Founded in 1988 by
Rosario Panzarella, Ray Francisco, and Ken Ala
The band members (Past and Present)
Rosario Panzarella- Lead and Rhythm Guitar Lead Vocals 1988-1994
Ray Francisco- Drums, Backing Vocals 1988-1994
James Nolan- Bass, Backing Vocals 1988-1994
Ken Ala- Lead Vocals 1988-1990
Aaron Dudling- Rhythm Guitars 1989-1991
Mike Phifer- Bass 1988
Zepherus in 1993 last photo of the band together
James, Rosario , Ray
Zepherus
A new Jersey based hard rock-heavy
metal band. We had no aspirations to be famous, just to create and play our
original music. Back in the late 80's early 90's this was VERY difficult to do.
Clubs demanded you pre sell tickets before the show, and if you didn't get
enough sold, you didn't play. this was called
Pay to Play.
everyone did it, it sucked but until it was illegal to do the clubs did it and
we went along with it. Shit man, we just wanted to play, like the rest of the
original bands out there, we did what we could to sell sell sell.
In music, Pay to Play
describes when a band pays a promoter to play at a certain live
show, instead of being paid. Most often a band would do this in
an attempt to increase exposure. This is a heavily criticized
practice, most famously alleged to occur amongst local metal
bands in the 1980's. We were really part of that and it really
discouraged us, put a bad taste in your mouth for playing out.
Most other bands gave up and played covers, we didn't. We
decided we would rather not play than to play covers. And so the
corrupt white man has beaten us out of existence.
We played at parties, clubs, fairs, wherever we could
to have fun. When your 17, what is cooler than being in a band? (sometimes we
got free beer too)
This band is not together anymore and will never ever
re-unite, however, you may still enjoy what we did do for the short time we did
it together.
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