Anyone looking to get spanked this weekend may want to take their sadistic self to the Maintenance Shop to catch Baby Jason and the Spankers, one of the hottest blues rock bands to pass through the area.

Although the Spankers aren’t veterans to the scene, one wouldn’t know it by seeing them play. Each member, from Baby Jason to Pickle, brings an accomplished musicianship to the stage, giving cause for an amazing show.

For Baby Jason, it’s his powerhouse voice and sledge hammer guitar work.

“If you have a killer voice,” Jason said in a press release, “and can play every scale in the book, unless you got the songs, it’s still just a wankfest.”

Before he formed his band, Jason took some time to learn the ropes from the experts around him. He served as second guitarist in Not All There, a house band at Zoo Bar in Lincoln, Kansas.

He was also able to jam with the likes of Sue Foley, Lucky Peterson, Smokin’ Joe Kubek, Tab Benoit and Harry Connick Jr.

“I used to stand outside of the Zoo Bar and watch how guys would play and work the crowd,” Jason said. “I was too young to get in, so I’d peek in through the windows.”

Guitarist Max Tomoson brings to the band years of experience. The 33-year-old from Minneapolis learned guitar at an early age and admits he doesn’t remember not playing.

Known for his “wall of sound” rhythm playing and “hair raising” lead playing, Tomoson is what gives the band its “spank.”

Pickle, bass player for the Spankers, brings a proficiency that comes from his love of blues and jazz, which he has been exposed to since high school.

Having played in numerous local bands in California before moving back to Lincoln to join the regionally touring rock band Ripple Effect, Pickle finally ended up with Baby Jason and found himself onstage in clubs like the House of Blues in Chicago.

Drummer Ryland Steen grew up under the direction of a Warner Brothers songwriting father, which is where he gained his wealth of musical knowledge and professionalism.

Drawing influences from Carter Bueford (Dave Matthews Band), Dave Weckl and Mitch Mitchell (Jimi Hendrix), Steen sounds like a pro, and he’s only just begun.

Fans of Baby Jason and the Spankers can visit the band at its Web site www.spankworld.com. There you can look at merchandise, tour dates, lyrics to songs and download pictures of the band playing in such Chicago venues as the House of Blues or Buddy Guy’s Legends.

They can even be seen in front of the stained glass window of Iowa State’s own Maintenance Shop.

Baby Jason has one thing in mind for those who come to see the Spankers play.

“Basically, I just want the crowd to forget their problems, get up, dance and go home thinkin’ ‘Them boys was good, I just got my ass spanked!’.”

Baby Jason and the Spankers play the Maintenance Shop this Saturday at 9 p.m. Tickets are $5 for students, $7 for general admission.