The band was later signed to a record deal with Columbia Records and enjoyed extensive success via record sales and radio play in the grunge rock movement of the early 1990s. This band gained attention in the Seattle area playing under several different monikers before they eventually settled on the name Alice in Chains, which they had taken from Staley's previous band Alice N' Chains. Eventually, Staley quit the other bands he was performing with at that time and joined their band on a full-time basis. Then the trio began staging what Cantrell and Kinney later said were fake auditions in order to coax Staley into joining their band. Kinney called Starr and a few days later he jammed with him and Cantrell at the Music Bank. Kinney pointed at his girlfriend and said: 'that's weird cause that's his sister'. Cantrell mentioned that they needed a bass player to jam with them and he had someone in mind: Mike Starr, with whom Cantrell had played in the band Gypsy Rose in Burien. Kinney and his girlfriend went to the Music Bank and listened to Cantrell's demos. Cantrell wanted to form a new band and his roommate, Layne Staley, gave him the phone number of Melinda Starr, the girlfriend of drummer Sean Kinney, so that Cantrell could talk to him. Starr and Cantrell left Gypsy Rose and started working in other bands. Starr briefly joined another band, Gypsy Rose, which included early Alice N' Chains producer Tim Branom on lead vocals and his future bandmate Jerry Cantrell on guitar. Their song 'Leather Warriors' appeared on Northwest Metalfest, a compilation album featuring various metal acts released in 1984 by Seattle label Ground Zero Records. In 1983, Starr formed the heavy metal band Sato.

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