Rehearsals, Photo Shoots and Misc Events
Anyone who knows a working rock band is familiar with the term “roadie”, the intrepid members of a band’s entourage whose responsibility it is to break-down, load, transport, unload, set-up, connect, test, monitor, guard, disconnect, break-down, pack, load, and upon…
A nice hot summer’s day and it was Marsha Falkowski’s idea to drive to Delaware Avenue and have band photos taken at the cemetery. The band had recently signed with Backstage Productions and been introduced to Rick and Marsha Falkowski,…
Now that Garth Huels, Robert Lowden and Kim Watts joined Parousia, new photos of the band were desperately needed and wanted because this new line up was one that all of us could get excited about… even the indifferent Mr.…
Hair… “Give me a head full of hair, long beautiful hair”, is the opening lyric from the 1960’s song “Hair” by the Cowsills, written decades before the visual onslaught of MTV that made image and fashion the critical component in…
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…
