Editing Tim DeLaughter (section)

==Music career==
As a teenager, DeLaughter played in various [[Duncanville, Texas|Duncanville]] bands as a drummer. However, he was poor at the instrument and began teaching himself to sing and play guitar.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Munson |first1=Kyle |title=Tripping Daisy grows after getting a girl |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91831119/tripping-daisy-grows-after-getting-a/ |access-date=January 4, 2022 |work=The Des Moines Register |date=September 24, 1998 |page=15DB}}</ref>

He formed [[Tripping Daisy]] in 1990, which disbanded in 1999 following the death of guitarist [[Wes Berggren]].<ref name=DickinsonNov2015>{{cite news |last1=Dickinson |first1=Chrissie |title=Polyphonic Spree celebrates 15 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91831410/polyphonic-spree-celebrates-15/ |access-date=January 4, 2022 |work=Chicago Tribune |date=6 November 2015 |page=5}}</ref> The next year, DeLaughter formed [[The Polyphonic Spree]].<ref name=DickinsonNov2015/> He and other members of Tripping Daisy and The Polyphonic Spree formed [[Preteen Zenith]] in 2011.

===Musical style===
Music critic [[Mike Boehm]] described DeLaughter's singing style as a "nasally vocal blend of [[Ozzy Osbourne]] and [[Perry Farrell]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Boehm |first1=Mike |author1-link=Mike Boehm |title=Def Leppard: Twilight of the Not-Quite-Demigods |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91830140/def-leppard-twilight-of-the/ |access-date=January 4, 2022 |work=The Los Angeles Times |date=August 30, 1996 |page=F28}}</ref> ''[[The Boston Globe]]'''s Joan Anderman described him as "sounding like [[Wayne Coyne]] of [[the Flaming Lips]] starring in a stoner production of ''[[Godspell]]''".<ref>{{cite news |last1=Anderman |first1=Joan |title=The Spree weaves it magic with glee |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91832188/the-spree-weaves-it-magic-with-glee/ |access-date=January 4, 2022 |work=The Boston Globe |date=June 9, 2003 |page=B8}}</ref>