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The Gits 2005
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00:00:01The Gits, they were about addiction, they were about loss, they were about love.
00:00:05We became, I think, a real band of the people.
00:00:08People were indoctrinated, they came and they saw this band, and it opened some passageway up in them.
00:00:12There has not been anything like them since then.
00:00:15It's what I was doing, what I loved doing, and then we had to stop doing it.
00:00:20When Mia was murdered, that just destroyed us all.
00:00:22Everybody was just blown away and just stunned.
00:00:25Like, the world caved in, the fucking walls came tumbling down.
00:00:28It still makes me sad that there's so much more we could have done.
00:00:31What the fuck happened?
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00:01:52rock and roll band I started playing music when I was about 11 I tried to be a jazz musician
00:02:00I
00:02:00really tried to I always kind of hated that fact that I couldn't get into jazz and couldn't really
00:02:04enjoy it because I knew it was a better art form it was a better music I grew up in
00:02:16Jersey it's
00:02:17been a lot of Sunday afternoons at CBGB's I started listening to bands like the Minutemen
00:02:20the descendants minor threat that's when I was inspired to start playing the neighborhood I
00:02:30grew up in was way out in Brooklyn it's like a neighborhood that time forgot my first guitar
00:02:34was actually like this toy guitar it had really really light cheap nylon strings was more like
00:02:39kind of like a ukulele
00:02:52I knew I wanted Mia to sing with us
00:02:54like they remember literally crying from the first times I heard her I was really happy because I
00:03:03knew that she was good I didn't know how good
00:03:14the story is that her father's family is a distant descendant of Emiliano Zapata who was the big
00:03:20revolutionary and so she kind of had that in her blood maybe that that like kind of fighting spirit
00:03:25what I know of my daughter she was very quiet very reserved ultra ultra shy the last person in the
00:03:35world who would call attention to herself and yet put a microphone in her hand march her up on a
00:03:42stage
00:03:42and she was just magnetic
00:03:49Antioch College is in Ohio it's an old liberal arts school that was regarded highly a long time ago the
00:03:55gits were formed in the fall of 1986 after Matt Dresner came back from a co-op in San Francisco
00:04:00I went back to Antioch and I was really inspired to start a band I knew this guy Andy looked
00:04:05punk rock
00:04:06I want you to be the guitarist so I just said yeah sure you know whatever you know because I
00:04:11didn't
00:04:12take it seriously when I first met the members of the gits I was into the kinks and 60s rock
00:04:19and the
00:04:19who and I love the Ramones and some of those bands but really I really didn't know much about punk
00:04:23because it just really didn't exist in in Indiana where I grew up you know week and a half later
00:04:29we
00:04:29actually had a band we're practicing for hours every night started jamming we jammed in this old
00:04:35abandoned dorm room at Antioch and once Mia started singing everything just kind of came together and
00:04:39it was so much fun and it was this really soulful band the songs were really fast and furious
00:04:44I was in class with Mia and I remember us always being kind of intimidated like who is this woman
00:04:56I
00:04:57mean she just commanded respect and and interest immediately I was at this party and it was pretty
00:05:04late and everyone was drunk especially Mia just like jumped up on a table out of the blue and
00:05:08started singing like Bessie Smith blues or something and it was like blew everyone away it was really as
00:05:15as if like somebody pulled the plug out of the wall or something the room kind of stopped
00:05:32I think it was at that moment when Matt Dresner heard her sing that he was like I'm gonna form
00:05:36a band with her
00:05:37her natural performance was just so beautiful I mean there was an awkwardness about her because
00:05:42she would pull her knees together and you know she looked like a chicken I mean she did and it
00:05:47was
00:05:47awesome because you're like who is this lady who sings like a heavy angel it was like where is ma
00:05:55rainy and Bessie Smith let's just like power punch them and power pack them you know inside this chicken
00:06:02woman who's got a lot of heart you know what's going on here when we started the band we were
00:06:10called the sniveling little rat-faced gets I wanted to change the name of the fucking band but the other
00:06:15three people in the band would not have it a get it's like a moron a crackpot a git is
00:06:21a freak it gets a
00:06:22dork it gets a nerd it's from a monty python episode a darling the these these are the gits
00:06:31the gits band names are inherently stupid and they be they become what right just a symbol of the band
00:06:38this is a sniveling little rat-faced git and this is his wife dreary fat boring old it doesn't evoke
00:06:46anything the other three of them they were just like the gits we're the gits
00:06:54the gits shows at antioch were like unparalleled probably to anything that i've seen in a in a
00:07:02certain sense
00:07:12each time
00:07:17and those pieces were hard to kill and all the guilt built in your head
00:07:47it was time for all of us to leave antioch we hadn't all graduated but it was
00:07:52time to leave andy and i knew we wanted to get as far away from the east coast as we
00:07:56could so seattle
00:07:57felt natural and we heard there was a little bit of a music scene burgeoning as soon as we arrived
00:08:01here
00:08:02it just felt like home
00:08:17we all lived various places for a few months until december when a bunch of us moved into a big
00:08:23old
00:08:23rundown house that became the main center of our activities for the next several years
00:08:28we called it the rat house this is 19th street and the rat house is at 19th and denny which
00:08:36is in the
00:08:36just right on capitol hill it was owned by this guy who was a warlock and he told me that
00:08:42that the crows
00:08:43used to all come and land on top of the house and the neighbors thought that he was uh a
00:08:48demon so they
00:08:49spray painted a white cross on the front lawn um he also said that it used to have cockroaches but
00:08:55he
00:08:55made a cockroach stew and uh this is the guy that rented to us he made a cockroach stew and
00:09:00ate the
00:09:01stew and then from then on all the cockroaches left and let's see i haven't been here for a long
00:09:06time this porsche wasn't here this was a beat up 76 dodge van that was falling apart and one time
00:09:12the
00:09:12brakes gave way and it like drove down and we found it in the bushes like way down the street
00:09:17and
00:09:17miraculously it didn't hit any other cars but just sort of drove itself and crashed down at the bottom
00:09:21um when this fence wasn't there there's a porch there in front of the door and that's where we
00:09:26used to sit and you know talk about projects and drink and hang out out of all of us mia
00:09:32had been
00:09:33the first one of us to become gainfully employed and she got a job as a waitress at the frontier
00:09:38room
00:09:38and she made about four dollars 25 cents an hour but it used to be toughest dive bar and nastiest
00:09:44greasy
00:09:44spoon restaurant in town and we were here every day because she would feed us she would feed us and
00:09:49we
00:09:51think we spent probably every day for about a year year and a half uh at this waterfront dive see
00:09:57that's where mia used to live in that room back there uh i used to live up there in that
00:10:02top floor
00:10:02there actually i had the best friend and uh carla and julian lived in that bottom area which used to
00:10:07be a church chapel i guess and there was an altar in there where the church used to be and
00:10:10uh they had
00:10:11their bed on the altar which is kind of risky so beautiful i mean it was just so nice to
00:10:17meet people
00:10:17i just kind of had your same mind that's the way we want to live our life you know you
00:10:21had beer
00:10:22dripping off the wall you know because people were rowdy i mean it was punk rock you know what
00:10:26do you expect so people would like break through windows you know break things fall over dump their
00:10:32beer throw their beer i mean it was just incredible it was just totally insane here we are in front
00:10:37of
00:10:37this hair salon that used to be the foremost live music venue in seattle club called the vogue we were
00:10:44trying to get a gig there for like months um and that no one would the guys the guy wouldn't
00:10:49book us
00:10:50at all we actually we actually bribed him with a dollar the first night at the vogue was our foot
00:10:54in the door in seattle hey jules less vocals in his monitor and more guitar maybe a little more for
00:11:02me
00:11:36you know how many times you go see a band it's like oh okay start playing and you know something
00:11:43happens with them it was like oh and oh they're bringing something else to the table that no one
00:12:03else around here has
00:12:09i remember i brought some friends to see their show and everybody just got along really instantly you
00:12:17know yeah instantaneous they were just like immersed into this kind of whole punk rock scene there
00:12:23a lot of people became very it was on the same everybody was kind of on the same level coming
00:12:29from
00:12:29the same place down there is where we had our rehearsal studio and seven year bitch dc beggars
00:12:34it gets big brown house and all the bands rehearsed down there and i can remember when seven year
00:12:40bitch got started there was uh valerie agnew who at the time was uh steve's girlfriend and celine
00:12:47and stephanie sergeant and liz davis and they were all huge fans of music and huge fans of the gets
00:12:53we so you know respected and admired and looked up to them and you know just thought they were the
00:12:58shit so when we first started playing it was like we had to borrow their gear i mean we didn't
00:13:04know
00:13:04shit we didn't know what the hell we were doing so they just totally helped us and then listen to
00:13:08us
00:13:09thrashing away banging around down there i mean i can't imagine what it was like for them we would have
00:13:14to go and get like a half rack of beer to loosen up and get comfortable enough to start playing
00:13:21like you guys go away like go somewhere yeah just go away don't listen to us oh get that
00:13:26fucking camera out of my face god jeez let me lighten up with you there was you know some i
00:13:31think
00:13:31encouragement probably specifically from mia to say you guys can do this you don't need to just stand
00:13:35in the audience she's like uh no you should be the singer and i'm like okay and i was like
00:13:39i'll play drums
00:13:40my boyfriend plays drums steve starts showing her how to play drums we meet this other girl elizabeth
00:13:46who also worked in the market oh she's playing bass with you know let's have her come out there and
00:13:50drum with us me would always come up and be like what you're doing is good it's real it's true
00:13:53you
00:13:53guys sounded really good and she's paid attention she like would pick out certain things like you knew
00:13:58she wasn't just giving it lip service and i knew that her bedroom was right above our our practice space
00:14:03um i was like whoa that was really like intimidating you know i realized that sort of our ethic the
00:14:14reason we were doing it fit more into the category of punk than anything else we were bored we were
00:14:20young
00:14:21we're a little bit drunk a little bit angry and we had a lot of energy what we considered punk
00:14:26was
00:14:27the whole do-it-yourself ethic if you need to make something happen you decided you were going to do
00:14:32it
00:14:32and you started from scratch and you just did it and that's how we put out our first record i
00:14:37mean
00:14:37we'd have these haphazard meetings everybody's all whatever we're going to get through so we're
00:14:42going to put out this this compilation and we're going to do this so we pulled all the different
00:14:46people that were in bands and said hey you want to put a cut on this record give us a
00:14:49tape
00:14:49at a time which we didn't even realize there was such a huge thing about to happen in that city
00:14:54we had no other family here so our family was
00:15:00us the comet was like the bar they went to most of the time and the comet knew that if
00:15:05there was a
00:15:05party at the red house everybody was basically invited you know so it was many times that it's
00:15:09like people would just show up there was going to be the big rat house party you know get to
00:15:15plan
00:15:15and beggars and seven year bitch just you know let's go new year's new year's eve show that we did
00:15:21at
00:15:21the rat house was all like you know i mean you see it with me and everybody like no war
00:15:27and we were
00:15:27all just like really there was all that going on that was affecting everybody's whole psyche and
00:15:32just whatever
00:15:40before there was a band or before there was a show or before there was a rehearsal there was our
00:15:44friendship and our loyalty to one another i think that was kind of the spirit of the of the rat
00:15:49house
00:15:49and like the thing that was going on there it was just easy and free and fun
00:16:21we'll be right back
00:16:38from the get-go this chemical thing where where things would just sort of organically materialize
00:16:44and and and songs would happen more than be written a few times i just messed around with
00:16:49some shit on guitar and um and the other guys were like oh is that a new song and i'd
00:16:54be like
00:16:55yeah it is even though it wasn't but but i would tell them that because the thing is when you're
00:16:59in
00:16:59a band you get bored pretty easily you constantly get bored of your shit you want to do something
00:17:03new and you want to keep and that's how bands get better and better from doing this you know a
00:17:07lot
00:17:07of songs too i would just bring the entire song fully formed and show the band and they would
00:17:10arrange it other things i didn't have fully formed i just had these parts but i knew sort of the
00:17:14order
00:17:14and then you know we would arrange it together as a group you know mostly mostly me and matt or
00:17:19me
00:17:19matt and steve matt he would come up with great bass lines he had a really good ear and he
00:17:25could
00:17:25sort of describe what he wanted and matt would turn it into something that was unique both steve and
00:17:32andy were just amazing players and trying to keep up with their musicianship forced me to to learn very
00:17:38quickly if the three of us were working on stuff or whatever mia would come down with a tape recorder
00:17:42and listen to it for a while and then eventually after she heard it a couple times she'd tape it
00:17:46and
00:17:46then bring it upstairs and then we wouldn't hear from her about it for a while and then
00:17:49we'd have a period where it was just the three of us pretty much working on stuff and then we'd
00:17:54we'd
00:17:54start hassling her you know so zapata where's our lyrics yeah you'll get it eventually you'll get it
00:18:00when i'm ready well a lot of times she had these journal these little journal books and a lot of
00:18:05times at the at the bar or wherever she was hanging out she was by herself a lot of times
00:18:09she would just
00:18:09sit around writing them hey you walk in with another headache i can tell by the lines in your
00:18:15face you seem to think if you just remove the problem the answers are what will come
00:18:21down there
00:18:22another shot of whiskey and maybe i'll be ready
00:18:25watch out crying in your head never thinking that all the good times
00:18:32what i did would have been don't know why we compromise ourselves i thought it was a common understanding
00:18:53and i thought she was she was a great lyricist i thought she had some great words and he's unusual
00:19:07mind was greatly like enhanced by his support that mia would give him and there's a just this emotional
00:19:15link they were not lovers you know they weren't a romantic duo they were an artistic duo their depth
00:19:21of their connection was really in the music it's a lyricist and a music writer who understand each
00:19:29other's rhythms her and andy they brought the best out in each other he kind of understood what she
00:19:34could sing and would push her to her limits the two just really created something that was bigger
00:19:39than the both of them as individuals she was really like my my soul mate as far as my music
00:19:46soul mate
00:19:47it's kind of a miracle to meet someone like that in this life
00:20:06and when i'm going into the bar
00:20:09and when i'm there trying to do it better
00:20:11you know it just carried me
00:20:13it won't make me dream
00:20:15wingo lamo that was always one of my favorites when i wrote the music to that i was in the
00:20:19rat
00:20:20house basement and it just came together really quickly and i just knew i just had a really good
00:20:23feeling about it it's funny because the chorus mia says immobilized by the torment i didn't know what the
00:20:29words were because i hadn't read them i thought she was saying just like my father told me one time
00:20:33i asked her i was so mia what are you saying about your father in that one song like i'm
00:20:36not saying
00:20:37it's like my father told me you idiot but we always laughed at that you know when we play it
00:20:40live
00:20:40sometimes you would just say just like my father told me
00:20:43just like my father told me
00:20:46it ain't no one there's nothing more i can take
00:20:48cause you're the nurse
00:20:50hating yourself
00:20:51waiting around like it's somebody else
00:21:06woo doggy i say i say sea fish louisville
00:21:11the stuff that was getting all the publicity was basically the sub-pop bands um and this grunge
00:21:18thing which you know which was fine for whatever it was but we had nothing to do with it
00:21:41here's to it baby here's your fuck
00:21:50here's to your fuck obviously um you know i stole the title from david lynch from blue velvet you know
00:21:56fuck fuck this shit and fuck my my health sucks or whatever you know here's to your fuck here's to
00:22:05i'm not gonna call you
00:22:07here's to your fuck i'm not gonna call you
00:22:11like me
00:22:11i'm not gonna call you
00:22:12i'm not gonna call you
00:22:14but i'm not gonna call you
00:22:35like me
00:22:36Yeah, baby, this is the fucking end
00:22:39Cause you're gonna fuck the way you're making friends
00:22:44You're full of shit, just love
00:22:48It's your family and you're fucked
00:23:13Thank you, you've all been very kind and patient, smile for the camera
00:23:16Mia was doing something that was unique in 1993 and it's unique today
00:23:22This raw, pitch brilliant blues singer singing as this charismatic front to this whirlwind of a punk rock band
00:23:34I'm so lucky to have seen it
00:23:35She could have really sang in any type of band and she would have always been the spotlight, the point
00:23:41of focus
00:23:43Where did it get?
00:23:47Alright, man, I'd like to thank all these people and bands who came out tonight
00:23:51Support, help, make us feel good coming back here
00:23:57She didn't give a shit and it totally came out
00:24:00Because she wasn't afraid of abrasiveness
00:24:03How sloppy you are in life, there's a beauty to it
00:24:16There was a soulfulness that came out of Mia
00:24:20And there was a rawness
00:24:38The intensity within her was like something that was like both punk rock and blues
00:24:44And because it had that depth
00:24:46I mean, you'd have to be a fucking zombie to not be affected
00:24:49Tell us what I could do
00:24:51I mean, you're a fucking zombie to not be affected
00:24:53When I thought I could see it
00:24:56I ain't got nothing
00:25:01And with all that you've taken over me
00:25:04We'll go ahead and ask for that
00:25:06You sound
00:25:07Oh, no, don't try it with me
00:25:10No, don't
00:25:12Don't do your lies
00:25:14And call it some kind of truth
00:25:18Go ahead and walk me, walk me close
00:25:20It's going to be right to the end
00:25:22Push down, push down, I don't feel
00:25:24I'll keep going back, fighting and stronger
00:25:27Despite the words you've left, I'll break that
00:25:30Keep your twisted, keep your twisted
00:25:33But I'll keep breathing, keep breathing
00:25:45It never really sunk in that there was this tremendous following of fans
00:25:52Not to sound melodramatic, but even people who worshipped the ground she walked
00:25:57I never thought of her as a star
00:25:59It's just my daughter, you know, my daughter Mia Zapata
00:26:0227 years old and double-jointed
00:26:04You know, that's who she was
00:26:07Who, when we were on camping trips as a young kid
00:26:09Would get mosquitoes in her hair, flies in her hair
00:26:13Was always sitting around trying to figure out how to get all these flies out of the knots in her
00:26:18hair
00:26:19My mother has this great idea that we're going to go to the local bar in Sandpoint, Idaho
00:26:25And we go to this open mic night
00:26:28And I'm scared to death
00:26:29And of course we walk in and everybody's singing country songs
00:26:32And of course everybody's kind of looking at Mia
00:26:34You know, Mia beelines right for the guy handling the thing
00:26:37And says, would you mind if I borrowed your guitar?
00:26:40Oh yeah, what are you going to do?
00:26:41He says, well, she's like, I'd like to sing a few songs
00:26:43And, you know, she gets up there in her fur coat
00:26:46And their dreads and bleached out roots
00:26:48And she looks nuts
00:26:49She looks like she doesn't belong there
00:26:51She blew this room away
00:26:54The shots were being sent to the table
00:26:56Shaking hands
00:26:57And it was the introduction to Mia's talent that I never knew
00:27:01She didn't have your typical sense of humor
00:27:04And she couldn't tell a joke worth her life
00:27:06But somehow everything she said had a sort of dry wit and bite to it
00:27:11We'd be driving along hour upon hour
00:27:14And there'd be some cows out in the pastures
00:27:17And every time we saw cows, she would just go
00:27:19Those cows, they're outstanding in their field
00:27:23The worst part, though, was when she tried to relate that humor on stage
00:27:27Mia would try to fill the gap by saying something funny
00:27:30To the boat! To the boat!
00:27:32We must go to the boat!
00:27:35And no one ever got what she was saying
00:27:38She didn't know how to drive at all
00:27:39And she loved the idea of driving
00:27:41She convinced someone else who didn't know
00:27:43Who just assumed that she had a license
00:27:44And she was like, can I drive us back to the rat house from the comet?
00:27:48And he was like, yeah, sure
00:27:49And he's like, you have your car, right?
00:27:51He's like, yeah
00:27:51She's like, okay
00:27:52Hey, Mia, you know
00:27:53I don't really remember all these tall buildings near your house
00:27:56She just turned around
00:27:58She's like, shut up
00:27:59I'm taking you the scenic route
00:28:05She would have been great if she was singing with an acoustic guitar
00:28:08She would have been great if she was singing in a techno band
00:28:11As it happened, she was singing in a punk rock band
00:28:15Second skin, I was like, I don't know
00:28:17I still, maybe I have a prejudice
00:28:19Because I put the single out
00:28:20But I thought it was their best song
00:28:22And I couldn't believe they picked me to play it out
00:28:24We were just kind of playing around
00:28:27And all of a sudden this song evolved
00:28:30I imagine specifically Andy probably came up with a riff
00:28:33When we were doing second skin and recording that in the studio
00:28:37Everyone left and Mia did the vocals by herself
00:28:40And I was the first one to come back
00:28:41And I thought her vocal performance was just really wonderful
00:28:45And Mia just looked at me and she said
00:28:47Yeah, it's real desperate
00:28:49It's more desperate sounding than what we've been coming up with up until this point
00:28:53I mean, it had everything that we liked about music
00:28:57The driving force
00:29:00The emotions of Mia's lyrics
00:29:03And for the first time it was kind of catchy too
00:29:16I thought about it hell
00:29:18About a million times
00:29:20It takes all my breath
00:29:22Just to keep it calm
00:29:24I have to tell myself
00:29:26It's bad just to breathe
00:29:28Hold it intact
00:29:30Only have to do me in
00:29:32Each time I close my eyes
00:29:34I see another change
00:29:36It's what I can't forget
00:29:37Something I cannot break out of
00:29:40I need a second skin
00:29:41Something to overcome
00:29:43Can't seem to get out of this hole
00:29:46I'm such much so I've been
00:29:55Just to wake up tells me
00:29:57I must be brave
00:29:59It hits me like a drug
00:30:01Tried into my pain
00:30:02It's not as delightful
00:30:05Delightful of a pain
00:30:06But what lies in me
00:30:08Hold on, I can't think I'm dead
00:30:10I need a second skin
00:30:12Something to overcome
00:30:14Can't do it all by yourself
00:30:16Sometimes I need just a little more
00:30:17I've got that chance to give
00:30:20Every drop that's left in me
00:30:22I need a second skin
00:30:23Something to overcome
00:30:25I'll break through you
00:30:41I just tell myself, girl
00:30:43Don't let it breathe
00:30:44It's a common
00:30:46That I'm always searching for
00:30:48The dirt that gets so heavy
00:30:50As it falls above my head
00:30:52Steep in from under my feet
00:30:54I just keep talking
00:30:55I can't keep up
00:30:56I need a second skin
00:30:58Something you want to do
00:31:00Can't do it on my own
00:31:01So fast I need to learn more
00:31:03But I've got that chance to give
00:31:05Every drop that's left in me
00:31:07I need a second skin
00:31:09Something I cannot break through you
00:31:26I don't know what I'm saying to be there
00:31:28You're one that you deny
00:31:30Choice ain't coming for you
00:31:31You're one that you survive
00:31:33You know what to stand up against
00:31:35A world that you deceive
00:31:37When you take a special strength
00:31:39But I've got that second skin
00:31:41I've got that chance to give
00:31:43I've got the only way
00:31:44That I know how to live with it
00:31:46I need a second skin
00:31:48Something to overcome
00:31:50I need a second skin
00:31:52Something I cannot break through you
00:32:04We get into the parking lot
00:32:06And she makes me promise
00:32:07That I will not make a scene
00:32:09In Tower Records
00:32:10And of course I immediately
00:32:11Go to this local section
00:32:13And there it is
00:32:15A GITS CD
00:32:16And so I'm
00:32:17Hey Mia come over here
00:32:19Come over here
00:32:19She's dad your voice is too loud
00:32:21Your voice is too loud
00:32:22Dad you're making a scene
00:32:23You're making a scene
00:32:24I'm getting out of here
00:32:25No you come here
00:32:26Let me show you
00:32:27She's pulling on my sleeve
00:32:28And I'm pointing at the CD
00:32:30So finally I acquiesced
00:32:31And we leave the store
00:32:33She's saying you know
00:32:34Why did you do that?
00:32:35You know and I said
00:32:35I didn't do anything
00:32:36All I did was hold up your CD
00:32:38She says it embarrasses me
00:32:40I said why would it embarrass you?
00:32:42This is what you do for a living
00:32:44You don't think of it like that dad
00:32:47It must have been stunning
00:32:49To feel that you were a part of a scene
00:32:52That the whole world was looking at
00:32:54Because everyone's eyes were on Seattle right then
00:32:56When the seven year bitch got rolling
00:32:58Totally out of the basement of the rat house
00:33:01With so much help from them
00:33:02And when we started to get popular
00:33:04And then even to the point where
00:33:06You know we were getting signs and stuff
00:33:09It was really weird
00:33:36We were a little envious
00:33:38You know we were like
00:33:39Fuck these guys going to New York
00:33:40And playing these shows
00:33:41We taught them how to play their instruments
00:33:43And they're playing in New York before us
00:33:45They got to be on the cover of The Rocket
00:33:47And we barely ever got them mentioned in that rag
00:34:04This is what happens I suppose
00:34:06In an intense rock scene
00:34:07You either become rivals
00:34:08Or you become friends
00:34:10And they were clearly friends
00:34:12There was a documentary filmmaker in town
00:34:14And he was working on a movie called Hype
00:34:17That was about the Seattle scene
00:34:19Seven year bitch was asked to be a part of it
00:34:21And I think they asked Doug Prey
00:34:23The filmmaker
00:34:24Have you guys talked to the kids yet?
00:34:25Because like if you haven't get on it
00:34:28You know
00:34:28And eventually he contacted us
00:34:31And we were always a bit wary of film people
00:34:34We were always kind of like
00:34:36Yeah I don't know about you
00:34:37We're going to have to think about this
00:34:40We're going to talk to you
00:34:41Society people
00:34:44It was great and unexpected
00:34:52Yeah, we certainly went to win
00:35:03I think thank you very much
00:35:03It was great
00:35:03I think that we're always good
00:35:09Awaken in the state
00:35:10It's not my own, the only thing that's real is that amongst these walls
00:35:15I whisper to a fear that seeps in my soul
00:35:18Waiting on my conscience, but I think I know
00:35:21It hurts me to be angry, kills me to be kind
00:35:24But my only torment is my own disguise
00:35:27Waiting on the favors, they all have come to show
00:35:30There's not much in there for you to hold
00:35:33I heard about Mia Zapata kind of just through the scene.
00:35:36I knew Seven Year Bitch and Tad and Soundgarden
00:35:40And it was sort of like, oh, there's this really great singer, you have to see her
00:35:43There's this really great singer, you have to see her
00:35:45One of the guys from Sub Pop knew Mia from the Frontier Room
00:35:48And had seen us at one of our very first shows
00:35:50And he asked us if we would be interested in playing opening for Tad and Nirvana
00:35:55Nirvana was just break-in and Soundgarden
00:35:57And all these bands were becoming really trendy and hip in the U.S.
00:36:02But we were like, fuck it, let's go to Europe
00:36:10Though we were completely unknown at the time to the Europeans
00:36:13They treated us like royalty
00:36:14And we made many great friends and played some spectacular shows
00:36:18We played this place called the Ecstasy
00:36:21And it was this huge club
00:36:22And we ended up going on at 3 in the morning
00:36:24And the place was packed with people
00:36:26But at that point in time, like, Seattle bands were considered so hip
00:36:30And I remember one show in Denmark
00:36:32We were playing with this band called Life But How To Live It from Oslo, Norway
00:36:36And the singer from that band, she was singing all the words to our songs
00:36:40And she just totally dug Mia's lyrics
00:36:43It was probably one of the best things that we did as a band
00:36:46We became, I think, a real band of the people
00:36:49You know, actually, someone said that to me
00:36:51And it was really true
00:37:00We got back home
00:37:02Seven Year Bitch had just played a real big show
00:37:04I think opening for the Chili Peppers
00:37:06The sort of fast success of Seven Year Bitch at that time
00:37:10The momentum became too much for Stephanie Sargent
00:37:13And she had been fighting a heroin addiction
00:37:18It snuck up and bit her in the ass
00:37:21Mia was especially crushed by Stephanie's death
00:37:26I'd criticate the song to a great friend I
00:37:28He died one year today in front of me
00:37:32All those are left
00:37:59There in the silence of the days of the stars
00:38:02Sexed up to the peace that we love
00:38:05If I could take that premise in me
00:38:08I could love with all that trembling
00:38:10When I was walking into the water
00:38:13And I was trying not to breathe
00:38:16But I could feel the current for me
00:38:20And I'd just get that deeper
00:38:23And I was sick of the pain that you're feeling now
00:38:26It's weighing down
00:38:29If I could raise it all within one guy
00:38:35I'd write your branches around my soul
00:38:37And now let me go
00:38:40And I'd drown in evil fear
00:38:44Penetrate, got to go
00:38:46I feel this peewee creeping up my skin
00:38:49It's like a monster that's reaching for me
00:38:52I've got a passionate life I've got planned
00:38:55I've got to use it for seven months I've done
00:38:58And one time I think it was Mia, Stephanie, and maybe Maria
00:39:00I remember seeing them all in the lake
00:39:02They were tangled up in a lot of seaweed
00:39:04And they were all like screaming and squawking and like wrestling
00:39:07And all this stuff in the water
00:39:08And it was just so funny
00:39:09Because although they were these total, you know
00:39:11Like insane punk rock women and stuff
00:39:13They looked like little girls, you know
00:39:14They were all like
00:39:16Screaming in the water
00:39:17And you could tell when one of them would get caught in the seaweed
00:39:19Because they were totally like
00:39:21Even more than the others
00:39:22To try to pull the others in it and stuff
00:39:24And Mia told me that's
00:39:26For going into the seaweed like that
00:39:27You know, that's where she came up with the lyrics to seaweed
00:39:30But I'm going out of that seaweed
00:39:33Cause what before
00:39:35Not a lemon
00:39:36And that's where it's there
00:39:37Gonna be awake on the surface
00:39:39And my chest
00:39:41Let you go
00:39:42I'm sick of the pain that I'm feeling
00:39:46Sweating you down
00:39:49If I could risk it all within one fucking time
00:39:54Grab your punches around my soul and now
00:39:57Let you go
00:40:00Let you go
00:40:01I'm drowning people's pain
00:40:03And I'm dragging the obstacles
00:40:29We have CDs, tape, records
00:40:32We have Co-chase
00:40:33we have Co-chase
00:40:33We canUNDered
00:40:33There's one DIFFECTS
00:40:35We have Co-chase
00:40:35San Francisco bands, steel-blow wet tubs, son of a bitch, women, fucking D.C. Bears gets a lot of
00:40:43people.
00:40:43It's also still right there.
00:40:45They just seem to keep building and building, and we had all kinds of tours that were being set up,
00:40:50national tours.
00:40:51Our first gig in New York was set up, and we were real looking forward to that.
00:40:55Hey, Dad, this is Mia.
00:40:56Well, I'm down here in L.A., and I'm in this fancy restaurant.
00:40:59We're sitting there with these executives from this recording company,
00:41:02and, well, they're making an awful lot of promises to us of what can happen
00:41:08and how they can help us and all of that.
00:41:10And I sat with them, and at that moment I committed myself to the idea
00:41:15that I was going to sign this band, that they were going to be on Atlantic Records.
00:41:18One of the executives was asking the group what their aspirations, what their goals were.
00:41:26And when they got to Mia, she said, well, all I really want is a cabin in the woods,
00:41:34an English sheepdog, and a jeep, and to be able to sit and write music.
00:41:39And one of the executives said, we can give you that right now.
00:41:42I don't know whether they had committed themselves to that idea,
00:41:45but I decided that I was going to make them a firm offer to be on Atlantic.
00:41:50And, in fact, this was June 1993.
00:41:54This was the beginning, you know, of so much great stuff to come.
00:41:58It was just a real, uh, just totally creative group.
00:42:02It was just so spontaneous that way.
00:42:05When I woke up today, it was dizzy in my brain
00:42:09It's not that I'd like to feel this way
00:42:13The wagon's shaking and I feel it start to tilt
00:42:17And I just go tumbling right back in the world with
00:42:31I can't seem to hold on to a fucking song
00:42:34It's where it's got me and I'm racing out the door
00:42:39It's not for a while, but when I try to focus
00:42:43It's all my convictions
00:42:45I'm crunching down around me again
00:42:51I'm sneaking up behind me when I am again
00:42:57We were sitting at the corner end of the bar nearest the door
00:43:00And Mia was in a really good mood
00:43:04Because she had just played a solo show in L.A.
00:43:07And had gotten paid for it
00:43:08And she was really psyched about it
00:43:10She was very loving and really, like, hugged us deeply
00:43:15And licked my face and did a Mia maneuver, you know
00:43:18And she left the bar
00:43:20And it was about midnight, maybe a little after
00:43:22And I got the call from Steve saying
00:43:25That Mia was missing
00:43:27And he was hoping that it wasn't a repeat of Stephanie
00:43:30Which made me think drug-related
00:43:34Which didn't make sense
00:43:36She said she was going to take a cab
00:43:37She was doing this, she was doing that
00:43:39And we were just having, like, a regular night at the Comet
00:43:41Like we would normally have
00:43:49Two of her roommates finally broke down and called the morgue
00:43:54Where she, where she was
00:43:56And she was unidentified
00:43:58An unidentified victim at the morgue at that time
00:44:0627-year-old Mia Zapata was a singer on the brink of making it big
00:44:11The band, The Gits, had recently released a full-length CD
00:44:14National tour dates had just been finalized
00:44:17But it's all over now
00:44:18Zapata's body was found early Wednesday morning
00:44:21On a remote street in the Central District
00:44:23Zapata had been strangled
00:44:25Police are investigating
00:44:26But so far they have no suspects or motives
00:44:30You can imagine how devastated I was
00:44:33When I learned about that
00:44:36And how angry I was, you know, that that could happen
00:44:40And I just remember feeling like, holy shit
00:44:44Like the world caved in
00:44:46The fucking walls came tumbling down, you know
00:44:48It was just, it was hard
00:44:50Out of all of us, we were all so devastated
00:44:53But I think it was really most difficult for my mother
00:44:55Because, you know, and my father too
00:44:58I mean, that was their little girl, you know
00:45:00And they were so proud of her
00:45:03Because she really paved her own road
00:45:06You think things are bad
00:45:08And they get so much worse
00:45:10And you have to handle it
00:45:15And you have to deal with it
00:45:17And you have to persevere
00:45:18And you have to carry on
00:45:19And you have to hold each other up
00:45:21And keep each other up
00:45:22But it was so hard
00:45:23It was like, it was really a devastating thing
00:45:25Her death was, there was no rhyme or reason to it
00:45:30It was so, definitely she was there and she was gone
00:45:33She was missing in action
00:45:34It was just like, she was just taken out, right
00:45:36Like, so, um, so violently
00:45:40No, there's no closure for that
00:45:42Cut my skin, it makes me human
00:45:45Score on your mind, just feel the pain
00:45:49Cause it's what makes us teaming
00:45:52Yeah, it keeps us all the same
00:45:55That was a, that was a heavy time
00:46:03Lose a few people like that
00:46:04In your immediate life
00:46:06That's a big one
00:46:10I think we were really hitting some strides
00:46:12Musically and in our writing
00:46:13When Mia was killed, so
00:46:16So it's really a shame
00:46:17Because we had so much lined up
00:46:19I mean, Mia had started writing music again
00:46:21And she had played me this piece on piano
00:46:23During a lunch break
00:46:24At the pizza place where she worked
00:46:26And to me, I just felt like this was, this was the beginning
00:46:29You know, of, of so much great stuff to come
00:46:33And it's just a real shame, you know
00:46:35That it, obviously, that it never got to be
00:46:37So
00:46:40Everybody was just blown away
00:46:42And just stunned
00:46:42And just grasping at anything
00:46:44And trying to figure it out
00:46:46And it was a mystery
00:46:46It was a grand mystery
00:46:48And I think that
00:46:50The main thing
00:46:52For me at that time
00:46:54Was
00:46:55That she was gone
00:46:56And that she was dead
00:46:57And that she had suffered
00:46:58That she had suffered
00:47:00And that was the hit that I kept getting
00:47:02Was like, what did she go through?
00:47:04What were her last moments like?
00:47:05What the fuck happened?
00:47:08We've got her whereabouts
00:47:10Till about 2.15 in the morning
00:47:12And there's probably about a one hour
00:47:14An hour and 15 minute time frame
00:47:16From the time she's last seen
00:47:17Till the time her body's found
00:47:19And we have no idea
00:47:20What happened at that time
00:47:22This is the area 24th and Yessler
00:47:26This is where Mia's body was found
00:47:28At that time
00:47:29It was nothing like the way it is today
00:47:30It was kind of a field area
00:47:31It was somewhat isolated
00:47:33And there was a young lady who was out
00:47:34She came across Mia's body
00:47:36And she ran across the street
00:47:38There's a fire station there
00:47:39And she woke up
00:47:40The firefighters
00:47:41They came out of here
00:47:42And called paramedics
00:47:43And like I said
00:47:44They tried to do the best they could
00:47:45But it was too late at that point
00:47:47Mia was already dead
00:47:48I remember that night
00:47:50When we were with her
00:47:52But then I don't remember anything
00:47:53Until the funeral
00:47:54And you know
00:47:55Being at the funeral home
00:47:56With everybody
00:47:57Sticks in my head so vividly
00:47:59On the day of the wake
00:48:01I happened to look outside
00:48:03And the line kept getting longer
00:48:05And now it was like
00:48:06A half a block long
00:48:07And all you could come up with
00:48:09Is, well these are fans
00:48:10And friends of Mia's
00:48:11It blew my mind
00:48:13How many people
00:48:15Knew Mia
00:48:16But Mia also knew them back
00:48:18We went over to the casket
00:48:20And laying in the casket
00:48:22Around Mia
00:48:24There were snips of hair
00:48:26There were rings
00:48:27Neck chains
00:48:29Labels
00:48:30And postcards
00:48:31Poems
00:48:32All laying
00:48:33Very respectfully laying
00:48:35Around her head and shoulders
00:48:37And on her chest
00:48:39And it was
00:48:40I mean it was just
00:48:41Absolutely
00:48:42Unbelievable
00:48:45There was a wake
00:48:46That her friends
00:48:48Her fans
00:48:49Was then holding
00:48:51That evening
00:48:51There were posters
00:48:53Scattered all over Seattle
00:48:54Announcing where this wake
00:48:56Was going to be held
00:48:57The only admission
00:48:58Was one yellow rose
00:48:59That's all you had to bring
00:49:01And the significance
00:49:03Of that was
00:49:03That Mia loved
00:49:04Yellow roses
00:49:05We as a family
00:49:07Were in my car
00:49:09And we were driving
00:49:10To the street
00:49:11That the wake
00:49:12Was going to be held on
00:49:13In the building
00:49:14I made a couple
00:49:26Carrying yellow roses
00:49:28And they are walking
00:49:30To where the location
00:49:34Of this wake
00:49:35And we'll just follow them
00:49:37She touched a lot of people
00:49:39And a lot of people
00:49:39Considered Mia
00:49:41Their best friend
00:49:42Because she probably was
00:49:44Best friend to a lot of people
00:49:45Because she was a great friend
00:49:48People who never knew Mia
00:49:49Often have a lot of misconceptions
00:49:50Of what she was like
00:49:52They often imagine
00:49:53That she was a real tough girl
00:49:54Or that she was some type
00:49:56Of selfless martyr or saint
00:49:57I would say that those two things
00:49:59Are distortions of qualities
00:50:01Which she did in fact possess
00:50:02But in reality
00:50:04She was a very modest person
00:50:05She was extremely affectionate
00:50:07And sincere
00:50:08Very, very intelligent
00:50:10And really funny
00:50:11She was very private
00:50:12Very gentle
00:50:15Mia and I were just
00:50:16Had a beautiful relationship
00:50:19She was my best friend
00:50:20And just musically
00:50:22It was just amazing
00:50:24Amazing, amazing partnership
00:50:26I really felt like
00:50:27She was, you know, part of me
00:50:30This is a painting
00:50:32It's on the albums
00:50:34That I did of Mia
00:50:36It's actually probably
00:50:38One of the most
00:50:39It probably is the most difficult painting
00:50:41I've ever done
00:50:42I did it the day that she died
00:50:45I don't know how many years ago
00:50:46It was today
00:50:47But it still makes me
00:50:48Really emotional inside
00:50:50To talk about it
00:50:52But I mean, I can't
00:50:54I don't know
00:50:54That's why I paint pictures
00:50:57She was on loan to me
00:51:01And she now belongs to all of you
00:51:05And it's, uh
00:51:07It's neat
00:51:09I like it
00:51:11And I'm proud of her
00:51:25There are these things
00:51:28I want the most
00:51:31Usually I want
00:51:34They're furthest
00:51:35From my reef
00:51:38But they all will
00:51:40Stand close enough
00:51:42To take me
00:51:45To the next drain
00:51:49Cause when it comes
00:51:51It's been really tough
00:51:54My soul spills out the blood
00:51:59Don't know how long
00:52:01It's gonna take
00:52:02But I'm gonna need
00:52:03Need, need, need
00:52:04A little more
00:52:05One day
00:52:08Sometimes
00:52:10I just wanna know
00:52:12The fact that that train
00:52:16Is gonna roll
00:52:17Is it real?
00:52:20Tell me, is it wrong
00:52:22Me to keep these dreams
00:52:24As strong as my mind
00:52:31Our office was involved
00:52:32With the Seattle Police Department
00:52:34From the inception of the case
00:52:35We knew that we had a tough case
00:52:37On our hands
00:52:39There were things about the case
00:52:41That led to one scenario
00:52:43That is always bothersome
00:52:45From law enforcement perspective
00:52:46Which is, if it's a relatively
00:52:48Random type of crime
00:52:52There's going to be less clues
00:52:54Less evidence
00:52:55To glean
00:52:57To collect
00:52:57The theory is
00:52:59And for the most part
00:53:00It works
00:53:01A female's gonna be killed
00:53:02By someone she knows
00:53:02When someone's murdered
00:53:04There are other victims
00:53:04There's collateral damage
00:53:05And it's the family
00:53:08And close friends
00:53:09And associates
00:53:10Because everybody assumes
00:53:12It's one of us
00:53:13And who is it?
00:53:15It broke it apart
00:53:16And it was never the same again
00:53:18A whole dark cloud
00:53:20Came over everything
00:53:21And stayed there
00:53:23When Mia was murdered
00:53:25You know
00:53:28That just destroyed us all
00:53:29All our friends' bands
00:53:31Everyone just broke up
00:53:32We just pretty much lost it
00:53:33At the time
00:53:35A lot of our friends
00:53:36Were being questioned
00:53:37And being taken in
00:53:39To give samples and stuff
00:53:42Close friends of ours
00:53:44You know, male friends and stuff
00:53:45And that
00:53:46Were coming up to us
00:53:47And saying, you know
00:53:49God, I had to go down
00:53:50To the police station
00:53:51And be questioned
00:53:52And give them a, you know
00:53:53A sample and stuff
00:53:54And how harsh it was for them
00:53:55And how we were feeling
00:53:57It was like
00:53:58Because we didn't
00:53:58At the time
00:53:59Now we're back there
00:54:00At the time
00:54:00And it was bringing up
00:54:01All those feelings
00:54:02It's like
00:54:03Yeah, you didn't know
00:54:04If it was the guy
00:54:05That was sitting across the bar
00:54:06From you every night
00:54:07We decided
00:54:08Two weeks after she was killed
00:54:09That the police weren't doing enough
00:54:10And that we had to hire
00:54:11A private investigator
00:54:12By end of August
00:54:13We had started the investigation
00:54:14Then we started a campaign
00:54:16To raise money for it
00:54:17And we called on our friends
00:54:18That played in different bands
00:54:19To play a beneficiary
00:54:21Of shows at different clubs
00:54:22Around town
00:54:25Guys in the Gits
00:54:26Called to see if
00:54:29I would be interested
00:54:30They were doing some benefit stuff
00:54:32To raise money
00:54:33For a private eye
00:54:34It somehow came up
00:54:35In the studio with Joan
00:54:36And she's just like
00:54:37We gotta do something
00:54:39We gotta be involved
00:54:40I think somehow
00:54:41We got around to talking about
00:54:43Playing some of the Gits songs
00:54:45Next thing you know
00:54:46She's like singing
00:54:49The Gits songs
00:54:50With the surviving members
00:54:52Of the Gits
00:54:53The band that we created
00:54:55With the remaining Gits
00:54:56And myself
00:54:57We called Evil Stig
00:54:58Which means
00:54:59Gits live backwards
00:55:02Hey
00:55:03We'd like to thank you all right here
00:55:05Real quick
00:55:05For coming out to
00:55:09Viva Zapata
00:55:10Thank you for supporting
00:55:20Andy, Matt and Steve
00:55:21Were nothing but
00:55:23Beautiful souls to me
00:55:25I can't imagine
00:55:26I can't imagine
00:55:27What they were going through
00:55:28I mean I really can't
00:55:29I cannot imagine
00:55:30That happening
00:55:31And when you see the footage
00:55:33And you see how close
00:55:34They were
00:55:35And you see Andy
00:55:36And Mia joking on stage
00:55:38And you see this rapport
00:55:39And how close they were
00:55:41I mean
00:55:45It really had to be
00:55:48Devastating
00:55:49You know
00:55:50So I really think
00:55:55It's admirable
00:55:56What they did
00:55:57And I think Mia
00:55:59Would be proud of them
00:56:00What they did
00:56:01The amount of bands
00:56:02That got involved
00:56:03Which was the Posies
00:56:04Presidents of the United States
00:56:07Nirvana
00:56:07When Kurt was alive
00:56:08Eddie Vedder
00:56:11Soundgarden
00:56:11And they all brought things
00:56:13I think Soundgarden
00:56:14Lent us some of the equipment
00:56:16Like the drums
00:56:17And what not
00:56:17I wanted to do
00:56:18The music proud
00:56:19I wanted to do a good job
00:56:21I wanted to raise a lot of money
00:56:23You know
00:56:24To make sure
00:56:25You know
00:56:25We were able to give
00:56:26The private eye
00:56:27Something good and helpful
00:56:30So you know
00:56:31You just wanted to do
00:56:32Everything justice
00:56:32I suppose
00:56:33To actually get a huge group
00:56:35Of people like that together
00:56:36To come up with the money
00:56:38To hire a private investigator
00:56:39You know
00:56:40Because we didn't know
00:56:41What the Seattle police was
00:56:43You know
00:56:44How far they were going to take it
00:56:45You have to do something too
00:56:46You know
00:56:47Motherfuck
00:56:51Will there be hundreds mourning for you
00:56:55Will they talk to the talent
00:56:56And inspirations you gave
00:57:00No
00:57:02Who beside your mother
00:57:04Will stand in sorrow
00:57:06At your grave
00:57:10Mother
00:57:11May I
00:57:15Mafia
00:57:16Some things don't come from
00:57:19Circle
00:57:20Circle
00:57:22Circle
00:57:23Society did this to you
00:57:27Does society have justice for you
00:57:32If
00:57:33Not
00:57:34I
00:57:37Do
00:57:41In the end
00:57:41I think we raised
00:57:42Close to $50,000
00:57:43For the investigation
00:57:44And
00:57:45And
00:57:46Didn't come to anything
00:57:47We found out a lot of dirt
00:57:48About a lot of people
00:57:49But in the end
00:57:50We
00:57:51We didn't find out who killed her
00:57:52And we still haven't
00:57:53Looking back on all that stuff
00:57:54There's
00:57:56Really
00:57:58Creepy
00:57:59Foreshadowing
00:57:59In
00:58:01In their songs
00:58:02And
00:58:03Everywhere you look
00:58:19After she was killed
00:58:20It was very, very difficult
00:58:21To listen to that song
00:58:22Go ahead and slash me up
00:58:24And spread me all across this town
00:58:26Because you're the one
00:58:27That won't be found
00:58:29I mean, gosh
00:58:29How could you not
00:58:30Equate that
00:58:31With what happened to her
00:58:42I'd like to let
00:58:43Her lyrics speak
00:58:44For themselves
00:58:45And, you know,
00:58:46I have my own
00:58:46Interpretation
00:58:48Of what that was
00:58:49And I do know
00:58:50Some of the stuff
00:58:51She was going through
00:58:51Personally at the time
00:58:52But
00:58:53I think lyrics
00:58:54Should be
00:58:56Taken in by everyone
00:58:58That
00:58:58That hears them
00:58:59Individually
00:59:00And
00:59:01Looked at
00:59:02On a personal level
00:59:03From the listener
00:59:04My personal opinion
00:59:06Is that she was
00:59:07Trying to make
00:59:07A serious song
00:59:08About violence
00:59:09Against women
00:59:10The cops were telling us
00:59:14Don't
00:59:15Don't tell
00:59:16Anyone
00:59:16That Mia was raped
00:59:17And
00:59:19We were like
00:59:20Fuck that
00:59:21It could have been me
00:59:22It could have been anybody
00:59:23But it was Mia
00:59:24And she was so
00:59:28Fierce
00:59:28And so street smart
00:59:30There was an incredible
00:59:31Sense of disempowerment
00:59:33After Mia was killed
00:59:34We didn't feel safe
00:59:36We were freaked out
00:59:37The whole city
00:59:38Was pretty freaked out
00:59:39The community
00:59:40Was freaked out
00:59:41The anger started
00:59:42Kicking in really hard
00:59:43But such intense
00:59:44Anger
00:59:45And just
00:59:45Fucking rage
00:59:46Valerie called me
00:59:48From the road
00:59:48And said
00:59:49We have to get together
00:59:50As soon as I get back
00:59:51We've got to do something
00:59:52She was just all
00:59:52Like freaked out
00:59:54We were just like
00:59:54Thinking in the modes
00:59:56Of self-defense
00:59:56Like
00:59:57You know
00:59:58Wishing that we were
00:59:59All fucking ninja bitches
01:00:00We didn't like
01:00:01Feeling afraid
01:00:02We felt
01:00:02We don't want to
01:00:03Change the way we live
01:00:04I mean
01:00:05We want to
01:00:05Be able to go out
01:00:07See shows
01:00:07Play shows
01:00:09Drink
01:00:10Have it be
01:00:11Two o'clock
01:00:11In the morning
01:00:12And get home
01:00:12We just want to
01:00:13Get home
01:00:13Without being fucked with
01:00:15And that's
01:00:16Kind of the inception
01:00:16Of Home Alive
01:00:17And it's still around
01:00:19It's still doing it
01:00:20And I think we've
01:00:20Accomplished
01:00:21Our goals
01:00:22And beyond
01:00:22There was a sense
01:00:24So we're all
01:00:24Taking care of
01:00:25Ourselves
01:00:26And each other
01:00:26We're looking
01:00:27We're watching
01:00:27Each other's backs
01:00:28At the same time
01:00:29It seemed like
01:00:30From Home Alive
01:00:31People are trying
01:00:32To make something
01:00:32Positive happen
01:00:34From something
01:00:35Really horrible
01:00:36And I remember
01:00:37Thinking
01:00:39Getting a lot
01:00:40Of inspiration
01:00:40And hope
01:00:41From that
01:00:42Definitely for me
01:00:43Made it a little easier
01:00:43To deal with
01:00:46With the violence
01:00:46That she suffered
01:00:48After the gets ended
01:00:49We started the Dancing
01:00:50French levels of 48
01:00:51It was really therapeutic
01:00:53Because it was a hardcore band
01:00:54And we played hard
01:00:55And we played fast
01:01:02And we rehearsed a lot
01:01:04And our goal
01:01:05Was to be able to play
01:01:06At the record release party
01:01:09For our second album
01:01:10Which would be released
01:01:11Posthumously
01:01:12That was the record release party
01:01:13For Enter the Conquering Chicken
01:01:14And it was also
01:01:15Really cool
01:01:16Finishing that album up
01:01:17After Mia had passed away
01:01:19Because we felt close to her
01:01:21Because we were able
01:01:21To hear her sing
01:01:22And listen to her
01:01:23Her really doing her thing
01:01:26Nothing like pain
01:01:27To make you all the same
01:01:29God I'm not a guitar player
01:01:30I'm sorry
01:01:35Alright one more
01:01:36And we're gonna get on to this night
01:01:38This is mine
01:01:42Adrian!
01:01:45I can tell you
01:01:46Yell anywhere
01:01:46You dog
01:01:47Okay
01:01:49Matt!
01:01:50You scum
01:01:58Well I don't need
01:02:00Your social love
01:02:01No
01:02:02If you miss
01:02:03Read enough
01:02:04And what ails me
01:02:06Is the fact
01:02:07That you'll smile
01:02:07Walking on by
01:02:09Walking on by
01:02:11Yeah when it hits me
01:02:12I see you still
01:02:14Gets kind of heavy
01:02:17Yeah when it's
01:02:18Laying there
01:02:19Over
01:02:19It's wide open
01:02:21And red
01:02:27Well I don't need
01:02:28Your social love
01:02:29No
01:02:29I already feel
01:02:30Missed right enough
01:02:31And what ails me
01:02:32Is the fact
01:02:33That you smile
01:02:33When you're walking
01:02:34I'm fighting
01:02:35Just keep on walking
01:02:36Yeah when it hits me
01:02:37And stay out the stairs
01:02:38And 11
01:02:40And yeah when it's
01:02:42Laying there
01:02:42Over
01:02:42It's fucking
01:02:43Wide open
01:02:44And red
01:02:45Well I don't need
01:02:46Your social crap
01:02:48You wear a sleep
01:02:49Boys I can't see
01:02:50What ails me
01:02:51Is your protection
01:02:52Stay and never look
01:02:53In the ten years
01:02:54That have passed
01:02:56Since the crime
01:03:01Her true goodness
01:03:02Has come out
01:03:03After the tragedy
01:03:04Of Mia's death
01:03:05I think it's
01:03:06It's really amazing
01:03:09That we have
01:03:10You know
01:03:11All of these recordings
01:03:13And so many people
01:03:15Took photographs
01:03:15And there's film
01:03:16That you guys have compiled
01:03:17And it's all there
01:03:18And it's
01:03:18I'm glad that's there
01:03:21But it still makes me sad
01:03:22That there's so much more
01:03:23We could have done
01:03:24If anything
01:03:25I like to discuss
01:03:26More things that are
01:03:28Positive about the Gits
01:03:29And the musical legacy
01:03:30And the artistic legacy
01:03:32That Mia left
01:03:34Probably if the Gits
01:03:34Had some kind of
01:03:36Mission or quest
01:03:37Or something
01:03:37It was to kind of put
01:03:38Some soul back
01:03:41Into that kind of music
01:03:42And I think we did
01:03:43And that's why
01:03:44Still I think people
01:03:47Respond to it
01:03:47And care about it
01:03:49And why it continues
01:03:50To matter to people
01:03:52Oftentimes in the history
01:03:53Of popular music
01:03:55Women artists
01:03:56Take a while
01:03:57For really their influence
01:03:59To be felt
01:03:59And I think
01:04:00It's a ripe time
01:04:02For the Gits influence
01:04:03To be felt
01:04:03And Mia's influence
01:04:04Because a new generation
01:04:05Of artists
01:04:06Like the yeah yeah yeahs
01:04:07And the distillers
01:04:08Are taking from Mia
01:04:10Without even knowing
01:04:10They're taking from Mia
01:04:11What she was about
01:04:13And that type of
01:04:14Life force
01:04:15That seemed unique
01:04:17And to think that
01:04:18That was just strangled
01:04:20Away from all of us
01:04:21Is just very sad
01:04:23Every hour that goes
01:04:24By after a crime
01:04:25It gets harder to solve
01:04:27But doesn't mean
01:04:28It won't be
01:04:28It's always
01:04:29It's always going to be
01:04:31Always will be
01:04:32In the back of your head
01:04:34I tried to keep
01:04:35Those guys hopes up
01:04:38That we would find
01:04:40A killer
01:04:40But it was terribly
01:04:41Disheartening
01:04:42In any case
01:04:43We never saw the file
01:04:44So we don't know
01:04:45If there's any evidence
01:04:45Basically we don't know
01:04:47Anything and that's
01:04:48How it's been
01:04:48And that's how it still is
01:04:49So
01:04:49It's a short of
01:04:50Somebody turning
01:04:50Someone else in
01:04:51Or somebody confessing
01:04:53We're fucked
01:04:54We're still in the dark
01:04:55As far as
01:04:56And that person
01:04:57Is still out there
01:04:58Obviously
01:05:01Number one
01:05:02In western Washington
01:05:04With coverage
01:05:05You can count on
01:05:06Game five
01:05:07News at five
01:05:08A local murder mystery
01:05:09Dating back a decade
01:05:11May be solved tonight
01:05:12Police in Florida
01:05:13Arrested suspect
01:05:13Somebody they believe
01:05:15Killed Seattle grunge singer
01:05:16Mia Zapata
01:05:17It was a horrific
01:05:18Unsolved murder case
01:05:20That shocked Seattle's music scene
01:05:21And now
01:05:22A documentary is being made
01:05:24About the band
01:05:24The Gits
01:05:25Its success
01:05:26And its demise
01:05:27But this documentary
01:05:28Will now have
01:05:29A different ending
01:05:30I got a call
01:05:32On my cell phone
01:05:33From
01:05:33King five
01:05:35The TV station
01:05:36And they said
01:05:38We want to be the first
01:05:39To interview you
01:05:40About
01:05:40About this indictment
01:05:43And I said
01:05:44Okay
01:05:46You can do that
01:05:47But first
01:05:47You gotta show me proof
01:05:48Van pulls up
01:05:49A woman gets out
01:05:50And gives me
01:05:51A piece of paper
01:05:52And it's a fax
01:05:52From the Miami
01:05:53Police Department
01:05:54Saying that
01:05:55They have someone
01:05:56In custody
01:05:56I'll still never forget
01:05:58The day
01:05:58I got a phone call
01:06:00From Steve
01:06:01Moriarty
01:06:03No hello
01:06:04No nothing
01:06:05We got him
01:06:22It's sort of
01:06:23The next chapter
01:06:25In this awful story
01:06:26I'm glad
01:06:28They finally
01:06:29Caught this guy
01:06:29It doesn't change
01:06:32Anything about the band
01:06:34Anything about
01:06:35The music we've made
01:06:36The key to the break
01:06:38In this case
01:06:38After ten years
01:06:39DNA evidence
01:06:40Ten years ago
01:06:41Detectives saves from
01:06:42DNA evidence
01:06:43From the crime scene
01:06:44And that finally
01:06:45Led to an arrest
01:06:46In Florida
01:06:47Mia was viciously
01:06:49Raped
01:06:50There was no semen
01:06:52But their attacker
01:06:55Left saliva on her breast
01:06:57And so when we
01:06:58Probably reopened the case
01:06:59We started looking
01:06:59At the evidence
01:07:00And we said
01:07:01Hey we've got saliva samples
01:07:03We sent the gauze in
01:07:04And we were able
01:07:05To get a profile
01:07:05Just one month ago
01:07:07Detectives finally
01:07:08Got a computer hit
01:07:09It led them across
01:07:11The country
01:07:11To Marathon, Florida
01:07:12Where last night
01:07:13Officers arrested this man
01:07:1548 year old
01:07:16Jesus Makeda
01:07:17He's a recently
01:07:18Convected Florida felon
01:07:20Whose profile
01:07:20Was newly entered
01:07:21In a database
01:07:22The suspect
01:07:23Jesus Mesquilla
01:07:24Was 39 years old
01:07:25When Mia Zapata
01:07:26Was murdered
01:07:27The investigation revealed
01:07:29He lived in Seattle
01:07:30At the time of the murder
01:07:31Last month
01:07:32A DNA match
01:07:33Was made
01:07:33From the Florida
01:07:34Felon database
01:07:35From a newly entered profile
01:07:37Nobody knew this guy
01:07:39We were on the wrong
01:07:40Track the whole time
01:07:41She was at the wrong place
01:07:42At the wrong time
01:07:42And he was out
01:07:43Like a hunter
01:07:45Trying to find game
01:07:46When it all came about
01:07:48It was really a shock
01:07:49To everybody's system
01:07:50It was just like
01:07:52Whirlwind
01:07:52Kind of
01:07:53Up down
01:07:53Like euphoric
01:07:54Like fucking
01:07:55Piece of shit
01:07:56Is caught
01:07:57Seeing the man's face
01:08:00For the first time
01:08:02Was a truly evil experience
01:08:06Like the dam just broke
01:08:08You know
01:08:09It was just like
01:08:09Oh my god
01:08:11This is the last person
01:08:12That she saw
01:08:14She was looking
01:08:15Into this guy's eyes
01:08:16I felt disgust
01:08:17And hate for the guy
01:08:18To the point
01:08:18That I pitied him
01:08:21That I pitied him
01:08:22That I hated him so much
01:08:25When we got back
01:08:26From Florida
01:08:29My sergeant called me
01:08:30On the weekend
01:08:30She said
01:08:30Can you call
01:08:31Richard Zapata
01:08:31Tell him what's going on
01:08:32And I called him
01:08:34And I talked for Richard
01:08:35For about a half hour
01:08:37And I'll tell you what
01:08:38Through all this stuff
01:08:39He's thanking us
01:08:41He's telling me that
01:08:42You guys are saints
01:08:43From what you did
01:08:44And I couldn't believe it
01:08:45I thought
01:08:45Jesus
01:08:45I mean
01:08:46You know
01:08:46We did our job
01:08:48And I remember
01:08:49Walking down the stairs
01:08:50And I was up in the bedroom
01:08:51Talking
01:08:52And I walked down the stairs
01:08:53And my wife saw how to go
01:08:55And I just started crying
01:08:58And I said
01:08:59Geez
01:08:59The guy's incredible
01:09:01I can see why Mia
01:09:02Was the way she was
01:09:03The time that it took
01:09:12To solve this case
01:09:13To gather enough
01:09:16Evidence to support
01:09:17Charging
01:09:18And hopefully
01:09:19A conviction later on
01:09:21Is how it tracked
01:09:22With the evolution
01:09:23Of DNA itself
01:09:24Because in the early 90s
01:09:26DNA was just being
01:09:27Ushered into the courtrooms
01:09:28Evidence such as saliva
01:09:30Could not yield a result
01:09:31At that time
01:09:32But then
01:09:32Some nine, ten years later
01:09:34The lab now is able
01:09:36To take a very small sample
01:09:38And render a reliable
01:09:41Result
01:09:41And a genetic profile
01:09:42The discoverer
01:09:44Of that process
01:09:45I received the Nobel Prize
01:09:46And I think
01:09:49I wanted to be there
01:09:50My sister wanted to be there
01:09:52My father of course
01:09:53Was definitely going to be there
01:09:56But my mother
01:09:57She had a tough time
01:09:58She just really
01:10:00I think she wanted to be there
01:10:01But she just didn't feel
01:10:03Like she could be
01:10:04She felt like
01:10:05It would just hurt too much
01:10:08She didn't want to have a face
01:10:10She didn't want to know details
01:10:12She didn't want to relive it
01:10:14The trial
01:10:15It was different things
01:10:17Different people saw it differently
01:10:18The people in Capitol Hill
01:10:19The music industry
01:10:21It was their day
01:10:22I mean it was finally
01:10:24Redemption
01:10:24It had really shaken up
01:10:26That community
01:10:27It really hit them hard
01:10:28And to them
01:10:30It was almost like
01:10:31The day of deliverance
01:10:37Good morning everyone
01:10:38Please be seated
01:10:45Has the jury reached a verdict?
01:10:46Yes your honor
01:10:47We have
01:10:49Will the clerk
01:10:50Please read the verdict?
01:10:55Verdict form A
01:10:56We the jury
01:10:57Finding the defendant
01:10:58Jesus Mesquilla
01:11:00Guilty of the crime
01:11:01Of felony murder
01:11:02In the first degree
01:11:03As alternatively charged
01:11:05As charged in count one
01:11:07Juror number one
01:11:08Is this your individual verdict?
01:11:10Yes
01:11:10And is it the verdict of the jury?
01:11:12Yes
01:11:12Juror number two
01:11:13Is this your individual verdict?
01:11:15Yes
01:11:15And is it the verdict of the jury?
01:11:17Yes
01:11:17Juror number three
01:11:18Is this your individual verdict?
01:11:20Yes
01:11:20And is it the verdict of the jury?
01:11:21Yes
01:11:22Juror number four
01:11:23Is this your individual verdict?
01:11:24Yes
01:11:25And is it the verdict of the jury?
01:11:26Yes
01:11:27Juror number five
01:11:28Is this your individual verdict?
01:11:29Yes
01:11:30And is it the verdict of the jury?
01:11:31Yes
01:11:31Juror number six
01:11:32Is this your individual verdict?
01:11:34Yes
01:11:34And is it the verdict of the jury?
01:11:36Yes
01:11:36Juror number seven
01:11:37Is this your individual verdict?
01:11:39Yes
01:11:39And is it the verdict of the jury?
01:11:41Yes
01:11:41Juror number eight
01:11:51Cut my skin, it makes me human, the storm of mine, don't you feel the pain?
01:11:58Cause it's what makes us human, yeah, it keeps us all the same.
01:12:05You lose your hand and you're a chosen trip, the side of your blood might lose your skin.
01:12:12But a broken heart tends to stand, now when the word is open, we're all the same.
01:12:20Cut my skin, it makes me human, the storm of mine, feel the pain.
01:12:27You're looking at pain and you're looking at truth, there's nothing like pain, it makes us all the same.
01:12:37Just hearing the jury pronounce him guilty of all charges completely and totally satisfied me.
01:12:47I got my whole life ahead of me because essentially I was here, you know, living with that on my
01:12:54mind for the last 12 years.
01:12:56And really not able to find any peace until I saw this day.
01:13:02And, you know, I always held out hope that I would see this day, but sometimes I really didn't think
01:13:05so.
01:13:06For a long time it's like I haven't been able to listen to the gets because it was always so
01:13:12painful.
01:13:12After this happened and we were over there just the other night and we put it on and it was
01:13:16the first time that I felt like, you know, happy again.
01:13:19I still love listening to our music, although it makes me sad, it makes me miss Mia.
01:13:25Their legacy is what it is and, you know, it's seen differently by different people, but for me it's just
01:13:31my personal memories of the time I spent with those guys.
01:13:34It matters to me very much that people still care about the gets and, you know, the music especially.
01:13:43It's very moving, you know, when I hear that people care and that they get something from it because, I
01:13:51mean, after all, that's why we did it to begin with, you know.
01:13:54You know, we experienced a really dramatic, intense lives together, you know, and we lost our sister together.
01:14:05We'll always be brothers, you know, we'll live probably in different parts of the country or different parts of the
01:14:10world, but, you know, they'll still be gets, you know, just like Mia's will still be a get.
01:16:37Even the owls, they hold heavy on me
01:16:42Even the owls, they just hold the pain
01:16:48Even the time they get heavy a little weak
01:16:52Even the owls, they just hold the pain
01:16:56There is no gain
01:16:59All in all, they come back to me
01:17:25And the motion of daily silence
01:17:28If the else is running around my head
01:17:31I need to listen to my conscience
01:17:33The world puts me down instead
01:17:36I have to walk in there to watch me
01:17:39The blankness jumps right off the face
01:17:41I figure I try to do the paper
01:17:44And the moment is almost dead
01:17:48Almost dead
01:17:52I'm going to take my hand
01:17:54I'm going to take my hand
01:17:55I'm going to tell all the men
01:17:56And when they tell
01:17:57They wait for all that I've lost
01:18:00And they take my only breath
01:18:03And I leave at none time for love
01:18:07I need to think
01:18:09And I know that I'm going to tell you
01:18:12I feel a beating of the heartbreak
01:18:16I feel a beating of the sun
01:18:18And I'm getting any closer
01:18:21And they take my healthcare
01:18:21And I'm looking for you
01:18:25And I'm going to take my hand
01:18:30And they take my only breath
01:18:39And they take my only breath
01:18:40And I know that I only feel з沢
01:18:41But I will take my hand
01:18:43And I steal my hand
01:18:45And they wait for all that I offer
01:18:47And they take my only breath
01:19:20These are nice people here.
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