Adam Jones (musician)

Adam Jones
Adam Jones performing with Tool at the Roskilde Festival in 2006.
Background information
Birth name	Adam Thomas Jones
Born	(1965-01-15) January 15, 1965 (age 52) Park Ridge, Illinois, United States
Genres	Progressive metal, progressive rock
Occupation(s)	Musician, songwriter, make-up artist, visual artist, animator
Instruments	Electric guitar, bass guitar, upright bass, sitar, violin
Years active	1978–1987 1990–present
Labels	Volcano, Zoo Entertainment
Associated acts	Tool, The Melvins, Electric Sheep
Notable instruments
Gibson Les Paul Custom Silverburst

Adam Thomas Jones (born January 15, 1965) 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.

Jones was born in Park Ridge, Illinois, raised in Libertyville, Illinois. He was accepted into the Suzuki program, and continued to play violin through his freshman year in high school. It was said 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. A year later, they welcomed their first child.

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.