BIOGRAFIE
Amber Pacific was started in 2002 as a trio of high school juniors who performed locally in their Seattle hometown just for kicks under a different name (Follow Through).
What has become the Amber Pacific of today was an idea once only dreamt of. Heading out to The Vans Warped Tour each summer when they were younger, and going to countless shows, waiting in lines to see the bands that they would one day be out on tour and playing wiffle ball with are all things that still feel surreal at times to the band.
Chalk it up to getting the right music in the right hands. While recording their second EP, the band's producer, Martin Feveyear, introduced them to a friend who was impressed enough by the demos, that he shopped it into the hands of various record labels.
January 2004, the band signed to Hopeless Records after much internal debate about the various paths they should take in life. Ultimately college plans were placed on hold, lives became road-bound, and ambitions now placed on pedestals barely envisioned by the group in its earliest iteration.
It was a strange time for the band since things seemed to be happening so rapidly. They had just graduated high-school and were barely in college. Adding to that strange time was the departure of their first drummer who moments before signing to Hopeless, had decided to take a different path and not pursue a career in music. Without a drummer and a few months before Warped Tour 2004, the band held try-outs.
Having only tried out 3 people, finding Dango during those tryouts was a million to one chance. Originally, Justin (former guitarist) had a friend who knew some drummers back on the east coast that he had given contact information to Justin for. Oddly enough, it was Dango’s roommate that the band had originally intended to get in touch with and fly-out to try-out for the band.
But as with all the seemingly fated occurrences that worked out for the band, Dango aced the try-out and was to be known as the permanent and irreplaceable kit-man for Amber Pacific. That May, in spring of 2004, the band released “Fading Days”, a re-ordering of the original 5 track demo which caught record label attention.
The following month in June the band was on the road headed out to The Vans Warped Tour 2004 on the Hurley / Take Action Stage. The Warped Tour 2004 had a momentous impact on the Amber Pacific you see today. A large portion of their fans were made on Warped Tour that summer. Working 14-hour days at their tent, in the parking lot, and on stage. That work ethic taught the band the value of connecting with their fans on a personal level. Something you will recognize at their shows even today. Upon Warped Tour's completion in 2004, Amber Pacific came home and immediately began writing and demoing the songs that would become their debut full-length release, “The Possibility and The Promise”. Amber Pacific entered the studio in early December 2004 with Feveyear at the helm once again. Feveyear was earmarked for the session long before, because the band felt that Martin had incredible talents as both an engineer and a producer. As well, his belief in the band’s potential and his time sacrifices for the sake of an epic outcome were unmatched. The band spent roughly seven weeks in the studio with Feveyear. Utilizing the lengthy amount of time to perfect the album: "Our big goal was to not have any filler songs on the album," Will adds. "We wanted to be able to listen to it all the way through without having a gut feeling to skip certain tracks."
The album was released on May 25, 2005 and was followed by another summer on the Vans Warped Tour 2005. This time rotating between the Volcom and Smart Punk stages.
The band is currently on tour in support of “The Possibility & The Promise”. As well, they are currently demo-ing and writing songs for what will be their sophomore album on Hopeless Records.