The L.A. roots of Jimmy Eat Worlds biggest record 25 years of Bleed American

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Set us as preferred On stage at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado, a far cry from the sweaty basement punk shows of the band’s early days, Jimmy Eat World played breakthrough power pop hit “The Middle” as the sold-out crowd sang along with the final chorus that “everything will be all right, all right.”“It really is incredible to us to think about everyone who bothered to spend time with this record and made something of it for themselves over 25 years.This is your guys’ record as much as it’s ours, really,” singer-guitarist Jim Adkins said from the stage.The band, which has generally shied away from nostalgia plays over its 30-plus year career, is performing the platinum-selling “Bleed American” album in its entirety on tour this summer, including a stop at Warped Tour in Long Beach on Saturday, a matching bookend to the band’s original promotion of the album.“It solidified us as, ‘This is what we do.

Let the day job go.’ It turned into full-time rock and roll.And that moment only happens once, so it felt appropriate to honor it at 25,” bassist Rick Burch said backstage before the band’s Brooklyn tour stop in June.Released on July 24, 2001, “Bleed American” was one of the last great rock records of the monoculture, arriving months before Apple’s iPod launched and made shuffle the default and 15 years before streaming became the dominant way to consume music.Just over a quarter of a century ago, four guys from Mesa, Ariz., came to L.A.

to record their fourth album.Jimmy Eat World’s Adkins, Burch, drummer Zach Lind and guitarist Tom Linton earned recording money between tours by working construction, driving around car dealership customers and selling art supplies and auto parts.The band had cut ties with Capitol Records after 1999’s “Clarity” — a sweeping, lush and highly inf...