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I wanted to get nostalgic for a minute, hopefully you will be entertained. I was listening to Jimmy Eat World’s Clarity album and remembered one of the most memorable concerts I’ve ever attended.
It was early 1999, in a few months I would graduate high school. I was totally punk rock. Bad Religion, NOFX, Lagwagon, etc. In the liner notes of a blink 182 album they thank a band me and my friends had never heard from Arizona named Jimmy Eat World. They had a new album called Clarity, so my friends and I picked the album up and it blew our f’ing minds. It just so happened that they were touring to support the album and were touring with another band I had never heard of called At the Drive-In. HOORAY! They were playing in Gainesville, merely an hour away, at one of our favorite venues, The Covered Dish (now Common Grounds).
So I made the trek down to Gainesville, and to my surprise there were people lined up to get in. WOW! This is big time. So I did not even get into the venue until after the first band played. After getting in, I got a water and made my way to the left hand side of the venue and some really weird looking dudes start setting up equipment, I thought who are these guys. One guy had a huge afro, and they were wearing 70s style flared skinny jeans. So they get setup and get ready and they announce that they are At the Drive-In and from second one there was like a musical and performance explosion onto my face.
They were loud and dynamic; they jumped around not like punk rockers, but like crazy motherf’ers. Their music hit me like a ton of bricks, I was in awe. I had never quite scene anything like them. After their set another band, with this babyfaced kinda guy (Jim Adkins) get set up. By now I was up front. As the next band go ready to perform, I looked up and saw Tom Linton and he looked like a majestic rock-star and it was on. Jimmy Eat World launched right into it and made the Clarity material, that I was already digging hardcore, even more alive and vibrant. From this moment, I was a Jimmy Eat World diehard.
This show was one of the best shows I ever attended because I went expecting to see one good band and a few meh bands. However what I got was two of the best performing bands I have ever seen, two bands whose albums even ten years later I am still listening to on a regular basis. Monumental.
It was early 1999, in a few months I would graduate high school. I was totally punk rock. Bad Religion, NOFX, Lagwagon, etc. In the liner notes of a blink 182 album they thank a band me and my friends had never heard from Arizona named Jimmy Eat World. They had a new album called Clarity, so my friends and I picked the album up and it blew our f’ing minds. It just so happened that they were touring to support the album and were touring with another band I had never heard of called At the Drive-In. HOORAY! They were playing in Gainesville, merely an hour away, at one of our favorite venues, The Covered Dish (now Common Grounds).
So I made the trek down to Gainesville, and to my surprise there were people lined up to get in. WOW! This is big time. So I did not even get into the venue until after the first band played. After getting in, I got a water and made my way to the left hand side of the venue and some really weird looking dudes start setting up equipment, I thought who are these guys. One guy had a huge afro, and they were wearing 70s style flared skinny jeans. So they get setup and get ready and they announce that they are At the Drive-In and from second one there was like a musical and performance explosion onto my face.
They were loud and dynamic; they jumped around not like punk rockers, but like crazy motherf’ers. Their music hit me like a ton of bricks, I was in awe. I had never quite scene anything like them. After their set another band, with this babyfaced kinda guy (Jim Adkins) get set up. By now I was up front. As the next band go ready to perform, I looked up and saw Tom Linton and he looked like a majestic rock-star and it was on. Jimmy Eat World launched right into it and made the Clarity material, that I was already digging hardcore, even more alive and vibrant. From this moment, I was a Jimmy Eat World diehard.
This show was one of the best shows I ever attended because I went expecting to see one good band and a few meh bands. However what I got was two of the best performing bands I have ever seen, two bands whose albums even ten years later I am still listening to on a regular basis. Monumental.