John Rowan, the drummer for ’90s Chicago rock band Urge Overkill who performed under the name Blackie Onassis, has died.
Onassis anchored Urge Overkill during their time in the alternative-rock spotlight in the 1990s, playing on the band’s version of Neil Diamond’s “
Hunkering down in a Humboldt Park bank building they aptly nicknamed “the Bank” — at one point in the early 1990s, all three members lived there — Urge Overkill styled themselves as louche ’70s ladies’ men, a tongue-in-cheek pose that alienated old colleagues like recording engineer and producer Steve Albini. But the makeover started to gain the group positive notice.
Heroin started to play a major role in Rowan’s personal life around this time, an open secret in the alternative-rock community. Hole drummer Patty Schemel wrote in her 2017 autobiography “Hit So Hard: A Memoir” that finding heroin in Chicago was “as easy as ordering up a few bags from Blackie Onassis, the drummer of Urge Overkill, who had a regular hookup in town.” Allusions to Onassis’ addiction also surfaced on “Exit the Dragon,” the dark, sprawling 1995 album from Urge Overkill.
After “Debutante,” Rowan effectively dropped out of sight. Kato and Roeser reformed Urge Overkill in 2004 without him. While speaking to the Chicago Reader in 2004, the duo alluded to their bandmate’s missed video shoots and concerts, as well as a revoked passport on the eve of a trip to England. At that point, Rowan was living in Los Angeles but was out of contact with Urge Overkill.
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