Adam Jones

Adam Jones (born January 15, 1965) is the guitarist for the band Tool.

He began college in 1983, and in graduated 1987. His studies included cosmetology school.

Adam and Tom Morello, future guitarist of Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave, created the band Electric Sheep while in high school. According to both of them, the band was quite unpopular at the time.

Adam was one of the four founding members of Tool when it was formed in 1990.

Adam has had a lot of experience working in film, having even contributed his talents to Predator and Jurassic Park. In addition, Adam directed and worked on all of Tool's music videos except for "Hush" and "Sober". Adam collaborated with Fred Stuhr in the creation of "Sober", but receives no credit for work on "Hush". Watching "Hush" reveals immense stylistic differences between itself and all other Tool videos, making it clear that Adam's creative input was not involved.

Adam created the liner art for the re-release of Peach (gb), a CD of the now dismantled band Peach in which Adam's fellow Tool member Justin Chancellor once played.

Adam has toured with The Melvins as a guitarist and has contributed to music on some of their albums.

Adam Jones is the creative mind behind the amazing guitar riffs and the intense videos of Tool. Ironically, he seems more comfortable as an artist than as a musician. Adam is originally from Illinois, and played violin in elementary school. He was accepted into the Suzuki program, and continued to play violin through his freshman year in high school. He then played a stand up bass for three years in an orchestra.

In addition to playing in an orchestra, Adam played bass in a band called Electric Sheep with Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine in high school (Libertyville), and while he never received traditional guitar lessons, they learned from each other. Adam also studied film. Adam recieved a music scholarship to go to college, but chose to go to art school instead.

Adam went to school at the Hollywood Makeup Academy. He began by learning "straight make-up," because he thought it would help him out. He then began work as a sculptor and special effects designer where he learned the stop-motion camera techniques he would later apply in Tool's videos Sober, Prison Sex, Stinkfist, and Aenema.

After he graduated, he went to work at Rick Lazzarini's "The Character Shop." He was there for quite a while, 1-2 years, and worked on a TV show called "Monsters." He designed and fabricated a Grim Reaper makeup and a Zombie head on a spike (later used in Ghostbusters 2.) he worked on several commercials, and was one of the designers. He worked on a salad dressing commercial (it was never aired), Olympic stain (Albert Einstein makeups), Duracell (Boxers and Taxi cabs), Nightmare on Elm Street Part 5 (He did the Fredy Kreuger in the womb makeup), and Ghostbusters 2. At that time, Adam had a pet chameleon and a Great Dane. After that, he went to Stan Winston's. There he worked on Predator 2, where he sculpted a unique looking skull for the Predator's space ship interior.

Adam worked on several other big films in Hollywood doing makeup and set design, including Jurassic Park and Terminator 2. He also helped Green Jello with their costumes.

Adam is a great drawer, and is brilliant at charicatures. He is a big Devo fan. He used to skateboard and had an empty pool in front of the house he rented.

Template:Toolbandde:Adam JonesGuitars Silverburst 1978 Gibson Les Paul , Seymour Duncan Jazz neck pickup in his guitars along with the SD JB bridge pickup. Amps (heads/Combos) A vintage Marshall head, a non-master volume bass amp from 1976, Mesa/Boogie Triple Rectifier, a Diezel VH-4 head amp. Effects Delay and EQ Effects Pedals An Epilady, a harmonizer, and an electronic string stimulator (EBow) on the beginning of 'Third Eye,' a Morely Wah pedal, a Boss Metal Zone distortion pedal, a pedal made by either Dunlop or D.O.D., a fake Leslie cabinet processor (it gives a rotating speker effect) that he uses on die eier von satan, a Boss effects processor or a Zoom 505, and a Boss Flanger on most songs. Adam puts the Flanger before his distortion in the signal path rather than in the amp's effects loop.