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| 1. | Introduction
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| 2. | Great American Rock and Roll Band
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| 3. | Band Formation
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| 4. | Seattle
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| 5. | Friends
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| 6. | Mia
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| 7. | Driving
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| 8. | Playing Around
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| 9. | Europe
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| 10. | Fancy Restaurant
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| 11. | Regular Night
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| 12. | Friends & Fans
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| 13. | Tough Case
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| 14. | Fundraiser
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| 15. | Lyrics
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| 16. | Home Alive
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| 17. | Their Influence
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| 18. | We Got Him
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The Gits helped spearhead Seattle's emerging musical underground in the early 1990s. Their sound was proto-grunge and all out punk aggression, and the earnest, blues wail of front woman Mia Zapata was its center. At the height of the band's popularity, Mia was found raped and murdered. Over a decade later, the case file would be reopened and a suspect brought to justice, as cameras rolled. This DVD features live footage of The Gits, Evil Stig with Joan Jett and 7 Year Bitch. Includes interviews with Joan Jett, Kathleen Hanna, Valerie Agnew, Selene Vigil, members of the DC Beggars, and The Gits. Bonus features include audio commentary, featurette, stills gallery, trailers, deleted scenes, and more.
In the early 1990s, Seattle was the focal point of an emerging musical underground. The Gits helped spearhead this new scene. Their sound was proto-grunge and all-out punk aggression. The earnest, blues wail of front woman Mia Zapata was its center.
Mia was the very embodiment of riot grrrl intensity, talent, and humanity.
Her uncompromised integrity epitomized a way of life that influenced an entire generation of female artists to follow.
Upon returning from a successful European tour -and at the height of The Gits' popularity singer Mia Zapata was found raped and murdered, unfairly abbreviating the band's fable. Incredibly, more than a decade later, new evidence would surface, Mia's case file would be reopened, and a suspect would be brought to justice-as cameras rolled.
The Gits is an account of overcoming adversity, addiction, love, loss and pain. It's a punk rock mystery, but not merely a tale of tragedy.
It's the mythic story of a great American Rock N Roll band.
Features
* Audio commentary with director Kerri O'Kane and producer Jessica Bender
* Home Alive featurette - A mini documentary about the non-profit organization that formed in the aftermath of Mia's death
* Stills gallery
* Trailers
* Deleted scenes
Additional Performances
Featurette - Home Alive
Photo Gallery
The Gits Trailer
Trailers
Larry Flynt - The Right To Be Left Alone
Korda-Vision
Kicking It
Manufacturing Dissent
Camp Out
Show Business - The Road To Broadway
Documentary specialist Kerri O'Kane details the rise of promising Seattle-based punk outfit The Gits while simultaneously exploring the brutal murder of the band's charismatic front-woman Mia Zapata. In the early-1990s, Seattle music fans longing to distance themselves from the exploding "grunge" movement found themselves drawn to the soulful street punk of an emerging band that distinguished themselves not only by their non-traditional sound, but by their ability to obliterate the barrier between the performer and the audience as well. Their 1992 debut Frenching the Bully gaining the band a sizable following in their hometown, Portland, San Francisco, and all across the Pacific Northwest, it appeared as if The Gits were about to break big. It was the summer of 1993, as The Gits took to the studio to begin recording their sophomore follow-up Enter: The Conquering Chicken, that the reprehensible actions of a deranged madman would tragically derail the career of a band who by all accounts were poised for greatness. As the sun rose over Seattle on the morning of July 7, 1993, The Gits learned to their horror that singer Zapata had been raped and murdered by an unknown assailant the previous night. Stricken with ovarian cancer and determined to document her struggle against the sickness in a documentary entitled Walking Wounded, rising filmmaker O'Kane discovered a non-profit Seattle collective called "Home Alive" while conducting research for her film. An organization founded in the wake of Zapata's death, "Home Alive" raises public awareness about violence by providing self-defense classes to women free-of-charge as a community service. Deeply moved by Zapata's tragic story and inspired by the action the community took to ensure that other women didn't meet a similarly grim fate, O'Kane set about researching the history of the band and bringing their story to the screen for the benefit of Gits fans and anti-violence activists alike.
--- Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
The Gits
Active Decades: '90s and '00s
Born: 1986
Died: 1993
Genre: Rock
Styles: Alternative Pop/Rock, Indie Rock, Punk Revival
On its surface, the idea or memory of the Gits carries with it an undertone of urban darkness and human waste, but the story would be unfairly abbreviated if the killing of vocalist Mia Zapata exclusively defined the group. That is in part because the Gits in life and action helped define something themselves, if not a movement, then a place and time. A very particular brand of punk with a distinct perspective was emanating out of the American northwest during the early '90s, and the Gits were instrumental contributors to this new scene. Perhaps inspired by the honesty and iconoclastic sentiment purveyed by some early (mostly male) grunge bands, certain female artists and musicians began to explore new angles and ideals in the sonic and physical expression of their anger, hope, and existence. Although these riot grrrls as they were often called, generally got lumped into the grunge category, their music often lacked the fat '70s retro guitar riffs and mid- to slow-tempo bombast of the more Black Sabbath-influenced male grunge artists. While many of these groups played the same clubs in Seattle and surrounding areas, and although they often expressed similar political (even feminist) ideals in their lyrics, there was a punk aggression, a palpable and uncompromising commitment that amounted to a way of life for many of the female groups. Being 75 percent male, the Gits hardly qualify as a girl group, but Mia Zapata embodied the group in the eyes of many of their fans. Zapata was an extraordinary example (and ultimately the unofficial patron saint) of riot grrrl intensity, talent, and humanity.
After coming together in Ohio in 1986, the Gits (Zapata, guitarist Joe Spleen, drummer Steve Moriarty, and bassist Matt Dresdner) moved to Seattle a few years later to immerse themselves in the city's burgeoning music scene. It wasn't very long before the Gits had developed a solid following in their adopted home and a strong position in the city's underground punk movement. The word spread as the Gits embarked on successful domestic and international tours in the early '90s (all without the support of a record label.) In 1992, the debut Frenching the Bully was independently released, and the reviews were almost unanimously positive. Zapata's ballistic on-stage persona and aggressive vocals were almost legendary by this time and it seemed inevitable that the Gits and Zapata were going to grow out of the regional success they enjoyed and bask in the national music spotlight.
Before the group could finish their second release, Enter the Conquering Chicken, Zapata was raped and murdered while on her way home from a Seattle pub July 7, 1993. This event sensitized many female artists (especially musicians in Seattle, the West Coast, and all of America) to the paradoxical twists inherent in their expressions of this new philosophy and lifestyle of empowerment. Unfortunately, no amount of rage, street smarts, or outwardly "unfeminine" physicality could dissuade evil men from imposing their will upon even the strongest women within their own ranks. Living a nightlife, working as equals with men, sharing and being rewarded for their alternative ideas about sexual politics and gender roles, it is no doubt that a large group of young female musicians and artists became emboldened (possibly to a degree dangerous to their own safety). While emotionally empowering, this riot grrrl ethos carried no exemption from the physical dangers women have tragically encountered and endured throughout history. The loss of Zapata was symbolic in that it reminded many just how far they still had to go before their own gender would cease to be a weapon, with ultimate potential, that could be used against their own invaluable personage.
Realizing this, friends of Zapata, including 7 Year Bitch drummer Valerie Agnew and visual artist Stacey Westcott, founded Home Alive, an organization created to educate and fund self-defense. Among their efforts, Home Alive released a CD, The Art of Self Defense, that featured recordings of Zapata, Joan Jett, Pearl Jam, Nirvana, and many others. The organization has also held benefit concerts, using all profits to conduct and fund self-defense classes and seminars. Inspired by Zapata's music (and tragic death) Jett didn't stop with her contribution to the Home Alive release, she also made a critically acclaimed music video in which she portrays a stalking victim not unlike Zapata and in 1996, Jett released a record with the surviving Gits under the moniker Evil Stig ("Gits live" spelled backwards). The disc featured much Zapata material, including a duet that had Jett singing along with previously recorded tracks of the late vocalist.
Besides Enter the Conquering Chicken, two other posthumous releases followed the demise of the Gits: Kings and Queens, released in 1996, is a live recording of a 1988 show in Ohio and Seafish Louisville features more live and unreleased material. Evil Stig proved to be a relatively short-lived affair, and afterwards, the Gits moved on to other projects. Spleen has worked with Poison Idea, and Moriarty has played with the Pinkos and Saint Bushman's Choir among others.
Although there is no doubt about the tragic scope of the Gits and Mia Zapata, it is comforting to know that the deceased singer's talent and personality inspired something positive. The result of her death was not just suffering, but awareness, and at least a call to action. It's not been specifically documented whether that call has saved any lives, but it's comforting to think that it is possible. Zapata's energy, charisma, and strength helped create an identity -- an artistic, feminine, urban quintessence, to be cherished and fought for -- that is sadly lacking in so many faceless statistics.
---Vincent Jeffries, All Music Guide |
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