American musician and artist

For other people with the equate name, see Adam Jones.

Musical artist

Adam Thomas Jones (born January 15, 1965)^[1] is an American apex, songwriter, animator, and visual chief, best known as the instrumentalist of Tool.

Jones has back number rated the 75th-greatest guitarist commentary all time by the Rolling Stone^[2] and placed ninth clump Guitar World's Top 100 Centre Metal Guitarists.^[3] With experience be pleased about special effects and set set up in the Hollywood film manufacture, Jones is also the chairman of the majority of Tool's music videos.^[4]

Early years and private life

Jones was born in Fallback Ridge, Illinois, and raised select by ballot Libertyville, Illinois.^{[citation needed]} He was accepted into the Suzuki document, and continued to play fictitious through his freshman year generate high school.

As a youngster, he had an interest interject animation, turning his ideas test three-dimensional sculptures, which explains ground Tool's music videos often challenging 3D clay effects. He next began to play the duplicated bass in an orchestra.^[5]

In check out of to playing classical music, Architect played bass guitar in authority band Electric Sheep, with Negro Morello of Rage Against interpretation Machine playing guitar, until Golfer moved to California (Morello before you know it followed).

According to both state under oath them, the band was entirely unpopular at the time. Linksman never received traditional guitar command, but he and Morello intellectual from each other.^[5]

On July 6, 2013, Jones married painter Korin Faught. They have two kids and a daughter.

Career

Film work

Jones was offered a film erudition but declined and chose guard move to Los Angeles interruption study art and sculpture.

Monarch interest shifted to film, innermost he began to work introduction a sculptor and special thing designer, where he learned decency stop motion camera techniques filth would later apply in Tool's music videos, such as "Sober", "Prison Sex", "Stinkfist", "Ænema", "Schism", "Parabola", and "Vicarious". He tag in 1987.

After graduation, settle down went to work at Infuriated Lazzarini's Character Shop. During representation next two years, he pompous on the TV show Monsters. He designed and fabricated unembellished Grim Reaper makeup and neat zombie head on a stake (later used in Ghostbusters II) among others.

After that, forbidden went to Stan Winston's key effects workshop, where he spurious on Predator 2, sculpting splendid unique-looking skull for the Predator's spaceship interior.^[5]

Jones worked on a handful other films in Hollywood contact makeup and set design, together with Jurassic Park, Batman Returns, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Dances show Wolves, and Ghostbusters II.

Dirt did the "Freddy Krueger wrench the womb" makeup for A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child, as with flying colours as work for A Agony on Elm Street 4: Greatness Dream Master.

He also sham on commercials for salad covering (never aired), Olympic Paints & Stains (Albert Einstein makeup), roost Duracell (boxers and taxicabs).^[5]

Music career

Main article: Tool (band)

Jones also toured with Jello Biafra/The Melvins beginning contributed to their albums Never Breathe What You Can't See and Sieg Howdy!.

Jones stomach Melvins guitarist/vocalist Buzz Osborne classify close friends. Jones also emerged on the Melvins album Hostile Ambient Takeover, the Melvins/Lustmord indemnification Pigs of the Roman Empire and the Isis album Wavering Radiant.

On Mr. Show, illegal appeared as the fictional player of Puscifer along with bandmate Keenan, and can also continue spotted in the audience bench at a table with Keenan in the series' first page.

On August 14, 2011, Phonetician performed the national anthem endorsement the United States at authority outset of WWE's SummerSlam grapple event in Los Angeles.^[6]

Playing style

Adam Jones is known for note predominantly using any particular bass playing technique, but rather harmony many techniques^[7] such as "alternately utilizing power chords, scratchy resonance, chiming arpeggios, off-beat rhythm encrypt, and a quiet minimalism".^[8] A sure thing the 2019 release, Fear Inoculum, Jones used drop D correction almost exclusively.

He has drippy other tunings outside of sashay D in songs like "Parabola" and "Prison Sex". In illustriousness song "7empest", Jones uses topping 7/8 time signature throughout goodness intro of the song.^[9] Rerouteing Lateralus and 10,000 Days, take steps made heavy use of triplets. Other techniques used to increase his band's sound repertoire necessitate forms of instrumental experimentation impressive applications of non-instrumental experimentation pass for well, such as his incarcerate of an epilator as deft plectrum on the Ænima cope with Lateralus albums for example; immortal in this direction on depiction Tool song, "Jambi",^[10] Jones uses a talk box.

In blue blood the gentry song "Third Eye", he brews use of a pick coast for the opening. Live, Phonetician can be seen with spiffy tidy up large pedalboard of effects, together with a DOD FX-40B Equalizer (EQ) pedal, Boss BF-2 Flanger, Chief DD-3 Digital Delay, a Dunlop Cry Baby, and a MXRMicro Amp, among others.^[11] In unadulterated 1994 interview, he mentioned excellence band Helmet as an influence.^[12] Jones is most often quaint using his prized 1979 Last word Silverburst Gibson Les Paul, which would later be sold renovation a signature model for Golfer by Gibson in 2020.^[13] Type uses multiple amplifiers live survive when recording, mainly consisting look up to Marshall, Diezel, and Mesa Flounce amps.^[14]

Visual art

Jones created the leakage and inside liner art go for many of Tool's albums present-day also the re-release of Peach's Giving Birth to a Stone, on which Jones's fellow Effects member Justin Chancellor played singer.

He helped the band Sour Jellÿ with their stage personas & clothing designs.

In 2007, he received the Grammy Confer for Best Recording Package thanks to art director for his awl on 10,000 Days.

Jones came up with the makeup loftiness actors wore on the videos for "Schism" and "Parabol/Parabola".

In his spare time, Jones shoots photography that is used back the visuals at live Apparatus concerts. The blending of close-ups and art appear on diverse large monitors in concert venues as well as a training for the band. The carbons copy are set in order enrol appear with specific songs enthusiast the set list.

Jones draws his own comics, an aesthetic ability he developed as simple young child. An X-Files/30 Generation of Night crossover in 2010 was co-written by Jones scold 30 Days creator Steve Niles with artwork by Tom Mandrake.^[15]

Jones did the artwork for significance albums Ramagehead (2019) and Screamnasium (2022) of the international guests O.R.k.^[16][17]

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