Garth played guitar with Parousia from 1978 until 1986, writing and recording original music to be mixed in with the cover tunes the band played at countless venues on the East Coast. Now he's a computer geek in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Here are four tracks recorded live at Uncle Sam’s, a very large night club with a big stage featuring national and local acts. I remember my sister Wendy telling me about seeing bands like the early Alice Cooper and MC5…
This is an audio track of “Miss Ogyny” by Parousia released on the 97 Rock Home Grown album, “Buffalo Rocks” and the story of how it came to be. On February 18th, at 9:00 am, Parousia was notified by Starstream…
Parousia had the honor of opening up for Pegasonics at the “This Is Buffalo” music event at the Granada Theater on Main Street, sponsored by WZIR radio, in December of 1980. I recall the “This Is Buffalo” thing at the…
Let’s start with this band. Not bad, I’d sit through a set of them at a club. Gotta love the designated screamer. We have a few (ok, several) bands here in the Phoenix area who, for some reason, think it…
Here’s are live audio recordings of the band Parousia covering “White Punks On Dope” (a song written by the Tubes) and “Cross Eyed Mary (by Jethro Tull) recorded live at a D’Youville College, Buffalo NY. November 2, 1979. A non-typical…
This was one of those special nights for the band where it all just seemed to fall into place. Parousia played one set of music comprised of our most popular tunes and the party animals in the Buff State social hall showed their…
Here is a nice visual archive of pictures taken by Gerry of our trip from Buffalo, New York to Burlington, Vermont for what was supposed to be a week long engagement in the college town. It was quite the adventure.…
Here are several video clips from Parousia’s Church and State show: [huge_it_videogallery id=”11″] A more mature Parousia is featured in this set of photos from our Church and State theme show during the holiday week at the end of 1985.…
McVan’s – Wednesday November 22nd 1978 This was Parousia’s first gig in a night club featuring the 7-piece ensemble format that launched the group into the flurry of writing, performing, recording and general notoriety that was to follow… Gerry, Barry…