No matter how much Pabst Blue Ribbon and Miller High Life you’ve got, it just isn’t an official white trash night without at least a couple of mullets.

Every Thursday, Kentucky Fried Mullet brings its music to People’s Bar & Grill, 2428 Lincoln Way, to complement the mullet lifestyle.

“There’s a mullet in all of us — we just put it on display,” says guitarist Ross Vander Werf.

Kentucky Fried Mullet covers bands ranging from the Beatles and Oasis through the Kinks, Led Zeppelin and Lynyrd Skynyrd.

“We’re designed for maximum familiarity,” says Vander Werf.

Despite being only a cover band, Mullet has gained quite a following.

“We usually get here pretty early,” says Ryan Adamson, senior in health and human performance.

“It gets pretty full by 8, but the band doesn’t even start until 10.”

Bryce Rustwick, graduate student in materials science and engineering, says the show is great not only because of Mullet’s performance.

“The band really impressed me,” he says.

“And I think the band and the drink specials really go hand in hand.”

The last Thursday of winter break was no exception. A nearly full house showed up despite many people still being out of town for Christmas and the fact that eight-foot piles of snow lined Lincoln Way and Welch Avenue.

“We’ve gotten a really good response here,” says bassist Paul Hart. “Every bar who’s had us has really liked us.”

Hart says Kentucky Fried Mullet is branching out a bit, having played at several bars in Omaha.

“Basically, we got in through our other bands,” he says.

Hart said that there’s been some incarnation of Mullet for at least eight years, which is how long he has been playing with Vander Werf.

The two started playing with drummer Paul Thompson about two years ago, and Mullet was born.

Of course, at the time it wasn’t known as Kentucky Fried Mullet.

Vander Werf had a few stories about how the band came up with the name. At first, he said the name came from a T-shirt one of them saw.

“It had a picture of Colonel Sanders with a mullet on it,” he says.

“We thought it was hysterical … actually, we started calling this lady who came to see us pretty often in Des Moines. She was a real sweet lady, but she had a green mullet,” he says.

“She gave us a poem for Christmas, a really bad poem, and we decided to name our band after her.”

However it got its name, Kentucky Fried Mullet knows how to rock a crowd.

By midnight, the small dance floor in front of the stage was filled with people.

“We try to fulfill the audience’s requests,” Vander Werf says.

So what do the people come out for? The drinks or Mullet?

Vander Werf says it’s the drinks.