Tina Lucchesi is a drummer and a front woman, she also runs the Lipstick Records label and used to have a hair salon and vintage clothing store, Down at Lulu's. Here I would like to talk about all the bands she had after the Trashwomen.
Pimm, Zolot and Lucchesi from the Trashwomen along with Rusty Quan released a single under the name the Count Backwards; later, without Zolot, the other three formed The Bobbyteens. They bash out hormone-driven songs about boys, partying, and, well, boys again. The songs barely get past two minutes and the priority was rock & roll energy. With the addition of guitarist Lisa Schenberg, the Bobbyteens were born in 1995. The underground supergroup began to release 7" singles at a drag strip pace on Super Teem and Screaming Apple Records. The sound was and continues to be a bratty mess of classic girl-group wailing. The Runaways comparisons are obvious, but overall, the style and feel of all the Bobbyteens output reaches further back to 1960s groups like the Shangri-La's, albeit drenched in white noise feedback distortion. Like older, wiser, wilder sisters, the Bobbyteens showed fellow Bay-area rockers the Donnas a few tricks. 1998 saw the Bobbyteens' debut platter Fast Livin' & Rock 'N' Roll released by both Lucchesi's Lipstick Records and Seattle garage label Estrus, followed by 2000's Not So Sweet on Screaming Apple/Estrus. Both albums continue to glorify the lifestyle of wild youth. Their last album was Cruisin' for a Bruisin' in 2004 on Estrus.
Another band she fronted was Tina and The Total Babes. The “total babes” backing Lucchesi on lead vocals are Johnny O’Halloran (bass), Jacques Wait (guitar), and Travis Ramin (drums); Wait and Ramin also helped out in the studio as the engineer and producer, respectively. Their only album She’s So Tuff came out in 2001 on the Sympathy for the Record Industry label. The campy front cover – with Tina Lucchesi wearing a button showing the album name and stretching a long string of bubble gum from her mouth – is perfect to illustrate the fun that is found on the music within.
Then together with Erin McDermott, Justin Maurer and Larry Jackson she formed Deadly Weapons, releasing two EPs in 2003 and a Lp "Get Right In There" in 2004 on Jonny Cat Records.
She was also in several other bands, including Top Ten, the Glamour Pussies, AC/DShe, Midnite Snaxxx and Cyclops.
