This classic '70s pop-rock band has a special soft-spot for the Mile High City.
Legendary pop-rock bandcreated a fifty-year legacy through strings of connection and moments of lucky happenstance. Back in 1970 in Los Angeles, recent high school graduates and former classmates Joe Puerta and David Pack pursued their dream of forming a band, collecting members through word of mouth and Rolodex contacts. That dream came true, but they never imagined they would still be playing five decades later.
On the hunt for a keyboard player, Puerta found Christopher North in a dimly lit backyard shed."There was a coffin with speakers in it. And at the end of the room, Chris was there, playing the organ with a bottle of wine on the top...smoking a cigarette, and there was a girl massaging his shoulders as he played," Puerta recalls."So I go, 'We gotta get this guy in the band.
With North on keys, Puerta on bass and Pack on guitar, all the band needed was a drummer. Puerta, Pack and North paid $5 to enter the Musician's Contact Service in downtown Hollywood, where reams of musician names were organized by instrument."So we see this name, and we go, 'Oh my god is this really a real name? Burleigh Drummond?'" Puerta says. The band set up a time to rehearse with Drummond, who was studying music at UCLA.
By the end of the year, Ambrosia's original lineup was solidified with Puerta, North, Pack and Drummond. The final cherry on top was the band's classic '70s ride: a grape-purple VW van. After playing around clubs for two years, Ambrosia was recognized by sound engineer Jim Gamble, who invented blue boards in the 1970s and went on to found. Gamble invited the band to play at the Hollywood Bowl when it was empty, using his cutting-edge sound system."So on a Sunday afternoon, we brought all our terrible gear — we were so broke — to the Hollywood Bowl, set it up and they set up mics and the big system that we were gonna be playing through," says Puerta.
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