Or we were trying to get on gigs with friends of ours." He wrote the caption 'jimmy eat world' to insult him, saying he was so fat he could eat the world."Īs 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 into because we were promoting our own shows. In an attempt to get back at him, Ed drew a picture of Jim and a globe in his mouth.
This must have been when they were pretty young. The band name is based on a painting done by one of Linton's younger brothers - who were fighting.Īs Adkins once told The Republic, "The older brother, Jim, apparently won against Ed. View Gallery: Jimmy Eat World: Through the years How Jimmy Eat World got their nameĪlthough Adkins eventually would become their primary lead vocalist, he's Jim, not Jimmy. You also realize where you can push to get past something that might be uncomfortable." After a certain amount of time, you know where you can lean in to use a strength. So you’ve just gotta sort of work through that. And you sort of pick up on what your strengths and weaknesses are gonna be the longer that you do something. We listened to a lot of faster but melodic kind of things, rather than just pure abrasion or pure aggression. After a few years, we just kind of got more in tune with the way each other played. "I remember at our first jams," he says, "we'd just play Propagandhi, Face to Face and NOFX, things more like that. "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."Īt first, like any young musicians, Adkins figures they sounded a lot like the sum of their record collections.
"I was, like, 14," he says, with a laugh. 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." When he first started playing guitar, Adkins says, "it was more about the metal, more virtuoso-type players. And back in those days, playing an instrument or playing in a band was definitely not all that cool." "I mean, you found everybody who liked what you liked pretty easily because there wasn't a lot of you. "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.
If you're not expecting anything, whatever happens is a nice surprise."Īdkins 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. "It's surprising," Adkins says of the fact that he's spending that 25th summer touring amphitheaters. It's Jimmy Eat World's 25th summer on the road. 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.
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