At the Chamber, we focused on creating alternative music and developing our overall presentation. We took the time to develop multi-media concepts and then turn them into events, such as “Art & Science”, “Time & Space”, “Church & State” and “Love,…
Parousia was the second rock band ever to play at the Shady Grove on Old Route 19 in Boston NY. When the club started booking rock bands in October 1981, Benhatzel performed first on Thursday, October 22 and then Parousia…
After night fall, we left the comfort of Forest Lawn Cemetery to play at the historic Frank’s Casa Nova one last time. The band was in a real funk during this time period. Our newsletter (below) pretty much sums up…
After the release of “Turnaround” the band was playing in Los Angeles about two-three times a month. We alternated our gigs between the small & mid-sized clubs (Madame Wong’s, Club 88, etc) and the ‘big daddy’ clubs on the Sunset…
Thanksgiving Day 1988, tonight would have been our sixth show at Madame Wong’s West and our last show with keyboardist, Bill (Frank) Simms. What happened? One night at a recent rehearsal, Bill blew up and proclaimed “I am not your…
“Our Spectacular Return” (as stated on our band flyer) on a Saturday night! The band was back on home turf and although three-inches of snow fell on the ground that day, Parousia warmed things up a bit when they took the stage. Parousia pulled…
This was a pretty cool Friday night and was a chance for us to relax in a venue we knew like the back of our hand. We knew what went where and that gave us more time for ourselves before we…
We did okay with our audience draw tonight and still made $164.00. We were hindered by the first full week of school and helped by being named in the “Band Survival Guide”, published annually in the University of Buffalo College…
Let it never be said, Parousia was run haphazardly without a plan or some sort of accountability. Playing in a working rock-band was a lesson in team-work and cooperation, finding our strengths, delegating duties based on those strengths and then…
The Plant 6 on Delaware Ave. in Kenmore was firmly on Parousia’s “most favorite club to play list”. It was like a second home for our band, a lot of it had to do with a favorable geographic location from the Music…
It was a Friday night and I remember that when we got to the club we were surprised to see people waiting outside to see us. We did so well at the door it put us in the green $198 after…
The Parousia group performs the entire rock-opera “Virtual Reality” on Halloween night, 10/31/1991 at the Troubadour in West Hollywood CA in this video. Watch it now! This was a sweet gig that was handed to us by the Troubadour’s booking manager…
