Who are Ugly Kid Joe
Whit Crane - vocals
Klaus Eichstadt - guitars
Dave Fortman - guitars
Cordell Crockett - bass
Shannon Larkin - drums

Mark Davis - drums '89 - '93
Roger Lahr - guitars '90 - '92

Happy Birthday!
Whit Crane - 19 Jan 1968
Klaus Eichstadt - 19 Dec 1967
Dave Fortman - 11 Jul 1967
Cordell Crockett - 21 Jan 1965
Shannon Larkin - 24 Apr 1964

Mark Davis - 22 Apr 1964
Roger Lahr -

Who is Roy Cortez?
UKJ dedicated their third album Menace To Sobriety to Roy Cortez, but who is he? When UKJ started writing Menace, Whit and Shannon each had an apartment in the same complex. One of their neighbors was Roy Cortez, an ultra cool black dude who would come over to tell Whit to turn down the music but ended up just staying and smoking weed instead. One day this other neighbor got in an argument with Roy. It elevated to a point that the man confronted Roy with a knife and stabbed him to death.

BIOGRAPHY
Formed in Isla Vista, California in the late 80's, Ugly Kid Joe emerged on the music scene in 1992. With their attitude, punk-funk-metal sensibilities and to-die-for choruses, they could arguably be described as 'nu-metal' long before the sub-genre was invented by music journalists in the late 90's. Comprising of Whitfield Crane (vocals), Klaus Eichstadt and Roger Lahr.... read more