Pale Green Stars, hailing from Schiller Park Illinois, began sometime around 1996 with two brothers and a dream. A dream to get girls, fame, and other stuff along the same lines. Joe got a guitar, Mikee got some drums, and a make-shift band took place. They started strumming, hitting, and doing various other things to their instruments and eventually they were playing actual songs together in the garage. Before long this kid named Miguel started showing up. He must have seen potential in the brothers Martin because he bought a bass and an amp just so he could participate. The two piece became a three piece with Miguel on bass and vocals.

The three covered just about anything they could figure out, and soon had a large repetoire of songs they could play, including quite a few Everclear tunes. Dubbing themselves Pale Green Stars (PGS) they set their eyes on conquering the world. They shortly changed their goal to conquering Schiller Park instead. The trio felt they were ready to share their stuff in the summer of '98 and they played two shows in the basement of Grand Bowl in Franklin Park. A month or so after the second show Miguel left the band. Maybe he was bored with PGS. Maybe he just wanted to skateboard. Maybe he was disillusioned with the fact that they were playing shows in Franklin Park when there goal was domination of Schiller Park. Who knows, but he left.

Joe wasn't about to give up, and Mikee sort of just went along with him. Joe had invited a kid from his physics class to come practice with Pale Green Stars before Miguel's departure. While the experience was nothing short of disastrous, Joe figured he'd give him another chance. Dixon was invited back, and apparently he had practiced or something because he wasn't that bad anymore. Taking charge of vocals in place of Miguel was Joe, and Pale Green Stars was getting back on track.

While it was a three piece again, they were still short a bassist. This is where Klug entered the picture. He knew Joe from working with him for the Village of Schiller Park over the summer, and had become friends with him and Dixon after they ended up in the same calculus class senior year. Klug came to a few practices and grew eager to participate. After acquiring a bass, he was given a shot. Klug amazed them by learning riffs incredibly fast, and then forgetting them at speeds twice the pace he learned.

Pale Green Stars expanded to a four piece band now with Mikee on drums, Joe on lead guitar and vocals, Dixon on rhythm, and Klug on bass. This didn't last long at all though. The madness would soon consume PGS and their bassists. Anthony Aurrichio was brought to the band's attention. He practiced with them and played bass quite well. Better, in fact, than Klug. After much debate, Anthony (Soon dubbed A-Team) was absorbed into the band, and Klug morphed from bassist to backup rhythm gutiarist, which he liked better than bass anyway.

It was now the summer of '99 and the latest incarnation of PGS was the best one yet. The band began the "Gazebo Tour*" playing the Schiller Park Gazebo, the River Grove Gazebo, St. Beatrice church, and a handful of graduation parties.

The shows may have been numerous, but the band began falling apart towards the end of the summer. Tensions rose between Joe and A-Team especially. A-Team's solution was to leave the band for a new project he called "No Solution." Klug decided to leave as well, citing his busy work schedule. So Pale Green Stars was back down to three and in need of a bassist again.

Jim Henneghan was the first after A-Team. He wasn't around for long though, and Justin Gronko took his place. PGS played only one show with Justin before he had to be let go due to missing practices for his job. Constantly losing bassists was starting to drive Joe, Dixon, and Mikee insane. The horror, the horror. Then the unxpected happened. Jim Klug appeared out of nowhere (actually somewhere, but I forget, and nowhere sounds much more dramatic) eager to participate again. He picked up where he started; on bass. Hopefully we can stop doing a bad impression of Spinal Tap with bassits now that we've got Klug.

With Klug back in the fold, PGS was ready to rock Schiller Park again. Joe and Dixon befriended a drummer from Elmwood Park named Bernie. Bernie laughed at their jokes, and his band (Easy Way Out) was pretty phat. PGS and Easy Way Out teamed up for a few shows at the Buzz Cafe in Oak Park where PGS was introduced to yet another cool local band, Sacred 9. PGS had expanded their horizons and met some cool people. They were no longer a bowling alley, gazebo, church basement band, they were now a coffee bar band as well! Such a jump in status had little effect on PGS though, they managed to pretend they were just like anyone else with a wildly successful garage/gazebo/church basement/coffee bar band.

Sometime over the course of the year, PGS recorded 4 songs in the Martin garage and put them on a CD entitled "A Very Ducky Demo." The demo sold very well at shows, which surprised everyone but Joe and God. Rumors have been flying that Meagle even said "Hey, this sucks!" If you know Meagle, you know this is good. Justin wasn't available for comment on it since he was busy working.

The tour of 2000 became known as the "Phat Phest," and ended with a bang in December at the Schiller Park Community Center. This 4 band show was the largest event ever planned by PGS, and went off without a hitch. Unless you count the murder of a giant stuffed dog, Dixon breaking a string on stage for the first time ever, or the hit and run car eggings that is. Going into 2001 the future looks bright for PGS, and very dark indeed for that stuffed dog. If Justin was available for comment he'd probably agree, and if Meagle was asked, he'd say "PGS sucks!"