For Mia Zapata r.i.p. (original) (raw)
From http://www.antiochians.org/:
"THE GITS WANT TO SAVE ANTIOCH–AND THEY NEED YOUR HELP!
BUY THIS CD NOW. Specify “Save Antioch” and proceeds will be donated to the College Revival Fund.
Dear Creative Antiochian,
I have a fund raising idea that may be a way to create a steady trickle of funds for our efforts to save the college that shaped our creative and personal lives so profoundly. Can it work?
In 1987 I helped form a rock band composed of my best friends at Antioch called simply, THE GITS (after a skit on our favorite late night dorm room TV party show, Monty Python’s Flying Circus. All four of us went to Antioch for 4-5 years and two of us graduated.
After graduation 1989 we loaded up a rusty van with our musical equipment and moved to Seattle to begin a career in music. Before leaving Yellow Springs we decided to record an album of the music we wrote and performed at Antioch. We recorded it as a musical yearbook of sorts for our friends, and to have as a demo to take with us to Seattle. That recording, years later, would be recognized as a nascent yet brilliant precurse to the short lived yet critically acclaimed career of THE GITS. This recording became even more important when our singer, friend and Antioch Art student Mia Zapata was murdered on the streets of Seattle in 1993. It remains one of only 3 recorded works she/we produced. We mastered and produced the Yellow Springs demo into a full length CD and entitled it: Kings and Queens.
I would like to donate proceeds from the sale of this CD for a year to the Fund to save Antioch. There is a simple link to a trusted retailer. Here is the link:
Proceeds from the sale we will donate to help save Antioch. Please note “save antioch” when ordering CD.
Sincerely,
Steve Moriarty ‘89"