Kevin Tihista's Red Terror

Chicago popster Kevin Tihista was born in Walnut Creek, CA, picking up the guitar in the seventh grade after drawing his initial musical inspiration from childhood heroes Kiss. After high school, he worked a series of odd jobs before 1989, when a friend who had moved to the Chicago suburb of Naperville called Tihista to ask him to join the band he was forming; a week later, he relocated to the Midwest, arriving on his 21st birthday. Although the group, dubbed Maus, would prove short-lived, Tihista's next vehicle, the grunge combo Wood, became a staple of the Chicago club circu...