PGS - Joe Martin

Pick a year, step inside the live site

2002

2004

Each opens in a new window so you can click around like it's the early 2000s. They're 20+ years old, so a few links wander off into the void. That's half the charm.

The merch

The shirts, still in a box somewhere.

A hand-drawn logo for every era, printed onto whatever we could get our hands on. Sarah dug these five out of a box up in Marengo and sent them my way. Green stars, Kill Cupid, Be Mine Records, all of it.

Five vintage PGS band t-shirts with hand-drawn logos, laid out on a table — Five original PGS shirts, saved all these years by Sarah.

A live recording

Clock Tower Park, June 13, 2000.

A full live recording of a PGS show at Clock Tower Park in Schiller Park, captured on June 13, 2000. The whole set is streaming on the Internet Archive.

Listen to the set

The 10-year reunion

Back on stage, a decade later.

A decade after the band wound down, we plugged back in for a pair of reunion shows: The Cobra Lounge in Chicago and Brauer House in Lombard. Same songs, same people, a few more gray hairs.

"Not the Jealous Type." The Cobra Lounge, Chicago.

"Away." Brauer House, Lombard.

"Postcard from Santa Fe." Brauer House, Lombard.

Solo, unplugged

Every so often, just the acoustic.

Now and then I'd branch off from the band and play a solo acoustic set. If anything, I felt more naked up there without my band behind me. But all these years later, you can still catch me jamming out on an acoustic. It's always had a special place in my heart.

Acoustic live at the Wheaton Grand

Saturday, June 26, 2004

Add to the museum

Were you a Pale Green Star?

If you were there for a PGS show, a party, or the whole era, post a photo, a clip, or a memory. I read every one, and the best go up on the wall.