This was Parousia’s fourth show at Club 88. Finally we hit a prime spot. Midnight on a Friday! The line-up was Patt Connolly (vocals/flute), Robert Lowden (vocals, guitars), Bill Simms (keyboards) and Gerry North Cannizzaro (acoustic and electronic drums). We…
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…
For all of you who ended up here looking for the original Parousia from Buffalo, N.Y. Sorry, this is definitely not us. These lads are a five piece band based in the town of Stroud in the county of Gloucestershire, England. They…
Parousia’s busy spring performance schedule began in May when our song “Place Your Bets” hit the airwaves on KROQ, and then landing a spot as opening act for The Knack at Madame Wong’s West in Santa Monica and then performing…
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,…
PARUSIA Heavy Metal – Death Rock http://parusia.bandcamp.com/ Founded in 2013, their album “Y Su Noche No Tendrá Fin” (Translation: “And your night will be No end”) was released October 12, 2014. Parusia is from Jerez de la Frontera – located in…
The original rock band Parousia 1975-1992, from Buffalo NY – the first rock band to use the name Parousia. Since then, others have adopted the concept as their own. For legacy sake, we feel the need to clear the air about these “other Parousia’s”…
The band manager at Wong’s “fancied” us. I can’t recall her name, but she was friendly and liked our band’s music (oddly enough). Anyway, that’s how we landed a Friday night show on a long summer weekend before the fourth…
Here is the full show of Virtual Reality at the Troubadour on February 7th, 1991. This was our second performance of Virtual Reality at the Troubadour. Marianne Smith booked and organized the return gig and we were happy to be…
The day finally came, our first run performance of the new show set, Virtual Reality. The purpose of this show was primarily to run through the music and acting to see how it all fit together on a stage in…
Our first gig at the Sunset Club in Sierra Madre, CA was on an odd night of the week, a Wednesday, but whenever you start performing at a new club that’s the way it worked. You started on the off…
We salvaged one audio track from this show, “Tug Of War” recorded live at the FM Station in North Hollywood, Sunday, July 23, 1989. Tug Of War, a new instrumental song, written after keyboardist Marty Leggett joined the band. We put…
