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- The Gits were an American grunge band, formed in Yellow Springs, Ohio, in 1986. As part of the burgeoning Seattle music scene of the early 1990s. Members included singer Mia Zapata, guitarist Joe Spleen (born Andy Kessler), bassist Matt Dresdner and drummer Steve Moriarty.
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The Gits were an American punk rock band formed in Yellow Springs, Ohio, in 1986. [1] [2] As part of the burgeoning Seattle music scene of the early 1990s, they were known for their fiery live performances.
It may sound disingenuous when Kessler says it, but the film gives evidence that the Gits were not part of grunge.
Many all-female or woman-led bands are associated with grunge including L7, Lunachicks, Dickless, 7 Year Bitch, the Gits, Courtney Love's band Hole, and Babes in Toyland. VH1 writer Dan Tucker described L7 as an "all-female grunge band [that] emanated from the fertile L.A. underground scene and [which] had strong ties with ...
Mia Katherine Zapata (August 25, 1965 – July 7, 1993) was an American musician who was the lead singer for the Seattle punk band The Gits. After gaining praise in the emerging grunge scene, Zapata was murdered in 1993 while on her way home from a music venue, at age 27.
- Mother Love Bone, ‘Apple’ (1990) Mother Love Bone frontman Andy Wood dreamed of being a world-famous rock star, but he died of a heroin overdose before his band’s debut album Apple even came out.
- Toadies, ‘Rubberneck’ (1994) Grunge was already in full swing and mutating into mainstream alt-rock when the Toadies released their debut album Rubberneck on Interscope in 1994, a year that saw slick, accessible LPs from bands like Live, Bush and the Offspring flood the market.
- Fecal Matter, ‘Illiteracy Will Prevail’ (1986) Five years before Nevermind, Kurt Cobain was a high-school dropout recording 4-track demos in his aunt’s house.
- The U-Men, ‘Step on a Bug’ (1988) The U-Men emerged out of the same Seattle underground that birthed grunge, but the quartet were more Pere Ubu and Captain Beefheart than Pearl Jam and Soundgarden.
Apr 23, 2017 · 40 Best Grunge Bands. Loud guitars and dirty sound... N-D. Apr 23, 2017 06:01 AM. 34,185 views · 51 comments. Grunge emerged during the mid-1980s in the Pacific Northwest U.S. state of...
May 23, 2021 · On July 7th, 1993, Zapata, the lead singer of the punk band the Gits, was raped and murdered. She had spent most of the night before at the Comet Tavern, then went to a friend’s apartment...
