Background
Jones was born on January 15, 1965, in Park Ridge, Illinois, raised in Libertyville, Illinois.
2008
EnergySolutions Arena, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Tool member Adam Jones (C) shows his support for the Los Angeles Lakers prior to the matchup against the Utah Jazz in Game Six of the Western Conference Semifinals during the 2008 NBA Playoffs at EnergySolutions Arena on May 16, 2008, in Salt Lake City, Utah.
1986
United States
Adam Jones performing on stage, 1986
1993
Shoreline Amphitheater, Mountain View, California, United States
Adam Jones of Tool performing at Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View, California on June 23rd, 1993.
1993
Lommel, Belgium
Tool, Maynard James Keenan, Adam Jones, Paul D'Amour, Danny Carey, Rockwood Festival, Lommel, Belgium, 11/09/1993.
1993
Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, California, United States
Adam Jones, Maynard James Keenan, Paul D'Amour, and Danny Carey of Tool pose during Lollapalooza at Shoreline Amphitheatre on June 23, 1993, in Mountain View, California.
2008
EnergySolutions Arena, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Tool member Adam Jones (C) shows his support for the Los Angeles Lakers prior to the matchup against the Utah Jazz in Game Six of the Western Conference Semifinals during the 2008 NBA Playoffs at EnergySolutions Arena on May 16, 2008, in Salt Lake City, Utah.
2017
Randall's Island, New York City, New York, United States
Adam Jones of Tool performs onstage during the 2017 Governors Ball Music Festival - Day 3 at Randall's Island on June 4, 2017, in New York City.
2017
Randall's Island, New York City, New York, United States
Adam Jones, Maynard James Keenan, Danny Carey and Justin Chancellor of Tool perform live onstage during 2017 Governors Ball Music Festival - Day 3 at Randall's Island on June 4, 2017, in New York City.
Jones was born on January 15, 1965, in Park Ridge, Illinois, raised in Libertyville, Illinois.
Jones 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 began to play an acoustic bass for three years in an orchestra.
As a child he was very different from other children. He would always skip church in favor of reading Sunday comics. He had an interest in animation, turning his ideas into three dimensional sculptures, which explains why Tool's music videos often had 3D-clay effects.
In addition to playing classical music, Jones played bass guitar in the Electric Sheep with Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine until Jones moved to California (Morello soon followed). According to both of them, the band was quite unpopular at the time. Jones never received traditional guitar lessons, but instead learned by ear.
Jones was offered a film scholarship but declined and chose to move to Los Angeles to study art and makeup effects. Jones' studies began in 1983 at the Hollywood Makeup Academy by learning "straight make-up", because he thought it would help him out.
After graduation, he went to work at Rick Lazzarini's Character Shop. During the next couple of years, he worked the TV show Monsters. He designed and fabricated a Grim Reaper makeup and a Zombie head on a spike (later used in Ghostbusters II) among others. After that, he went to Stan Winston's special effects workshop, where he worked on Predator 2, sculpting a unique-looking skull for the Predator's spaceship interior.
Jones worked on several other big films in Hollywood doing makeup and set design, including Jurassic Park, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Dances with Wolves, and Ghostbusters II. He did the "Freddy Krueger in the womb" makeup for A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child, as well as work for A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master. He also worked on commercials for salad dressing (never aired), Olympic stain (Albert Einstein makeup), and Duracell (boxers and taxicabs).
After Tom Morello introduced Jones and his friend Maynard James Keenan to Danny Carey in 1990, they – along with Paul d'Amour – formed Tool. In Tool, he combines the tuned-down chug of death metal with ominous atmospherics influenced by Rush and King Crimson.
Jones also toured with the Jello Biafra/The Melvins band and contributed to their albums "Never Breathe What You Can't See" and "Sieg Howdy!". Jones and Melvins Guitarist/Vocalist Buzz Osborne are close friends. On Mr. Show, he appeared as the fictional guitarist of Puscifer along with bandmate Keenan, and can also be spotted in the audience seated at a table with Keenan in the series' first episode.
On August 14, 2011, Jones performed the National Anthem of the United States at the outset of WWE's SummerSlam (2011) wrestling event in Los Angeles.
On August 30, 2019, Tool released the fifth studio album Fear Inoculum. This record has been praised by critics and fans.
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1996Adam Jones is known for not predominantly using any particular guitar playing technique, but rather combining many techniques such as "alternately utilizing power chords, scratchy noise, chiming arpeggios, off-beat rhythm patterns, and a quiet minimalism". On Lateralus and 10,000 Days, he made heavy use of triplets. Other techniques used to expand his band's sound repertoire require forms of instrumental experimentation and applications of non-instrumental experimentation as well, such as his use of an Epilady as a plectrum on the Ænima and Lateralus albums for example; continuing in this direction on the Tool song, "Jambi", Jones uses a talk box. In the song "Third Eye", he makes use of a guitar slide for the opening. He has two synthesizers that are listed below in his effects section. Live, Jones can be seen with a large pedalboard full of effects, including a DOD FX-40B Equalizer (EQ) pedal, Boss BF-2 Flanger, Boss DD-3 Digital Delay, MXR Micro Amp, Dunlop BB535 and two Boss Master switch/power supply pedals among a few others. In a 1994 interview, he mentioned the band Helmet as an influence.
Quotations:
"Fine art is really something I want to get into."
"I listen to Helmet - and I love Helmet, they're a great band - but every song sounds the same."
"Different people get different things out of the images. It doesn't matter what it's about, all that matters is how it makes you feel."
"I've always been involved in the visual arts and music."
"That's what I love about our music - it'll never be a hit because you can't dance to it."
On January 27, 2013, Jones became engaged to his girlfriend, painter Korin Faught. The marriage proposal took place before the Royal Rumble event. Their wedding took place on July 6, 2013. They have two children together.