Pharoah New Jersey's Most Dangerous BandDubbed by the press - New Jersey’s answer to The New York Dolls – Pharoah played the role of the east coast’s tonic to the masses for the over saturated 1980’s L.A. glam scene. Pharoah was best known for their outrageous stage antics, big-hair & makeup and beat-conscious glam rock ‘n’ roll. With Pharoah being on everybody’s A-list record executive parties (including guests like Paul Schaeffer, Jeff Beck, Gene Simmons and Joey Ramone) CBS records would soon rush in to capitalize on the band’s success.
With the corporate take-over of CBS records by Sony Music in 1989, the dramatic change in the music industry, the band now shelved and unable to release their second album Cleopatra's Ball, they lost enthusiasm and parted ways upon the release of Feast Of Fools.
During their career, Pharoah would open for multiple national acts, release two records on their own label, showcase a video on MTV’s “Headbanger’s Ball”, appear on over a dozen cable shows including “Manhattan Cable’s-New Music Show”, “Tucci at Two”, “CTN Networks-The Underground Café”, “U-68”, and South Jersey’s “TV35”.
This “Independent Circus” caused quite a stir amongst local viewers, however, live, that stir turned into shock, and shock at it’s best.
Veterans of the stage, Pharoah played such venues like “The Cat Club”, “Club Nirvana”, “C.B.G.B's”, “The Limelight”, “Studio One” and “The Infamous Dirt Club” to name a few.
With rave reviews in “East Coast Rocker’s” center-fold (August 27th, 1986) and a full-page feature in “Rock Magazine” (November, 1988), rock 'n' roll's best kept secret would gain national notoriety and develop a loyal fan-base that today still stands the test-of-time.
Fast-forward to 2009 and you find the legend has grown. A massive multimedia project is now being developed by Pharoah.
