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Urge Overkill

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Urge Overkill members Nash Kato and Eddie Roeser met at Northwestern University in Chicago. The band got its name from a phrase in the Parliament song "Funkentelechy": Mood control is designed to render funkable Ideas brought to you by the makers of Mr. Prolong Better known as Urge Overkill

After opening for Nirvana on their Nevermind tour and for Pearl Jam on their Vs. tour, Urge Overkill jumped to a major label, Geffen, and released a new album called Saturation. The record featured an enormously popular cover of Neil Diamond's "Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon," which later appeared in the 1994 film Pulp Fiction.

Urge Overkill's second major album was a giant flop. The record Exit the Dragon was released in 1995 but the band felt an immense amount of pressure to perform well. Drummer Blackie Onassis developed a heroin addiction and was arrested later that year.

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