Birth Name: Adam Thomas Jones
Birthday: January 15, 1965
Quick Facts: Adam has three dogs, two cats, and two pigs One is on the
back of the
undertow CD case. He sculpted a piece for the cover of
Peach's
re-release of '
Giving Birth to a Stone.'
Equipment:
Guitars: 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 (yes, a woman's shaver;
he uses it for the humming in the intro to "
Pushit."), 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.
Cabinets: I've seen him play with
Boogie and
Marshall cabs, and god
knows what else in the studio.
Full Bio: 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
caricatures. He is a big
Devo
fan. He used to
skateboard and had an empty pool in front of the house he rented.
thanks to:
toolshed.down.net