Nothing says weird like Parousia performing at a Polish Cultural Center for St. Patrick’s Day. Especially against a panorama of the Matterhorn. This was the biggest stage we had played on to date… it was awesome. We had an on-stage…
1st Gig at Plant 6 Niagara St. – September 27th 1979 As noted on our politically incorrect flyer, this was our first gig with Michelle Improta, our new “girl singer” who was set to replace Kim Watts (I guess that…
“I remember this bar being packed with wall to wall people… it was an extremely popular club at the time located behind Buffalo State College, (Buff State was/is the ”Party College”). The weird thing about the Masthead was that it…
Parousia played in a popular Irish pub known locally as “Tell It To Mc Ginty’s” on Seneca Street several times in 1979 (July 6 and 7, 1979 and August 18, 1979). It was a smaller neighborhood bar, not really known…
It’s ironic that throughout this website, Parousia complains about how “no one could spell our name correctly” and yet… we misspell Katharine Cornell on the flyer >ugh 😳 < Anyway, this is a beautiful theater on the North U.B. Campus,…
Here is a photo journal of Parousia’s trip to Dallas, Texas in September of 1984 to shoot and do some production work on the new video for our song “Keep Running.” Patt couldn’t make the trip with us, so we…
I’ve no idea where we were going with this, but as long as we were all dressed up to shoot footage for the “Keep Running” video, we posed for a number of strange photos for possible use in promoting the…
Parousia hears from MTV after submitting the infamous “Keep Running” video to MTV’s Basement Tapes Award Competition! Yes, we almost made it onto MTV, back in the day when MTV was cutting edge and actually showed music videos! If you…
A very young Parousia performs at Hutchinson Central Technical High School (Informally known as Hutch Tech), located at 256 South Elmwood Ave. in Buffalo, New York 14201. The lineup for this show included: -Gerry Cannizzaro – Drums -Barry Cannizzaro – Guitar…
INCLUDES BONUS TRACK: “Crystal City” (1975) the first original song recorded by Parousia. The roots of Parousia go way back to the early 70’s, you know, when dinosaurs roamed the earth and your phone was connected to the wall with…
Here are a couple of original tunes from 1979 when Gary Storm invited Parousia to play live on the air for the “Oil Of Dog” late night radio show, WBFO the University of Buffalo (U.B.) radio station. WBFO played mostly…
Parousia’s first outdoor concert performance with the newly re-formed/revamped Parousia and our last performance at the 21st Ward Independence Day celebration. This time around we were showcasing of our original songs only. We had a pretty good crowd, thanks to…
