He names his main influences as the Beatles, Allan Holdsworth, Johnny Winter, Ace Frehley, Mel Galley, Brian May, Alex Lifeson, Phil Keaggy, and the original Alice Cooper band.

[2] Ty Tabor was born in Pearl, Mississippi, and began singing and playing guitar at a young age, and by his early teens was performing with his father and his brother in a bluegrass band in and around his native Jackson.

Times were tough on that tour with the band often setting up and performing in the parking lots of restaurants in exchange for food.

He left Matthew and decided to move to Springfield, Missouri, to attend Evangel College, where he quickly entrenched himself in the local music scene.

Eventually Tabor, Pinnick, Gaskill, and guitarist Dan McCollam formed their own band called The Edge which, over time, evolved into King's X. Tabor is the youngest member of King's X, with Pinnick being eleven years his senior, and Gaskill three-and-a-half years older than him.

Tabor also opened his own recording and mastering facility in Katy, Texas, called Alien Beans Studios.

[3] After writing and performing almost exclusively for King's X for over 15 years, Tabor's first solo album, Naomi's Solar Pumpkin, was released independently in 1997.

It was released on Metal Blade Records with much wider distribution as well as a few new tracks, and also featured drummer Alan Doss on the entire album.

Tabor, along with King's X bandmate Doug Pinnick and former Galactic Cowboys members Wally Farkas and Alan Doss, have a band called The Jibbs who have a single song available for download to benefit relief efforts in the aftermath of Hurricane Ike.