Almost Acoustic Christmas 2024: Jimmy Eat World

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Join us back stage at Almost Acoustic Christmas 2024 for our sit down with Jimmy Eat World, who are doing their 8th(!!!) Almost Acoustic Christmas!

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00:00Everything that man just said is true.

00:05We are backstage at KROQ's 33rd Annual Almost Acoustic Christmas with Jimmy Eatworld.

00:12Inside the Forum Club.

00:13I was doing some due diligence here as I believe I'm supposed to do before I interview bands

00:17like you guys.

00:18And this is your 8th Almost Acoustic Christmas.

00:20Do you believe that?

00:21I can't believe it.

00:22It seems like just yesterday we were playing our first one.

00:24Isn't that crazy?

00:25I read that stat and I go, I might need to let these guys know.

00:27You can say no when KROQ asks.

00:29You don't always have to do it every single time.

00:31But you can't.

00:33Oh, the old game, right?

00:36Well thanks for coming back.

00:37And this is actually the first time that it's post-Jimmy Eatworld Day, which I think is

00:41pretty neat.

00:42Do you want to tell the fans in LA that may not have experienced this in the great state

00:44of Arizona?

00:45Yeah, October 17th we were presented by the Mayor of Phoenix with an official proclamation

00:51declaring that day Jimmy Eatworld Day.

00:54Yeah.

00:55Well thank you.

00:57Damn right.

00:59It's the municipality of Phoenix.

01:00I mean if other cities want to follow suit, that's kind of up to them.

01:04Now is that your day every single year?

01:05Is that how that works?

01:06Yeah.

01:07So that's like, I'm going to treat it as like the second Father's Day because it's like

01:10the Jimmy Eatworld Day and I'm like the only person in our house that's in the band, right?

01:15So it's like, well, I don't have to do any tours today.

01:17It's like our band's day.

01:18So it's like a second Father's Day.

01:20Well, I was reading the comments from the Mayor, man.

01:22He was laying on heavy.

01:23He was like, you guys built that city.

01:25That's right.

01:26Yeah.

01:27Rock and roll.

01:28I didn't know that about Phoenix, Arizona.

01:29The Jimmy Eatworld in fact built Phoenix, but that's pretty cool.

01:32And do they give you a sort of like a symbolic key?

01:34How does that work?

01:35No, just a symbolic document.

01:37Do you chain?

01:38A very nice document.

01:39Okay.

01:40Do you frame that?

01:41I'll probably frame it.

01:42All right.

01:43Right on.

01:44Now, you guys are doing something really cool.

01:45If you're listening to K-Rock right now and maybe you can't attend tonight and catch the

01:47Jimmy Eatworld set, you can actually own a piece of Jimmy Eatworld history.

01:51I just was reading about this.

01:52This is so neat.

01:53So you're selling some pretty classic gear that maybe you used on some classic tours

01:56back in the day?

01:57Yeah.

01:58Over our entire career, we've built up kind of a lot of gear that we've used for like

02:04various things and we're kind of thinning the herd right now.

02:07So you can go to Reverb.com.

02:08HTTP.

02:09Yeah.

02:10Colon.

02:11I think if you just search our band name at Reverb, you'll find it.

02:18The SEO will do it for sure.

02:19Now, I understand that some of the stuff you're giving away is from the Pop Disaster Tour

02:23back in the day, which you guys went on, of course, with Green Day.

02:26And we had the Linda Lindas, who are one of these bands, making their debut tonight at

02:29Almost A Kiss of Christmas.

02:30And they were talking about how they were pranking Green Day and Green Day was pranking

02:32them on this summer tour they were on this year.

02:34Do you guys have any memories of that Pop Disaster Tour?

02:37That is a can of worms that you don't want to start.

02:40You probably can't talk about it on the radio.

02:41No.

02:42I mean, all I know is that you don't want to start it.

02:46Green Day is the all-time great band at doing pranks for the opening bands when they're

02:51on the last day of the tour.

02:53For us, we were actually ending the tour early.

02:55So we were on their tour and we ended early.

02:58They threw potato flakes onto my drum kit and then doused it with water, glitter.

03:05We were playing a mellow song, like Hear You Me or something, and they were doing concussion

03:08bombs during the mellow songs.

03:10So they were messing with us hardcore.

03:15And to this day, the old cases that we have, that we had for that tour, you can still see

03:21glitter in the fuzz of the cases.

03:24It doesn't come out.

03:25It's permanent.

03:26To this day.

03:27Yeah.

03:28Fond memories.

03:29The one thing that's lame about their pranks is that when we tried to clear pranks for

03:33them, their tour manager told us no.

03:36So it's not an even playing field.

03:37It's a one-way street.

03:38Yes.

03:39There you go.

03:40Well, very cool.

03:41You guys are going to do a great set, of course, tonight for the fans.

03:43They're very excited.

03:44We've been playing Jimmy E World all year long on KROQ.

03:46And we're here tonight with some of our friends, the Los Angeles Department of Mental Health.

03:49You guys tour like crazy.

03:51I mean, even to this day.

03:52How do you guys just sort of make sure you're good mentally as you sort of navigate this

03:56crazy industry?

03:57You just got to listen to what your body is saying, I think, and then act on that.

04:02It usually comes in the form of breaks.

04:05Or like setting aside time, not overextending yourself, not overworking.

04:13Leave all the still clapping is a mantra that you can kind of apply to a lot of different

04:17areas of your life.

04:18Yeah.

04:19Amen.

04:20We try to keep the place that music comes from protected, because it's supposed to be

04:24fun.

04:27We do what we can to try to keep it fun, and usually that means stepping back and trying

04:31to focus on other areas of life than just trying to be the best band we can.

04:39Never losing sight of that.

04:40Well, guys, give it up in the Forum Club for Jimmy E World.

04:43They're going to be hitting the stage tonight at 7.20.

04:46Let's get into a little Jimmy E World right now on KROQ.

04:48This is Last Christmas, how apropos.

04:50Well, actually, Jim, would you like to do this intro, play radio doofus for a second?

04:56No.

04:57Last Christmas by Jimmy E World.

05:00Beautiful.

05:01Beautiful stuff.

05:02It's the world-famous KROQ.

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