"I prefer to call them my Siamese piggies," the naturally blond Bartlett says shyly. "I was always ashamed of them, until I realized I was only one in a long line of musical freaks. I mean, Very Special People. That's what we prefer to be called.

"You know, Hound Dog Taylor had six fingers on each hand-at least until he chopped one off because it interfered with his guitar playing. Lucky for me it's my toes! Anyway, then I found out that Star Crunch of Man or Astroman has a third nipple. So I did a little research and it turns out we're everywhere.

Sheryl Crow has to shave every day or people'd mistake her for one of the guys in ZZ Top! Fabian had a parasitic twin. And I understand that Garth Brooks was originally billed as the Amazing-Half-Man-Half-Woman, or at least until Sting sued him for copyright infringement," he chuckles.