Okay, enough detours; let me get back to the UARB.  In 2001, Leslie Satterfield (guitar and vocals) was offered the opportunity to be the opening act for her favorite rock band, an Olympia, WA experimental duo called The Need.  Unfortunately, she didn’t yet have a rock band to do the job and only three weeks until the concert; so she quickly recruited several friends, first drummer Caroline Mills – they were in a band together though I am not sure the name of it.  China Lajczock (keyboards and most of the lead vocals) had been working in a coffee shop, and the other bandmembers met Hannah Reiff (bass guitar) by buying her a drink on “dollar drink night” at a dive somewhere. 

While the band was being put together, they saw a news story about a gay troop leader who was being forced out of the Boy Scouts; so they figured that having a lesbian band take the name Boyskout would really offend them.  Happily, the ban on openly gay Boy Scouts was finally lifted as of January 1, 2014. 

In early 2004, Boyskout relocated to New York City and were evidently a hit on the local music scene, though they returned to the Bay Area later that year.  A Summer 2004 story posted on neonnyc.com raved about the band:  “If ever there was a group destined to be a New York, New York outfit, Boy Skout (alternately known as Boyskout and BoySkout) is it.  We caught them for the first time at Pianos as a trio – their keyboardist/vocalist [China Lajczock] having recently departed.  And we had heard that the transition to a threesome had punked them up a bit more.”  Leslie Satterfield had become the lead vocalist at this point. 

(January 2014)