Profile - Andy Pringle:

In high school, after there are no more vacant extremities to pierce or “Down with Dad” T-shirts to purchase, where’s a teen to turn to scratch that omnipresent rebellious itch? Andy Pringle opted to up the ante and just work at a strip club.

Now a clear-skinned adult, Pringle runs the valet parking service at the Cheetah Club — the same place he used to sneek into as a teen while his comrades worked at fast-food joints.

“I’ve been doing this for 14 years. I used to work at fine dining restaurants but the Cheetah is by far the most fun place I’ve worked. It’s not as tight-assed.” (No pun intended.)

An atypical display among his co-workers, Pringle doesn’t don the standard eyeliner and dental floss underwear of a few of his colleagues. As a fixture at the club nightly, however, Pringle’s duties range from valet parking, to driving the Cheetah Club limo, to “just keeping things moving.”

While Pringle doesn’t possess the same nimble flexibility as those working inside do, his job affords him the elasticity to focus on his day job as the drummer for the Atlanta-based rock quintet Edgewood.

Edgewood — Pringle and a slew of bartenders from the area — won first place in the 96 Rock Battle of the Bands contest at 9 Lives Saloon and was rewarded with cash prizes and studio time for a full-length CD.

In between hob-nobbing with a motley crew of clientele ranging from common-folk to OutKast, Pringle routinely sells his CD out of his car’s trunk at the club.

“I was driving Steven Van Zandt in the limo. He told me he played with Bruce Springsteen. I said I’m not the biggest fan. He got out of the car, and in typical ‘Sopranos’ fashion, gave me this look with his eyebrows raised and slapped a $100 bill in my hand. I only took him three blocks.”

“Kid Rock’s tour bus pulled up here and he got out with Ron Jeremy and a couple of midgets. I also met O.J. here a couple years ago. It was pretty ominous, just looking at him thinking, ‘Hmm, if I could read his mind right now.’”