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Adam Thomas Jones (born January 15 , 1965 in Libertyville, Illinois ) is best known as the Guitarist for the band Tool . He is the creative mind behind the guitar riffs and music videos of Tool. Besides his reputation as a musician, Jones is also well respected as a visual artist. BIOGRAPHY Jones was born in Park Ridge, Illinois 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 began to play a Stand Up Bass for three years in an orchestra. In addition to playing classical music, Jones played Bass Guitar in the Electric Sheep with Tom Morello of Rage Against The Machine 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. Jones was offered a film scholarship but declined and chose to move to Los Angeles to study art and makeup FX's. 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 for Sober, Prison Sex, Stinkfist , Ænema, Schism, Parabola, and Vicarious. He graduated in 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 where he worked on '' Predator 2 '', sculpting a unique looking skull for the Predator's space ship interior. Jones worked on several other big films in Hollywood doing makeup and set design, including ''''. After Tom Morello introduced Jones and his friend Maynard James Keenan to Danny Carey in 1990, they - along with Paul D'Amour - formed Tool . TRIVIA AND SIDE PROJECTS , a serial criminal. Keenan - in his role as Puscifer's vocalist - replies "Gulity? Yeah. I mean, we're guilty, and you don't know it. So who's really in jail?" ]
EQUIPMENT Guitars Jones owns at least five Silverburst pickups. {Link without Title} However, live, Adam only uses the bridge pickup and keeps the volume turned off on his neck pickup. This allows him to kill the sound using his pickup's toggle switch. Amps Jones owns and uses a vintage Marshall head, which is a non-master volume bass Amplifier from 1976, Mesa Boogie dual rectifier (original, 2 channel version) and a Diezel VH4 amplifier. On '' Undertow '' and the '' Opiate EP '' the Marshall bass amplifier was used, as the mesa boogie dual rectifier and the Diezel were not around in 1993 or before. On '' Ænima '' the Marshall amplifier was used for high frequencies (treble). The Diezel VH4 was used to contribute the bass and mid range frequencies. The two amps were mixed accordingly to level out the frequencies. '' Lateralus '' was recorded with the Diezel amp, along with the Marshall bass amp. Occasionally, a SUNN head was used instead of the Mesa Boogie rectifier in the studio, but the Mesa Boogie is still used on stage. When playing live, Adam Jones' amps are all on at the same time, and are all on a distorted setting. To switch to a "clean" tone (undistorted) he simply rolls the volume on his guitar back enough to get a semi clean tone, and then plays the notes very gently without much attack on the strings from the pick to achieve a somewhat clean tone. Effects According to a Guitar School interview in 1994, Adam Jones is not a fan of effects at all. During that time, he only used two pedals, a delay and an equalizer, in part to the reliability of simple live setups. Jones does not use an electronic bowstring (E-bow) as generally believed. Instead he explained in a different interview only a couple of months earlier, that he uses an Epilady, a razor-like item used to rip off leg hair. Apparently, an Epilady "makes great sounds when you push it against the pickups."[http://www.geocities.com/crisis_king1/32.htm During an interview with Guitar World, which was recently conducted surrounding the release of '' 10,000 Days '', Jones stated that he now also uses a Gig-FX Chopper Effects Pedal along with a volume/wah pedal to control the effect. Also, both his and bassist Justin Chancellor's pedals have gone through heavy modifications.[http://www.fourtheye.net/?p=232] EXTERNAL LINKS
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