Ambrosia At The Canyon Santa Clarita

My workplace friends gave me $100 Ticket Master card to use on any concert I chose.

I had been hoping to go to this Ambrosia concert at The Canyon Santa Clarita and when I checked, I found out that it was indeed a Ticket Master event. Win!

I got tickets just 3 days before the concert, but the room was pretty empty at the time. I got us some primo seats, similar to the ones I got for Gordon Lightfoot. Right behind the soundboard!

Amazingly, the show was packed, when the main event came on. Ambrosia.

As usual, I did not keep track of the setlist for this concert. Most of this list is from a concert they did at the Coach house in Orange County and it sounds pretty close to what we saw.

Still Not Satisfied (Road Island)

Nice, Nice, Very Nice (Ambrosia)

You're the Only Woman (You & I) (One Eighty)

Kamikaze (One Eighty)

Shape I'm In (One Eighty)

And...Somewhere I've Never Traveled (Somewhere I've Never Traveled)

Heart to Heart (Life Beyond L.A.)

Higher Ground (Stevie Wonder cover)

How Much I Feel (Life Beyond L.A.)

Harvey (Somewhere I've Never Traveled)

I Wanna Know (Somewhere I've Never Traveled)

The Way It Is (Bruce Hornsby & The Range cover)

Holdin' on to Yesterday (Ambrosia)

Life Beyond L.A. (Life Beyond L.A.)

Biggest Part of Me (One Eighty)

Encore: I'm Crying (The Animals cover)

First off, there were 2 opening acts ahead of the show, both were good. The first one was Tommy C & The Black Widow Grease Band and they did Buddy Holly and Elvis type songs and the second band did Rolling Stones covers. If it wasn't for the air conditioning freezing our buns off, it would have been perfect.

The food was another story. Remind me never to eat there ever again, the food was horrid and we spent $100 for it. Yuck!

9PM comes up and Ambrosia, who I have seen 2 other times over the years, took the stage with "Still Not Satisfied". You could not have asked for a harder rock song of theirs, to begin a concert. Woot! I was happy already and we were one song in.

At some point, they did a drum tribute for Neil Peart, the Rush drummer who had died earlier in the day. All the musicians were playing percussion instruments, as Burleigh Drummond played his kit. It was quite moving.

At another point, everyone left the stage and just two guitarists played 2 songs for us. I guess to give the others a rest.

Toward the end, I knew that they were going to play "Life Beyond L.A." and so I was set up for that. It was masterful and sometime I swear I will upload it to Youtube and let you see it...but not tonight.

The final encore was sung by Christopher North, the keyboardist and that was a shock and pretty cool end to the evening.

Well worth the money...just forget the food.