"Six months or a year later, I had rejoined that band...

"Six months or a year later, I had rejoined that band [Cyprus], and when I was like 16, we won the Battle of the Bands at the Crossroads Skate Center in Bellevue. We were called Sato then, after an Ozzy song. Because we won, we got to record one of our songs called 'Leather Warrior' for this album called Northwest Metalfest. 'Leather Warrior,' man, gayest freakin' song in the world, but it's a song."

—the late Mike Starr, of Alice in Chains fame, from Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History...