From the nicest white-picket-fenced homes in Duluth’s Central Hillside comes the town’s friendliest hard-rocking blues band, the Four-eyed Snakes.

Led by “Chickenheart George” Alan Sparhawk, the band is known for playing the blues in a frenzied and distorted manner, but not so much as to hurt anyone’s ears or induce the kind of overly free-spirited dancing that might result in injury.

"Funhouse" Bobby Olson provides the bands heavy guitar grooves, backed by percussionists “Spazzin’” Brad Nelson and Justin “The Gentle Doctor” Sparhawk.

They are sometimes confused with a band called the Black-eyed Snakes, but this mild-mannered quartet's disposition stands in stark contrast.