The history of Pale Reason actually goes back through five or six years and three or four bands.  In early 1995 Adam Bailey joined a small garage band called Mephitis that was made up of two brothers, Mike Overly on drums, Dave Overly on guitar and vocals, and himself on bass.  They didn't play anywhere, received no publicity, and made low-quality recordings using the built-in microphone on a Philco tape recorder.  A year later, Jon Hart joined the band as a rhythm guitarist.  Together they played two or three gigs, and with Adam Bailey's older brother Erik  as sound engineer, managed to record a few demos.  The few recordings made were still poor quality, though considerably better than the ones made a year before.
        About a year after he joined, Hart became sick of Dave Overly's horrible lyrics and music, most of which were simply rip offs of other people's songs, with lyrics that made no sense.  Along with Adam Bailey, he quit, causing fist fights and arguments that would continue for the next few years.
        Immediately, they started getting another band together. With Jon Hart on lead guitar, Adam Bailey on bass, Erik Bailey on rhythm guitar, Brian Cain on drums, and Dave Pietron on vocals, they formed the brief Point Blank, a cover band that played anything from Nirvana and Pearl Jam to Pink Floyd and the Doors.  They made none of their own songs, and fortunately never played in public.  Eventually, Pietron was replaced by Chris Showalter on vocals, Brian Cain was kicked out, with Erik Bailey switching from rhythm guitar to drums, and the name Point Blank was thrown out.  Later that year, Hart suffured from a nervous breakdown an withdrew from the band for about a month.  After recovering, Hart, who could never write music before, started working on songs every day.
        After agreeing that they'd play no alternative music, they moved into a mix between classic rock, psychedellic rock, and blues.  With Showalter writing all of the lyrics and Hart writing most of the music, they began to surprise themselves as well as anyone who heard them.  They built their own digital recording studio and began making a their own cds.  Shortly after finishing a demo cd containing some of their own material as well a few covers, Showalter was thrown in a mental ward by his family for a few weeks, and then later into a rehabilitation center because of a number of drugs he was using at the time.
        By the time he returned to the band a few months later, Hart had already begun working on hours of new material.  Once again, they continued to surprise themselves over and over.  They also started performing at private parties all around their hometown of Greensburg, PA, and received a healthy response from the audiences.
        They continued working on their first official album, which at this time is still being made.