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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 guitarist for Tool. Jones was ranked the 75th greatest guitarist of all time by Rolling Stone and ranked ninth in Guitar World’s Top 100 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 in 2019. He was born on January 15, 1965 in Park Ridge, Illinois, United States.

ADAM JONES (MUSICIAN) HEIGHT

Adam Thomas Jones is 6′ 0½” (1.84m) tall

NET WORTH OF ADAM JONES (MUSICIAN)

Adam Jones earned his net worth as the guitarist for American rock band Tool. Rolling Stone named Jones the 75th greatest guitarist of all time, and according to Guitar World he was ranked number nine on the 100 Greatest Metal Guitarists. He was also credited for most of the Tool band music videos.

Adam was born on January 15, 1965 in Park Ridge, Illinois and 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 next three years in the orchestra.

He never received guitar lessons, but learned to play by ear, in addition to playing classical music, he was the bass player of the group 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 to study and sculpt.

He graduated in 1987 and went on to work on films such as; Jurassic Park, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Dances with Wolves and Ghostbusters 2 as makeup artist and set designer.

His background in the film industry has led to the success of Tool Group’s music videos including; “Sober” “Prison Sex”, “Stinkfist”, “AEnema”, “Schism”, “Parabola” and “Vicarious”.

He also contributed to the band’s albums Jello Biafra/The Melvin Never Breathe What You Can’t See and Sieg Howdy! He also toured with the band, he also performed the national anthem for WWE’s 2011 Summer Slam 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 FAMILY (MUSICIAN)

  • Korin Faught
    Conjoint
  • Camella Grace
    Ex-femme
  • Antonia Jones
    Ex-femme

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 always skipped church in favor of reading comics on Sundays. As a child, he was interested in animation, turning his ideas into three-dimensional sculptures, which is why Tool’s music videos often had 3D-clay effects. He then started playing acoustic bass in an orchestra.

In addition to playing classical music, Jones played bass guitar in the band Electric Sheep, with Rage Against the Machine’s Tom Morello playing guitar, until Jones moved to California (Morello soon followed) . According to the two, the group 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 opted to move to Los Angeles to study art and sculpture. His focus shifted to film, and he began working as a sculptor and special effects designer, where he learned stop-motion camera techniques that he would later apply in music videos for Tool, such as “Sober”, “Prison Sex”, “Stinkfist”, “Ænema”, “Schism”, “Parabola” and “Vicarious”. He graduated in 1987.

After graduating, he went to work at Rick Lazzarini’s character shop. For the next two years, he worked for the TV show Monsters.

He designed and made Grim Reaper make-up and a Zombie head on a spike (later used in Ghostbusters II), among other things. After that, he went to Stan Winston’s special effects studio, where he worked on Predator 2, sculpting a unique-looking skull for the interior of the Predator’s spaceship.

Jones has worked on several other major Hollywood films 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 A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master. Read also about Eric Avery

He also worked on advertisements for salad dressing (never aired), Olympic Stain (Albert Einstein makeup) and Duracell (boxers and taxis).

ADAM JONES (MUSICIAN) MUSICAL CAREER

Tool (band)
Jones has also toured with the band Jello Biafra/The Melvins 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 has 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 Puscifer’s fictional guitarist with bandmate Keenan, and can also be spotted in the audience sitting at a table with Keenan in the show’s first episode.

On August 14, 2011, Jones performed the United States national anthem at the start of WWE’s SummerSlam (2011) wrestling event in Los Angeles.

ADAM JONES (MUSICIAN) PLAYING STYLE

Adam Jones is known for primarily not using any particular guitar playing technique, but instead combining numerous techniques such as “the alternating use of power chords, rough noise, ringing arpeggios, offbeat rhythm patterns and ‘discreet minimalism’.

On Lateralus and 10,000 Days, he made extensive use of triplets. Other techniques used to expand his band’s sonic repertoire require forms of instrumental experimentation and applications of non-instrumental experimentation, such as his use of an Epilady as a plectrum on the Ænima and Lateralus albums for example; continuing in that direction on Tool’s song, “Jambi,” Jones uses a dialog box. In the song “Third Eye” he uses a guitar blade for the opening.

It has two synthesizers listed below in its 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/pedal power switches 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 reissue of Peach’s Giving Birth to a Stone, in which Jones member Justin Chancellor played bass.

He helped Green Jellÿ with their costumes.

In 2007, he received the Grammy Award for “Best Recording” as Artistic Director for his work on 10,000 Days.

Jones came up with the makeup layout the actors wore on the videos for “Schism” and “Parabol/Parabola.”

In his spare time, Jones takes photos that are used for visuals at Tool’s live gigs.

Jones draws his own comics, a habit he started as a young child by manipulating his ideas in 2D on paper. A 2010 X-Files/30 Days of Night crossover was co-written by Jones and 30 Days creator Steve Niles with art by Tom Mandrake.

ADAM JONES (MUSICIAN) WIFE, MARRIED

Congratulations to Tool guitarist Adam Jones! The ax pioneer married artist Korin Faught in a ceremony last month in San Francisco. Besides that, there is more good news as the couple are 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 that read, “Korin, Adam Jones wants to ask you something… ‘Will you marry me?’” Needless to say, Korin said yes.

News of Jones’ July wedding was only publicly revealed last night (August 28) after a photo of the couple was posted on Adam Jones’ official Facebook page. The message says, “Mrs. Jones<3 July 6th, 2013.” Check out a photo of the couple from the wedding at Jones’ Instagram account.

As noted, marriage 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 photo of her baby bump with the note “#bumpwatch”.

As for Tool’s next album, drummer Danny Carey recently told us to expect a 2014 release. “We could have the finished record by the end of the year – that’s a possibility , but the logistics of making it and getting the record label in line and stuff, I doubt we’ll be able to get them out before Christmas,” Carey shares. “We will see how it goes. Most likely, it will be early 2014.”

We send our best wishes to the happy couple. And stay tuned for updates on Tool’s next recording as news arrives.

ADAM JONES (MUSICIAN) VISUAL ART

Jones created the liner art for the reissue of Peach’s Giving Birth to a Stone, in which Jones member Justin Chancellor played bass.

He helped Green Jellÿ with their costumes.

In 2007, he received the Grammy Award for “Best Recording” as Artistic Director for his work on 10,000 Days.

Jones came up with the makeup layout the actors wore on the videos for “Schism” and “Parabol/Parabola.”

In his spare time, Jones takes photos that are used for visuals at Tool’s live gigs.

Jones draws his own comics, a habit he started as a young child by manipulating his ideas in 2D on paper. A 2010 X-Files/30 Days of Night crossover was co-written by Jones and 30 Days creator Steve Niles with art by Tom Mandrake.

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