In February and March of 1979, Parousia played 4 weekends in a row at Brush Gardens in Chaffee, NY. It was a long drive but a pretty big place, for what seemed to us like the middle of nowhere. Our…
On February 6th of 1980, Parousia had a complimentary professional hair design session at Santangelo’s Hair Design on Union Road in Cheektowaga, NY. Then on Februaury 13th we had promotional photos taken of our newly cropped hair-do’s and this is…
Here’s a little collection of photos of a very young Parousia honing our chops in a surreal fiberglass lined basement. Classic. We suspect this is the basement referred to by Joseph Michael Mahfoud in this Buffalo Rising article. Kind of…
Here is a good quality full-length live recording of our original song ‘Myron‘ from yet another performance out in Olean, NY… what could we say; that town loved us. We made $400.00 this night (which, in 1981, was enough to actually…
Here’s an audio track that is a favorite of Parousia fans. A cover of Alice Cooper’s “Second Coming/Ballad of Dwight Fry” recorded live at Melanie’s Pub. October was a very busy month for Parousia and it all started on Friday, the 3rd…
Nobody could ever accuse Parousia of being boring! Here is a song and several live performance videos from the Time and Space show November 16, 1985. Parousia’s “Time & Space” show came shortly after our recording of the song ‘Place…
Ahhh, yes, the Wooden Nickel in beautiful downtown Olean, NY. Parousia played there 3 times towards the end of 1981. Here’s a bit of memorabilia from our December 27th post-Christmas show. It was a very long drive to play at…
This awards show was so cool. Mark Freeland put it together at McVan’s. Even though it was truly the “1st Annual Buffalo Music Awards,” I knew it as the “A+” awards, because Mark gave all the members of the honored…
Parousia played the “Hertel Happening” festival in August of 1981. I like doing those outdoor daytime things, it’s a nice change from the nightclub scene, but I remember during this show, it was so hot I had a hard time…
Here are several cover songs performed by Parousia, recorded live at the Plant 6 in Kenmore, NY. In the month of September 1981, the band was on a high-note. Following the departure of our singer Kim Watts at the end of May,…
Here’s are live audio recordings of the band Parousia covering “White Punks On Dope” (a song written by the Tubes) and “Cross Eyed Mary (by Jethro Tull) recorded live at a D’Youville College, Buffalo NY. November 2, 1979. A non-typical…
Parousia had the honor of opening up for Pegasonics at the “This Is Buffalo” music event at the Granada Theater on Main Street, sponsored by WZIR radio, in December of 1980. I recall the “This Is Buffalo” thing at the…
