Adam Jones

Adam Thomas Jones (born January 15, 1965) is best known as the guitarist for the band Tool.

Biography

Jones was born and raised in Libertyville, 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, Jones played bass in a band called Electric Sheep with Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine in high school until Jones moved to California (Morello soon followed). According to both of them, the band was quite unpopular at the time. Both Morello and Jones did not receive traditional guitar lessons, but instead, learned from each other. Jones received a film scholarship but declined and chose to move to Los Angeles to apply at an art school instead to improve his sculpting and sketching abilities.

Related Topics:
Libertyville, Illinois - Electric Sheep - Tom Morello - Rage Against the Machine - Los Angeles

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

Jones' studies began in 1983 at the Hollywood Makeup Academy by learning "straight make-up," because he thought it would help him out. 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 videos Sober, Prison Sex, Stinkfist, and Aenema. He graduated in 1987.

Related Topics:
1983 - Hollywood Makeup Academy - Film - 1987

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

After graduation, he went to work at Rick Lazzarini's "The Character Shop". During the next couple of years, he 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), among others. 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.

Related Topics:
Ghostbusters 2 - Predator 2

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

Jones worked on several other big films in Hollywood doing makeup and set design, including Jurassic Park and '.

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

After Tom Morello introduced Jones and his friend Maynard James Keenan to Danny Carey in 1990, they - along with Paul d'Amour - formed Tool.

Related Topics:
Maynard James Keenan - Danny Carey - 1990 - Paul d'Amour - Tool

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~