Limp Bizkit guitarist Wes Borland knows very little about Iowa — and that’s a good thing.

“Most of the time the cities that we say ‘what the hell happens there’ go off the most,” Borland said. “Every time we play a bizarre city or one not really known for its music scene, like Boise, Idaho, the crowds go off so much harder.”

And the judge of a good crowd is the number of middle fingers stuck up in the air.

Limp Bizkit has an opening routine in which the band takes the stage flipping off the crowd. “They finger us back — and you know what that means to us — that they love us,” Borland explained. “It’s kind of like saying something is bad when you really mean good.”

A bit strange, but not entirely original. Primus, a band Limp Bizkit ironically just finished a recent club tour with, has a similar routine in which the crowd chants “Primus sucks” before the bands take stage.

“[Primus frontman] Les Claypool came out the first night of the tour and got a big kick out of it,” Borland said. “We figured it was the right idea. It makes hecklers go ‘huh.'”

That is Limp Bizkit — always trying to get even with the hecklers. The band’s debut release, “Three Dollar Bill Y’All$,” pounds with the similar theme of “not being judging of people,” Borland said.

Even the Limp Bizkit’s name and album title reflect the idea of not judging a book by its cover. The record title comes from the saying “Queer as a three-dollar bill,” Borland said. “It was just a weird name that we thought would go well with the name of the album.”

Limp Bizkit, the name, is best explained by frontman Fred Durst in the band’s press kit. “The name is there to turn people’s heads away. A lot of people pick up the disc and go, ‘Limp Bizkit; oh, they must suck.’ Those are the people that we don’t even want listening to our music.”

Durst and his cohorts have a reputation for doing things a little differently. A prime example is the hardcore cover of the George Michael pop classic “Faith” on the band’s latest record.

“It’s a dumb song and we all liked it,” Borland said. “We did another cover before ‘Faith’ that will be on the next record — ‘Straight Up’ by Paula Abdul.”

And yes, he’s serious.

But Limp Bizkit do get down to business when there is something important to say — such as giving props to the people who helped the band when it was first starting. Durst salutes these friends and fellow musicians on the track “Indigo Flow.”

“So many people have done so much, we had to write a song to thank them,” Borland said. “We thanked them in the liner notes, but they deserve more than that.”

One band Limp Bizkit owe loads of thanks to is Korn — whose bassist Fieldy and guitarist Head are responsible for helping the band get signed to Flip Records, a division of Interscope.

Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst first met the Korn crew when the band played its first show in Limp Bizkit’s hometown of Jacksonville, Fla. Durst invited the guys to an after party at his pad, where he ended up giving them tattoos.

The guys became instant friends and less than a year later, were touring on the same bill.

Korn also introduced Limp Bizkit to the Deftones, which led to another major tour for the band. Deftones frontman Chino Moreno even made a cameo appearance in Limp Bizkit’s video for “Counterfeit.”

Another band Limp Bizkit built an early friendship with was House of Pain. And when the band broke up earlier this year, turntable genius DJ Lethal found a new home in the Limp Bizkit line-up.

“Adding Lethal to the mix was real easy,” Borland said. “Actually, my brother was the original fifth member so we were used to it.”

Because Limp Bizkit has had so much help from other bands, Borland said it is a goal for the band to help out others who deserve to be heard.

“We want to pass on the gold to someone else just as it was passed on to us,” Borland said. “We want to each down and help our friends up the latter.”

Borland cited the Jacksonville band Cold as a group Limp Bizkit has helped out. “They’ve been together, like, nine years and are so good. We couldn’t believe no one had signed ’em,” he said.

Limp Bizkit also help lesser known bands by taking advantage of nights off from the bands regular tour. The band will usually set up a headlining date close by and invite local bands to open.

“We hardly ever take a night off. It has been hard work that I have not forgotten,” Borland said. “But it has gone by really fast. A year ago from now a we were just finishing in the studio and now we’re ready to go back.”

When Limp Bizkit does return to the studio, fans can expect a sound different from “Three Dollar Bill Y’All$,” and not only in Paula Abdul covers.

“We’ll always have our same style, but it’s always evolving and moving,” Borland said. “We will sound totally different [in 10 years]. We’re changing right now.”

Limp Bizkit will be stopping in Des Moines Sunday night along with the Deftones and 35″ Mudder for “Mancow’s Jingle Ball” at Supertoad. The show is sold out.