That time I asked Ugly Kid Joe guitarist Klaus Eichstadt how the band’s recent hit, “Everything About You”, came together

By Steve Newton

Way back in June of 1993 I interviewed 25-year-old Ugly Kid Joe guitarist Klaus Eichstadt on the phone from his parents’ house in San Francisco.

Three weeks later his band was set to play Foxfest at Seabird Island near Agassiz, B.C., with Def Leppard, Tom Cochrane, Rockhead, April Wine, and Sven Gali.

The quintet’s latest album, America’s Least Wanted, was headed to double-platinum status, mostly on the strength of the comical anti-ballad “Everything About You”.

So at one point in the conversation I stutteringly asked Eichstadt how that tune came together.

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