Hello peeps. Welcome to this addition of Musical Moondays that celebrates contributions from the awesome women who wanted to be where the boys are. And also to those who wanted to do it better and to kick their ass which many of them did.
Like the Runaways
I Love Playin With Fire
And Joan Jett and the Blackhearts after that.
Bad Reputation
I have a lot of appreciation for Joan Jett as it is, but before I introduce some songs of the next band The Gits, I have to mention something horrific. That horrific incident is the murder of Mia Zapata. This is downright upsetting to think about and for the members of her bands it is still understandably as if it happened yesterday. That literally makes me sick.
Joan Jett and other great bands in the Seattle scene in the 90s helped raise awareness to solve a horrific murder of one of the best female lead punk rock vocalists of all time and luckily they caught the piece of shit.
At around 2:00 a.m. on July 7, 1993, Zapata left the Comet Tavern in the Capitol Hill area of Seattle. She stayed at a studio space in the basement of an apartment building located a block away, and briefly visited a friend who lived on the second floor. This was the last time she was seen alive. She may have walked a few blocks west, north to a friend's apartment, or may have decided to take the long walk south to her home.[1]
She was beaten, raped and strangled in the Central District of Seattle. It is believed she encountered her attacker shortly after 2:15 am. Since an employee at the Comet remembered her wearing her headset as she left, it is believed she was listening to music from her walkman and thus was unaware of the attacker approaching.[2]
According to the cable television show Unsolved Mysteries, a man two blocks from the Comet Tavern heard a scream around 3:00 a.m. A woman discovered her body in the street at around 3:30 a.m. near the intersection of 24th Avenue South and South Washington Street in the Central District. According to the medical examiner, if she had not been strangled she would have died from the internal injuries suffered from the beating.
Mia Zapata is interred at Cave Hill Cemetery in her hometown of Louisville.
Legacy
In the aftermath of her murder, friends created a self-defense group called Home Alive, which disbanded in 2010. Home Alive has organized benefit concerts and CDs with the participation of many of Seattle's music elite, such as Nirvana (one of lead singer Kurt Cobain's final public appearances), Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Heart, and the Presidents of the United States of America. Joan Jett also recorded an album with the surviving members of The Gits called Evil Stig ("Gits Live" backwards). The Home Alive group's instructors offered a range of courses, from anger management and use of pepper spray to the martial arts.[3]
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Following Zapata's death, Joan Jett and Kathleen Hanna wrote a song called "Go Home" that was later released on Jett's 1994 album Pure and Simple. Later a video for "Go Home" was released which depicts a woman being stalked and attacked but is then able to defend herself against the attacker
I don't want t go into anymore details because they are horrific. I'm glad they caught the POS and I am reminded how we all have to look out for women being brutalized, raped, and murdered by men who are animals, literally. Women don't need men to do it for them(but everyone should as a general rule regardless of sex), and society as a whole must look after the women in our lives because otherwise we are robbed of their presence on this Earth and it is too painful. The world is robbed and cries with every rain when womanhood screams out in pain.
Here are my picks. RIP Mia Zapata.
Seaweed
Second Skin
A Change Is Gonna Come
Now I'm a little upset.....so here are some other pics from some other bands.....
Tilt is a great band from fat Wreck Chords.
Weave and Unravel
Want To Do
White Homes
Now for Penelope Houston and the Avengers(h/t ActivistGuy)
No Martyr
The Amerikan In Me
I can't forget Eve Libertine and Crass.
Reality Asylum (controversial)
Shaved Women
Now for some Naked Aggression!
Why do they Fuck up my World
Plastic World
Now for the Eyeliners
Always what you I want to hear....
I could never hate you
And here they are with Joan Jett!
Destroy
Fabulous Disaster
Next Big Joyride
Inside My Head
The Distillers(the Lead singer was married and then divorced from Tim Armstrong of Rancid/Op Ivy)
Young Crazed Peeling
The Hunger
I'll close with the Donnas(I'm going to miss Torry Castellano so much who is not with the band anymore due to tendinitis in her shoulder)
Checkin' It Out
You know this one:
Take It Off
Thank you! Goodnight!