Rehearsals, Photo Shoots and Misc Events
In spring of 1975 we started practicing our songs in my garage on Baxter Street in Riverside. It was Barry, me and Patrick jamming out music next to my Dad’s oil-dripping Chevy Malibu station wagon near an animal hutch that…
This was the late 80’s… MTV and its constant onslaught of music videos, each trying to outshine the other, launched a visual revolution for bands and made local acts take a hard look at their overall image. It was now…
After Parousia parted ways with guitarist Dudley Taft, bassist Gary Lee and keyboardist Marty Leggett in April of 1990, Patt and I decided to go back to the drawing board and start over. It was just the two of us…
Following Robert’s departure from the band, we began the search for a new lead guitarist. That’s when Dudley Taft, a guy who just moved down from Seattle to Los Angeles, answered our ad in BAM magazine. Dudley was a rocker,…
With less than two weeks until our big Sunset strip premier of Virtual Reality at the Whisky a go-go opening for Green Jelly (aka: Green Jello, another Buffalo based band) we hunkered down at a local studio near Hollywood to go…
Here are some pictures of Parousia’s dress rehearsal at Uncle Rehearsal Studios in N. Hollywood. The day before our debut of “Virtual Reality” at the Whisky a Go-Go on the Sunset Strip, January 27, 1991. “Virtual Reality” was a type…
When Marty Leggett from Reno Nevada replaced Bill Simms on keyboards in December of 1988, one of the first things we did is get new photos taken. Faced with little money and a need to get it done right away,…
In the summer of 1987, Claudine Regian came out to Los Angeles to stay with Patrick and so we had to move out of our cockroach-infested, dinky one-room apartment on Yucca Street into a slightly more spacious environment. We found…
Parousia Rehearsals At Ultimate Storage, Delaware & Kenmore Ave, Kenmore, NY – Spring 1983 After a one-year departure from the gigantus rock band PAROUSIA, with its majesty of rock and pageantry of roll, the three of us (Garth Huels,…
