Being the polite southwesterners they were, though, Jimmy Eat World were still appreciative of the progress they were making on the road, particularly when grinding it out with their contemporaries like Mineral, Braid, and Jejune. A tour opening for the Promise Ring and Burning Airlines in the spring of 1998 saw them playing to six hundred people a night. The tour’s final stop, in Philadelphia, featured the debut of Jets to Brazil, a new band formed by Blake Schwarzenbach after the demise of Jawbreaker.
