Pickles & Dimes

If you read part one, you know what this is all about. If not, scroll down a couple of posts and catch up.

Let’s get started:

Naked Bob
They’re another Mankato college band. Friends of the family would find their flyers posted around campus and give them to my Dad. His name may or may not be Bob.

Nashville Pussy
There is a chance I bought their CD just because of the name – and the two girls on the cover. One of whom is former Duke basketball “great” Cherokee Parks’ sister.

Neurotic Outsiders
They were the first band made up of the remains of Guns & Roses. Kind of like Velvet Revolver is now. Except the Neurotic Outsiders had members of Duran Duran and the Sex Pistols too.

Pretty Boy Floyd
Late 80s glam band, named after a Chicago gangster who died in the 1930s. They had one CD that people might have heard of when I was in high school. Probably not, though.

Rednex
Everybody knows “Cotton-Eye Joe.” I’d be surprised if anyone knew any of their other songs, including myself.

Rhino Bucket
AC/DC ripoff. A buddy of mine still gives me a hard time about not only buying their tapes in high school, but then buying their CDs once I had the means. Not my best investment.

Saliva
Just because they sold millions doesn’t mean they’re exempt from the list. I can just see the brainstorming meeting to name the band:
Guy #1- “So what bodily fluid can we name the band after?”
Guy #2- “What do you think of ’spit’?”
Guy #1- “I like where your head’s at. How ’bout we class it up a bit and go with ‘Saliva’?”

Scatterbrain
I saw them with Ugly Kid Joe around 1992. They did a cover of Cheech and Chong’s “Earache My Eye.” Really.

Slammin’ Gladys
Poison’s little sisters. Um, brothers, I think.

Sleeze Beez
One of the thousands of faceless bands that followed Motley Crue and G’nR. I even surprised myself to find that I had two of their CDs.

Supersuckers
Not just the suckers, but the Supersuckers.

3 Minute Hero
Now that I think about it, this is my favorite band name. They’re a ska band that did pretty well playing around Minneapolis 8-10 years ago. Turns out that Shauna used to be an RA back in college with one of the guys, which was one of the first things she said to me when I came to work wearing my 3 Minute Hero t-shirt. Quite possibly our first conversation. Update: A reunion! Are you KIDDING me!!

Trampled By Turtles
The band that started the list. They’re a great bluegrass band from Duluth, MN.