Art Rock From Ambrosia – Today’s Vinyl Vault

The word Ambrosia depicts a Greek mythical concoction that was thought to bring immortality.  These days it's a dessert drink, no matter if you're real or not.  It's also a band that Alan Parsons helped out in their mid 1970's beginnings.  The same band that later on made milky pop ballads like How Much I Feel and Biggest Part of Me BUT it's the beginnings we're concerned with here.  Their debut in 1975 was engineered by Parsons and is not too different from Parsons early Project releases.  As a matter of fact, it's Ambrosia that you hear on Parsons now classic tribute to Edgar Allen Poe.  Another writer the boys liked was Kurt Vonnegut, whose borrowed lyrics made for the very cool song Nice, Nice, Very Nice.  It was the "late night FM track", if you will, and still sounds great.  Let's get artsy on today's Vinyl Vault, around 5:20pm.  Out of town?  Listen live on-line.

A shot I took of singer Joe Puerta in Lansing, 1978: