The band’s return to the Plant-6 on November 28 was preceded by a whirl-wind of gigs. It all began on Thursday, November 5th at Dad’s Café, on Clinton Street in Buffalo, followed by two-nights (Friday & Saturday) Nov. 13^th & 14^th at the Wayside Manor in Alden NY and then Sunday, Nov. 15^th at the Wooden Nickel in Olean NY.  Next was Thursday, Nov. 19^th at the Shady Grove in Boston, NY followed by Parousia’s television debut performance of their original song “Myron” on stage at the 1^st annual Buffalo Backstage Music Awards at Rooftops Lounge, November 23, 1981.

Now, here we were on November 28^th, a Saturday night, and a busy Thanksgiving holiday weekend playing at our ol’ familiar Plant-6 in Kenmore. It was a relaxed atmosphere and we took comfort in knowing we would see familiar faces being that we were so close to home base for a change.   Schools were on holiday break and as expected we had a stellar crowd for a Saturday evening following Thanksgiving.

The band was paid $250.00 for one night with three sets of music. Starting at 10:00 pm and ending at 2:00 am.  Gregg Filippone set-up and ran the sound-board and Mike Carroll set-up and ran the light-show. We paid the other roadies a combined salary of $50.00. Backstage Productions earned their 10% booking fee ($25.00) and the truck rental was $58.00. We spent another $20.00 on “Materials”.

For some reason, in addition to paying Barry $5.00 in gas money for hauling our asses to and from the gig, we paid him $135.00 for “car”. $55.00 went towards rent at our rehearsal studio in Cheektowaga, the Music Mall. At the end of the evening, expense totaled $438.00 leaving us $188.00 in the hole.