page_title: Donita Sparks
section_title: Notable stage moments
hierarchical_section_title: Donita Sparks / Notable stage moments
caption_attribution_description: English: L7 performing in 2018
context_page_description: Donita Sparks is an American vocalist, guitarist, songwriter, and creative director most notable for being the co-founder of the band L7. Sparks also initiated, performed, and released original material with her solo project, the band Donita Sparks and The Stellar Moments.
context_section_description: While L7 was performing at the Reading Festival in 1992, their speakers blew out. The crowd became restless and relentlessly threw mud onto the stage, pelting the band. In response, Sparks reached into her pants and threw her tampon back at the crowd, and yelled "Eat my used tampon, fuckers!" The tampon is known as one of the "most unsanitary pieces of rock memorabilia in history".
  Later in 1992, Sparks dropped her pants, appearing bottomless, on live television during an L7 performance on the UK variety show The Word.  Of the incident, Sparks later commented that the particular Word show L7 appeared on already had questionable aspects underway including "a men’s bum contest" and a "hidden camera in Oliver Reed’s dressing room, showing him intoxicated with his shirt off, which was really fucked up. So I added my contribution to this craziness."
caption: Sparks onstage with the reformed L7 in 2018
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