The Gits - Live at The X-Ray (2024) [Official Digital Download]

While the Gits were a band who made a strong impression with their music during their all too brief run, it was how the group suddenly ended that would come to dominate their story. Playing a unique and passionate fusion of first-era punk, hard rock, and streetwise blues, the Gits had a sound that set them apart from their peers in Seattle in the late '80s and early '90s, when the city was hip deep in the grunge explosion. The Gits also had a fearless and charismatic frontwoman in lead singer Mia Zapata, but just as the group seemed poised to move up to the next level of popular acceptance, the potential of both the Gits and Zapata were snuffed out when she was raped and murdered in the summer of 1993.

The Gits were formed in Yellow Springs, Ohio in 1986, when Zapata, guitarist Joe Spleen (aka Andy Kessler), bassist Matt Dresdner, and drummer Steve Moriarty were all students at Antioch College. The band was initially known as "The Snivelling Little Rat Faced Gits," taken from a line from a Monty Python sketch, but before long, convenience won out and they shortened the name. In 1988, the Gits recorded a set of demos with the help of Ben London of Alcohol Funnycar; they would eventually see official release under the title Kings & Queens. In 1989, the Gits pulled up stakes and made their way to Seattle, Washington, where they squatted in an abandoned house where they lived and rehearsed. While the Gits' music was significantly different from that which defined the Pacific Northwest rock scene of the day, their forceful performances and Zapata's gifts as a vocalist and communicator won them a following among punk rockers, political activists, and renegade artists as well as discerning rock fans. In 1990, the Gits released their debut single, "Precious Blood" b/w "Seaweed" and "Kings & Queens," and after a pair of 45s in 1991, the band began work on their debut album, Frenching the Bully, which was released by C/Z Records in 1992.

TRACKLIST

1 Sign of the Crab (Live at The X-Ray) (2024 Remaster)
2 While You're Twisting I'm Still Breathing (Live at The X-Ray) (2024 Remaster)
3 Insecurities (Live at The X-Ray) (2024 Remaster)
4 Slaughter of Bruce (Live at The X-Ray) (2024 Remaster)
5 Seaweed (Live at The X-Ray) (2024 Remaster)
6 Beauty of the Rose (Live at The X-Ray) (2024 Remaster)
7 Absynthe (Live at The X-Ray) (2024 Remaster)
8 Another Shot of Whiskey (Live at The X-Ray) (2024 Remaster)
9 Whirlwind (Live at The X-Ray) (2024 Remaster)
10 Daily Bread (Live at The X-Ray) (2024 Remaster)
11 Bob (Cousin O.) (Live at The X-Ray) (2024 Remaster)
12 Wingo Lamo (Live at The X-Ray) (2024 Remaster)
13 Here's to Your Fuck (Live at The X-Ray) (2024 Remaster)
14 Second Skin (Live at The X-Ray) (2024 Remaster)



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