Parousia played McVan’s many times, one of those being July 1, 1979 – a Sunday, 2 days after Pegasus did one of their awesome shows. We’ll use that as an excuse to publish our bootleg tribute to Pegasus here. Pegasus…
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 are four original songs from Parousia’s first professional recording session at Filippone Sound Studios in Buffalo, NY. Parousia began recording basic tracks for what was imagined to be the band’s first album on June 25th and 27th 1980. The plan was…
Here are six (6) songs recorded by PAROUSIA at Loft Studios, February 1984. Our studio sessions at Loft were engineered by Jim Sommers, best known to local music fans as the keyboard player from Cock Robin, “the band that rocked the 70’s”. Assisting Jim…
Listen to six (6) new songs recorded by a leaner, more experienced Parousia upon our return to Filippone sound in July – August, 1985. By now, Parousia is down to four core members playing all original music. Robert (formerly Bob,…
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 four tracks recorded live at Uncle Sam’s, a very large night club with a big stage featuring national and local acts. I remember my sister Wendy telling me about seeing bands like the early Alice Cooper and MC5…
This is an audio track of “Miss Ogyny” by Parousia released on the 97 Rock Home Grown album, “Buffalo Rocks” and the story of how it came to be. On February 18th, at 9:00 am, Parousia was notified by Starstream…
