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  Genre Queercore
  Current Members Donna Dresch <br> Jody Bleyle <br>Marci Martinez<br> Melissa York <br> Kaia Wilson
  Past Members Amanda Kelly


Team Dresch is a Queercore band who performed and recorded in the 1990s and made a significant impression on that movement, as well as on the independent music scene. In the 2000s the band reformed and continue to perform.


HISTORY


Beginnings


Donna Dresch

Donna Dresch , founder of the band, had been involved in the queercore scene in the late 1980s and early 1990s as creator of her own Fanzine ''Chainsaw'' and, in addition to contributing to other zines such as '' Outpunk '' and '' J.D.s '', she contributed to and was featured on the cover of issue five of '' Homocore '' and appeared in the girl-gang film '' The Yo-Yo Gang '' by G.B. Jones .


First album line-up

The line up of the group for its first album was Donna Dresch, guitar and bass; Jody Bleyle , guitar, bass, and vocals; Kaia Wilson , guitar and vocals; and Marci Martinez on drums. All were veterans of other musical outfits; Donna Dresch had previously played and recorded with such bands as Dinosaur Jr. , Dangermouse , Screaming Trees , Rastro! , Fifth Column , Some Velvet Sidewalk , Lois , Mary Lou Lord and The Go Team ; Jody Bleyle was simultaneously in the bands Hazel and Lovebutt while playing in Team Dresch; Kaia Wilson had been in the band Adickdid and Marci Martinez in Calamity Jane . Scott Plouf, then of The Spinanes , now of Built To Spill was the drummer on the first 7".


''Personal Best''

  Last Richardson
  First Chris
  Title Team Dresch Digs Deep Into Its Playbook
  Newspaper Washington Post
  Year 2007
  Date 2007-06-22
  Accessdate 2007-06-27