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The Urge Overkill singer/songwriter/bassist/guitarist spoke with Caropop on the 30th anniversary of the swaggering Chicago alt-rock band’s breakthrough album, Saturation (and before the death of powerhouse drummer Blackie Onassis). Leaving behind Chicago’s Touch & Go label (and prompting some hard feelings), Urge signed with Geffen, the label of Nirvana, with whom Urge was touring when that band exploded. Urge enlisted the Butcher Bros. production team known for its hip-hop work and came up with songs that burst from the speakers, such as “Sister Havana” and “Positive Bleeding.” They played with Paul Shaffer’s band on The Late Show with David Letterman, and Quentin Tarantino featured Urge’s cover of Neil Diamond’s “Girl, You’ll Be a Woman Soon” in Pulp Fiction. All was good, right? Roeser explains how everything played out.
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