HIDDEN GEM: EVIL STIG: Evil Stig (1995)

Following the rape and murder of The Gits’ vocalist Mia Zapata, Joan Jett joined forces with surviving members Matt Dresdner,

Steve Moriarty and Joe Spleen to form Evil

Stig. They initially planned to perform a benefit show to continue funding the investigation into the killing but, with Laguna producing, the quartet made an album of primarily Gits songs. Grunge/Grrrl icon Jett is in her element, her inner punk entirely off the leash (she fell in love with the scene on the Runaways ’77 UK tour) as she assaults the material with electrifying, visceral rage. A glimpse of what might have been.