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My first band · 1997 to 2005

Pale Green Stars

The band, and the website I taught myself to build for it in high school. I saved the whole thing. Green stars and all.

Pick a year, step inside the live site

The PGS site in 2002 2002 The PGS site in 2004 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.

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.
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