  The Gits
Seafish
Louisville
Broken Rekkids
CD Review by
Dave Liljengren
Made up
primarily of live tracks recorded at a 1993
concert filmed for the Seattle music scene
documentary, HYPE!, Seafish Louisville is
a tall-walking punk disc and a powerful record of
just how strong a live band the Gits were in the
months before the abduction, rape and murder of
the band's lead singer, Mia Zapata. Though the HYPE!
producers had not intended for the Gits to be
in their film, last minute lobbying by the
members of Seven Year Bitch and others convinced
them to memorialize Zapata and her colleagues on
celluloid. History will thank them, if it hasn't
already, because the tunes on Seafish jump
through the Hollywood 24-track with crystalline
clarity. Zapata's cathartic wail-- persistent,
indignant, emotive and supple-- rings out with a
timeless immediacy. Guitarist Joseph Spleen
cranks out a dynamic sequence of taut and
ever-changing riffage as bassist Matt Dresdner
and drummer Steve Moriarty keep the beat
frenetic, metronomic, and urgent. Also included
on the disc are Jack Endino remixes of three
previously unreleased tracks, and remixed
versions of songs from the band's first EP, of
which only 800 were pressed the first time
around. Seafish Louisville should be
required listening for anyone who takes NW music
seriously. It is an earnest, defiant and
thunderous rock record by a skilled, resolute and
impassioned band which was on the verge of
nationwide interest when an anonymous-- still
uncaught and still unpunished-- murderer brought
it all to an end.
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