Lisa Faye Beatty, 47, the third and last guitarist in legendary Seattle punk band Seven Year Bitch, died Friday. She had a motorcycle accident in Mentone, CA, near where she’d grown up.
Beatty had been 7WB’s live sound engineer before she replaced guitarist Roisin Dunne in 1997. Dunne, in turn, had replaced founding member Stefanie Sergant, who’d died under drug-related circumstances in 1992.
The band broke up shortly after Beatty joined it, with its members moving to different parts of California. Beatty played on tracks for a planned fourth 7YB album, which was never finished.