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Adam Jones (musician) Biography
Adam Jones (full name: Adam Thomas Jones) is a three-time Grammy Award-winning American musician and visual artist, best known for his position as the guitarist for Tool. Jones has been rated the 75th Greatest Guitarist of all time by the Rolling Stone and placed ninth in Guitar World’s Top 100 Greatest Metal Guitarists. Jones is also the director of the majority of Tool’s music videos.
Adam Jones (musician) Age
Adam Thomas Jones is 54 years old as of 2019. He was born on 15 January 1965, in Park Ridge, Illinois, United States
Adam Jones (musician) Height
Adam Thomas Jones has a height of 6′ 0½” (1.84 m) tall
Adam Jones (musician) Net Worth
Adam Jones has earned his net worth as a guitarist for the American rock band, Tool. Rolling Stone named Jones as the 75th Greatest Guitarist of all time, and according to Guitar World, he was ranked number nine of the Top 100 Greatest Metal Guitarists. He has also been credited for most of the band Tool’s music videos.
Adam was born on January 15, 1965, in Park Ridge, Illinois and he grew up in the town of Libertyville, Illinois. In high school, he played violin in his freshman year of high school and acoustic bass for the following three years in the orchestra.
He never received any formal guitar lessons but learned to play by ear, in addition to playing classical music he was the bass guitar player for the band Electric Sheep.
He is a three-time Grammy Award-winning artist, who was offered a film scholarship but chose to decline and move to Los Angeles and study and sculpture.
He graduated in 1987 and later worked on such films as; Jurassic Park, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Dances with Wolves, and Ghostbusters 2 as a makeup artist and set designer.
His experience in the film industry led to the success of the band Tool’s music videos including; “Sober” “Prison Sex”, “Stinkfist”, “AEnema”, “Schism”, “Parabola” and “Vicarious”.
He also contributed to the band Jello Biafra/The Melvin’s albums Never Breathe What You Can’t See and Sieg Howdy! He also went on tour with the band, he also performed the National Anthem for the WWE’s Summer Slam 2011 wrestling event which took place in Los Angeles, California on August 14, 2011.
Adam Jones is an American musician and visual artist who has a net worth of $40 million.
Adam Jones (musician) Family
- Korin Faught
Spouse - Camella Grace
Former spouse - Antonia Jones
Former spouse
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Adam Jones (musician) Early years and personal life
Jones was born in Park Ridge, Illinois, raised in Libertyville, Illinois. He was accepted into the Suzuki program and continued to play the violin through his freshman year in high school. It was said[by whom?] that as a child he was very different from other children.
He would always skip church in favor of reading Sunday comics. As a child 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. He later began to play the acoustic bass in an orchestra.
In addition to playing classical music, Jones played bass guitar in the band Electric Sheep, with Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine playing guitar, 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.
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.
Adam Jones (musician) Film work
Jones was offered a film scholarship but declined and chose to move to Los Angeles to study art and sculpture. His focus of interest shifted to film, and he began to work as a sculptor and special effects designer, where he learned the stop-motion camera techniques he would later apply in Tool’s music videos, such as “Sober”, “Prison Sex”, “Stinkfist”, “Ænema”, “Schism”, “Parabola” and “Vicarious”. He graduated in 1987.
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. Read also about Eric Avery
He also worked on commercials for salad dressing (never aired), Olympic stain (Albert Einstein makeup), and Duracell (boxers and taxicabs).
Adam Jones (musician) Music career
Tool (band)
Jones also toured with 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.
Jones also appeared on the Melvins album Hostile Ambient Takeover, the Melvins/Lustmord collaboration Pigs of the Roman Empire and the Isis album Wavering Radiant.
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.
Adam Jones (musician) Playing style
Adam 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.
Visual art
Jones created the line art for the re-release of Peach’s Giving Birth to a Stone, in which Jones’s fellow Tool member Justin Chancellor played bass.
He helped Green Jellÿ with their costumes.
In 2007 he received the Grammy Award for ‘Best Recording Package’ as art director for his work on 10,000 Days.
Jones came up with the make-up layout the actors wore on the videos for “Schism” and “Parabol/Parabola”.
In his spare time, Jones shoots photography that is used for the visuals at live Tool concerts.
Jones draws his own comics, a habit he began as a young child manipulating his ideas into the 2-D form on paper. An X-Files/30 Days of Night crossover in 2010 was co-written by Jones and 30 Days creator Steve Niles with artwork by Tom Mandrake.
Adam Jones (musician) Wife, Married
Congratulations to Tool guitarist Adam Jones! The trailblazing axeman married artist Korin Faught during a ceremony last month in San Francisco. On top of that, there’s more good news as the couple is expecting their first child.
You may remember Adam Jones’ proposal to Faught. The Tool guitarist pulled some strings with World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) and asked his girlfriend to marry him at the 2013 Royal Rumble Pay-Per-View in front of a packed arena.
Before the Royal Rumble began, a message appeared on the giant screen which read, “Korin, Adam Jones wants to ask you something… ‘Will You Marry Me?'” Needless to say, Korin said yes.
The news of Jones’ July wedding wasn’t publicly revealed until last night (Aug. 28) after a photo of the couple was posted on Adam Jones’ official Facebook page. The post reads, “Mrs. Jones <3 July 6th, 2013.” Check out a photo of the couple from the wedding at Jones’ Instagram account.
As stated, the wedding isn’t the only monumental news in Jones’ life. The new Mrs. Jones has revealed via her Instagram page that she is pregnant. Two weeks ago, she posted a picture of her baby bump along with the note, “#bumpwatch.”
As for Tool’s next album, drummer Danny Carey recently told us to expect a release in 2014. “We could have the record finished by the end of the year — that’s a possibility, but the logistics of getting it manufactured and getting the record company in line and all this stuff, I doubt we’ll be able to get it out before Christmas,” Carey shares. “We’ll see how it goes. Most likely, it’ll be early 2014.”
We’d like to give our best wishes to the happy couple. And stay tuned for updates on Tool’s next record as news breaks.
Adam Jones (musician) Visual art
Jones created the liner art for the re-release of Peach’s Giving Birth to a Stone, in which Jones’s fellow Tool member Justin Chancellor played bass.
He helped Green Jellÿ with their costumes.
In 2007 he received the Grammy Award for ‘Best Recording Package’ as art director for his work on 10,000 Days.
Jones came up with the make-up layout the actors wore on the videos for “Schism” and “Parabol/Parabola”.
In his spare time, Jones shoots photography that is used for the visuals at live Tool concerts.
Jones draws his own comics, a habit he began as a young child manipulating his ideas into the 2-D form on paper. An X-Files/30 Days of Night crossover in 2010 was co-written by Jones and 30 Days creator Steve Niles with artwork by Tom Mandrake.