This was fun television. L7 meets The Word, two forms of entertainment that both thrived on shock value. One, a late night British television show that regularly courted controversy through it's content and the behaviour of it's guests, the other, an all girl grunge rock band from Los Angeles. It was the first time I had either seen or heard L7, they played what turned out to be the biggest hit they would ever have, 'Pretend That We're Dead', a reasonable pop song which followed the pattern previously laid down by their male counterparts in the currently popular grunge rock movement spearheaded by Nirvana. So far, so what, nothing new here. But towards the end of the song as it, rather predictably, began to break down, lead singer and guitarist Donita Sparks seemed to be struggling with her guitar. In fact she was wrestling down her own trousers and underwear. Then, much to the delight of thousands of males tuned in that evening, myself included, her guitar swung aside to give us that now infamous and hairy view. If you thought that was bad, that same year in response to heckling due to to sound problems at the Reading festival, Miss Sparks threw her used tampon into the crowd. Surprisingly this has never shown up in any rock memorabilia auction to date.
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