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