BoySkout

People do a lot of silly things under the influence of alcohol. Take Leslie Satterfield, for instance. While out drinking, she was talking about her band when she was offered a show opening for The Need.

Now, never mind that her band had a whole half of a song written in its entire nascent existence. This was The Need here, one of Satterfield’s favorite bands. No way she wasn’t going to accept, o’ infernal libations - that liberator of the tongue - be damned. But the show being less than three weeks away was a sobering feeling, and so, in the summer of 2001, Satterfield’s BoySkout “quickly assembled a six-song set, practiced every day, and played the show.”

Despite being nervous to the point “that my knees were shaking,” Satterfield and her band were confident. “I knew we could do it,” she recalled, “and I even thought that we would sound good. Our girlfriends told us we sounded great, but, in retrospect, we really weren’t very good yet.” She added, as if there was any doubt, “The Need were awesome.”