• 1986-1997, 2004-

  Nash KatoVocals, guitar

  Eddie RoeserVocals, bass, guitar

  Blackie OnassisDrums1994-1995

  Brian QuastDrums2004-

  Mike HodgkissGuitar2004-
• 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.
• Two years after drummer Blackie Onassis' departure in 1995, Urge Overkill decided to call it quits. Numerous attempts at filling in vacant drum and guitar positions had failed and the band realized that their initial run of success had ended. The band re-formed and have performed sporadically since. In 2010, they appeared on the Roast of Quentin Tarantino to honor the director that helped to make them famous.
• In 2011, Urge Overkill members Nash Kato and Eddie Roeser claimed they lost contact with former drummer Blackie Onassis. Onassis' addiction to heroin was the central reason the band first ended in 1995. Roeser said he heard Onassis was in a couple of bands in LA after UO, but that he was not invited to be a part of Urge Overkill's reunion.
• They coined the term "Guyville" in their song "Goodbye To Guyville" to describe the Chicago music scene of the early '90s. "There were no women in the bands, no women to talk to," King Roeser said in a Songfacts interview.
  
  Liz Phair, a victim of this scene, popularized the term with her 1993 album Exile In Guyville.

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