Dornacker. Guitarist Miles Corbin formed the surf instrumental band the Aqua Velvets. Dornacker came to the attention of Bill Spooner of The Tubes when he came to see Leila and the Snakes, and he asked her to be a part of the group's live show. "For a better part of two years," she later recalled, "I was out on the road with them." She toured with The Tubes as backing singer and dancer. She co-wrote the song "Don't Touch Me There" for the group with the ceramicist and musician Ron Nagle. The song was sung by Re Styles and appeared on The Tubes' second studio album, Young and Rich (1976), and was released as a 7" single. "Cathy's Clone", written entirely by Dornacker, appears on the third Tubes album, Now. Dornacker also provided lead vocals on "Christopher Columbus" (1978), a song by R. Crumb & His Cheap Suit Serenaders. Other groups Dornacker formed included Jane Door and the Door Knockers and The Final Solution. Acting Dornacker built on her early experience as an actor throughout her career, notably in works by Sam Shepard including the 1977 jazz opera Inacoma at San Francisco's Magic Theatre. She was featured in, and created, other works for the Overtone Theater including Jane Door and the Five or Four Children, which was staged in October 1980 alongside work by two men who were important to her career: Shepard, creator of a "percussion event", and Wes "Scoop" Nisker's The Last News Show. She also appeared in The Stand-Up, Anita Sperm and as Nurse Murch in the film The Right Stuff, which also had Shepard in the cast. Stand-up comedy and radio Dornacker's music and acting had long had a comedic element. She developed a career as a stand-up comic in San Francisco. In 1979, she told journalist Leslie Goldberg: "To me, the funniest things are visual things. Like Jonathan Winters. I mean it doesn't matter, even if it's a bad script or if it's a Cheetos commercial, he's always funny. He just is.' She gained some success in stand-up and was a notable comedian in San Francisco in the early 1980s. In 1982, along with Kit Hollerbach, Nora Dunn, Susan Healy, Paula Poundstone and the improv group Femprov, she participated in a benefit for Big Sisters Friday at Great American Music Hall in San Francisco. She also cohosted a television show with Wes "Scoop" Nisker, Video