Jim Adkins is calling from Cleveland, where Jimmy Eat World are about to play Jacobs Pavilion on a co-headlining tour with Third Eye Blind. It's Jimmy Eat World's 25th summer on the road.
It's surprising, Adkins says of the fact that he's spending that 25th summer touring amphitheaters. And definitely not expected. I mean, nothing is expected, really. That's the mindset that we live in. If you're not expecting anything, whatever happens is a nice surprise.
Adkins and drummer Zach Lind, a friend since preschool, were seniors at Mountain View High School when they formed the group in 1993 with guitarist Tom Linton and founding bassist Mitch Porter, both of whom had gone to Westwood High.
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Somewhere around junior high when we all got into punk rock and started playing our respective instruments, it wasn't hard to find people, the singer-guitarist recalls. I mean, you found everybody who liked what you liked pretty easilybecause there wasn't a lot of you. And back in those days, playing an instrument or playing in a band was definitely not all that cool.
When he firststarted playing guitar, Adkins says, it was more about the metal, more virtuoso-type players. Then, at some point, I realized 'There’s no way I’ll ever do that.’ So it just morphed into a quest for musicianship over technical prowess.
I was, like, 14, he says, with a laugh. You have a lot of things happening when you're 14, 15, 16 that you need an outlet for, and punk rock seemed to be the natural fit for that.
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I remember at our first jams, he says, we'd just play Propagandhi, Face to Face and NOFX, things more like that. We listened to a lot of faster butmelodic kind of things, rather than just pure abrasionor pure aggression.After a few years, we just kind of got more in tune with the way each other played. And you sort of pick up on what your strengths and weaknesses are gonna be the longer that you do something. So you’ve just gotta sort of work through that. After a certain amount of time, you know where you can lean in to use a strength. You also realize where you can push to get past something that might be uncomfortable.
Although Adkins eventually would become their primary lead vocalist, he's Jim, not Jimmy. The band name is based on a painting done by one of Linton's younger brothers — who were fighting.
As Adkins once told The Republic, The older brother, Jim, apparently won against Ed. This must have been when they were pretty young. Like, under 8. In an attempt to get back at him, Ed drew a picture of Jim and a globe in his mouth. He wrote the caption 'jimmy eat world' to insult him, saying he was so fat he could eat the world.
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As they started playing out, Adkins says, There were so few people doing it.I feel like there was there wasn't really much of a scene to break intobecause we were promoting our own shows. Or we were trying to get on gigs with friends of ours.
They weretoo young, he says, to really be invited to the thing that was happening with the Tempe people, and we weren't even on the radar of what was happening in Phoenix. Not that there was a ton of stuff happening in Phoenix. So we just kind of broke in on ourselves.
There were a few things happening, he says. There was always the all-ages art space that was open for, like, seven months at a time before it would get shut down by the police. So we would play those places.
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They'd managed to generate sufficient buzz on the strength of a self-titled debut released in 1994 on a Phoenix-based imprint called Wooden TreeRecords thatCapitol Records offered them a deal in 1995. They signed just after parting ways with Porter. His replacement—Linton's friend Rick Burch—has been their bassist ever since.
Asked if it felt like things were moving fast at that point, Adkins, who was 19 when they signed, says, Well, we had no idea what fast was or what normal was.
He laughs, then says, We started working with Capitol Records in 1995. And for me to say that out loud? Or for someone to read that on paper? The reality of that is going to be much different than whatever you might think it is.
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Their first record on Capitol, Static Prevails, hit the streetsin the summer of 1996. And yet, they were still being booked by their drummer.
We were doing these month-and-a-half-long tours playing for nobody with a record out on Capitol, Adkins recallswith a laugh. Playing punk rock festivals with 40 bands and noone getting paid. And there’d be 20 people in attendance.
It didn't bother them. They werekids. And as Adkins recalls their mindset at the time, We had no illusions about anything. We weren't expecting much from Capitol.We just figured at worst, we're gonna have some funny stories about going to California.
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There's a lot of people doing great work, Adkins says. But it’s always been really hard to rally that critical support to break out.The good news isyou can do whatever you want because no one cares. The bad news isno one cares.
It's totally cool, he says. It’s the kind of place where if you want to put a specific type of project together, you totally can, and there's great people that will help you do it. The bad news is—you’d better be OK with the reward of that being just seeing it happen. Because anything beyond that is not guaranteed to you. And we kind of approached the thing with the record label, and everything, with that mindset.
In retrospect, Adkins thinks Jimmy Eat World were still figuring out some thingsin the Static Prevailsera. It was on Clarity, their second Capitol release, that Adkins says, I feel like wewere really exploring a voice that was ours.
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Although the album failed to chart in 1999, it went on to be viewed as something of a seminal recording, one of two albums by Jimmy Eat World to make
Not that Adkins would've used that term to sum up Clarity or any other album they've released;although he will say, I totally understand people’s need to quantify the musical experience, to have some verbal way to talk about it.
It was after being dropped by Capitol that Adkins and his bandmates chose to come up with the cash to cut their next move, Bleed American, which went on to become their mainstream breakthrough after they signed their second major-label deal with DreamWorks – thanks in large part to the airplay they were getting on a single called The Middle.
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Despite a title change after Sept. 11 for fear that Bleed American could be misread as Bleed, American, the now-self-titled album was certified platinum in mid-2002.
I don't think any of us really appreciated itor realized what was happening until maybe a couple years after all that had happened, Adkins says of the album's success.
I mean, from our perspective, the entire thing leading up to even, like, the ‘Futures’ album was all just one kind of upward trajectory. Like there'd be a few more people at a show. Or we’d get offered a better opening slot to somebody. And when 'Bleed American' was doing really well and ‘The Middle’ was going off, it was like, 'OK;things are crazier. There's more people here. I guess we're playing. Cool.'
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When you're right in the middle of it, Adkins says, you don't have time to really put things into a true larger-picture perspective because you’ve got to focus on what you're doing.
Jeremiah Gratzawas 19 when Bleed American came out. By that point, he already had Can you still feel the butterflies, a favorite line from For Me This is Heaven, a track fromthe Clarity album, tattooed on his chest.
As Gratza recalls the excitement on the local scene when Bleed American began to break, They were an integral part of growing up in Arizona to me. I remember going to Nita's Hideaway in high school to see them film the music video for 'Bleed American.' We were all so proud of them.
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Hot 100, also topping the magazine'sAlternative Songs chart. In 2009, by which point Bleed American had reclaimed its original title, The Middle was covered by Prince at his post-Oscar bash at the Avalon Ballroom in what a reporter form
It’s kind of nuts, Adkins says with a laugh. I mean, hearing that Prince had covered it at whatever Grammy after-party he did or Taylor Swift hand-picking it to use for an Apple commercial? It’s like what?! What is that? I don’t know. I still freak out anytime I hear ‘The Middle’ or anything we've done, like, on the radio.
S Alternative Songs chart, from the Bleed American highlight Sweetness through the chart-topping Pain, from 2004's Futures, to Sure and Certain, from their latest album, 2016's Integrity Blues.
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