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Cordell Crockett (born 21 January 1965) is a rock bassist who formerly played for Ugly Kid Joe.

He uses a wide range of different bass techniques including slapping, popping, finger picking and plectrums. He also uses a bass guitar wah-wah pedal quite frequently.

His main influence is Black Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler, Ugly Kid Joe have covered many of their songs, including "Sweet Leaf" and "N.I.B." Other influences include Steve Harris.

Ugly Kid Joe
Whitfield Crane | Klaus Eichstadt | Dave Fortman | Cordell Crockett | Shannon Larkin
Discography
Studio albums: As Ugly as They Wanna Be (EP) | America's Least Wanted | Menace to Sobriety | Motel California |
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Rock music is a form of popular music with a prominent vocal melody accompanied by guitar, drums, and bass. Many styles of rock music also use keyboard instruments such as organ, piano, or synthesizers.
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A bass player (bassist) is a musician who plays a double bass or electric bass (also referred to as bass guitar). Certain musical genres tend to be associated with each of these instruments.
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Ugly Kid Joe was a rock band from Isla Vista, California, USA. The band’s name is a pun on the band Pretty Boy Floyd. Unlike other heavy metal bands, UKJ's sound touched on a range of styles, including; hard rock, southern, funk, rap & thrash.
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A plectrum is a small flat tool used to pluck or strum a stringed instrument. For guitars and similar instruments, the plectrum (or 'pick') is a separate tool held in the player's hand. In harpsichords, the plectra are attached to the harpsichord's jack mechanism.
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Wah-wah pedal (or just wah pedal) is a type of guitar effects pedal that alters the tone of the signal to create a distinctive effect, intended to mimic the human voice. The pedal sweeps the peak response of a filter up and down in frequency to create the sound.
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Black Sabbath are an English heavy metal band from Birmingham. The original band line up of Ozzy Osbourne (vocals), Tony Iommi (guitar), Terence "Geezer" Butler (bass), and Bill Ward (drums) is the same as the current line up (2007) although there have been many shifts of personnel
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Terence Michael Joseph "Geezer" Butler (born 17 July, 1949 in Aston, Birmingham, England) is the founding bassist for heavy metal band Black Sabbath. His nickname supposedly arises from his habit as a teenager of referring to everyone as "Geezer".
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In popular music, a cover version, or simply cover, is a new rendition (performance or recording) of a previously recorded song. In its current use, it can sometime have a pejorative meaning - implying that the original recording should be regarded as the definitive version,
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A song is a relatively short musical composition. Songs contain vocal parts that are performed with the human voice and generally feature words (lyrics), commonly accompanied by other musical instruments (exceptions would be a cappella and scat songs).
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Released July 21 1971
Recorded Record Plant, Los Angeles, California
Genre Heavy metal
Length 5:05
Label Vertigo (UK)
Warner Bros.
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Released February 13 1970 (UK)
June 1 1970 (U.S.)
Genre Heavy Metal
Length 6:07
Label Vertigo (UK)
Warner Bros. Records (US)
Writer(s) Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, Bill Ward
Producer(s) Rodger Bain


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Stephen Percy Harris (born March 12, 1956 in Leytonstone, London, England) is the bassist and primary composer of the heavy metal band Iron Maiden. In addition, he plays keyboards, sings backing vocals, and is the leader and sole owner of the band.
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Ugly Kid Joe was a rock band from Isla Vista, California, USA. The band’s name is a pun on the band Pretty Boy Floyd. Unlike other heavy metal bands, UKJ's sound touched on a range of styles, including; hard rock, southern, funk, rap & thrash.
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Whitfield Crane, (born 19 January 1968 in Palo Alto, California) was a founding member and the lead singer of the hard rock/metal band, Ugly Kid Joe, which formed in 1989 and disbanded in 1997.
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Klaus Eichstadt is the founding member and guitarist of oddball hard rock / metal band Ugly Kid Joe.
Ugly Kid Joe
Whitfield Crane | Klaus Eichstadt | Dave Fortman | Cordell Crockett | Shannon Larkin
Discography
Studio albums:
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Dave Fortman is an American music producer. He has worked with bands such as Superjoint Ritual, Mudvayne, Otep, as well as on two of Evanescence's multi-platinum selling albums, The Open Door and Fallen.
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Shannon Larkin (born April 24 1967) is the current drummer for Godsmack.

Biography

James Shannon Larkin was born April 24, 1967 in Chicago, Illinois.

Shannon Larkin's first major label band was Wrathchild America.
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As Ugly as They Wanna Be
(EP)
(1991) America's Least Wanted
(1992) |

As Ugly as They Wanna Be is an EP by the American heavy metal band Ugly Kid Joe. It was released in 1991.
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America's Least Wanted
(1992) Menace to Sobriety
(1995)

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America's Least Wanted is the debut album by Ugly Kid Joe, released in June 1992 (see 1992 in music).
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Menace to Sobriety
(1995) Motel California
(1996)

Menace to Sobriety is the third album by Ugly Kid Joe. It was released in 1995 (see 1995 in music). It is an obvious parody of the movie "Menace II Society".
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Motel California is an album by rock band Ugly Kid Joe. Released in 1996, it was their last album before they disbanded in 1997.

The title is a parody of the Eagles's album, Hotel California.
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