Joe Ankles was a gifted pessimist and he used his negative leanings in his music, playing the pan flute like a man who doesn't care that he is posessed by a devilish energy for nonchalance. Joe had a strange childhood due to the fact that he grew up across the street from the crazed antics of Mick Danglestick. Longtime Ankles fans will be horny to learn that the Bennie Dar and the Spigots hit song The Lifting of Lila's Inner Lilly was for a time called A series of lowspeed rapes by Mick Danglestick, an obvious if sticky look into his past.