idiot genes (Boston, MA)

Noah (ACLU Benefit) requested that we reuse Frank Hurricane’s questions for Pete Bayko of idiot genes

Frank Hurricaine: Are you influenced at all by the spiritual music genre of butt-rock? And if so, what is your favorite butt-rock anthem?

Pete Bayko: Basically anything by Nickelback. Creed is a solid influence.

FH: Do you like getting WASTED before you perform?

PB: I don’t know if it’s so much that we like to but that we have to, you know? So I guess the answer is yes. We’ve got a couple memorable stories because of that, let me think of a chart-topper here…

We had this one time we were in Rhode Island and the bar was selling Jell-O shots for a dollar and that other shit, what is it called? Jungle juice. So obviously we were fucking blasted. Our bass player ended up flipping everybody off and running outside afterwards. Somebody comes up to him and starts to say, “Hey! You’re cool!” and he just yelled, “Yeah, Whatever!” and left.

Once our drummer passed out with a full order, like a fucking #1 McDonald’s meal on his lap, he tries to get out of the car and it just spills out on the road. Yeah, that’s just the reality of his life.

FH: If you were a song on Pearl Jam’s album Ten, which one would you be?

PB: Obviously, fucking “Jeremy.”