Tyson Meade

As singer of Defenestration and the Chainsaw Kittens, Tyson Meade earned a reputation as one of the true individuals and in the alternative music scene of the late '80s and early '90s, his quirky, tuneful, two-octave warble and skewed lyrical styling resonating with listeners well beyond the decline of the genre and into the new millennium. Born in the north Oklahoma oil outpost of Bartlesville in 1962, Meade was weaned on the Beatles, Elvis, and the Supremes. Having fallen prey to the more dissonant sounds of punk, new wave, David Bowie, and T. Rex, Meade in the summer of 198...