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Adam Jones


 

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

Trivia and Side Projects

  • 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.
  • Jones has toured with The Melvins as a guitarist and has contributed to music on some of their albums.
  • Jones toured with the Jello Biafra/The Melvins band and contributed to their album Never Breathe What You Can't See
  • Jones has a special talent at drawing caricatures.
  • Jones is a big Devo fan.
  • He worked on a salad dressing commercial (it was never aired), Olympic stain (Albert Einstein makeups), Duracell (Boxers and Taxi cabs), Terminator 2, Jurassic Park, Nightmare on Elm Street Part 5 (He did the Freddy Krueger in the womb makeup), and Ghostbusters 2.
  • Jones had a pet Jackson's chameleon and a Great Dane named Metro.
  • He helped Green Jello with their costumes.
  • Jones collaborated with Fred Stuhr in the creation of "Sober", but receives no credit for work on "Hush". Watching "Hush" reveals immense stylistic differences between itself and all other Tool videos, making it clear that Jones's creative input was not involved.