Adam Jones
Guitar
Birth Name - Adam Thomas Jones

Adam Jones is the creative mind behind the amazing guitar riffs and the intense videos of Tool. Adam seems more
comfortable as an artist than as a musician, but he does a great job for a non-guitarist.

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, and recieved a scholarship to go to film school.

Adam 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, and Stinkfist.

Adam went to school at the Hollywood Makeup Academy. 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.) Adam 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 the time that Adam had a pet chameleon and a Great
Dane. After that, Adam went to Stan Winston's. There he worked on Predator 2, where he sculpted a unique looking
skull for the Predator 2 space ship interior.

Adam is a really great draughtsman (drawer), and is brilliant at charicatures. He was a big Devo fan (the music group). He
used to really be into skateboarding and had an empty pool in front of the house he rented.

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, and actively sculpts and paints.

Other Points of Interest
Birthday
January 15th 1965
Facts
Adam has three dogs, two cats, and two pigs - one is on the back of undertow
Equipment
Adam uses Green Silverburst 1978 Gibson Les Paul Customs, 3 Different Stacks (A vintage Marshall head:
a non-master volume bass amp from 1976, a Mesa/Boogie Triple Rectifier, a Diezel VH-4 head amp),
Seymour Duncan pickups, Delay and EQ effects pedals, supposedly an epilady and a humanizer on the
beginning of 'Third Eye,' and a whole lot more.

� 1998 Matt Searfoss