (other than Classical). According to Preston (n.d.), a little known fact is Ambrosia's connection with The Alan Parsons Project. Alan Parsons was the engineer for Ambrosia's first album and the producer for their second. All four members of Ambrosia played on the first Alan Parsons Project album, Tales of Mystery and Imagination, which was recorded soon after Ambrosia's first album. David Pack appears on the Alan Parsons Project album Try Anything Once (1993), co-writing, playing and providing vocals on two songs.
After lengthy touring, the band returned in 1976 with Somewhere I've Never Traveled, continuing in the progressive rock style. The album yielded the title song, which quickly became an FM favorite and featured lush orchestration and vocal arrangements. The record sleeve folded into a large pyramid, tapping into a fad belief in mystical pyramid power. Both Ambrosia and Somewhere I've Never Traveled received Grammy nominations, and set the stage for the band's signing to Warner Bros. Records (Ambrosia, 1975).
Additionally in 1976, the group participated in a variety of projects. They covered the Beatles song Magical Mystery Tour for the transitory musical documentary All This and World War II. The film's soundtrack consisted of different groups providing arrangements of Beatles songs. Their version of Magical Mystery Tour scored a top 40 hit and has since been very popular in their live shows (Huey, 2006).
In 1978 Life Beyond LA was released; Ambrosia's third album. It marked a bit of a move away from their progressive rock style and the lush arrangements and introduced a more Pop/Jazz influence. Christopher North, not happy with the change, left the group in 1977 during the album's recording. 1978 marked their biggest Pop breakthrough, scoring their first gold CHR hit, with How Much I Feel from the album, which was a #3 hit on the Pop Singles Chart. Extensive touring with Fleetwood Mac, Heart and the Doobie Brothers, in addition to major headlining shows, cemented Ambrosia's reputation as a stellar live act (Sonboleh, 2002). For the '78 tour, North returned and the group added a second keyboardist, David Cutler-Lewis, as well as an additional singer Royce Jones (ex-Steely Dan) who joined in December 1978.
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 | Ambrosia: 2006 Career Achievement Award for Hit Songs
Tags: abc, Awards, Beach, cbs, Fame, Hermosa, Hollwood, Leno, Letterman, Manhattan, Max, nbc, Redondo, Worthington
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This short film biography tells the story of one of the originators of the "progressive rock" sound that emulated from the 1970's. Ambrosia is still an active band, playing to sold out shows all over the world. Their sound is timeless. Nominated for Grammy awards five times in the late 70's and early 80's, the band gained a permanent place in the American music experience. A most worthy recipient of an award from this organization.
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 | Johannes Linstead - AMBROSIA
Tags: flamenco, guitarist, johannes, latin, linstead
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Johannes playing his song "Ambrosia" in Aurora, IL December 2006. The quality of the video is not that great, but I hope you get to enjoy watching it!
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 | Ambrosia
Tags: drugs, Point, romance, Saturation, tg, trip
Description:
Saturation Point playlist:
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=778CF9E92019D880
I've been wanting to make a drug related vid for awhile. And I figured it would fit perfectly into this story. I got a feeling that you're going to need to watch this one more than once to figure out what's going on. But thats how all my favorite stories go. Also in this video Sid finally gets his hands on the mystery woman from Duel of Temptations.
In "Colored Commentary" Sid told Eric that he had changed his mind and was going to turn him back. Eric thanks him and drinks the antidote. Turns out Sid lied he actually gave him a potion to change him from a white woman to a black woman. Eric, as usual, is confused. Sid explains to Eric that he made him black so that the police would have a hard time recognizing him from the attempted robbery. Later that night the two go out to dinner. Apparently they pick the wrong place to eat. Before they can get any food, two racist approach them and tell them that they don't condone black people at eating at "their" restaurant. Eric and Sid tell them that they won't leave. The two racists beat up Sid, and think that they have rendered him unconscious. They start yelling at Eric. Eric doesn't know what to do seeing as how he's not used to being a minority let alone a female minority. Just when things are about to get ugly, Sid gets back to his feet and brings a beating to the two racists.
This music, in my opinion, was a given: "Paralyzed" by the Cardigans. It takes a little while to get started but this song is as psychedelic as music gets.
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