Mark Hoppus joined Jimmy Eat World for A Praise Chorus at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles on November 7. The Arizona band played Bleed American in full during its 25th anniversary tour. The surprise appearance renewed a long musical friendship: Jimmy Eat World toured with Blink-182 in 2001 and again on the Pop Disaster Tour in 2002.
Blink-182 musician Mark Hoppus joined Arizona band Jimmy Eat World at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, in the United States, on November 7. His surprise appearance came during A Praise Chorus, the second song on Bleed American. Jimmy Eat World played the 2001 album in full as part of its 25th anniversary celebrations. The evening put the original album sequence at the centre of the band’s concert programme.[1], [2]
The group began its anniversary shows in June at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado. Those concerts placed the complete album alongside earlier songs, rarities and B-sides. Bleed American includes The Middle and Sweetness as well as A Praise Chorus. Frontman Jim Adkins has described wanting to present the album as a complete piece, with material from before and after it giving the programme an arc through that period of the band’s work.[1]
Jimmy Eat World supported Blink-182 on the Take Off Your Pants and Jacket tour in 2001, then joined Blink-182 and Green Day on the 2002 Pop Disaster Tour. Hoppus later told Adkins that Jimmy Eat World had influenced Blink-182’s choice of producer Mark Trombino. Speaking on Adkins’s Pass Through Frequencies interview programme in 2020, he said his band had liked the sound of Jimmy Eat World’s album and wanted to work with the same producer.[1]
